Of all the things in my book that made my father, Dadelstein, raise his excellently thick eyebrows (where did you thing I get ‘em?) it was the discussion of genital surgery that he actually felt the need to discuss with me in person. ‘Is this for real?’ he said, looking truly stricken. It is, indeed, awfully hard to stomach: the knowledge that literally thousands of British women are queuing up to get their labia trimmed for no reason other than concern that they’re imperfect to look at.
Unfortunately, not only is it for real, but this new data that this article refers to indicates that this surgery is not just unpleasant and driven by a worrying concept of physical perfection, but actually really DANGEROUS.
So, to reiterate what I write in Himglish and Femalese, if anyone ever suggests that you should have some kind of surgery done on your vagina to make it look more attractive, more like some kind of airbrushed ideal, fuck’em. Except, don’t.
