Body
Cosmetic Surgery - Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic Medicine - Reconstructive Surgery
Since the beginning of human history, the body has been the subject of worship, ritual and care. Hygiene concerns, looking after oneself and the worship of beauty are part of the aesthetic concern that men and women today consider essential to the transformation of their lives. This is a new religion of the body, in keeping with the logic of appearance. Body image can be modified by plastic and aesthetic surgery in a provisional (facelifts, liposuction, wrinkle treatment) or permanent way (breast surgery, rhinoplasty, etc.). The body has become a cultural product that can be improved, and many factors are involved in the transformation of the silhouette. Some of them, such as an increase in the height of the population are real; others, such as increasing breast size, are probably more imaginary. There is a fantasized vision of an ideal body, with a slender silhouette, finely muscled, with a flat stomach , narrow hips, plump buttocks and long legs, which is applied to both sexes. Sport, a hedonistic practice, shapes the body. But the body is to become the subject of more and more care and attention, cosmetics are to conquer both a male and a female clientele. And people will entrust their bodies to the hands of plastic surgeons to improve what they may have seen as inconsistent with the ideal body but also in the hope of delaying the effects of aging. Non-invasive aesthetic techniques (peels, laser, Botox®, etc. or aesthetic surgery will shape up the body, in an intimate way. The body will be reduced, increased and corrected to match virtually every desire. For Angelika Taschen this body transformation, based on the desire of each person, "reflects our ability to re-imagine every aspect of our body in a different and improved form. The result is our express desire to be able to shape and reshape who we are, or at least who we seem to be".