labiaplasty documentary!

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Hi All,

I've just been able to watch about 10 minutes of this and won't be able to watch the rest until tomorrow, but it looks very well done and is such a timely subject! (Click here)

Christine

This was fascinating, Christine, and I hope you've had a chance to view the rest. Thanks for posting.

I had very mixed feelings. The message was uplifting, but it certainly wouldn't have helped young women to stop obsessing over what their vaginas looked like. Because that seemed to be the antidote being suggested......look at your vagina, look at as many different vaginas as you can, realize that there is a very wide range of "normal", and just love what you have. Sounds OK for what it is, but all this looking looking looking seems like part of the problem, not the solution.

And that's just me, I know. I've stated many times on this forum that I am not a looker. Though I've had a perfectly normal sex life/married life, I can honestly say I have never spent one minute worrying about what my vagina looked like. Why is this so prevalent?

I thought some of the comments under the article were right on. There are plenty of women in this crazy world who would not hesitate to make a man feel self-conscious about his genitals. Men live with this type of body-consciousness. Women are not being targeted by men any more than when it's the other way around. This documentary showed women who were influenced by both men and other women. We do need to get over our obsession.

I was disappointed that the documentary made labiaplasty look like just a simple lopping off of a bit of excess tissue. Invasive as that it, I'm sure there are lots of more radical things being done, which was not discussed at all. Neither was there any mention of possible after-effects down the road. An impressionable girl watching this, could come away thinking it was really no big deal to get one.

Definitely worth watching. Especially the plaster casts! - Surviving

I was only able to see a short but of this film, device acting up, but from what I did see, I was again appalled at the casualness of this surgery.
I too loved the plaster casts. Just proof that we are all a little bit different from one another. And what's wrong with that? Do we want to all be Barbie dolls? Women really need to find themselves and gain their confidence in something much healthier than this obsession over body image.

AG, I was also having trouble viewing it. I had to restart it by hand several times. I did get to the end eventually, but yes, it was very glitchy on my device too. - Surviving