Word: sexualize
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...group donned giant cloth vulva costumes. New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls "the medicalization of sex," the idea that there is a physical right and wrong when it comes to all things sexual. Says the group's leader Leonore Tiefer, a sexologist and psychologist at New York University: "Promoting a very narrow definition of what women's genitals ought to look like - even for those women who don't want surgery, it harms them." (See the Top 10 Medical Missteps...
...Susan Kolb, a plastic surgeon in Atlanta who has noticed a 20% increase in demand for female genital plastic surgery every year since 2004, says for many of her patients, most of whom are professionals in their 20s and 30s, the surgery is about gaining control over their sexuality. "In my experience, it is a healing procedure," she says. Because long labia can cause pain during sex or exercise, labiaplasty is sometimes covered by insurance. Data on these procedures is scarce, but Dr. Michael Goodman, a gynecologist who has a private practice in Davis, Calif., is preparing to submit...
...critics say the surgeries are more dangerous than the glossy advertising and glowing testimonials suggest. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a committee opinion last year warning that women may experience scarring, chronic pain, obstetric risks or reduced sexual pleasure; a similar statement was issued in July by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Which is why the New View Campaign - with the endorsement of dozens of sex educators, doctors and psychologists from around the world - is demanding new regulations that would require the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection division to monitor...
...Between my childhood and my daughter's, we've had various revolutions, feminist, sexual, technological. Sex became dangerous again: you may be less likely to get pregnant but more likely to get an STD. When I was in school, it was a major breakthrough when we were permitted to wear pants to class in the winter. I now see girls heading to school who appear to have forgotten to get dressed at all that morning. We were told if we worked really hard, we could accomplish anything boys could; now it would never occur to girls to think otherwise...
...countries. Among his innovations is World Toilet Day, this Nov. 19, which is meant to publicize the plight of billions of people who go without toilets and fight the taboo that nearly all cultures have about business in the bathroom. That quiet embarrassment - similar to the hush around sexual practices that once muffled AIDS activism - keeps sanitation out of the world's top health priorities, and ensures that even those who go without toilets suffer in silence. Sim, his fellow activists and George are determined to make their voices heard...