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Sex After Tummy Tuck
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Question: So-called designer vagina surgeries costing as
much as $5,500 for G-spot amplification and revirginization should be
banned as risky and ineffective, medical groups for gynecologists and
plastic surgeons say.
The operations, marketed by cosmetic surgeons as a way to enhance
sexual pleasure, can involve injecting collagen into the vaginal wall,
altering the organ's outer lips, or labia, or restoring the hymen, the
membrane sealing the vagina before first intercourse. The procedures
were opposed by the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, or ACOG, in guidelines in its journal today.
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Answer: U.S. women spent $2.3 million last year on cosmetic vaginal procedures
and the number of such surgeries grew 30 percent, to 1,030, according
to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which also opposes the
operations. The two groups say surgery is a bad fix for problems with
body image and sexual function.
``It's like getting a tummy tuck instead of going to the gym,'' said
a certified sex therapist and clinical psychologist at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Risks include loss of sensitivity to the genitals, infection and pain
from permanent scarring. No studies document benefits of the cosmetic
procedures, making risks unacceptable,she said in its journal
commentary.
The most common reason women seek sex counseling is for loose vaginal
muscles, she said. A better alternative than surgery is Kegel and
other exercises that have proven successful in helping strengthen and
tighten the vagina.
Sex Education
For women dissatisfied with their appearance, doctors need to ``cover
the basics of sex education,'' and show women pictures of enough
vaginas so they see how many different images are normal, she said.
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