"Keep your mitts off our muffs march"

[Bocefish]

I stumbled across this by total accident and the image had me lol. :lol:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... na-surgery

"Keep your mitts off our muffs!" "I love my vagina!" "You've put my chuff in a huff!" These are some of the slogans of the Muff March taking place along London's Harley Street Saturday morning. Its aim? To raise awareness of the increase in gynaecological cosmetic surgery – both on the NHS and in private clinics. The march, which has more than 300 supporters on Facebook, is organised by campaigning group UK Feminista and performance artists The Muffia, who dress up in nude bodysuits decorated with lavish pubic hair.

At its most modest, the Muff March is against the pornography-influenced obsession with removing pubic hair. But it's also about protesting against the sort of surgery that makes you cross your legs. Typical procedures on offer include labiaplasty (trimming or removing the labia) and vaginal rejuvenation (tightening – usually referred to by "designer vagina").

In the US this industry is worth $6.8m (£4.4m). In the UK the latest figures come from a 2009 report in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. It revealed that in 2008 the number of operations increased by 70% compared with the previous year: 1,118 labiaplasty operations on the NHS. (There were 669 in 2007 and 404 in 2006.) And that's just the NHS. The Harley Medical Group reported over 5,000 inquiries about cosmetic gynaecology last year, 65% for labial reduction.

Professor Linda Cardozo of King's College London recently warned of the risks of labiaplasty: permanent scarring, infections, bleeding and irritation. "The private sector is not recorded, audited or regulated. At least if you have it on the NHS you have to go through your GP and that's a gatekeeper." (Although one anonymous blogger writes on the NHS website: "I have flaps of skin everywhere and the whole thing is a total mess. I will never be able to be intimate again.")

I recently heard of a woman GP very concerned by the number of girls in their mid-teens coming to her worried about what their genitals looked like: she thought it was becoming an issue largely because of the fashion for shaving off pubic hair, which made them more self-conscious. Of course, there are rare cases where there is an underlying medical reason for this surgery, but they are just that, extremely rare. A doctor who has treated women seeking labiaplasty told me: "When you examine them, they are completely normal."

Some experts suggest this is a new form of body dysmorphic disorder. Others see it as a depressing but logical extension of the pornification of our culture. As it becomes more acceptable for young people to watch porn (where a "standardised" genital appearance is encouraged and many of the women have no pubic hair), so young women having their first sexual experiences are being measuring – and measuring themselves – against this weird porn "norm". As one woman who has sought surgery says: "I browsed through one of my brother's Playboys to see what the girls looked like. Some seemed to have very small or almost no labia." In a world where not even your labia can ever be pretty enough, it's time to fight back. Forward march, muffs!

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

I actually like my muff. :-D

 

[Red7227]

I actually like my muff. :-D

Me too.

 

[Red7227]

And yes, some surgery can go horribly wrong.




Actually i lie, this looks really cute.

 

[Bocefish]

I actually like my muff. :-D

:text-worthless:

 

[Red7227]

I actually like my muff. :-D

:text-worthless:

Oh no, it would be terrible if this thread devolved into a bunch of chics posting pics of their vaginas (hint hint)

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

I actually like my muff. :-D

:text-worthless:

oops! Walked right into that one, didn't I... :whistle:

:hello2:

 

[Evvie]

When I was 16, my best friend (a few months younger) confided in me that she wanted to start saving for labiaplasty because she thought having inner labia longer than outer labia would make men dislike her. (This young woman, incidentally, is quite identical to Angelina Jolie in Salt, if Angelina Jolie was like 50 years younger. How old is she, anyway? I don't know. I don't know enough about celebrities.)

 

[Red7227]

When I was 16, my best friend (a few months younger) confided in me that she wanted to start saving for labiaplasty because she thought having inner labia longer than outer labia would make men dislike her. (This young woman, incidentally, is quite identical to Angelina Jolie in Salt, if Angelina Jolie was like 50 years younger. How old is she, anyway? I don't know. I don't know enough about celebrities.)

