数据显示：德国接受生殖器增大手术的男性数量全球第一
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作为二战“突出部战役”的发起者，现在德国又在另一种“突出部”之战中走在了世界前列。 国际美容整形外科学会（ISAPS）于7月31日公布的全球行业数据报告显示，2013年有2786名德国男性接受了生殖器增大手术。和美国、墨西哥、西班牙、意大利、巴西和伊朗等另外9个提供了足够调查数据的国家相比，德国在这方面遥遥领先。除了伊朗，美国男性接受这种手术的人数最少，只有61例。ISAPS的这份报告对2013年的整形手术数量进行了统计。 该报告的数据中还包含着其他一些有趣的东西。和美国男性对生殖器增大术缺乏兴趣的局面相反，美国在隆胸术方面名列前茅（超过31.3万例，巴西为22.6万例，这两个数字远远超过其他国家）。但不要因此迅速认定美国女性比其他国家的女性更热衷于整形。这些数据的划分标准是地域，而不是国籍，也就是说在美国接受整形手术的未必都是美国人。为进行本次年度调查，ISAPS联系了全球3.5万名整形医生。提供反馈信息最多的国家是美国、巴西、墨西哥、德国、西班牙、哥伦比亚、意大利、委内瑞拉、阿根廷和伊朗。 埃里克•霍尔沃森博士是马萨诸塞州波士顿布里格姆女子医院（Brigham and Womens Hospital）美容和再造整形医生。他没有猜测为什么接受生殖器增大术的德国男性最多，但他在接受《财富》杂志（Fortune）采访时表示，各个国家的审美观点当然不同，整形手术就体现了这一点。 女性占全球整形手术接受者的87%。以她们为例，霍尔沃森博士介绍说：“在美国，女性往往希望自己身材纤细、胸部丰满；而在巴西这样的国家，女性则希望胸部小一些，臀部大一些。” 霍尔沃森博士表示：“这很奇妙。同为女性，在这个国家她们会缩胸隆臀，而在那个国家她们则要隆胸。” 2013年全球最普遍的整形手术是隆胸术，这并不让人感到意外。此类手术的数量是177万例，超过了较为简单的眼睑成形术，后者的数量为138万例。但胸部整形并不仅仅是丰胸，它还包括下垂矫正、缩胸和男性乳腺发育（即男性乳腺的不正常增大）手术。美国占全球胸部整形手术的15%，稍高于巴西的14.9%。ISAPS的调查还包括腹壁整形术（巴西最多，美国紧随其后）、阴道修复和阴唇整形术（巴西和德国都超过了美国）以及隆臀和提臀手术（美国仅居第四，前三名是巴西、墨西哥和哥伦比亚）。 |
The country that launched the “Battle of the Bulge” in World War II is now leading the way in the battle over a different kind of bulge. German men went under the knife for 2,786 penile enlargement surgeries in 2013, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), which today released its 2014 global stats report. That’s a much larger tally than the other nine countries that provided sufficient survey data this year, including the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Italy and Brazil. Other than Iran, the U.S. had the fewest penile enhancement surgeries, at only 61. The report tallies surgeries performed last year. There are other compelling tidbits to be gleaned from the data. In contrast to its lack of interest in penis enlargements, the U.S. is leading the way in breast augmentation surgeries (more than 313,000 to Brazil’s 226,000; those two nations trounced all others in this category). But don’t be quick to assume that means American women are more eager than non-American women to enhance their bodies. The data are broken down by geographic location but not nationality, which means that it was not necessarily all American citizens undergoing the surgeries performed in America. For the purposes of the annual survey, the ISAPS reached out to some 35,000 plastic surgeons around the world. The countries that responded with the most data were the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Colombia, Italy, Venezuela, Argentina and Iran. Dr. Eric Halvorson, who does cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, Mass., had no guess as to why Germany would be leading the penile enhancement charge, but he told Fortune that, of course, standards of aesthetic beauty vary by country, and the surgeries reflect that. Take women, for example, who had 87% of the total plastic surgeries in the world. “In the U.S., women tend to want to be thin with large breasts, whereas in a country like Brazil, women want to have small breasts and a larger buttocks,” Halvorson explained. “It’s amazing: take the same woman’s body, and in one country they’d be going to get their breasts reduced and their buttocks augmented, and in the other they’d be getting larger breasts,” he added. Breast enhancement was, unsurprisingly, the most common type of plastic surgery worldwide in 2013, with 1.77 million performed globally, beating out simple eyelid surgeries, of which there were 1.38 million. But augmentation is only one type of breast surgery, a category that also includes breast lift, breast reduction, and gynecomastia surgery (reduction of abnormally large breasts in men). The U.S. accounted for 15% of breast surgeries in the world, just edging out the 14.9% performed in Brazil. Other operations measured in the ISAPS survey include tummy tucks (Brazil had the most; the U.S. is a close second), vaginal rejuvenation or labiaplasty (Brazil and Germany both had more than the U.S.) and buttock augmentation or gluteoplasty (the U.S. was only fourth here, after Brazil, Mexico and Colombia). |
