# Are Cosmetic Procedures Really About Looking Younger? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405 "2024-07-18T03:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/61 "2024-07-21T21:43:54Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Chin implants are an exception to this. They’re typically done when there’s a noticeable lack of chin there, and make a vast improvement which doesn’t age out. Chin implants are one of the cosmetic procedures that I fully support. There’s almost nothing you can do, other than surgery, to “correct” a weak chin. Oh, of course, I fully support gender affirming surgery, if it’s desired. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/62 "2024-07-21T23:51:45Z")
Yep. My ribs were removed by kidney surgeries. It may be urban legend that folks are getting it to have thinner waists. I just think it’s a probability that women think this and want it. It actually works. I was always straight up and down. I now have a nice curve. Of course it’s scarred up and has devices attached to it. So nothing is perfect. I read Joan Crawford had teeth removed to have higher cheekbones. Now that’s scary, right there. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/63 "2024-07-22T00:13:05Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It may be urban legend that folks are getting it to have thinner waists. I remember hearing it as a rumor, specifically about Raquel Welch, when I was a teenager, in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/64 "2024-07-22T01:05:25Z")
There were rumors of a male celebrity getting ribs removed so that he could give himself a blow job. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/65 "2024-07-22T01:24:07Z")
Some well-endowed and extraordinarily flexible men can do just that naturally. Marfan’s syndrome is a mixed blessing. We had a post by a Doper many years ago on that capability & experience. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/67 "2024-11-20T19:00:02Z")
I don’t why, for sure but that totally disgusts me. Excuse me, I must locate the brain bleach. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/68 "2024-12-31T17:15:12Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Yeah, I’m guessing that Jackson’s cosmetic-surgery aims were not exactly rooted in a “healthily developed body image” mental framework. The irony of his performance in Free to be You and Me. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/69 "2025-01-02T11:33:42Z")
… well … just start with the man in the mirror… ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405/70 "2025-01-02T13:13:09Z")
It’s an interesting topic, possibly one for GD. The OP largely answers his own question, but there are lots of issues to throw around. Videos showing how various celebs’ appearance has changed over the decades are very popular, and I’ll admit they are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me too. But, in my case, I try to avoid judgements about how so-and-so “let themselves go” or moralizing about plastic surgery being wrong. Because firstly, there’s a lot of luck in ageing. Sure, if you stay spend all day sunbathing without suncream, and all night face down in a drum of meth, there’ll be some visible effect. But a lot of stuff; how much you lose your hair, or how much jowls you get, or how the eye sockets look, overall puffiness of the face etc, is a roll of the dice as much as being born pretty in the first place. A celeb that has lived healthily may nonetheless look bad (and “look bad” here just being looking their age, essentially). Secondly, we only notice bad plastic surgery. How many celebs have had surgery that just looks attractive and natural? And what’s the problem with that? I don’t think anyone would have an issue with getting teeth straightened say. Why is it “wrong” when a scalpel is involved? Indeed botox is far less invasive than most cosmetic dentristry, why does society look on those things quite differently (it’s changing, but still society seems to consider one more vain or “unnatural” than the other). > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > There were rumors of a male celebrity getting ribs removed so that he could give himself a blow job. Well that’s an urban legend. Actually Marilyn Manson had all his ribs removed to give other people BJs: > **[Clarifying The Rumors: Marilyn Manson Has Revealed That He Actually Got ALL...](https://clickhole.com/clarifying-the-rumors-marilyn-manson-has-revealed-that-1836291616/)** > > Everyone knows the longstanding rumor about Marilyn Manson getting a rib surgically removed so he could suck his own dick, but after refusing to discuss… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405.md?page=3)