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These pictures show the inside of a bizarre adult baby fetish nursery, where clients pay to wear man-sized nappies, sleep in cots, and even sit in a high chair to eat meals.

Customer are cared for by ‘Mummy Maxine’ alongside her husband, adult baby Derek Ventham, at their new home in Liverpool.

They are charged £75 an hour for the service, and another £25 if they want a ‘messy change’.

The couple have been running adult nurseries, part of the booming ‘adult baby’ industry, for 14 years- but were recently forced to leave their home in Portsmouth after they were attacked at their front door by disgruntled neighbours who branded them “perverts”, the Liverpool Echo reports.

But the unique couple insist their is “no sexual activity” in their north Liverpool nursery.

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Husband Derek insists the controversial fetish is nothing to do with sex, or children.

He said: “As soon as you mention adult babies, they say ‘you’re a paedophile’. But it couldn’t be further from the truth. We don’t want to be with children, we want to be the child. This is my relaxant. Half an hour in a nappy, and my stress is gone.”

Adult baby Derek even offers to pick clients up from Lime Street Station for a modest £5, or from Liverpool John Lennon Airport for £10.

Adult baby syndrome sees grown men and women role-playing and regressing to a child-like state, often to help them deal with childhood trauma and abandonment issues.

The couple say “all kinds of people” use their services, from students to doctors and electricians- with 12 hour or overnight stays costing a whopping £350, with an additional £25 charge for “overnight nappy changes”.

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Interior of an Adult baby nursery in Bootle.

Maxine says that more than a third of her Liverpool clients are men under 25 years-old.

She explained: “They have to be over 18 for me to see them, but there’s a lot more young men in Liverpool than when we were in Portsmouth. It’s really changed in the last couple of years, because now young people have mobile phones and the internet to find this for themselves.

“We get people from all walks of life. We get same-sex couples, male and female couples. I even have one client whose personal assistant makes the appointments for him, he’s very successful and has a lot of people work under him- so it helps him relax.”

‘Mummy Maxine’ even compares her business to a “spa day”.

She said: “You go somewhere and someone wraps you in a nice, cosy towel - and you have everything done for you. You just relax, you don’t have to think about anything, or do anything for that afternoon.

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“Someone, being very kind, once told me I was like an English geisha. They come to me, and I look after them- but there’s no sex involved.

“Yes, I’m changing their nappies and touching an intimate area - but that’s where it stops.”

Many of Maxine’s clients have been going to her regularly for years and follow her around the country.

An adult baby girl ‘Dee Dee’ is also available for £50 an hour, or £200 per day for willing patrons to “change her nappies, spank or cane her” - with no sexual contact.

Their website, Nursery Thymes, describes the 18+ nursery as a “safe place” to “let your baby side go free”.

Clients can “play in the nursery or sit and watch television in the living room” as well as eating meals in a brightly coloured high chair before sleeping soundly in a cot covered in soft toys.

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Adult babies can also play with kid’s toys, like building blocks and art sets and have books read to them by their ‘parents’.

Despite the secretive nature of the adult baby world, even Amazon are stocking adult baby costumes online with matching man-sized dummies and milk bottles.

Interior of an Adult baby nursery in Bootle.

Husband Derek first discovered he was an adult baby at the age of seven, after a “difficult childhood” left with bad memories.

He explained: “For some people, it’s about reliving a good childhood memory, and for others its about creating new memories after a bad experience.

“Many adult babies had very hard, abusive childhoods.”

The couple have just returned from ‘family’ trip to Florida, with an adult baby girl from Liverpool. For £750, clients can go to Disneyland with their new mummy and daddy and meet other adult babies from America’s growing community.

Derek added: “In America, it’s a bit more open. You can’t just walk down the street in an outfit, like many would like to, but it’s a bit more discussed.”