The number of teenage girls getting surgery for ‘designer vaginas’ DOUBLES in a year as doctors blame porn and poor sex education
- Number of under 18s having labiaplasty surgery almost doubled from 222 in 2014 to 400 in 2015
- While ‘designer vagina’ surgery in women of ages increased by 1six per cent
- Experts believe the sharp rise is as a result of women seeing much more images of ‘idealized’ vaginas in pornographic images
- Poor sex ed could additionally be to blame for increasing insecurity among teens
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A sharp rise in ‘designer vagina’ surgeries is being fuelled by a desire to achieve a sleeker look in yoga pants, a leading plastic surgeon has actually revealed
More teenage girls compared to ever are going under the knife in pursuit of a ‘designer vagina’ as experts warn porn is to blame.
Last year saw a 1six per cent increase in women of all ages going in for labiaplasty surgery – operations to reduce the size of the labia.
But procedures for under 18s almost doubled in the same period.
Experts believe porn and poor sex education might be to blame for the sharp rise in teens seeking ‘designer vaginas’.
Julie Strickland, the chair of ACOG’s Adolescent Good health Care Committee and lead author of the paper, said that several young girls are not taught concerning vast ranges of shapes and dimensions of labia which fall in to the range of ‘normal’.
While teens are becoming increasing exposed to images of ‘idealized’ vaginas through porn and advertising by plastic surgeons.
‘Variety in the shape, size, appearance and symmetry of labia can easily have actually particularly distressing psychological effects on young women,’ Strickland said in a press release.
‘It’s another body section that women are insecure concerning and it’s our job, as ob-gyns, to reassure our young patients.’
In 2014, doctors performed 222 labiaplasty operations on girls under the age of 18.
By the following year, that number had soared to 400 – an 80 per cent increase.
There is such a growing need for the procedure in that age range that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has actually issued guidelines on exactly how doctors must talk along with teens concerning labiaplasty.
Labiaplasty is the most common kind of female genital cosmetic surgery, in which the size of the labia is reduced.
Surgery can easily be performed on the labia majora – the outer, larger vaginal lips – or the labia minora – the smaller, internal vaginal lips.
It is usually offered as a treatment for women that have actually comes to along with hygiene, difficulties throughout sexual intercourse or discomfort as quickly as exercising. However, several women want surgery due to comes to concerning the method their genitalia look.
But it can easily come along with the risk of serious complications, including pain, scarring and infection.
Meanwhile, vaginoplasty is a procedure that aims to ‘secure up’ a vagina that has actually become slack, frequently the result of childbirth or ageing.
The number of under 18s having labiaplasty operations almost doubled form 222 to 400 between 2014 and 2015
Meanwhile the number of women of all ages having the surgery soared 1six per cent from 7,535 to 8,745
Dr Jennifer Walden, an aesthetic plastic surgeon and spokeswoman for the ASAPS, based in Austin, Texas, said labiaplasty is ‘one of the most popular cosmetic procedures in women’.
Over the last few years, she has actually noted a huge rise in the number of patients requesting the procedure.
‘It is one of the fastest rising procedures, in terms of popularity,’ she told Everyday Mail Online.
‘It can easily prove life-changing for so several patients.’
The increasing popularity of the ‘designer vagina’ operation has actually additionally gained a celebrity following from the likes of Sharon Osborne.
Between 2014 and 2015, operations among women of all aged jumped 1six per cent up to 8,745 – the majority of those that went under the knife were aged between 19 and 34.
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) additionally recorded a substantial increase in the number of tissue removal and re-structuring operations – a staggering 49 per cent rise in one year, from 2013 to 2014.
Dr Walden thinks that the fad for women to have actually all their pubic hair removed, in Brazilian and Hollywood waxes and laser hair removal, is additionally driving this trend.
‘There has actually been a rise in women going bare, down there, having Brazilian waxes and laser hair removal,’ she told Everyday Mail Online.
‘It has actually become fashionable and as a result women have, all of a sudden, started to see points they could not have actually taken notice of before.’
But, the rise in requests for labiaplasty is not merely a vain one, Dr Walden said.
‘The majority of consultations I perform are on women that do have actually enlarged labia,’ she said.
‘This is not a made up problem. It can easily have actually serious consequences.’
Enlarged labia can easily impact on a woman’s hygiene, and can easily trigger severe discomfort throughout sex as well as as quickly as wearing tight clothing.
‘Some women have actually a genuine issue along with contouring as quickly as wearing tight jeans and yoga pants,’ Dr Walden said.
‘They hope to look and appear sleeker in that area. And enlarged labia can easily have actually a genuine impact on a woman’s sex life.
‘In mechanical terms the labia can easily be tugged on constantly, which can easily trigger repeated stress throughout sex, which leads to severe discomfort.’
But, very compared to suffer in silence, as a result of a rise in awareness of ‘designer vagina’ surgery, Dr Walden said women are now aware they have actually options.
‘For much better or worse, a rise in online images, both pornographic and those of women wearing fairly little, has actually made women aware of areas they could not have actually noticed before,’ she added.
In turn, better discussion of the complications has actually helped to break down the taboo and make surgery a viable option for women of all ages.
‘I have actually seen girls as young as 1six anxious and concerned concerning having enlarged labia,’ Dr Walden told Everyday Mail Online.
‘And merely recently I saw a 75-year-old woman, that came in along with her husband, to discuss their selections after complications along with vaginal lubrication.
‘But, often I would certainly say most women seek the procedure after childbirth, so it is normally women in their 20s and 30s that come to see me concerning the surgeries.’
Labiaplasty operations can easily cost between $6,000 to $8,000, while non-invasive ThermiVa procedures cost $3,000 for a session of three.
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