New warning on 'perfect vaginas'

I remember the first time I read about vaginal reconstruction/ cosmetic surgery, I was almost sick. That hasn't changed for it still makes me feel queasy.

I am fully supportive of women making the decisions that they want about their own bodies, but I believe that it should be done in a culture of full and complete information about the dangers of procedures. New research published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology indicates that many of these procedures are taking place without full knowledge of the dangers.

Of course, the pressure to have such surgeries, and to achieve a "homogenised, pre-pubescent genital appearance", is central to this issue, and society/ media/ celebrity-obsession/ beauty-obsession can once again be cited for putting pressure on women to remain young, to never age, and to search for something to keep them 'beautiful'. Tackling these new and dangerous cultural norms is just as important to me as describing the problems with the procedures they bring about.