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Woman's Hour: Crowdfunding Cosmetic Surgery

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06/05/2015

Crowdfunding Cosmetic Surgery

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Crowdfunding Cosmetic Surgery

Why some women are using crowdfunding to pay for breast implants. Jane Garvey presents.

The women using crowdfunding to pay for cosmetic surgery, the reasons behind clothes choices, and whether the gut is the most neglected part of the body. With Jane Garvey.

An increasing number of British women are signing up to a US website that allows women to raise money for breast implants. Jane Garvey talks to Natalie who recently funded her surgery through the site and to Brian who's a donor. Plus the sex columnist for The Times Suzi Godson, on her reservations about the site especially for women with low self-esteem and those who may be suffering from body dysmorphia.

According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, over 20 percent of women living there reported that their first sexual experience was rape.. Phoebe Tansley, is the founder of AND - Attacked Not Defeated, a charity with volunteers based in London and Uganda which hopes to open up facilities offering both physical and mental help for victims.

Giulia Enders is a 25 year-old medicine student and author of 'Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ', which argues that the gut has been unfairly neglected and that we're only now beginning to truly understand its power. 

Plus what made you choose the clothes you're wearing today? Did you want to feel powerful, attractive, comfortable, clean? Or to fit in with the people you work with? Leanne Shapton is one of the authors of a book - Women in Clothes - which explores the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day. 

Presenter Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell.

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