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The Influence Of Plastic Surgery

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“And God said, ‘Let There Be… Plastic?!’”
Why workout when you can simply get pec, glute, quad, and lat implants? Why embrace the body you were given when you can mold it into your favorite celebrity with only a couple hundred thousand dollars? These are questions people would not even have imagined less than 30 years ago. In recent years, however, the growth of plastic surgery has boomed throughout the world. Merely since 2000, overall cosmetic procedures have increased by 115 percent (American Society of Plastic Surgeons)! Plastic surgery is changing the face of society, quite literally, by evoking unnecessary, selective surgeries ranging from boob jobs to eyelid surgeries. We have hit an era where we can completely refigure ourselves to look whichever way we want, thanks to a scalpel and another human being with an MD. The popularity of plastic surgery has been able to be broadcasted to a wider audience as technology has improved. The emphasis on physical perfection in the media encourages the cultivation of a culture that equates acceptance and success with physical appearance. Plastic surgery, once considered taboo and scandalous, has expanded incredibly over the past decade and demonstrates how our society’s vanity knows no bounds due to the addicting lengths individuals are going to reach costly visual perfection.
Centuries ago, plastic surgery was performed for the sole purpose of reconstruction in an attempt to restore body parts that had been scorched due to

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