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Top medical journal blasts "designer vagina" craze:

"Top medical journal blasts 'designer vagina' craze
May 24 07:03 PM US/Eastern
One of the world's most prestigious health journals has lashed a fast-growing trend in the United States and Britain for 'designer vaginas,' the tabloid term for cosmetic surgery to the female genitalia.

The fashion is being driven by commercial and media pressures that exploit women's insecurities and is fraught with unknowns, including a risk to sexual arousal, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says.

Known as elective genitoplasty, the surgery usually entails shortening or changing the shape of the outer lips, or labia, but may also include reduction in the hood of skin covering the clitoris or shortening the vagina itself.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the practice is spreading fast in the United States as well as in Britain, but the picture is unclear, the BMJ says.

Not only is there a disturbing lack of data about the phenomenon, there has been negligible assessment about surgical after-effects -- and almost zero reflexion as to whether a labial 'problem' exists in the first place, the BMJ says angrily.

In 2004-5, 800 'labial reductions' were conducted by Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS), more than a doubling of the figure of six years earlier."

"Our patients sometimes cited restrictions on lifestyle as reasons for their decision," they say.

"These restrictions included inability to wear tight clothing, go to the beach, take communal showers or ride a bicycle comfortably, or avoidance of some sexual practices.

"Men, however, do not usually want the size of their genitals reduced for such reasons. Furthermore, they find alternative solutions for any discomfort arising from rubbing or chaffing of the genitals."

You think that last paragraph is an understatement?

The national health service does this? When I was there they couldn't even afford individual plastic cups for you to pee in! You had to being in your own mason jar, or something.