Our Vaginas, Ourselves - New York Times [1]
Daphne Merkin explores the raft of surgical procedures now on the market for "sprucing up" the collective genitalia of the modern woman. It should be noted that "upper-middle-class professional Americans" are not usually included among the categories of women [2] for whom Female Genital Cutting is considered a problem. Merkin's money quote:
So step right up, ladies. Your labia may not be up to snuff - they may extrude too much or lack youthful plumpness - but a quick nip/tuck or strategic injection of fat from Dr. 90210 and his colleagues will take care of that. And thanks to the wonders of hymenoplasty, you can get to be a virgin - or at least like a virgin - all over again. From where I sit, life looks to be one long Madonna-esque self-invention tour, and there's nothing to be done but to grin, tighten your Kegel muscles and bear it.
PS Sorry about the double plural in the title -- it makes the rhyme work...