Oh My-Does this mean that-at 60 years old-with sags and wrinkles-NO ONE WILL LOVE ME[this assumes I want/need the APPROVAL of some one to JUSTIFY MY EXISTANCE......AS LONG AS I LOVE ME I AM JUST FINE…

Scary enough, the real news seems to be replaying old Onion stories more and more often...must be a sign of the apocalypse or something.

I don’t think “consenting adults” is the point here.  It’s about poisoning the minds of little children, which seems to be the favorite pastime of adults.

This is just one little example of why civilization makes no progress.

Hey! What happened to “Consenting Adults”?  If people willingly want to have themselves sliced up and re-constructed, why is that anyone else’s business?

I may think it’s stupid and sick, and you may think it’s stupid and sick, and writing a children’s book about it may be bizarre--but why is it any more bizarre than insisting that you can teach your kids that the universe was created in 6 days?  That evolution is “evil-ution” and that science is all wrong because it disagrees with a book written by desert-dwellers 3000 years ago?

What’s the difference other than this is newer? Women and men punch holes and hang jewelery in their ears, noses, navels, eyebrows, nipples, tongues and genitals all in the name of beauty. In Seattle last summer I saw a middle-aged biker type with a bone through his septum.

So it’s a high-tech version of the same thing.  Not for me to judge--just so long as it’s happily consenting adults and I don’t have to pay for it.

“...and needs to be altered to meet some impossible standard that only a select few in the general population can ever hope to achieve (i.e., models, movie stars, etc.)…

“HOPE” TO ACHIEVE?

I’m with purple girl. I don’t hope to achieve anything that requires plastic surgery. So, the ‘standards’ aren’t ‘impossible’ but their perverted and morally corrupt. And I would prefer for models and movie stars to look like the rest of us.

There are actually some legitimate reasons for the skills of a plastic surgeon. They repair cleft-lip/nose and other disfigurements in children and adults. Matter-of-fact, there is a lengthy list of things that medical doctors who specialize in this sort of surgery can and do accomplish. Needless-to-say, that is as far removed from COSMETIC surgery as one can take it.

So, I’m with Doctor Know-it-all as well…some things really SHOULD be subject to censorship.

As for Whacko JackO, my niece tells me that he has to wear a prosthetic nose now, and that it sometimes falls off. Guess that plastic surgery didn’t work out too well for him.

Still jcbrap, I DO get your point and agree. I just wanted to clarify that looking like a model or a movie star isn’t really a ‘standard’ to ‘achieve’.

Dr. Mike is why censorship is not altogether a bad thing.

The first page should be a photo of Dr. Mike’s anus, after surgery for augmentation.

Well, Timmy, you’re smelling mommy’s new buttocks. They’re filled with formaldahyde. And that’s what it smells like. Daddy, will it go away? Yes, Timmy, eventually it will. But what’s most important is that mommy has a real fine ass now.

Daddy, will you read me a book tonight? Sure Timmy, and I have just the one. Goodnight Moon, Daddy? No Timmy, the book I’ll read you is called The End Of Innocence. 

By the way, Weather, since plastic surgery is created by man does that mean it is also one of God’s Handy Works? Once removed perhaps? Like war, pestilence, and all other manner of horrors perpetrated on Man Kind?

The sickness of this is here you have a guy taking advantage of people’s most basic insecurities so he can make more money.

So, instead of teaching kids acceptance and love of all people (especially their mother!) no matter what they look like, this teaches them that the human body is disgusting and needs to be altered to meet some impossible standard that only a select few in the general population can ever hope to achieve (i.e., models, movie stars, etc.)

The whole cosmetic plastic surgery thing is just another road-sign of the corruption and bankrupcy of our society. Way too much emphasis is placed on what people look like on the outside as opposed to who they are inside in terms of their beliefs, morals, standards, etc.

ARe you kidding -beauty- some of these people look like the went to the Butcher, either from th eincompetency of the ‘surgeon’ or their own addictive behavior.Griffith lots like she got her lips caught in a grinder. JackO appears to have leprosy. Most lok like ventriloquist Dummy’s or Parkinson victims unable to any muscles in their faces.And those are just the ones we SEE. Someone needs to Publish a book with these HORROR Pictures. ‘Why mommy Can’t smile anymore’ or “How mommys Breats Killed her’