The craze for adult pacifiers is also taking off in Brazil.

It is also popular in Brazil fashion of the adult pacifier, just at the time when the green and gold nation debates the phenomenon of the "adultization" of minors to monetize online. The trend, which originated in China as tool for relieving stress and anxiety, has already gained many followers in the South American country, including various celebrities (football star Neymar is one of them). The new "craze" - which follows closely behind that of the 'baby reborn', from the name given to hyper-realistic newborn dolls - is provoking serious debates about health and behavior for what psychologists call "infantilization of the adults". The use of pacifiers by adults, which has recently attracted attention on social media, it may seem only an eccentricity or a funny tendency. However, experts they warn that behind this habit there could be something hidden something else. "The use of pacifiers by young people and adults is an example of how the body and mind seek rapid recovery mechanisms self-regulation in the face of emotional overload. It's a return symbolic of childhood, when sucking represented security and calm," the psychologist told the newspaper O Globo Mariane Pires Marchetti.