GBoys -
So what is wrong with a person who has plastic surgery to make
themselves with feel good...I would much rather have a significant other who had
had liposuction or a rhinoplasty...than one that reverts to overeating, drugs,
drinking, smoking or risky social and sexual intercourse to find
happiness..
But then I am from the USA not AUS...not matter how much I
love to live in Adelaide when I am there..
Love..
Elizabeth
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Gay men
lead rush for makeovers, surgeons say
By Clay Lucas
July 3,
2005
Australian men are going under the knife in greater numbers,
with
doctors saying the gay community is driving a surge in
plastic
surgery.
The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons says gay
Australian men are
following their US counterparts and leading the charge
for cosmetic
surgery, although gay groups dispute this.
"Twenty
years ago, it was very uncommon for men outside the
entertainment industry
having cosmetic surgery. Now we see 10 to 15
per cent men," Dr Howard
Webster, a Melbourne plastic surgeon and
Victorian spokesman for the
society, said.
Much of that growth had come from the gay community, the
society said.
"The gay community has a much higher uptake of cosmetic
surgery as
part of their lives than middle-class, white-collar suburbia,"
Dr
Webster said. "They are the biggest male group getting
cosmetic
surgery. But they're still far less than women."
Most
common procedures for men were liposuction and upper and lower
eyelid
surgery, Dr Webster said.
Liposuction could cost $2000 to $3000, he
said, although this excluded
hospital and anaesthetic costs.
Eyelid
work could cost from $1500 to $5000.
The society says more people are
having cosmetic surgery in Australia,
although it could not supply the
figures.
"There is an increasing demand for plastic surgery here,
especially
with the awareness in the community up after the makeover
shows," Dr
Webster said.
There is no national system for collecting
data on cosmetic surgery in
Australia. The most recent reliable numbers
come from a 1999 NSW
Government inquiry that said 50,000 Australians had
cosmetic surgery
each year.
There was a 16 per cent jump in the
number of men having plastic
surgery in the US between 2000 and last year,
according to the
American Society of Plastic Surgeons, with 1.2 million
operations on
on US men last year.
Gay groups disputed the claim it
was the gay community fuelling the
increase in cosmetic surgery.
"It
is straight men who are doing it - not gay men," Troy Gurr, editor
of the
newspaper Melbourne Community Voice, said.
"There is so much more
pressure now on straight men to look good," he said.
"I know an awful
lot of gay men who use botox, but they will draw the
line at actual
surgery.
"But I'm not sure straight men draw that
line."
OPERATION VANITY
· Liposuction - removal of fat
· Eyelid
surgery
· Abdominoplasty - removal of excess skin from the middle and
lower
abdomen, to reduce protrusion
· Rhinoplasty and septoplasty -
altering appearance of the nose
· Facial rejuvenation - surgery to lift
sagging or deepening folds
around mouth, brow or neck
LESS COMMON
PROCEDURES
· Chest implants - solid silicone placed beneath pectoral
muscles
· Calf implants - solid silicone implants inserted from behind
the
knee and moved into position underneath the calf muscle
SOURCE:
The Linley Clinic, Canterbury; American Society for Aesthetic
Plastic
Surgery
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