It was Thanksgiving, and Matt Silver was sitting around a table with his family when his year-old girlfriend texted. He retrieved the phone with his foot. Silver, a year-old screenwriter, was telling me of receiving his first V-selfie eight years ago. The V-selfie, though very much here, is perhaps less insistent.

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Labiaplasty is a procedure where lips of the vagina are shortened to change the appearance. While measures for health and hygiene have been discussed a lot in relation to sexuality of women, vaginal aesthetics have also given rise to trends like vaginal tightening among other procedures. But a shocking revelation by a leading adolescent gynaecologist has revealed that girls as young as nine are considering surgery to change the appearance of their vagina. Dr Crouch also mentioned that girls saying that they hate and want to remove a part of their body, is upsetting and a cause for concern. A year-old told BBC that she decided to go for labiaplasty since she thought her vagina should be smaller. But she later decided to not go ahead with it and is happy about her decision as she feels completely normal. Meanwhile another experienced physician says that girls as young as 12 feel the lips of a vagina should be invisible like a Barbie doll instead of identifying variations, and this signals towards grave body image issues. While the industry is criticised, they defend the practice by saying that it helps a lot of women. One plastic surgeon said that there are girls between 16 to 21 years of age who never had a boyfriend because they were concerned about the appearance of their vagina. Meanwhile experts suggest that lack of education and awareness might be reasons behind this worrying trend.
By Sam Mcevoy For Mailonline. Thousands of British teenagers are selling their own naked pictures and videos online — making ridiculous sums of money each month in the process, an investigation has found. The use of social media websites like Twitter and Snapchat are also being used to help boost and promote profiles in a bid to earn more cash while making the most successful on the site millionaires in no time. One user named Lauren, from Northamptonshire, spoke to the BBC to reveal how she went on to become one of the British-based website's top earners in the world in a short period of time.