Saline facial injections, from Bizarre Magazine.
This reminds me of Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Trangendered Prostitutes, by Don Kulick. The travesti Kulick studied and lived with gave themselves and each other silicone injections in their hips, thighs, and breasts in order to take on a more feminine shape. The silicone injections were painful, and could become damaged and dented if they were pressed (as when the saline injections are pressed in the center, as above), but it was worth it for the feminine female shape. The modern American obsession with plastic surgery is eerily similar to these body modifications, as well.
I still remain amazed that people think that it’s a good thing that it’s so difficult for people to get sex change hormones and surgery. Where does body modification end? Why must genital alteration be the most expensive, when we can have our faces changed for less?
