All plastic surgery, whether it is breast augmentation, facial restructuring, or genital alteration, usually boils down to two arguments. The first being that you should love yourself, even with your imperfections, and shouldn’t change that with a surgical operation. The other argument is that it is your body and you can do whatever to it as long as it makes you happy. In regards to piercings, which I believe are in a different category than plastic surgery since usually they are easily reversible, I side with the second agreement. The individual has every right to change their body in a way that is self-expression. The individuals is choosing the piercing because it is what they want, not because they feel pressured by a societal expectation. …show more content…
It isn’t like a nose or a jawline. Unless an individual is being intimate with a partner, viewing an R-rated form of media, or viewing porn, it is probably unlikely that they will see male or female genitals. The genitals that are seen in media are not representative of the population at large any more than actors are presentative of what the average individual looks like. Porn stars are chosen because their genitals are considered attractive or impressive. While there recently has been backlash against the unrealistic expectations presented in porn, as this video shows, porn is still the only frame of reference many people have for what genitals should look like. The Atlantic article also pointed to porn as one of the major reasons that genital plastic surgery procedures are on the rise. With only unrealistic expectations to work off of, it isn’t surprising that both women and men expect their partner’s genitals to look a certain way and feel that their own bodies are …show more content…
This might be because where I grew up very few people wanted or could afford plastic surgery, so it wasn’t usually a topic of conversation. Breast reductions were the most common procedure that was done in girls at my high school and this was done because of back problems. I was not aware of the embarrassment and self-esteem issues that many women faced because of the appearance of their labia. It is when people face this sort of self-esteem crisis that I have a harder time subscribing to either the “self-love” or the “it’s your body” argument. The Large Labia Project website not only educates individuals about what women with large labia’s feel and have to deal with, it also promote the idea of self-love. Many of the women on the website were self-conscious only after someone else had made a comment about how their labia looked, not before, and this had effected their relations with their bodies and intimate partners. While part of me wants to tell them to love their body and not listen to those people, I don’t have to live with the embarrassment and the self-consciousness they feel. Thinking of how I would feel in their situation, I lean toward the other argument, it is their body and if this surgery could help them be confident, have better self-esteem, and enjoy sex more, who am I to tell them not to do it? As long as
In today society, beauty in a woman seems to be the measured of her size, or the structure of her nose and lips. Plastic surgery has become a popular procedure for people, mostly for women, to fit in social class, race, or beauty. Most women are insecure about their body or face, wondering if they are perfect enough for the society to call the beautiful; this is when cosmetic surgery comes in. To fix what “needed” to be fixed. To begin with, there is no point in cutting your face or your body to add or remove something most people call ugly. “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” explored the desire of human to become beyond perfection by the undergoing plastic surgery. The author, Camille Pagalia, took a look how now days how Americans are so obsessed
Most women want to have firm, perky and sexy breasts because it makes them feel good about themselves. However, over the years, factors such as aging, breastfeeding, weight fluctuations, pregnancy, heredity, gravity and others can have a toll on their breasts causing them to lose firmness and change shape. Sagging breasts are not only unsightly, but also cause embarrassment and to women. As a result, some are willing to go to any length to get their strong and firm breasts back. One of the medical procedures that can help women rectify the sagging is breast lift surgery.
After learning of the negative consequences that may, and probably will arise from breast implants, it is surprising that so many women are still getting them. It is major surgery and the benefits of having larger breast is not worth the unnecessary chance of death or serious pain for life. More work needs to be done on the study of breast implants because women need to know what they are putting in their bodies. Breast implant manufacturers need to be held responsible, and plastic surgeon should be required to make sure every woman is fully aware of all the possible side effects before she has any type of surgery done.
Reader! It has come to my attention that the human world has been thrown into major conflicts surrounding the ethics of restoring the function of the face, using microsurgery, to those with severe disfigurements (Lamparello). This revolution of the science that led to my creation has almost rendered me speechless! No longer will patients feel hideous in their own skin because of unforeseen circumstances. Oh, how it is a horrid life to live, to be unaccepted by your fellow man, no matter how much YOU try and assimilate! Facial reconstruction is an innovative process that can improve the self-confidence of those whom were born naturally disfigured or were disfigured later in their lifetime. Face transplantation implores my interest simply because of how close it pounds at my wretched heart. When I escaped to a land far from the accursed laboratory I was “born” in, I found documents belonging to my creator that detailed his disgusted thoughts during my creation and final “birth”. It was exceptionally difficult to study his horror-stricken account of my hideous appearance (Shelley 34). When he’d lain his eyes on his obsession for the first time, he promptly disregarded his previous claims of my
With today’s world more inclined towards war than peace, many people encounter injuries and damages. Thousands of soldiers, in US military, develop deficits to their long-term memory owing to head trauma, brain injury or memory loss, even if they don’t bear any kind of physical damage. This is not only limited to US military but military all over the world. This can even extend to a common man who might have come across a similar problem of brain injury. In response to this, the US military is funding research that is strategically designed to improve memory by brain stimulation via implanted electrodes. It is believed that this can also help people who have suffered strokes or those who have lost their capability to recall due to ageing. The
Although I don't agree with the cosmetic surgery industry in general, I do think it can help some people under the right conditions. I feel as though if cosmetic surgery were added into many health care plans, many people would take advantage of it by getting rhinoplasty and breast-augmentation surgeries. In the right situation though, I believe this could be a huge break through in global health care do to the growing population of openly transgendered people and could provide them with the care they truly need to be happy and health
In addition to the many health risks, unnecessary societal pressure also adds on to the list of why plastic surgery should be banned. As oppose to spending thousands to hide their flaws, people should learn to love and live with them, as they are what essentially make them truly unique.
