Plastic Surgery “Down There” Grows
Labiaplasty, Plastic Surgery Comments (1)
While more is being written about the cosmetic plastic surgery known as labiaplasty, criticism around the world seems to grow.
Nonetheless, many women complain their elongated labia chafes and rubs in tight workout clothes and while engaging in some sports.
Others complain the condition interferes with intimacy. So the procedure known as labiaplasty has become more common for plastic surgeons, although the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) only reports 3,494 labiaplasties in 2008, the most current year for which statistics are available.
Meanwhile, psychologists, gynecologists and others chime in that any cosmetic surgery of the female genitalia is unnecessary and fraught with needless risk.
Professional medical societies in:
- The United States,
- New Zealand,
- The United Kingdom
- Germany
have slammed the procedure because of a lack of studies and alleged high complication rates.
Many feminists say there is no universal standard of beauty for labia, and that most women who want the operation get the idea in the first place from sexually explicit magazines, showing professional models who have surgically enhanced genitalia.
Now, a recent two-year study on 407 women labiaplasty patients between the ages of 13 and 63 indicates patients appear to be happy with the procedure. Gary Alter, M.D., a board certified plastic surgeon and a board certified urologist, performed a procedure known as the Alter V technique on all 407 women.
The surgical technique removes a V-shaped piece of tissue from the most protuberant portion of each labium and then sutures the edges together. Most of the study subjects came to Dr. Alter, complaining of discomfort and aesthetics.
Results? According to the article, printed in the December 2008 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, a professional journal for plastic surgeons, 98 percent of the patients report they would have the surgery over again.
Seventy percent reported increased self-esteem while 71 percent reported improved sex lives. The study found four percent of subjects reporting complications.
Meanwhile, in Germany, psychologist Borken Ada Hagen and gynecologist Heribert Kentenich report in the German journal, Obstetrics and Gynecology, that the labiaplasty procedure has become the third leading cosmetic plastic surgery – right after face lift and breast augmentation – in the Teutonic nation.
Read more about German labiaplasty (or, Labienreduktion as it’s known there.)
Not to worry! The link is in English. Danken sie guete!
admin @ April 8, 2009
Bicycle riding is uncomfortable for all riders, women and men, so labiaplasty to increase comfort in this activity is useless. Labiplasty removes sexually sensitive tissue. Complications include reduced sexual sensation, infection, the development of painful scar tissue, and the need for repeated surgeries. Sexual pleasure and orgasm originate in the brain, and hence effects small, large, or uneven labia tissue uniquely, without reference to size. There is no “standard” for genital beauty. Reduced genitals is a phony standard set by the pornography media, where genitals are cut to fit a narrow, unrealistic, childlike aesthetic. Reducing the inner and outter labia, clitoral hood, pubic mound and other genital structures would be considered female genital mutilation in countries where ancient male sexual standards prevail. Rebecca Chalker, author of The Clitoral Truth. beckychalker@gmail.com, http://www.clitoraltruth.com