Unless it looks like a blue waffle, we care less about how vaginas look than we do boobs. Girls should stop asking each other for advice or reading magazines like cosmo, and just accept that guys want pussy and will put up with almost anything to get it

Seriously though. Yes we love pretty things, be it vaginas or whatever, but we value the people inside as much or more as we do appearance. It is possible to be too pretty, as well as too ugly, for most guys. A girl with not too much makeup and enough heft that everything jiggles appropriately is all most guys want.

 

[Red7227]

Just to clarify the male oppinion

Vagina looking like an outie


Same vagina looking like an innie


Another outie


And who fucking cares what her vagina looks like.

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

I am definately an outie. I swear I haven't ever really thought about what my vagina looked like as far as the outer labia and the inner labia and what not until my bf was teasing me about my "meat curtains" one day. I truly had never even heard the term and was completely intrigued with the whole thing and asking lots of questions, and he just thought it was the funniest thing in the world... :mrgreen:

And no offense to any of the "innies" around here, but once I actually took the time to look at what is popularly considered aesthetically perfect (as far as the puss goes)--well, it actually looks really strange to me. Maybe this is because I am so used to what my girly parts look like that those that are so unlike mine are just foreign, but it just goes to show that perfection is simply a state of mind when it comes to your own body. And I have always thought my lil' puss is just perfect! At least that is what I have always been told...

The bottom line? I just don't know what I would do without my 'meat curtains'!

:-D

 

[Red7227]

And I have always thought my lil' puss is just perfect! At least that is what I have always been told...

Nothing wrong that i can see. ;-) That is one very edible kitty.

I suppose the innie brigade look neater if you are going to run around naked, but it is a very minor thing. Like boobs, I would prefer if girls stick to what they have rather than risk the loss of sensitivity and scaring that can come with surgery. After all, you have a docter waving a razor sharp scalpel within a centimetre of your most important girlie bit, what could go wrong?

 

[AshleyMarks]

How about a video related to the vaginal cosmetic surgery? Here it is:
WARNING LENGTHY: http://xhamster.com/movies/535547/vagin ... _lips.html
A BIT GRAPHIC TOO.

 

[Rose]

I actually like my muff. :-D

I like your muff and your vagina. If you're an outie then I propose we stand naked next to each other and compare my "innie" to your "outie". :dance:

 

[JickyJuly]

It's a little disheartening that so many Women expect their genitals to look like a paper cut. I'm not sure it's fair to blame porn. Having worked in a porn store a few years (full of girls that weren't into porn), literally hundreds of hours of my life have been spent ordering, organizing and inventorying dvds. LOTS of different types. Unless you only choose vids from more overdone companies (like Vivid or Wicked) it's not all Barbie dolls with drawn in lines. Honestly, women chose those sorts way more often than men.
IMO it's less about porn pushing a look and more about the number of girls and women who are embarrassed by their own bodies and sexuality. Like if they make their vulva as discreet as possible they'll be prettier? Depressing as shit.

 

[Marokite]

I agree that porn shouldn't be considered a scapegoat for this. If it weren't for Playboy when I was young, and internet porn as I got older, I would not have known that female genitals come in a large variety of shapes, sizes and colorations.
While this thread is specifically talking about feminine genital issues, this is obviously not just a female thing. It's a human thing. Men also worry about their junk and entire industries cater to their genital insecurities. We all wonder if we look desirable and if our parts look normal. I think the real issue here could be that as women express their sexual interest, desires and concerns more and more, you will definitely hear more about some who have the desire to change the appearance of their bits. If it were that easy for some guys to be able to cosmetically alter their stuff to be longer, thicker, more straight, or whatever, they would probably do it too. When I was younger, I wondered if being uncut would make me undesirable. Now I'm just glad that my parts are natural.