Effects Of Cosmetic Surgery

there was a 69% increase in the number of elective cosmetic surgeries (301). In 2009 alone, there was a reported 12.5 million cosmetic surgeries, of which the majority were young women. In 2011, 76,755 of the patients who received elective cosmetic surgery were aged 19 or younger, according to Dian de Vries, author of “The Effect of Social Network Site Use on Appearance Investment and Desire for Cosmetic Surgery Among Adolescent Boys and Girls” (283). But the most astonishing part of this increase is that the majority of the surgeries in the statistics above were not necessary to the health of the human receiving surgery. In the 21st century, elective cosmetic surgeries are more frequent than necessary plastic surgeries (Swami-2 82). As well …show more content…
And the same reasons for the increase of cosmetic surgery become the effects. Various sources have proven that an increase in photoshop, improved safety of cosmetic surgical procedures, increased celebrity admiration, greater want for social conformity, higher body image standards, and a greater pressure and focus on physical attractiveness have all led to the increase in the use of cosmetic surgeries (Swami-1 301, Swami-2 82-83, de Vries 284). A mixture of all of these have proven to increase the desire for undergoing cosmetic surgery. And the cycle repeats like …show more content…
Young women spend hundreds of dollars to get high quality liposuction. Young society members put themselves through painful situations just so that they can continue to fit an unattainable standard of beauty. In fact, de Vries concluded that modern women’s physical ideals cannot be attained without cosmetic surgery (287). Women continually feel the pressure of society’s standard of physical beauty from looking at various celebrities and social media, and as a result feel low self-esteem about their level of attractiveness (Swami-2 84). This leads to the desire to want cosmetic surgery, which then reiterates the standard of beauty for more women. Cosmetic surgery promotes the unattainable standard of beauty that so many members of society feel the pressure of, while making the only real savior cosmetic surgery itself. And now that society has been faced with a seemingly neverending circle for the need and want of cosmetic surgery, the real question is whether this is bad. And if it is, is it possible for society to ever revert back to a world without cosmetic