Women in Turkey Are Afraid
On my way to surgery today, the radio was talking about a statistic: we have become the world leader in cesarean births.
How many reasons could there be for this? Fear of childbirth? If so, it would mean the women of our country are the most fearful in the world. Is our economic status so different? I hardly think so. A cesarean birth is more expensive than a vaginal one, and I do not believe the world’s richest women, or their husbands, live in Turkey. So what if the reason is the fear of genital damage?
Turkey sits where East meets West, right in the middle of a cultural maelstrom. On one side are religious traditions inherited from the Arabian Peninsula; on the other, the traditions of Mr. Google’s globalizing world. Globalization will win and the whole world will merge into a single culture, but that day is still a long way off. So what are we living through in this turmoil? We enter adolescence in the middle of it, before our sexual identity has even settled. Because we experience sexuality as a taboo rather than as a pleasure that includes respect, the genitals end up in the position of a fortress to be conquered. While that conquest takes its share of the turmoil, childbirth means the fortress being conquered from within. A wait at least as tense as sexual intercourse, and an event that will inevitably happen. And of course, this fortress that is guarded so anxiously had better keep its original shape. But wait, we could haul the ships overland on logs into the Golden Horn. The name of this back route: cesarean section.
We are probably the society that thinks and researches the most about its genitals being damaged, yet does the least about it. Wait, not the least: in Turkey, a cesarean is itself an investment in genital aesthetics.
No statistics have ever been collected on this from my point of view, so I cannot prove what I am saying. But I know our subconscious world well. Read this article again; it makes sense, doesn’t it?
And let me also give you some bad news. Most genital damage is not caused by the baby passing through the vaginal canal. Hormonal trauma during pregnancy, aging, weight gain and loss and, of course, genetic background cause far more genital damage.
You should not mix a wonder of nature like childbirth with the social problems of our geography. Genital aesthetics is certainly an important subject, but we must place it on a scientific footing.
What is being done in genital aesthetics: https://www.ozanbalik.com/en/genital-aesthetic/
The information on this page is for general information only; always consult your doctor for diagnosis and treatment.