<![CDATA[Jezebel: vaginoplasty]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: vaginoplasty]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/vaginoplasty http://jezebel.com/tag/vaginoplasty <![CDATA[Vaginal Rejuvenation Doctor "Knows" Kegels Don't Work]]> Dr. David Matlock, the guy who pioneered the vaginal rejuvenation "industry," was on The View this morning to discuss his trade—and hit up his demo. He mentioned that women tell him what they want done by telling him how old they want their vaginas to feel, after which he made a pretty gross joke about women wanting vaginas like 14-year-olds. Joy Behar was not amused, and confronted him on the fact that creating tighter vaginas is actually more beneficial for men than for women. He disagreed, but didn't really explain why. However, he did say that he "knows" that kegels do not work. Is it just me, or is this "doctor" totally fucking unethical, going on a national talk show and telling women that kegel exercises are basically pointless? Clip above.

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5028759&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Get A "Sexier" Vagina For The Low, Low Cost Of $18,000!]]> Remember Dr. Matlock , aka Dr. Sex? He's the dude who pioneered the whole "designer vagina" thing, selling genital cosmetic surgery to women, telling them that it will make sex feel physically better. Barf. First of all, when I went to two different doctors to get consultations for vaginoplasty for the Pimp My Vadge series last year, I was told by one doctor that by having surgery down there, you run the risk of seriously damaging the nerve endings in your clit. Secondly, wouldn't making a vagina tighter make sex feel better for the man, not the woman? Lastly, $18,000 for this crap!? Seriously!? Listen to Dr. Matlock pat himself on the back in the clip above.
•Earlier: Pimp My Vadge

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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=273516&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[For 2 Grand, This Man Will Plump The Inside Of Your Pussy]]> Today's Broadsheet column on Salon (via the SF Chronicle) clues us into yet another disturbing vagina-modification procedure that seems to be making the rounds: "The G-Shot". Touted as a method to increase sexual pleasure, "The G-Shot" is a two-thousand-dollar procedure invented by L.A. plastic surgeon Dr. David Matlock — he of the wonderful Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of America! — in which collagen is injected into a woman's G-spot in order to increase its size, and, presumably, the patient's sexual response. Notwithstanding the fact that many sex experts — including the wonderful Betty Dodson — are skeptical about the very existence of such an area, and the fact that in order to administer the shot some doctors feel it necessary to "arouse" their patients, what does this all mean? Will the obsessive, aesthetic assault on our reproductive systems never end? Are cervixes next? Or, Lord help us, is our uterus ugly???

Perfecting Your Private Bits [Salon]
Enhanced Romance [SF Chronicle]
Related: Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute Of America

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=266082&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pimp My Vadge: A Woman's Opinion]]>
Sometime around the year 2002 plastic surgery started getting ridiculous. As if there wasn't enough pressure on women to look like hairless, hipless eunuchs with breasts, we started seeing advertisements in the back of our favorite magazines touting a new procedure called "vaginoplasty". Often, these ads touted something called "labiaplasty" in their copy as well — and it didn't take master Sudoku skills to figure out what that meant. For the second installment of our "Pimp My Vadge" series, we sent our friend Slut Machine (link NSFW) undercover to get a different opinion — a woman's, that is — about about the relative "merits" of her vagina. Click play to hear the audio from her visit, then read her reactions after the jump.

Last week, when I got a labiaplasty consultation, I had a man doctor look at my lady parts. While he told me that my vadge didn't look "that bad" (thanks?) my labia majora could still be improved upon. He recommended vaginal lip lipo, saying that it was unlikely I would ever lose the labia fat through diet and exercise because I'm not "grossly overweight" (This guy really knows how to give a girl a compliment.)

For my second opinion, I made an appointment with a woman doctor. I'd been tipped off that this doc had hired a PR firm to handle the cosmetic surgery portion of her practice. The reasons behind why a gynecologist would need to publicize such procedures seemed questionable to me. But I couldn't help but think that since this gyno was a woman, she couldn't possibly be on board for making money by allowing women to feel inadequate and self-conscious about yet another part of their bodies.

