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		<title>Oh, no&#8230;Kegels, trimming and rejuvenation&#8230;and?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is true! There is a spa for your vag!  As reported in the New York Times, this spa is dedicated to the woman that seeks to &#8220;get in shape from the inside out.&#8221; &#8220;Pelvic fitness&#8221; was an idea inspired by teeth whitening. Uh, yeah. First came the “medical spa,” or medi spa, offering [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, it is true! There is a spa for your vag!  As reported in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/fashion/03SkinOne.html?ref=fashion" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, this spa is dedicated to the woman that seeks to &#8220;get in shape from the inside out.&#8221; &#8220;Pelvic fitness&#8221; was an idea inspired by teeth whitening. Uh, yeah.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">First came the “medical spa,” or medi spa, offering dermatology services in a retail setting. The medi spa begat the dental spa, bringing tooth bleaching to storefronts nationwide. The dental spa begat the podiatry spa.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And now comes the first medi spa in Manhattan wholly dedicated to strengthening and grooming a woman’s genital area. Phit — short for pelvic health integrated techniques — is to open this month on East 58th Street.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dr. Lauri Romanzi, a gynecologist who performs pelvic reconstruction surgery, said she came up with the idea for the spa one day while walking by an outlet of BriteSmile, the tooth-whitening chain. She liked that the stores cater to people with healthy teeth.</p>
<p>This makes vaginal plastic surgery seem tame. There&#8217;s just nothing off limits from the hands of the beauty industry.  They&#8217;ll make you feel insecure about anything and everything to make money.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">With the ubiquity of pornography, the pelvis had already become a marketable area for modification, ranging from the Brazilian bikini wax to genital surgery referred to as vaginal “rejuvenation.” Doctors have even coined a term for such genital “beautification”: cosmetogynecology or cosmogynecology.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The advent of the pelvic spa, however, takes body fixation to a new level, furthering the idea that there is no female body part that cannot be tightened, plumped, trimmed or pruned.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Whether the marketing is pushing the women or women are pushing the marketing, I don’t think anybody knows,” Dr. Berenson said.</p>
<p>I say, &#8220;Leave my pussy alone!&#8221; They are not suppossed to look the same, smell the same or feel the same, damn it. With the vag spa, or <a href="http://www.theperfectphit.com/" target="_blank">PHIT</a> (Pelvic Health Integrated Services), the aim is clearly NOT about pelvic &#8220;health&#8221; when you consider their web address: perfectphit.com. Perfect fit, huh? It&#8217;s about making all our vags the same and, I ask, who determines this sameness?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">There are no medical standards for determining what constitutes normal “fitness” or how to evaluate it, said Dr. Abbey B. Berenson, a gynecologist who directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health at the <a title="More articles about the University of Texas" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_texas/index.html?inline=nyt-org">University of Texas</a> Medical Branch in Galveston.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“If this is being recommended to women who have no symptoms, then there are no medical organizations or literature that support that that is necessary,” Dr. Berenson said.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to reclaim our bodies for ourselves and resisting imposed beauty standards that make our heads spin, our self-esteem shrink and our pussys look like they were manufactured on an assembly line.</p>
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