Would you have vaginal rejuvenation (plastic surgery)?
I read an interesting article today at time.com about the increase in women having vaginal surgery for cosmetic reasons otherwise known as vaginal rejuvenation. I’m not surprised that the numbers are increasing. A large section of society is so hung up on perfection that women are starting to feel pressured into altering parts of their bodies that virtually no one sees anyway! The article starts like this:
On the youth sex-education website Scarleteen.com, dozens of teenage girls can be found commiserating about their labia. “i REALLY h8 mine! They hang really REALLY low and r SO long!” reads one comment. Meanwhile, on MakeMeHeal.com, a consumer site that sells special bras and other gear for women recovering from plastic surgery, women of all ages submit photos of their nether regions and ask for feedback on whether they should get nipped and tucked down there. Welcome to the strange new world of female genital cosmetic surgery, where body insecurity issues are fuelling a small but growing Western market for such procedures as labiaplasty, clitoral un-hooding, G-spot augmentation and hymen reconstruction, a.k.a. “revirginization.”
It’s a shame that young girls are starting to dislike their bodies at such an early age. And as for uploading pictures of my private parts so that other people can tell me what’s wrong with with them?!!! That’s a definite non-starter as far as I’m concerned. Why should other people decide for me what’s right and wrong with my body, especially my sex organs?
Thankfully there are women speaking out about vaginal rejuvenation, particularly for cosmetic reasons:
Appalled at the popularity of so-called designer vaginas, a grass-roots organization called the New View Campaign staged its first-ever protest on Monday outside New York City’s Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery……New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls “the medicalization of sex,” the idea that there is a physical right and wrong when it comes to all things sexual. Says the group’s leader Leonore Tiefer, a sexologist and psychologist at New York University: “Promoting a very narrow definition of what women’s genitals ought to look like — even for those women who don’t want surgery, it harms them.”
All of us are made differently. The normal process of development can never be exactly the same which leads to a wonderful diversity, a lack of sameness, without which human beings would be incredibly boring.
There are different stages in life and aspects of vaginal rejuvenation such as “revirgination” just don’t make sense to me. I mean, who are you kidding here?
A relatively small number of women have these procedures in the US but more and more women are being made to feel that their private parts are “abnormal”. If there’s a medical reason for having vaginal surgery, of course, I’m all for it. But when artificially modified labia and vaginas are held up and presented as being normal, then there’s a problem.
Women are exposing themselves to the dangers of surgery like infection and bleeding without a sound medical reason. A good number of women requesting this type of surgery were spurred on by negative comments made about their anatomy by a sexual partner.
By contrast, women in steady relationships, according to a study published in the December 2008 issue of Current Sexual Health Reports, are far more likely than their single peers to feel comfortable with their natural appearance below the belt — and that comfort translates into higher scores on six separate measures of satisfaction between the sheets. In other words, says the study’s co-author, social worker Laura Berman, of Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, who has a PhD in sex education, the best way to start enjoying your body could be far simpler than surgery: “You may need a new boyfriend.”
Great advice.
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