Would you have vaginal rejuvenation (plastic surgery)?

vaginal rejuvenation, vaginal plastic surgeryI 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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December 5, 2008 by Ada
Filed under: Sexuality 

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7 Comments on Would you have vaginal rejuvenation (plastic surgery)?

  1. mmo on Fri, 2nd Jan 2009 11:11 am

    2. I thought this didn’t exist till I found out my ex’s mom had this done. Interesting

  2. Angeline S. Rodden on Mon, 19th Jan 2009 9:21 pm

    3. There is nothing wrong about undergoing a plastic surgery operation. Remember that nowadays it is now becoming a “trend”. As long as you find satisfaction out of doing it, then go for it! But before you do it for yourself, come to think of this, “Is my plastic/reconstructive surgeon the best?!”

  3. walking canes on Thu, 19th Feb 2009 7:57 am

    4. I use to read about 15 blogs a day, but because my time is nowlimited, I only can read 1 or 2 now. And this is one of them…Great post!

  4. E'Jelly(: on Thu, 28th May 2009 3:05 pm

    5. How old do you have to be to have a vagina rejuvination?

  5. bugeyes on Sun, 30th Aug 2009 5:29 am

    6. I know this is an old post but I just wanted to say that I am a woman with very large, long labia and they have bothered me tremendously since I was in junior high school. Certain clothing is very irritating, activities like riding a bike, etc. can be uncomfortable and pantyhose – forget it! I feel like I have to adjust myself like a guy. I am a dancer and when I wear certain things onstage I feel self-conscious about the fact that I have a little bulge down there. I am having a labiaplasty done for my own personal comfort.

    My husband is a wonderful man who loves me just the way I am and I think he thought I was joking when I first brought this up with him. And I have never had any sexual partners complain about it (I don’t think guys care too much about what your labia look like, and if they do – then, as the article says, find a new guy!) But I just wanted to point out that not all women are trying to conform to women in hustler magazine; it is a serious issue of discomfort to me and I am relieved that there are qualified surgeons who perform the procedure. To me, there are much more problematic surgeries – namely breast implants – which are FAR MORE risky. To me, this labiaplasty doesn’t compare to the risk involved in surgically implanting foreign objects into your chest purely for vanity. It’s a shame that that procedure is becoming nearly as common as wearing braces on your teeth!

  6. bugeyes on Sun, 30th Aug 2009 5:33 am

    7. Also – I think you are using the term “vaginal rejuvenation” incorrectly. That actually refers to a procedure where a woman’s vagina is “tightened up” so to speak. Apparently it can increase a woman’s sexual pleasure if her vaginal walls have become overly loose due to childbirth, etc. So it’s not really for cosmetic reasons.

  7. Ashlee on Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 8:12 pm

    8. I did labiaplasty because I saw some ads for it that suggested my labia was not average! They didn’t tell me how common it is to have large labia and they didn’t tell me there is no standard size since every single person has a different size.
    Now that I have done it I look disfigured and I have agonizing pain after 7 month and sex is impossible!

    all I needed was some assurance that I was normal and looked like 50% of women.

    Until when do we have to Butcher our bodies because of brainwashing of media?

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