"IN THE GULF the ladies want a big butt and a big vagina. Not the Lebanese. They want smaller vaginas. They are more like the Europeans: they want the labia inside." So says Dr Hussein Hashim, a plastic surgeon in Beirut, as he sits behind a desk scattered with buttock implants. He and his colleagues perform surgeries with names like "The Barbie Look" or "The Beverly Hills Rejuvenation"-operations that trim the inner labia, tighten the vagina or reduce the fold of skin covering the clitoris.
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