I have to say that I really liked this doctor right off the bat, which I hadn't been expecting. In her billowing, multi-layered, long black skirt, she reminded me of Stevie Nicks, and that sort of organic, mystical grace comforted me much more than the typical, cold, clinical experience of being examined.

For this visit, instead of making up some bogus excuse as to why I was displeased with my very normal labia, I decided to just let Dr. Blank, Medicine Woman take a look a my crotch and tell me what she thought of it.

I placed my feet in the stirrups. With my lips parted, I kept my mouth shut and let her go to work. To my pleasant surprise, she was way honest with me about how there wasn't much she could do, and she also informed me of some very crucial info that the dude doctor failed to relay, regarding damaging the nerves of my clit (aka my livelihood!), should I go through with any surgery to my labia majora.

You know, I thought that first doctor's idea of lip lipo sounded sort of insane. I watch Discovery Health Channel. Lipo is a violent procedure. I imagine it would ransack your property downtown. I feel for any girl who would be misguided enough to go down that route. I mean, I really feel for her. Just thinking about that shit gives me phantom pains.

Earlier: Pimp My Vadge
We're Beginning To Look A Lot Like Barbie

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=264835&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[We're Beginning To Look A Lot Like Barbie]]> A leading British medical journal has released a report slamming the increasing demand for "designer vaginas" and warning that plastic surgery to the female genitals carries a risk of decreased sexual response. Fueling the demand for such procedures? Unrealistic images of female genitalia in pornography, women's magazines, and... the fashion industry.

Patients who sought genitoplasty "uniformly" wanted their vulvas to be flat and with no protrusion, similar to the prepubescent look of girls in Western fashion ads, they found.

The fashion industry can be blamed for many crimes against women, but plastic vaginas? We don't think so. Unless, of course, designer Tom Ford has some sort of collaboration with Mattel in the works.

Top Medical Journal Blasts "Designer Vagina" Craze [Breitbart]
Designer Vagina Surgery Growing Because Of Porn [Bloomberg]
Earlier: Pimp My Vadge
Related: Prank Call To Barbie, Part 2 [Zug]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=264056&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pimp My Vadge]]>
Sometime around the year 2002 plastic surgery started getting ridiculous. As if there wasn't enough pressure on women to look like hairless, hipless eunuchs with breasts, we started seeing advertisements in the back of our favorite magazines touting a new procedure called "vaginoplasty". Often, these ads touted something called "labiaplasty" in their copy as well — and it didn't take master Sudoku skills to figure out what that meant. Curious as to what a male vagina doctor would say to a woman who had heretofore absolutely no — and we mean nooo! — problem with her genitals, we sent our friend Slut Machine (NSFW!) to get prone and ask that suddenly -pressing question: "Is my vagina not pretty?"

When I first heard about labioplasty and vaginoplasty a few years ago, it sounded like a procedure that would only appeal to porn stars and women who practice the rhythm method—you know, SUVs—Service Utility Vaginas. But vaginal plastic surgery is a growing trend as evidenced by the opening of practices dedicated to the procedure, like the one I dragged my labes to on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Frankly, I think this whole cookie-cutter cooch thing is bunch of bullshit. I'm a feminist and everything, but I'll be the first to acknowledge that vaginas aren't always pretty. The thing is though, vaginas are supposed to be like that. And just like snowflakes, no two are the same. I'm sure there are occasions of extreme physical abnormality, but those cases are rare. Because if they were common, then they wouldn't be abnormal, now would they?

Honestly, I have no beef with my lips—they've always done right by me. So when I was finally in the doctor's office, and he asked me what I wanted fixed, I had to think fast on my feet—or in my stirrups, rather. It's really clear to anyone looking that I don't have a labia minora problem, so I made up a complaint about my labia majora. I was somewhat shocked that he agreed that something could be done to improve the appearance of my pussy.

It was weird watching the doctor push and tug at my labia in the promotional Ortho Tri-Cyclen mirror that the nurse was holding up. It was even weirder because he was kind of sexy, with his salt and pepper hair and his toothy grin. Still, it was sort of upsetting when he told me that my outer lips could stand to loose some weight through lipo. No girl likes to be told she's chubby—even if it's only in the labia. Something about that visit was fishy—and it had nothing to do with my legs being spread wide open.

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