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July 29, 2005
Sensibilities
If I'm watching television, it's a safe bet it's either science, surgery, natural history or crime.
So, I sit here, flipping idly and chance on Dr 90210, during surgery.
Where they have a middle to older aged lady having some work done. She's been opened up below the belly button for a tummy tuck. Very opened. I can see the stomach muscles, exposed for the world to see. They lift up the skin between there and the breasts with a giant spatula. I can now see the flayed skin lift away, and she is essentially skinned from groin to armpits as they insert the silicone boobs. They even, thoughtfully, provide an arthroscope for a better interior view.
And they fuzz out the nipples. This is something I never quite understood. I have nipples. Barring some horrible trauma, I bet you do too. I do not find them inherently offensive. I'm certainly not going to find them arousing at this point.
Why the fuzz?
Nipples are evil and they must be scoured from viewing? I just don't get it.
Any enlightenment is welcomed.
Or is it just that Australia got the criminals and the US got the puritans?
And later, in the selfsame show, they do a 'lollypop' boob reduction. Unsurprisingly, it's not sucking on them until they reduce - it's where they cut around the nipple, removing it from the flesh, leaving it attached by some nerves, then cut out a large triangular wedge of flesh below the breast, cut a new hole further up for the nipple, poke it through and stitch it in there and join the edges where the triangle was. A smaller, perkier breast, with the nipple in a new but apparently more aesthetically pleasing location. And they fuzz out that one too, even though it's the central focus of this surgery.
I must be missing something.
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at July 29, 2005 09:34 PM
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