Designer Vagina!

Submitted by ATS on December 1, 2007 - 8:13am
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O.k. this topic popped into my head this morning. I am having an uncomfortable day today (almost a feeling like everything is swollen) and after weeks of not checking I couldn’t help myself and after my bath had a feel around! My cervix to my surprise was sitting a good inch higher than normal but where it has moved up it has revealed more than ever my saggy front wall which I am terrified is going to continue to sag and eventually my bladder will fall with it (if it hasn’t already to some extent). I kept thinking to myself that although we can reposition our organs and pin them in a better place keeping everything tucked up inside there is absolutely nothing we can do to re-tone this sagginess. I don’t expect to be like I was when I was 18 after having had a traumatic birth experience and I can put up with some sagging but you are lead to believe this just is not the norm and that makes me feel freakish

I had no reason to examine myself prior to prolapse so have no idea what was going on up there before so have nothing to compare it with.

Anyway (sorry I am waffling on here) I starting thinking about the latest trend of designer vaginas. Having googled it and read a little bit about it, it says and I quote “surgeons are offering a growing range of operations to change the size and shape of the vagina and/or labia. Some use scalpels, others lasers, to tighten the vaginal muscles and support tissues and reduce flaccid or floppy vaginal linings (vaginoplasty). They can also build up the area between the vagina and the anus and repair any internal damage following childbirth which may have resulted in urinary or faecal leakage.”

Now surely this can lead to POP?

It is frightening that there are loads of young and not so young women out there undergoing this surgery who do not have POP but are now putting themselves at an increased risk.

Am I wrong?

A

AnneH

December 1, 2007 - 9:34am

You are not wrong. Unfortunately I believe you are right on target. It is bad enough women (younger and younger!) are falling for the pressure to get nose jobs, boob jobs, and other purely cosmetic procedures to try to achieve "perfection" (WHY???) but in most cases these other procedures do not by mere construction wreck the underlying natural support system. The youngest generation today has NO concept of being able to survive without over-technologizing everything. It is absolutely terrifying if you stop and think about it; they're being programmed from birth to look to the massive industrialized medicine machine for now, not only treatment for disease, but for unnecessary crap like this. Excuse my language, but I find it disgusting the way young women more and more submit themselves to risky major surgery for pure vanity. Nothing against modern medicine per se! Thank god we have these procedures for mastectomy patients, accident victims and so forth. And I certainly believe in individual liberty; you want to drop several grand on bigger boobs go for it. But personally, I am making damn sure my two girls get a motherlode of information from me about the risks of going down this idiotic, self-absorbed pathway. Beautify your inner self a little more ftw and I don't mean the vagina.

I don't mean to offend anyone if you have had a cosmetic procedure. If it made you happy and you paid for it yourself (not my tax money) then more power to you. My beef is with how society is pushing very young women into this sort of thing. Even teenagers. It is dangerous and misleading to allow them to go under the knife under the illusion that bigger boobs will fix their social life or god-forbid, enhance their (unmarried) sex life.

louiseds

December 1, 2007 - 9:39am

No A, I think you are not wrong. Your thinking is spot on. It is a sales spiel. What is more, the fine print about the risks and possible complications is missing. If it was there, it would make a mockery of the advertisement. Feelings of insecurity and inadequacy can do terrible things to a person's brain.

I believe the line between pelvic reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery is very fine. Where the first can be justified by many women on the basis of functional difficulties the latter appeals only to vanity and the quest for eternal youth, and as you say it will possibly lead to functional difficulties later on. Only a fool would fall for it.

Cheers

Louise