scary advertising and talk of vaginas

[threeplusfire]

The Chronicle has an ad just across from the table of contents this week from The Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of San Antonio. Um, whiskey tango foxtrot? The mere idea of a laser anywhere near my vagina gives me hives. The ad text reads, arranged over a nude female form and a row of smiling female faces:

New Comestic Procedures
Ladies! Experience how good life can be!
Our Board certified OB GYN, Troy Robbins Hailporn M.D., can completely resculpt and rejuvenate the vagina with a 1-hour laser procedure. These new GYN procedures help: tighten the vagina after childbirth, improve stress urinary incontinence, enhance sexual gratification. She also performs: labia reduction for large/uneven labia minora, reconstruction of the hymen

www.cosmeticgyn.net

Wha?!?!?!? The whole thing sounds hideous and very, very, very painful. The site has some graphic little diagrams, so you probably shouldn't peruse it at work. I am so very disturbed. Why the hell would you want your hymen back, unless you're playing sme shell game where you sell yourself for a lot of money as a prize virgin whore? Who the hell cares about the labia being symmetrical?

The grotesque desire for extreme plastic surgery to achieve some artificial and unnatural standard of beauty suddenly seems a whole lot more ugly now. The first person who tries to put a laser or a scalpel anywhere near my damned labia is getting a bullet in the eye.

Comments

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

Reconstruction of the hymen I knew about (my father's an ObGyn) but... the rest of the above and what's on that website kinda leaves me flabbergasted.

Pun unintended. ;)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Now, why in the world would one get the hymen reconstructed? I'm dying to know!

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Young women from cultures especially hipped on female virginity--as in, you could be ostracized or worse if you're not found to have a "properly" intact hymen--sometimes resort to this.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh, now that is very interesting.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

If I remember right, in his case it was a patient going back to a country which required the women to be virgins for marriage ~ with stuff like stoning (inasmuch as I recall) in wait for her if she wasn't upon her return.