We are taught that we will never be good enough and that everything natural is ugly.

There are many things women will do to be accepted by society and feel good about themselves. Makeup and designer clothes don’t even scratch the surface. Women pay hundreds of dollars for shoes that are painful to walk in.

That is still not the craziest thing women do to be accepted. Plastic surgery is one of the more drastic things one can do to feel better about herself.

Breast augmentation is popular; nose jobs are all over the place (sliding down MJ’s face); liposuction is the easy but costly alternative to regular exercise. When is it too much?

Is anyone happy with how she looks? Is plastic surgery really for the person who’s getting it? A fad in the plastic surgery world that bothers me the most is not boob or nose jobs — I even consider lipo occasionally.

The one fad that really frightens me about how self-conscious women are of their bodies is labiaplasty.

That’s right — this is plastic surgery to make the labia more appealing.

I have never once in my life heard a guy say a woman has ugly labia. For one, I have never heard a guy use the word “labia,” but also, I think that most men are just happy to be close to a woman who isn’t wearing pants.

The problem is the unrealistic body images women have. The media says that all women are supposed to be a size two or four with perfect round perky breasts, a curvy butt and fat-free thighs. This is not only unrealistic, it is ridiculous.

Women are subjected to these images hundreds of times a day. We are taught that we will never be good enough and that everything natural is ugly.

There are natural size four women out there with perky breasts and thin thighs. We call them 16-year-olds. When a woman’s insecurities about herself go as far as a body part she can’t even see without a mirror, the problem with self-image has gone too far.

Who is telling these women that their labia are not attractive? I have definitely seen some porn in my day, and I have doubts about my body, but I would never begin to think that a natural body part which is only seen by select people should be symmetrical or even “pretty.” My girl parts are beautiful just the way they are.

Are there men out there telling women differently? Is there a man who tells his girlfriend she needs labiaplasty or he won’t love her?

If you are a woman who has heard this, I am so very sorry. Dump him. Before you leave, tell him that balls are not exactly the most attractive things to look at and they are never symmetrical. I have a hard time believing a hetero man would ever tell a woman that her genitals are ugly.

Women, unless your oversize labia are creating pain for you in daily life and sex, don’t even consider it. Women are beautifully sculpted creatures and each one of us is different. Your labia and mine don’t look anything alike, and our differences are what make us special.

I can’t imagine changing what makes me unique from every other woman on the planet. If a man ever tells me I should change, I’ll leave him by the side of the road with no labia to look at whatsoever.

Besides, if I got labiaplasty, how would my gyno recognize me?

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