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In Janice Turner's Cutting Edge, it elaborates on how in today's day and age cosmetic surgery is more common than ever for men and how it is sometimes needed to obtain "rank" in the work force. For years, cosmetic surgery was a way for a woman to alter the way her body or face looked. For some that seemed outrages cutting your body to try to obtain physical perfection. It was physically and morally wrong. Well, now and more than ever before men from as young 20 to as old as 50-60 are going under the knife and undergoing cosmetic surgery. As it states in Cutting Edge, "Today, men account for about a third of all facial cosmetic surgery done in the United States, this figure is up 6 percentage points from 1990(525). Although most clients range from ages forty to sixty"(525).
A lot of companies are telling men they have to look good and that its not negotiable, says Roz Usheroff, a Toronto image and communications consultant. Whether that is morally right or wrong its true. Dr. Art Blouin, an Ottawa clinical psychologist who works with men and body image, says that cosmetic surgery in itself is that bad but when a man or women for that matter tries to achieve physical perfection that's where they run into problems. Face today especially in the media and important jobs looks out weight the importance of a man's character. According to American Society of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, the fastest growing procedures done for males include eyelid surgery, liposuction and facelifts. If you include all cosmetic work done-face and body- men account for 12 percent of all procedur
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Approximate Word count = 545
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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