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Nine-year-olds Learning about Plastic Surgery on their Smartphones

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January 15, 2014

Nine-year-olds Learning about Plastic Surgery on their Smartphones

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By Ryan Sartor
Content Quality Editor

A new app available in the Apple and Google (News - Alert) Play stores called “Plastic Surgery & Plastic Doctor & Plastic Hospital Office for Barbie” is creating controversy for being promoted to children as young as nine-years-old, explaining the benefits of plastic surgery and liposuction.


The app’s description reads: “"This unfortunate girl has so much extra weight that no diet can help her. In our clinic she can go through a surgery called liposuction that will make her slim and beautiful. We'll need to make small cuts on problem areas and suck out the extra fat. Will you operate her, doctor??"

By the end of Tuesday afternoon, the app was removed from the Apple (News - Alert) store after a number of angry tweets were sent out in protest. While the app is certainly troublesome, it’s unclear how it violated the rules of the Apple and Google Play stores. Children are rarely protected from such content on the Internet and television.

Foods that can cause great harm to children, such as sugary cereals and fast food products, are routinely trotted out during commercial breaks on Cartoon Network and other networks aimed at young kids. While there are certainly societal benefits to preventing content such as this liposuction/plastic surgery app from being marketed to children, this specific instance is representative of a greater trend.

When legislators in Washington, D.C. are influenced by lobbyists for large food chains and other corporations who hope to benefit from selling unhealthy products to children and children’s parents, it’s easy to see how others would find ways to profit from the vulnerability of the youth of America. Perhaps this incident will lead to a greater discussion, but of the outraged parents will be glad enough to speak vitriol about the app’s creator, Corina Rodriquez, and ignore the greater issues from which this specific concern stems.




Edited by Cassandra Tucker


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