Hey, so here's something you may be aware of: when a woman goes through the life-changing and completely natural event of giving birth, afterwards, her body doesn't always look the same as it did before! But, reports today's New York Times, plastic surgeons have a "surgical cure for the ravages of motherhood." Called…
This morning we came across something mildly interesting on the usually uninteresting (but hey, aptly-titled!) Diet Blog: A scan of an old newspaper ad from 1924 that seemed to suggest that pantyhose and garter belts could treat every woman's worst nightmare: Cankles! But then we clicked through to the source of the…
More on the issue of new technologies that delay or do away with menstruation altogether. Writing in today's USA Today, Kim Painter reports on the opposition to period-less womanhood, singling out health experts, a documentary filmmaker, and a SF-based artist who has created paintings made of her menstrual blood ("I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Having successfully convinced women of the filthiness (and, by extension, irrelevance) of their natural odors, curves, and body hair, it's not surprising that the patriarchy is going onward (and upward) with its assault on the female body. In the sights (and freshly arrived in our RSS feed): Women who menstruate! (…
