The Perfect Vagina
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YEAR: 2008 | LENGTH: 1 part (50 minutes) | SOURCE: DOCUWIKI
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What began as a wander through the wacky world of genital plastic surgery became a passionate documentary about modern femininity.
It’s the ultimate sales pitch – complete bullshit’ … Lisa Rogers, presenter of Channel 4’s The Perfect Vagina :
” If you’d told me three months ago that I’d let a plastic surgeon examine my froufrou, that I’d show it to another woman (who wasn’t a doctor) and then allow an artist to take a cast of my Mary, I’d have laughed you out of the house. But it’s extraordinary how documentary-making changes your mind about even the most concrete of things (I’m not saying my fanny is concrete – that would just be weird).
When Channel 4 approached me to make this documentary, entitled The Perfect Vagina, to investigate why vaginal plastic surgery is the fastest-growing cosmetic procedure in this country, my reaction was sceptical. So the next time I was at my GP’s (about something entirely unrelated – my toddler’s rash, probably), I enquired whether she ever had female patients coming to her expressing concerns about how they looked “downstairs”. Bear in mind I live in rural Wales, not in some metropolis that might house exotic dancers and porn stars.
My GP, the lovely Dr Christmas, amazed me with her response. She told me she has 14, 15 and 16-year-old girls in her surgery, wracked with embarrassment and fear, worried that their genitalia is somehow disfigured or malformed. When she finally persuades them to undress and to let her have a look, they’re virtually always absolutely fine. And this is a phenomenon that’s only really taken hold in the last five years.
That was it. I was on a mission to assure young women that their bits were fine as they were, and not to start chopping them about because they didn’t look like porn models, or because of some ill-informed, insensitive comment by an ignorant boy (or girl). I was on a quest to get my gender to question their insecurities, and see if I could find alternatives to surgery.
The journey I embarked upon was extraordinary. I found myself having an imaginary conversation with my own vagina, in the company of a holistic sex therapist. I discussed whether my clitoral hood was too big with a plastic surgeon. I held the hand of a 22-year-old as she screamed in pain whilst having the stitches taken out of her labia, and I discovered a 19-year-old who had considered re-stitching her own hymen, so desperate was she to appear a virgin on her wedding night. What had started as a something funny had ended up somewhere far more serious.
I have come to the conclusion that we desperately need to talk about these issues, and that the secrecy that surrounds the vagina is the breeding ground for the insecurity that accompanies it. Even saying the word “vagina” was difficult at the start of the process, and now I’m looking for a universally recognised euphemism for it. As Dr Christmas says, every little boy calls his willy his willy. There isn’t a similarly recognisable term for the vulva, because actually the vagina is the passage inside, and the word means “somewhere to sheathe your sword”! Yes, even the word means our sexual organs only exist in relation to a man. How depressing is that?
I don’t want to come out of this as some militant man-hater, in fact I really don’t think men are the problem. It’s consumer society’s use of the perfect image to sell us everything. “If your boobs are perky and big you’ll be happy, if your hair is long and blonde you’ll be cool, if your vulva is small and pink you’ll be attractive.” It’s the ultimate sales pitch – complete bullshit, but as a society, we’ve fallen for it. Stupid us.
The last word has to go to my father, the wise oracle on all things (and a Welsh dairy farmer). “The thing is, Lis,” he said, “if you’ve got a house you want to do up for a prospective buyer, you don’t start by decorating the cellar.”
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YEAR: 2018 | LENGTH: 1 part (90 minutes) | SOURCE: BBCdescription:
Our blue planet is facing one its biggest threats in human history. Trillions of pieces of plastic are choking the very lifeblood of our earth, and every marine animal, from the smallest plankton to the largest mammals, is being affected. But can we turn back this growing plastic tide before it is too late? In this 90-minute special, wildlife biologist Liz Bonnin visits scientists working at the cutting edge of plastics research. She works with some of the world’s leading marine biologists and campaigners to discover the true dangers of plastic in our oceans and what it means for the future of all life on our planet, including us.
Liz travels 10,000 miles to a remote island off the coast of Australia that is the nesting site for a population of seabirds called flesh-footed shearwaters. Newly hatched chicks are unable to regurgitate effectively, so they are filling up on deadly plastic. Then, in America, she joins an emergency mission to save an entangled grey seal pup found in some of the world’s busiest fishing areas, and visits the Coral Triangle that stretches from Papua New Guinea to the Solomon Islands to find out more from top coral scientists trying to work out why plastic is so lethal to the reefs, fragile ecosystems that contain 25 per cent of all marine life.
Liz learns that the world’s biggest rivers have been turned into huge plastic arteries, transporting 50 per cent of all the plastic that arrives in the ocean. She travels to Indonesia, where she watches a horrifying raft of plastic rubbish travel down one of the main rivers, the Citarum. Here, 60 per cent of fish species have died, so fishermen are now forced to collect plastic to sell instead of fish.
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