Designer Vaginas: Protesters Speak Out Against Labiaplasty
“Plastic surgery for your breasts? How passé. Whether you’re looking for better sex or hoping to look like a 25-year-old porn star, now you can get your vulva plumped and sculpted too. As demand for these once secret procedures has picked up, so have concerns about the safety of permanently rearranging sex organs for a beauty fad that may be fleeting. Between 2005 and 2006, there was an increase of more than 20% in cosmetic gynoplasty. Alarmed at this trend, the New York–based group New View Campaign organized a demonstration this week outside the office of a cosmetic surgeon who performs the procedures. The group says doctors are preying on women’s ’self-critical anguish’ with untested techniques and Internet-fueled ideas about what’s normal. ‘Say No to Designer Vaginas!’ read a sign at the event, which included a protester dressed as a vulva before undergoing a labiaplasty (surgical reduction of the inner vaginal lips) and another who personified after. The number of labiaplasties in the U.K. apparently doubled from 2002–2007…” — Health.com (US)
New View Campaign were passing out some pretty good pins at their protest. Who wouldn’t want to adorn his or her backpack with a Love Your Vulva pin? Yes, love your vulva, why not?
Of course, there are a lot of different ways of expressing that love. For some, it may involve a hands-off attitude. Keep it natural. For others, their love might take a more hands-on form. They go after their vulva with the enthusiasm that dieters bring to a Richard Simmons show. The conundrum is that the folks in the “keep it natural” camp think they have a right to tell the people in the other camp what to do with their vulval love. They presume that they’re better informed and that the “sculpt my labia” types don’t understand the risk they’re running. This position is worthwhile so long as it confines itself to educational aims and doesn’t tilt over into moralizing. After all, there is nothing inherently wrong with performing aesthetic surgery on the genitalia. People do whackier things.
(For example, have you seen the Spankwire video yet? Here is a reaction video on YouTube. You can find there the link to the Spankwire thing. Note that the YouTube video is Safe For Work but the Spankwire thing is not. And really, don’t watch the Spankwire thing unless you’re up for something violent.)
If you bothered to watch the Spankwire video, the prospect of genital surgery won’t seem so awful. At least it happens in an office with a doctor who presumably knows what he is doing. In fact, one doctor quoted in the article talks about how competitive the field is becoming. Is there any doubt that “designer vaginas” and cosmetic genital surgery will continue to prosper in the future? There will be all sorts of funky things people do to their crotches. Maye one day they’ll even invent a vagina that looks like a penis, and vice versa.
I think it comes down to the ‘why?’ of having the procedure. If you’re doing it because you feel there is some sort of outside societal pressure telling you your vulva doesn’t look right, well, maybe you shouldn’t go chopping your cunt up because of that.
But there are plenty of people who want to modify their bodies for a wide variety of reason – some women elect to, say, have their clitoral hoods removed (as consenting adults, of course) for a variety of reasons.
Same goes for any other body modification – its about why you want it, not that you want it.
An ‘Anti’ says: ” It involves inserting something into the vagina. It has never been tested, and it has never been approved by the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]. â€
Uh huh? ‘Nuff said.
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