V.A.S.

[Feynn]

I woke up this morning and switched on the t.v. as I passed by just for the background ambience…

There was a program on Star about living the life in Hollywood / L.A. and it went from dating and lifestyle right into plastic surgery because we all need to be perfect don’t we? Talk about shallow and materialistic.

I think things have gone too far when women are going in for V.A.S. (Vaginal Augmentation Surgery). Yes, you read correctly. Fat is sucked from the thighs and injected into the outer labial(?) area to give a plumper rounder appearance. You had to see this as they sucked the fat out (which looked like bile) and then shot it back in to the labial area.

Seems that women are getting this done so that they have a rounder smoother shape in the nether regions, I guess this is important when you are at the gym and wearing spandex?

This is fucking unbelievable.

[matt_mcl]

sigh

I know what you mean, Feynn: it’s crazy. Here’s what I said many moons ago in the thread on “the fat vs. thin debate”:

OK, Here’s a thin person jumping in. At least, medical science tells me I’m thin. I’m 6’1 and 170 lbs, making my body mass index 22.4 (where healthy supposedly is 18.5 to 24.9).

…And yet. And yet I still get depressed about my body. I still hate parts of my body occasionally - my breasts, my wide hips (which are completely due to the size of my pelvis!), whatever.

These are usually accentuated when I feel bombarded with pressure to look, not healthy, but perfect. Such as when the last issue of Fugues magazine came out detailing all the lovely surgery and drugs you could have if you didn’t look stripper-perfect.

Gee, I could go out and have cosmetic surgery right now if I wanted to. No matter that people find me attractive anyway - bviously the fact that I don’t want to look like a stripper reveals that I’m too lazy to do anything about my hideous, hideous appearance.

I mean obviously, if I can’t even make the little effort to have my face cut open and the remaining fat surgically sucked out of my thighs, stomach, and breasts and have my pelvis smashed and reshaped and have electricity shot through my muscles and eat nothing but diet supplements in order to look like a movie star, I must be a lazy pig.

[Mr.Cynical]

Who wants camel toes? Step right up!

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Eh, Feynn, if this weren’t the Straight Dope and we weren’t all devoted to Fighting Ignorance, I’d suspect you of pulling my leg. Vaginal Augmentation Surgery!? Oh come on…

And what happens when things go wrong? I’ve seen some “oopsie” pictures of what happens when Penis Augmentation goes wrong. Geez louise. It sounds like something out of Mad magazine, over-18 XXX edition.

[Feynn]

Hey Duckie, I would not shit a fellow Doper on this… I took a break from my all too busy morning schedule to watch the procedure…

I would not have believed it if I had not seen it myself.