Cosmo pushes genital surgery

Havranek, Carrie. 1998. The New Sex Surgeries. Cosmopolitan, November, 146-50.   
  
The November 1998 issue of Cosmopolitan  
carried an article which positively  
gushed about cosmetic genital surgeries.  
According to author Havranek, women with  
larger inner labia than outer can benefit  
from having parts of their labia removed,  
while women with weak PC muscles can  
improve their sex lives with "Laser Vaginal  
Rejuvenation," and inorgasmic women may  
become easily and multiply orgasmic after   
pubic mound liposuction.   
  
Although the article concedes that promises  
of improved sexual response are unscientific,  
and cautions that sensation may actually be  
damaged, it repeatedly calls these procedures   
"proven safe and effective," and presents  
only three patients, each of whom makes fantastic  
claims of sexual benefits.  
  
ISNA has been contacted by several women  
who underwent these procedures, with disastrous  
consequences (sexual dysfunction, chronic pain,  
cosmetic disfigurement). For one such story,  
(including an Edo period woodblock celebrating  
the eroticism of large inner labia!), see _Winged  
Labia: Deformity or Gift?_.  
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# Cosmo pushes genital surgery

Cosmo pushes genital surgery
