From Facebook to Instagram, to Snapchat. There is no doubt that social media has become a massive part of our daily lives. However, have you ever left your phone feeling bad about yourself? If so, do not worry it is pretty normal nowadays. Body confidence is something we are lacking in the 21st century. It can be hard to be body confident since social media is such a massive platform for inspiration, although many things on social media can be fake. There could either have been the use of photoshop, steroids, or even plastic surgery. This gives unattainable expectations and dreams for both boys and girls. Of course, our bodies are important, they contain every important cells, organs, and tissues. Besides that, our bodies are our identities. If we completely change the way we look, no one would be able to recognize us.
The human body has undergone many changes in history to constantly seek the tangible and unattainable perfect body. This process has symbolized purity, desire, chastity, fertility, lust, freedom, ostentation, economic status, consumerism, narcissism, and health, and it always carries a relationship with society, as well as having the power to influence. Body culture is a very interesting aspect to look into, in proportion to the topic of plastic surgery. That is because plastic surgery Trends also change with time. For example, the most popular plastic surgery during WW1 was facial reconstruction. In 1920, was what we now call Botox the most popular plastic surgery. In 1931 the face-lift was introduced, which then became exceedingly popular. It was first in 1950, where breast augmentation was introduced as a cure for small breasts, “hypomastia”. As you can hear just like anything else there has been a gradual evolution within plastic surgery. As body culture is changing, plastic surgery follows the Trend. Just like a fashion style. Therefore, body culture and plastic surgery are linked.
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