Woman Seeking Labiaplasty Analysis
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yet you strive to satisfy the requirements others have placed upon you. Beauty is only skin deep, but you feel the need to ensure that skin looks flawless because society tells you it should be. We are told to never judge a book by its cover, so why do you care so much about your appearance? You do not just want to look good; you want to be accepted. Everyone victim to the norms of society and the norm forced upon you revolves around how you are supposed to look. Today’s society has placed a pair of shackles on you to prevent you from freely expressing yourself. The sad part is that you are not alone in this. The number of adolescent girls who fall victim to the newest and coolest idea of what
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David Veale attempts to identify the different reasons women want labiaplasty. It is one thing to assume that these surgeries are getting done because women do not like the appearance of their labia, but it is another to have proof that backs that claim up. In Dr. Veale’s test 55 women seeking labiaplasty operations were surveyed. Among one of the key things discovered was that the 55 women “express increased dissatisfaction towards the appearance of their genitalia, with lower overall sexual satisfaction and a poorer quality of life in terms of body image” (Veale). All of the women who were surveyed wanted the operation because of the appearance of their labia. Obviously we cannot assume that every woman who gets or has gotten labiaplasty done does it because of how their labia looks, but a disproportionate amount do. This is not an urban myth I am making up to scare you or anyone else: this is a serious issue. I feel that it is also important to point out that of the 55 women who were surveyed, ten met diagnostic criteria for body dysmorphic disorder, a mental illness that makes people look for defects in their own body. Is this what we are becoming? An unreasonable amount of women have been so traumatized by the different standards of beauty placed upon them that they feel they can never be beautiful. Any little issue with their appearance gets over magnified and they feel completely
David Veale attempts to identify the different reasons women want labiaplasty. It is one thing to assume that these surgeries are getting done because women do not like the appearance of their labia, but it is another to have proof that backs that claim up. In Dr. Veale’s test 55 women seeking labiaplasty operations were surveyed. Among one of the key things discovered was that the 55 women “express increased dissatisfaction towards the appearance of their genitalia, with lower overall sexual satisfaction and a poorer quality of life in terms of body image” (Veale). All of the women who were surveyed wanted the operation because of the appearance of their labia. Obviously we cannot assume that every woman who gets or has gotten labiaplasty done does it because of how their labia looks, but a disproportionate amount do. This is not an urban myth I am making up to scare you or anyone else: this is a serious issue. I feel that it is also important to point out that of the 55 women who were surveyed, ten met diagnostic criteria for body dysmorphic disorder, a mental illness that makes people look for defects in their own body. Is this what we are becoming? An unreasonable amount of women have been so traumatized by the different standards of beauty placed upon them that they feel they can never be beautiful. Any little issue with their appearance gets over magnified and they feel completely