http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_9153486


"Bob Van Dine didn't want to let the old man in. So three months ago, the 70-year-old Palos Verdes Estates resident chose to have Smart Lipo on his face and neck and a tummy tuck.

"Why should I have this jowl when I don't need to?" he asks. "Why let the old man in?"

For Will Sheridan, 20, a cosmetic procedure was the only answer to lifelong embarrassment. He had gynecomastia, the development of abnormally large mammary glands in men.

"I was 16 years old and I looked like I had boobs," says the Orange resident. He was scared to invite his then girlfriend over for a pool party. "It was so embarrassing." At 18, he had excess fat tissue suctioned out of his chest with Smart Lipo and Power Lipo.

Daggat got cosmetic surgery preemptively, to avoid a problem.
Fifteen years ago he had drinks with a female friend who had gotten collagen injections. Daggat, a former world-class mile runner, was 40 at the time and had barely seen a wrinkle.

"Like a lot of people, there's a lot of vanity in me. I thought, 'Maybe this will keep me the way that I am,"' he says of his motivation for an initial noninvasive procedure. Now, he flies from Seattle to L.A. monthly to get laser treatments such as Flaxel, which stimulate collagen in the skin, or nonsurgical radio frequency face-lifts such as ThermaCool.

There has been a dramatic increase in male plastic surgery in recent years, according to cosmetic plastic surgeons.

This just confirms that gender is not a border for vanity.

..and has never been , my dear .
Greeks , Romans ..Egyptians ...Mayans...

I cannot think of any thing worse then paying good money to have surgery. The only time I would ever have an operation is if it was for a medical reason, going under the knife for cosmetic reasons I find beyond absurd.

very wise

I just think there are better things to spend money on, and if I really wanted to ever change something, like when I hit the middle age spread, I wont run to the knife, just to the gym!

I had my chin liposuctioned and have always been delighted with the result. People in my family tend to have fat under their chins. In my case I'm not that great looking but I've always felt like my body matched my personality except the damn double chin. I could diet from now 'til eternity and the damn chin would still be there. So I got liposuction. It cost about the same amount as a (high quality) root canal and now... my body matches itself!!! It's scrawny and angular but at least it's ALL scrawny and angular.

It was a luxury expense but I love it. I see nothing wrong with altering your body in any way you chose. Tattoos, piercings, cosmetic surgery... your body belongs to you and you can decorate it as you chose.

It's sad that people feel the need to pretend to look younger. The reason is obvious... society assumes that young people have interesting potential ahead of them and old people are boring and used up (hanging around waiting to die). People don't like being viewed as used-up so they fake it at the plastic surgeon's. The real fix would be for society to realize that 60 year olds still might have 30 unpredictable and interesting years to play with. If the age prejudice wasn't there people wouldn't slice themselves up trying to look young.

I guess I think plastic surgery is good if you're doing it to look more like you, and sad if you're doing it to avoid a stupid social prejudice.