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Genital Plastic Surgery: Shifting the Ideal into Reality

Body appearance can include beyond simply what individuals directly see. our image-conscious world has pushed women to become more worried about how broad their hips are, how big their breasts are, or how kissable their lips are. Without a doubt, they may become even more reserved when they are alone with their partner. Sometimes, it cannot be helped that even as a lady becomes ready to surrender herself to her spouse's touch, she covertly questions if her lover still sees her beautiful.

the female genitalia essentially resembles a mouth turned to the side. the inner labia– the "lips" that straddle the urethral opening and the vagina– are meant to look somewhat plump and modest, like the lips of the mouth. a virgin's vagina is meant to be partly covered with the hymen. Typically, some women prefer to alter their hymens and labia to make it appear better for their significant others.

Virginity is the olden quality of having never experienced coition. this is supposedly indicated by the intact hymen, a fleshy layer covering the lower part of the vagina. the ideal way for a bride to verify her virginity is to show the bloodstains on the sheets of the bed on the morning right after the wedding night since the hymen gets torn during the first sex.

Modern doctors have two contraindications for this tradition, however. on one hand, the hymen can tear with no sexual relations. Tearing is caused by strenuous exercise, masturbating, biking, or even utilizing tampons. Conversely, a few women have flexible hymens that do not tear even during sex.

Nonetheless, note that hymenoplasty doctors administer hymen restoration methods for both fiancees who need to demonstrate their virginity to their grooms and for those who did not even get that chance. this pertains to those whose virginity was effectively taken from them with rape. Hymenoplasty can be presented to rape victims by suturing the broken hymen to facilitate healing.

Returning to the women who want to look good for their partners, these women generally go to physicians who carry out the labiaplasty San Francisco  people suggest to reduce the size of their inner labia. the body parts and various desires of each woman is unique: some women wish the inner lips of their vagina to be expanded up to more than an inch, while others feel it is neater to have a slightly smaller labia.

the plastic surgeons labiaplasty and hymenoplasty patients endorse apply smooth treatments with minimal or no complications. Women should be comfortable and confident with their own figures. Problems need not be hurdles to their experience of love. You may find more info on genital cosmetic surgery on the websites of NCBI, NLM, or NIH.

Genital Plastic Surgery: Shifting the Ideal into Reality

Born again virgins: The newest plastic surgery craze in China

We all know that many things are on the rise in China; the economy, the middle class population, the number of foreign TV series, and if the last few days are anything to go by, the temperature! Now add to the list… wait for it, ‘Hymenorrhaphy’. the surgical reconstruction of the hymen.

Earlier this month we reported that China ranked second in countries with most plastic surgery procedures, but it seems youthful looks aren’t all that women are searching for. More and more women are requesting to become ‘born again virgins’ via this procedure to reconstruct the hymen; aptly nicknamed ‘revirginity’.

The aim of the procedure is to cause bleeding during post-nuptial intercourse. the surgery normally lasts no more than half an hour and can cost in the region of 5000RMB. Director of gynecology at Beijing Wuzhou Women’s Hospital, Zhou Hong, said that more and more women are turning to surgery after lying to their fiancés about their sex lives.

Guess “I smashed into a wall while biking” isn’t convincing anybody?

Born again virgins: The newest plastic surgery craze in China

The Journal Gazette, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne IN

BEIJING – China has long been known as the land of cheap fakes – Rolexes, DVDs, handbags and designer clothes.

Now add a new one to the list: fake virgins.

A growing number of young Chinese women – mostly in their 20s and about to get married – are opting for a surgical procedure called “hymen restoration,” which repairs the hymen to its condition before it was ruptured, which most typically is done by first sexual contact but can also happen by playing sports or riding a bicycle.

Even as China has flung open its doors to the West and modernized, a deeply conservative, male-chauvinistic attitude persists. Many men still say they want their future wife to be a virgin. And increasingly liberated Chinese women have found a way to give men what they want.

“We can fix it so everything is perfect, so the men can believe they are marrying virgins,” said Zhou Hong, director of gynecology at the Beijing Wuzhou Women’s Hospital. “We don’t advertise it, we don’t publicize it.”

Zhou, 44, said the majority of her patients are sexually active young women who are about to get married and have told their future husbands they are virgins. She said a smaller number want to forget a bad relationship and “start over,” and a few have been victims of rape.

Zhou is one of many Chinese doctors performing the procedure, which is also done in other countries. She said she restores as many as 20 hymens monthly, and the number is increasing. Now for as little as 5,000 renminbi, or about $737, for a 20- to 30-minute procedure, Zhou is giving young women a second chance at having a first time.

Does she worry that she is helping young women begin their marriages with a lie?

“It’s just a white lie,” Zhou said. Besides, she blames men for their unrealistic expectations.

“I don’t agree with this value” placed on virginity, Zhou said. “It’s unfair to the women. The men are not virgins. But we can’t change this male-privileged society.”

The surgery, known in medical circles as a hymenoplasty, has been around for years, although it is considered very rare and is illegal in some countries.

It is practiced primarily in Muslim countries, where the traditionalists place a high value on a woman’s virginity. it also has become common in France among the French Muslim population, usually for young women about to enter into a traditional marriage.

There are no statistics available in China on how often the surgery is performed. But sociologists and other experts, as well as anecdotal evidence, suggest it has gained in popularity, alongside plastic surgery.

For women who don’t want to undergo a surgical procedure, a cheaper, faster path to “revirgination” is available in most sex novelty shops: a Chinese-made artificial hymen that, when inserted, purports to create a lifelike sensation for the man and emits fake blood when ruptured.

A 25-year-old woman from Guiyang bought several recently online, intending to resell them to the young women in her circle. some were worried their boyfriends might leave them if they discovered they were not virgins, she said.

“It’s really worthless for couples to break up over this small issue,” said the woman, who asked not to be quoted by name.

Some sociologists and others have criticized virginity obsession as emblematic of a male-dominated society. And they are equally critical of women embracing possibly risky or painful methods to conform.

“I think it is really stupid for women to do this kind of surgery and buying fake hymens,” said Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the country’s pre-eminent sexologist. “It’s self-deception.”

The topic of virginity has recently popped up in newspaper columns and Internet debates. several men posting online comments to a popular website blamed women for what they called modern women’s materialism when seeking a mate.

“Women demand men have houses and cars; why can’t men demand women be virgins?” asked one anonymous man on the Internet chat site Tianya. “so, greedy women, remember, you have to protect your hymens, because those are big dowries for you to exchange for money.”

Some men interviewed agreed.

“I really care about virginity,” said Xia Yang, product manager for an IT company. “if you go to buy a cellphone, of course you’d want to buy a new cellphone. Who would spend the same amount of money to buy an old cellphone that’s been used for two years?”

The debate underscores a contradiction in modern China: as it becomes more freewheeling, there remains a deeply conservative core rattled by change.

“since the reforms began 30 years ago, sexual relations in China are actually quite chaotic,” said Chen Lan, a novelist and social commentator. “One-night stands, extramarital affairs, prostitution. … all this means Chinese women have more frequent sexual activity, and at a younger and younger age.

“And this makes men feel women’s bodies are not as clean as before. in these circumstances, men care even more about a woman’s virginity.”

Zhou, the gynecologist, just wants to make young women happy. She said after their wedding night, many of her patients send her text messages saying it had been a success.

“That’s the happiest thing for us,” she said. “We keep it quiet. The men won’t be happy. We have to keep the secret for the women.”

The Journal Gazette, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne IN