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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "plastic surgery"

Everything You Need to Know About Breasts

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. May 10, 2012.

Did breasts evolve for lactation or to enhance sex appeal? A new book explores why they matter.

Why Is iPhone's Siri Hiding Abortion Info? 10 Things the Device Will Help You Get Instead of Abortion

Megan Carpentier, Raw Story. November 29, 2011.

Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, may struggle to help you find a legitimate abortion clinic, but ask where to bury a dead body or get a blow job, and she's got loads of ideas.

Why In the World Would a Woman Ever Get Fake Breasts?

Tom Matlack, The Good Men Project. June 5, 2011.

Breast augmentation is still a popular procedure. What does that say about women, men and our society?

Botox, Bingeing, Bullying and Breast-Ironing: We Must Stop the War on Women's Bodies

Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. March 31, 2011.

In a globalized world, we must fight toxic body culture by "becoming what we have never seen"--rewriting the paradigm of health and self-acceptance.

Plastic Surgery Horrors: Is Cosmetic Surgery Finally on the Decline?

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, AlterNet. March 29, 2011.

Despite the best efforts of the beauty industry, the number of cosmetic surgeries stalled around 2004-2005.

7 Strange Things People Do to Make Themselves More Attractive

Katherine Butler, EcoSalon. September 3, 2010.

Should you inject sheep embryos into your face? Slather your skin with gold? Here are some of the world's strangest beauty treatments.

Is Plastic Surgery a New Religious Rite of Passage?

Jeremy Biles, Religion Dispatches. April 25, 2010.

Though it may be a global phenomenon, the roots of this fixation on the body may lie partly in American religion.

Is Taxing Plastic Surgery Sexist?

Jill Filipovic, Feministe. November 23, 2009.

Part of the funding for the Senate's health care bill will come from a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgery, on procedures overwhelmingly obtained by women.

Plastic Surgery Is Going the Way of the Ugg Boot

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Women's eNews. December 11, 2008.

Women are saying "no" to being nipped and tucked. And the recession may have little to do with it.

Vagina Anxiety: The Rise of the Labialplasty

Jennifer Armstrong, Sirens Magazine. June 24, 2008.

Rich people, their plastic surgeons and the always-scrupulous mass media are foisting more body issues on women.

Can Botched Plastic Surgery Be Undone?

Luiza Sauma, Independent UK. March 3, 2008.

Courtney Love is not the only one regretting plastic surgery.

Designer Vaginas, Anyone?

Cath Elliott, Comment Is Free. January 11, 2008.

Hymenoplasty, vaginal tightening, revirgination, G-spot amplification and labial reduction are the latest craze for women with more money than sense.

All I Want for Christmas Is a Shot of Paralyzing Toxins to the Forehead

Leslie Goldman, Huffington Post. December 18, 2007.

Giving the gift of cosmetic change is now hotter than ever this holiday season!

Holiday Shopping? How About a Plastic Surgery Gift Card?

Sandra Kobrin, Women's eNews. November 29, 2007.

Perfect: a present that says, hey, you're just not good enough.

The End of Natural Beauty?

Bonnie Zylbergold, American Sexuality Magazine. October 5, 2007.

As millions adopt life-long regimens of cosmetic surgery, is the idea of natural beauty a thing of the past?

Has Artificial Beauty Become the New Feminism?

Jennifer Cognard-Black, Ms. Magazine. September 29, 2007.

How the pitch for cosmetic surgery co-opts feminism.

Are Asians Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White?

Andrew Lam, New America Media. March 31, 2007.

Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in Asia it is as routine as having one's wisdom teeth pulled. Are these alterations an attempt to look more "white?"

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