When disposable incontinence products for adults began to surface in the middle of the century preceding the one in which we now live and pee, the “adult diaper” quickly became the product of choice for our loved ones living with any form of incontinence. I’m purposely leaving out that era where, as adults, we were given a cloth diaper and a disposable underpad (then, and to some extent, now called a “chuck”) and patted on the head before bedtime by a nurse wearing a cap. Even when we began using disposable products, those “adult diapers” created only a momentary gap between the time our bladders emptied and the time that our clothes and linens were soaked (hence the continued need for “Mr. Chuck”). Back then,...