Female Genital Mutilation, American Style

[markomalley]

I thought I'd heard it all, but there's always something new:

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Like a virgin? Thanks to 'revirgination'

Vaginal reconstruction sees new-found popularity among women in the US

Wednesday • January 11, 2006

WASHINGTON — Forget Botox, liposuction or breast enlargement. The newest trend in plastic surgery for women in the United States is vaginal reconstruction, including hymenoplasty, which offers patients new virginity.

The procedure has become so popular that it has topped the other more conventional surgeries such as face-lifts and breast enlargement.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says that vaginal surgery is one of the fastest growing trends in plastic surgery. In fact, as many as 30,000 women are said to opt for vaginal reconstruction yearly.

The procedure, also known as "revirgination", is being hawked in magazines, the Internet or on radio stations as a way for women to improve their sex life or enjoy a second honeymoon.

Ms Jeanette Yarborough, a medical assistant from San Antonio, Texas, said she decided to undergo hymenoplasty, which involves reattaching the hymen, as a special gift for her husband.

"I wasn't a virgin when we got married and I thought: What better gift to give my husband than revirgination?" the 40-year-old mother of four told AFP. "It was a real sentimental gift, it was something I could recreate for him and he was thrilled. He was like, 'Yeah, it was worth every penny'," she said.

Though long popular among women in the Middle East and Latin America, where being chaste is important on one's wedding night, hymenoplasty is experiencing new-found popularity among women in the US.

One clinic boasts on its Internet site that its practitioners "can repair the hymen as if nothing occurred". Many who undergo the procedure, which costs between US$1,800 ($2,900) and US$5,000, also ask that their vaginas be tightened, doctors say.

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Just speaking for myself, I'd prefer a nice home theater...

[marypoppins]

Just speaking for myself, I'd prefer a nice home theater...

Well Mark, I have heard of a designer virgina, costs vary, and usually done by Plastic Surgeons.

But i am having trouble with "i'd prefer a nice home theater".......

I dont think it means the same here in the UK.....

[markomalley]

For $5,000 (the cost of that surgery), I can go out and get a nice 42 inch LCD TV along with a kick-butt Bose 5 channel surround sound system.

Clearer?

[marypoppins]

Thanks Mark.

I have the picture now. :)

[Abigail]

That is about the most ridiculous thing I have heard of yet. As if the hymen means so much! Does it somehow magically erase the past experience(s)? the memories? The emotional residue left behind?

Give me a friggen break! Our country truly has gone mad.

[Jim]

Hadn't heard of this. OTOH, if you're really interested in this sort of stuff, google image "labia reduction" and "anal bleaching" with Safe Search off. Try not to do it at work.

[topoftheworld]

Brings new meaning to "Instant Gratification."

Nothing says "Love" like a new hymen.

"Like a virgin, hey, for the very second time"

Sheesh!

[J0nny Ling0]

Weird! So, after all of the expenses are paid, the husband gets to "bust her cherry", and then the new hyman is just as it was before the operation, as in busted again? I heard one of the Dr.s names is Dr. Buster Hyman...

[bliss]

(JIM) what are you doing with your free time? Yikes.

OOOOOUUUCCCHHH- what if they "screw" up?

No thanks, go through all that pain for it to get "popped" and hurt again...............

Yes, a new home theatre sounds good.....

or new "virgin" panties.

[Belle]

"virgin" panties? You just may be onto something there, Bliss!

If I had that much money to throw away, I sure wouldn't be throwing it away on THAT! Personally, I'd prefer the TV and surround sound system, too.

[Allan]

Too funny Top of the World !!

[Nottawayfer]

"Nothing says 'Love' like a new hymen."

hahahahahahahah!!! If I were spending money on plastic surgery, I could think of better things to get than a new hymen.

I agree with Dolly Parton when she said "If I see something is saggin', waggin', baggin, or draggin', I'm gonna fix it."

Paying money like that to fix a farce is unreal IMHO.

[Galen]

I guess when compared to tongue jewelry, belly button rings, labia rings and posts, clitoral posts, nipple peircings, scrotal posts, [ooooooo, my keyboard is getting to feel icky just typing all this creepy icky disgusting stuff].

No thanks.

[GrouchoMarxJr]

anal bleaching?...

...No doubt, to impress the on lookers at the next anal inspection.

[Bluzeman]

OK, maybe I'm a little slow here. Could someone 'splain why the hell you would want to bleach your butthole?

[Bluzeman]

Never mind, I just went to Google. Proof once again, that there are some things I just DON'T need to know about. (What happened to that pukeing smily?)

[J0nny Ling0]

And girls, just think about what you could do with all of that moneY: Why, you could make more than a couple of trips to Heidi Fleiss's stud farm!

[Pirate1974]

Now that "hymenoplasty" sounds like a complete waste of money, but that "tightening" procedure might be worth looking into.

I wonder if Blue Cross covers that?

[Ron G.]

Why care if the cherry's gone?

The box it came in is still there.

[bliss]

Bluezman

Obviosly it is to "look" perrty for your next porno shoot.

This is why I don't compare myself to dirty mags and such pictures, all that airbrushing and anal bleaching would cost me a fortune!!

Lets all post the puke smiley.........oh better yet, where is that puke "sound" I really miss on chat?

[Galen]

Now that "hymenoplasty" sounds like a complete waste of money, but that "tightening" procedure might be worth looking into.

I wonder if Blue Cross covers that?

Dont need no 'tightening', I have been told that just a dab of talc will 'tighten' any orifice.

Dont need no tightening around here though.

:)

[krys]

I know of 2 women who had vaginal repair along with corrective bladder repair surgery after birthing a couple of large babies. I don't think that we should be commenting on that part of these conversations - - that's between the couples themselves...don't you think?

Edited January 12, 2006 by krysilis