...getting cosmetic surgery will eventually become abnormal. Meaning ‘true’ beauty isn’t what the media is representing and the norm will become to have ‘false beauty’. Communicating this form of science and technology in this way results in giving individuals a negative message about body image as well as leaving out certain scientific data or risk behind it, meaning people cant make informed choices.
It is also true that we can change and enhance our body features through elective cosmetic surgeries. Many people choose to undergo these surgeries because they are unhappy with their appearance. I feel that these procedures are unnecessary, and that you shouldn’t undergo surgery unless you need it for your health. I believe that people go through these procedures purely because they have low self-esteem. Society tells them that there is something wrong with their body, and they feel that they need to change it to fit in. I think that this is a way to see if someone is truly happy with themselves, as we all should. No one is perfect, so no one should try to be it. It’s just a waste of time and money on their part all so they can fit in, which I think is pathetic. It is always a risk to undergo surgery, and there is no reason to put yourself in unnecessary risk. I think that it is ridiculous to put yourself through something like that. If I had a ten year old dark-skinned African American daughter who wanted blue contact lens, have her skin chemically lightened, and straighten her hair, I definitely say no.
In today’s society, everyone is worried about their external appearance; both with and without clothes on. Women and men experience discomfort, anxiousness, and worry about how they appear to the opposite sex. Some men even worry how they appear in locker rooms to other men, even if they are heterosexual. Media has depicted to a lot of young adults of how women and men should appear and act sexually. Pornography has created false images of how sex should look and feel like, especially women who have perfect sized boobs, perfect sized labia’s and are skinny. Having the best sized boobs and the symmetrically sized labia’s does not determine if sex is pleasurable or not. As mentioned by Laurie Mintz in “A Letter to Young Sexually Active Heterosexual
Flipping through the pages of Vogue's latest edition, 23 year-old Susan seems quite upset. She struggles with the thought of lacking the perfect body and delicate features in order to be considered attractive. Surprisingly, Susan is not alone in this kind of an internal struggle. In contemporary society, every other woman aspires to have the lips of Angelina Jolie and the perfect jaw line of Keira Knightley. Society today looks down upon individuals that do not fit in, whether in terms of body shape or facial attractiveness. This forces them to consider the option of 'ordering beauty.' Since cosmetic surgery is no longer a social taboo in America given its widespread popularity, more people are promoting it which ultimately affects the rest of the world due to the unwavering influence of American culture. Cosmetic surgery should be deterred in the US because it promotes the idea of valuing appearance over ability, gives rise to unrealistic expectations, and brings with it high cost to society.
If you think about all of the mental diseases that have to do with body image, they could all have an impact on whether or not someone considers mutilating their body. A study in August of 2007 shows that the long term risk of suicide in tripled for women who have undergone cosmetic surgery. It has been strongly suggested over the years that to improve mental health of patients undergoing cosmetic surgery should have a mental screening and follow up meeting prior to the surgery, to make sure they will be mentally okay with the change and that they are sure they want to go through. Although these tripled suicide rates could vanish if we all in all ban cosmetic surgery. An article about why people seeking plastic surgery should have mental health screenings says, “Women with breast implants also had higher rates of death from psychiatric disorders, including a three-fold increase in deaths resulting from alcohol and drug dependence. Several additional deaths, classified as accidents or injuries, might have been suicides or involved psychiatric disorders or drug/alcohol abuse as a contributing cause. "Thus at least 38 deaths (22% of all deaths) in this implant cohort were associated with suicide, psychological disorders, and/or drug and alcohol abuse/dependence," the researchers write.” (Espejo) Having a mental order like Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) could be a huge influence on wanting plastic
The world of cosmetic surgery is one of the largest and fastest growing industries worldwide, bringing in billions of dollars each year with cosmetic procedures that both men and women are having, in order to improve their looks, self esteem, and fulfilling societies norms and values. Cosmetic surgery has been accepted in certain cultures, this is a way of expressing who the person is. In my opinion cosmetic surgery is a good thing for individuals to pursue. As cosmetic surgery improves mental and physical well being, cosmetic surgeries through media, as cometic surgeries are improving health related issues, and creating opportunities for people.
Plastic surgery good and bad There are so many good and bad things that can come from getting plastic surgery. This essay will tell you all the effects, good and bad, that come from getting plastic surgery. The main reasons that people get plastic surgery are medical, personal, and at times career enhancement. Though we all should be satisfied with our looks, we aren’t.
Beauty is a huge thing in the world today. Looks are the first thing someone notices about you and it is what they judge you on. It is just how our society is today. Unfortunately, it is what the world has come to. The biggest extreme that someone can go to to enhance their natural beauty is to have plastic surgery. People are choosing to have plastic surgery due to the influence of celebrities, selfies, bullying, how important beauty is in society and the health benefits of it as well.