Anal bleaching. Labial fillers. Penis plumpers.
These terms are not limited to the pornography circuit.
Dr. Neetu Nirdosh, a skin specialist, said she has gotten requests for people looking for "genital enhancement," according to the Daily Mail, but is pain, swelling, nerve damage and other complications worth a perkier lady-place?
"Simply put, a lot of women want a 'young vagina,'" Nirdosh said. "They don't like the aesthetic look of a saggy, deflated floppy vagina and see cosmetic dermal fillers as savior, but while they can make your hands and face look up to a decade younger, there are more risks associated when you apply them to genitals."
Risks like loss of sensation during sex.
"The extra risk is because of the vast amount of nerves and blood vessels around the clitoris, labia and urethral opening," Nirdosh said. "To put it simply, the vagina might look prettier afterwards but it won't be worth it if it doesn't work in the long term - that is the risk you are taking."
Nirdosh said she doesn't believe in botox or other injectables. "I always refuse to do these sorts of treatments because I prefer to stick to what I know about, which is making women look naturally beautiful," she explained. "Injecting genitals and using non-surgical procedures such as dermal fillers or botox has risk associated with it.
"Moreover, I suspect many people requesting this sort of thing have body dysmorphia as there is no real underlying problem."
Nirdosh also blames the rise in "cougars" so the increase in requests for genital rejuvenation. "People think the increase in requests is down celebrities but in my experience, it is more to do with the increasing number of women who date younger men. They see it as a way of bonding with their men and, from what I've seen, this is the driving force behind it."
But men have their insecurities about what lies beneath and they go to doctors like Nirdosh so they can "bend it like Beckham." Penoplasty surgery to enhance the size of the organ usually involves cutting a ligament to boost length and injecting fat taken from elsewhere in the body to increase the girth. Nirdosh warns that no prick to the penis is ever safe. "The rate of fat breakdown is not even, so lips, for example, can be left looking crooked as it breaks down unevenly," she said. "In the face, fat rejuvenation can result in it looking very asymmetrical due to unpredictable breakdown and the same applies to other body parts."
Patrick Moote, star of "Unhung Hero," found out that the penis enlargement business rakes in 10 times the annual budget of the Red Cross while producing less-than-heroic results. Moote, who is admittedly on the low-average end (he had a doctor measure), told Huffington Post that it is sad when "normal" guys think they are small. "When guys and girls start getting into porn, it's usually at a very impressionable age, when you're just starting to get your bearings on the world, and that's one of the first things you're exposed to, secretly, it's unattainable," Moote said. "You'll always feel like you're coming up short if that's what you think it's supposed to be like."
