The Marmot’s Hole

Why do I have a feeling the Party Pooper is going to have a field-day with this:

It started with doctors sculpting his nose, then an operation to cut his eyelids to create folds and make his eyes appear bigger. Next came Botox injections in his forehead, followed by the fat being sucked out of his abdomen. Before he was done, Park Hyo-jung had 24 procedures on his body in a little more than three years to improve his appearance. He had repeat surgeries after injury, added dimples to his cheeks, removed blemishes and chest hair, transformed a droopy face into a studly visage.
“Before I didn’t have a girlfriend. I didn’t want to even try because I didn’t have confidence,” said the 24-year-old, a technician at a medical supply company and part-time student.
Plastic surgery was once mainly a female domain, but men have increasingly been going under the knife around the world to improve appearances as a way to boost self-esteem and compete for jobs. South Korean men have begun to join in, so much so that local media write of men being gripped in a “plastic surgery craze.”
In other hip cities, the stylish “metrosexual” look is being overtaken by the “ubersexual,” a more macho breed whose straight sexual orientation is unambiguous. But in Seoul, the trend veers the other way, toward the “cross-sexual” an androgynous form of beauty.

Read the rest on your own… if you dare.