Fri, 15 Oct 2004

It's Time for Reality Porn

It's about a lot more than porn:

Living in Los Angeles I see an increasing acceptance of biosculpting as a normal part of American life, like daily moisturizer with SPF 15 and a mammogram when you're 40. Our alternative weekly paper is thick with advertisements for Botox injections and collagen lip plumping, liposuction and face lifts. Asymmetrical labia ruining your sexual confidence? Labiaplasty can help! Life sucks? Apply to be on Extreme Makeover or The Swan, and all your dreams will come true!

I, too, find the trend towards plasticity very disturbing: as a culture, we seem intent on believing that the look makes the book. Maybe we need to remember things our mothers used to tell us, things like "Beauty is only skin deep ..."

Gina Lynn wonders why cosmetic surgery has become so commonplace and suggests that it's time for a change.

(link) [Wired News]

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