«Designer vagina»: immaginari dell’indecenza o ritorno all’età dell’innocenza

"Designer vagina" or Female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) procedures have gained popularity in the West, also in Italy, in recent years and reveals an interesting anthropological field to understanding the social construction of gender and sexuality. Designer vagina was framed as enhancing female sexual pleasure, or specifically orgasm. In this paper I propose a critical itinerary on the FGCS and the challenges posed by the idea of body-modification. I argue also that the focus on female sexual pleasure functions to legitimate and promote the designer vagina . The surgeries are more dangerous than the glossy advertising and glowing testimonials suggest because the woman through Ceigf undergoes irreversible modifications which are not evaluated the consequences on health and social responsibility.