Surgery for better sex?
Last night I was reading a women's fitness magazine at the gym before going out, and I stumbled over this article. Needless to say, the details of women's below-the-belt cosmetic surgery left a somewhat sour taste in my mouth.
I've never really understood the compulsion other women have to tinker with their bodies - tightening their tummies, pumping up their breasts, lifting their butts and, more often every year, revamping their most private of parts.
Sure, I'm far from perfect, and there are days I'd like to trade parts of my body in for new ones. And I think any women who has ever felt self-conscious being naked or worried that she's not "normal" can sort of understand the desire to remake the goods to look more like the "standard" - or more like a porn star.
I've known women with breast implants, and most of them claimed they got implants to boost their self-esteem. But I have a hard time buying that when these same women spend an evening at the bar offering everyone a chance to poke and feel their fake breasts.
And I think there's a big jump between wondering whether you're normal and jumping at plastic surgery when it comes to something like vaginal-rejuvenation surgery. No matter how much I liked a guy, I wouldn't go under the knife so that I could be more like his image of beauty or sexy.
So what do you all think about this blitz of sex-related cosmetic surgery? Does it really improve sex for women who have certain parts snipped and others enhanced? And would you ever have cosmetic surgery to please a partner?
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First, the term "vaginal-rejuvenation" is hilarious.
What are we rejuvenating back to? What's next? Dewrinkling for men?
On to fake boobs - are you trying to say that there may be self esteem issues with someone who shows their bought boobs all around town? Say, an esteem issue that has little or nothing to do with boobs at all?
Posted on October 2, 2007 10:03 AM
When I read the first page of that article online I thought, "what's the big deal?" Collagen injected in your thingy to get off better seems like a saner idea to me than collagen injected in your lips to make you look more like Angelina Jolie. Ever since I dated my first pierced-up punk rock boyfriend long ago I've advocated some minor surgical procedures at your local tattoo parlor to achieve the same end. But my way looks cooler than the collagen way.
But the thing that keeps unsettling me is this: I've taken my share of locker room showers and no matter how much you keep your eyes to yourself, you still notice that so-and-so's boobs or waist or whatever is better than yours. But the inner folds of someone's labia? How do you casually notice that?
Posted on October 2, 2007 11:51 AM
Hey Ruby -
I guess the only barometer for "normalcy" when it comes to those parts must be watching/looking at a lot of porn.
Posted on October 2, 2007 2:15 PM
No matter how much you use something, you won't put the mileage on it that a professional does.
And the pros generally have better equipment to start.
Posted on October 2, 2007 3:01 PM