'Girls say they hate their vaginas'

[shenmue]

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-40461636/girls-say-they-hate-their-vaginas

From the article:

Girls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their vagina because they are distressed by its appearance, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been told.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Who's looking?

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Neither sex's genitals are all that lovely.

Function sometimes trumps form.

[3catwoman3]

10. When my older son, now 27, was about 10 (maybe a bit older), he asked me if women were...

...as interested in looking at penises as men were in looking at breasts. I demurred a bit, and said "Probably not," feeling he was a tad on the young side for your well made point about function versus form.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I've never had any complaints . . . . . . .

[marylandblue]

4. And I've never made any complaints

Whenever the opportunity arises, I am not interested creating problems that would ruin the mood.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. They did not make that up themselves. Where did they get the idea of "pretty" vaginas?

[3catwoman3]

6. The vagina is an...

...INTERNAL structure. You can not see it unless you are using a speculum.

The idea of labioplasty for cosmetic reasons is horrifying.

[WePurrsevere]

8. Agreed but I think they're linking them together for some reason...

Either way that young girls feel this way is horrifying to me. There's not a darn thing wrong with any part of them but someone (society, peers, etc) is making them feel like there is.

[WePurrsevere]

7. How about society stop teaching...

Children that parts of their, or other's bodies, are 'ugly'? How about teaching them that different isn't ugly? How about acceptance and even wonder instead of condemnation?

These young girls feeling like they need to be 'fixed' when they're not broken reflects poorly on society in general IMO.

[3catwoman3]

9. And while I'm at it, crabbing about proper...

...terminology, unless several people are in possession of a single, mutual vagina, it should read "their vaginas."

[angstlessk]

11. When I was 16 I don't think we looked beyond the nose one was born with

Then they started down the female body to breasts, and then fannies, now vaginas??? Is there any part of the female body that is not available to be surgically interrupted?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Count me one of those who cannot begin to comprehend this.

Are this girls pulling out mirrors and looking down there?

And what in the world are the parents and the doctors communicating to them that seems to normalize this?