Blacklist on female genital cosmetic surgery

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Blacklist on female genital cosmetic surgery

* August 1, 2008

COSMETIC surgery to "rejuvenate" or "reshape" the vagina has been blacklisted by Australian obstetricians and gynaecologists who say women are being irreparably damaged by the procedures.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists discouraged members this week from performing procedures such as "revirgination" and "designer vaginoplasty" because of the risks associated with them.

NOTE: REVIRGINATION IS BECOMING AN UPTREND IN AUSTRALIA.

The procedures are being offered at Australian clinics and sexual health specialists say they are seeing an increase in women with scarring, infections and altered sexual sensations after surgery.

Most have had labioplasty operations, to change the vagina's external appearance or, less commonly, to narrow the vagina or "amplify" the female G-spot. The college warns practitioners to carefully assess patients asking for the procedures.
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