Monday, August 15, 2005

Snip snip here, snip snip there

Well, a doctor up here in Canuckland is making a killing offering vaginal plastic surgery. Women who have had the procedure claim it has improved their sex life, although it is pretty hard to judge if that's accurate. Apparently, quite a few of them come in wanting to look like the women in pornography, which has perhaps become too mainstream. Critics say it couldn't possibly improve sexual sensation, and claim the popularity of the surgery is yet another Western trend towards treating the human body as a problem that must be fixed by slicing and dicing it into conformity with a "norm". One thing's for sure, I never ever want to hear another Westerner express shock and dismay upon hearing that Chinese women used to bind their feet until they were hobbled. If footbinding was in magazines, it would be the latest rage. It's hard to feel sympathy for the problems of bourgeois white women in their quest to be the center of attention for their entire lives. Nevertheless, even more sickening is the suspicion I have that their braying idiot husbands have been nudging them for months while saying: "You know Honey, you don't look anything like these girls in Penthouse." Ugh.

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