Patients who sought genitoplasty “uniformly” wanted their vulvas to be flat and with no protrusion, similar to the prepubescent look of girls in Western fashion ads, pornography and on genitoplasty web sites.
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Wonderful, what adult woman doesn’t want to help fulfil her partners daddy fantasy by looking like a little girl in her “special area”?
*excuse me while I go throw up
Here is a site that offers these procedures, and here is some of what they offer
Labiaplasty (labia reduction & beautification) and other female cosmetic surgical procedures including Vaginoplasty (rejuvenation or tightening of the vagina) and Clitoral Unhooding (Hoodectomy)
Here is the WHO fact sheet on Female Genital Mutalition
Type III – excision of part or all of the external genitalia and stitching/narrowing of the vaginal opening (infibulation);
Hmm kind of hard to spot the difference.
Oh wait I see the difference the first is FGS while the second is FGM. So I guess all they really need to do is change one letter and hey presto they aren’t committing an indignity they are providing her with low cost plastic surgery. Maybe they could open shop invite a few North Americans over and in one swell foop become respected surgeons.
Female Genital Surgery (FGS)—of which Vaginal Plastic Surgery is part—is a demanding surgical field
According to a Swedish study;
RESULTS:47 women had been operated, more than 50% had been operated at two or more occasions. 11 patients had only vaginoplasty done and in the remaining women it was combined with clitoroplasty. The cosmetic appearance as well as the function of clitoris and vagina are often not optimal. There is also a need from these patients to be able to discuss former surgery, especially since it was common in this group to state that the functional result has influenced their sexual life negatively.
From the surgical site;
8. Could labiaplasty cause insensitivity?
There is no physiological association for sensory pleasure with the labia—that function is served by the clitoris. The only sensation elicited from labia is pain upon tearing or stretching. Labiaplasty can’t cause a loss of sensitivity when done correctly.
There is no sensation for pleasure in the labia??? Obviously spoken by someone who doesn’t have any.
and this assertion is repeated in CAPS just in case you didn’t believe it the first time. But it is ever so much more believable now that it is in bigger letters
14. I have read that after labiaplasty a woman can experience lifelong sexual arousal problems. Is this true?
No!! This is a common fallacy and it is completely wrong. The media, which at times misinterprets accurate medical information, commonly helps propagates this rumor as a means of creating controversy or sensationalism. It is well known MEDICAL FACT that the labia have sensory nerve fibers that ONLY transmit pain sensation, when stretched or torn. There is NO SEXUAL STIMULATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE LABIA MINORA.
The surgery to shorten the vagina boggles my mind. Really this surgery can surely be done for one reason only, to make him feel like he’s bigger than he is. And I suppose too it harkens back to the doing it with a prepubescent. I was just sick a little again.
In short ladies love your lips whatever size and shape they may be. Each and every vulva is a unique and beautiful thing and does not deserve to be sliced and diced.
If you are unfortunate enough to be saddled with someone who expects you to look like someone else cut him out of your life not your labia.
In Solidarity Sisters
😯 Astounding, Debra! And yes, mucho sickening…
I always think this is a great example of how oppression works in the Western world. People are so convinced that we are so “free” here. But, mass marketing pushes on our minds each day.
People are so quick to condemn other cultures without considering their own.
The fact that this surgery is so caught up with the idea of the “virginal” and prepubescent girl/woman is disturbing. Also, not even conidering the physiological ways this could impact a women’s arousal, my guess is that you can’t be loving sex that much if you’re such a slave to the gaze of another.
Coulda fooled me 😈 Seriously though, this is sick sick sick.—
There is very little difference between this mutilation and “Female Genital Mutilation” practiced in some non-Western cultures. While you could argue that the women who undergo the cosmetic surgery are making a choice, this absolutely reeks of the same woman-hating, body-controlling bullshit. Yeah, they’re making a choice. A bad choice.
What’s the alternative for a woman who has a prolapsed bladder, incontinence, chronic constipation, pain from vaginal bulge coming out just from walking a block, can’t jump, run, cough, sneeze, laugh w/o incontinence from wide badly left unstitched, after chilbirth ‘the natural way’
Prolapse is a serious condition requiring surgery, not cosmetic change.
Incontinence is rarely fixed by surgery, unless, there has been a tear leaving a fistula, something that rarely happens in North America.
The types of situations you describe are vastly different from women being told their va-jay-jay doesn’t look “right”.
I think this stuff needs to be talked about in health class in school or something. Obviously this is another form of abuse towards women and needs to be out in the open. The fact that FGM gets a lot of press is good, but knowing that it’s going on in our backyard, voluntarily (well, if you can call it that) should be huge red flag. This needs to be talked about in the media. People (men and women) should be outraged.
Then again, breast implants are somehow seen as acceptable. How’s that work?
I am a strong, intelligent and otherwise confident woman. My doctor tells me I’m normal, my husband assures me I’m entirely beautiful, but my discomfort with my genitalia traumatizes me and makes me a deeply unhappy person. A million assurances do not change my deep-seeded and long-held feelings. If I choose to opt for surgery to modify aspects of my body which upset me and cause me physical discomfort, which would be stupifyingly traumatic in itself, I will be doing so for my own future mental health and self-esteem. For ME, for my own peace, sexuality, sanity. And my husband would support me and hold me while I cry about how difficult it is.
Don’t be so quick to judge others. My decision will nothing to do with men’s fantasies or mass marketing. Your disgust and anger, and even vomit, is unfair and often displaced. Support and understanding from other women may be needed, not your wrath.
My vomit comment was directed against those who would associate prepubescence with sexual gratification. I will not withdraw that…ever.
If you have a condition which causes you physical pain I don’t understand why your doctor would say you are normal.
Certainly everyone has the right to cut off their arm if they so choose.
Nevertheless, a surgery which often results in painful sex for a woman in order to live up to some photoshopped ideal seems ludicrous and criminally negligent on behalf of the surgeon to me.
you guys do realise they can cause embarrasment to people as well as iritation……….
and also if you look at women who get the surgery done most say it went well and they are happy….it has a 97 percent sucess rate and if anything goes wrong then it can be corrected…..it is not to cut the lips fully off or make u look like a child it is to make them smaller so its not noticeable in a bikini…..they cause embarrassment to some like me which actually depresses me….. and also cause irritation in clothing…..do not make assumptions…..you obviously dont no what its like to have something tha gets you down this much and there is no point living unhappily….if you read what people who have had it wrote they still have sexual pleasure….every1 nos the pleause comes from the clit