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Hi everyone, hope you enjoyed that weather change (from 90s to 50s within a week). It has made my allergies go crazy!!

Anyways, I really liked the reading "Strip!" in Body Outlaws. I have always found transgendered and transexual individuals fascinating. I have a very liberal outlook and find myself accepting gender differences and wanting to know more. As embarrassing as it is, I got into the show Nip Tuck this summer (I rediscovered the local library and all of their TV series rentals). I watched the show, not because I like the idea of plastic surgery. I think it is appalling that people will pay so much money to change their boobs, butt, thighs or cheeks so much and expect the surgery to make them happier. The show brought up some very controversial topics, like gender reconstruction surgery. In it, the two main doctors help several transexual individuals with their reconstructive surgeries because they had perviously gone through secretive, unsanitary and unqualified means for surgery and had ended up mutilated, embarrassed or dead. This is a problem in our society because people do not accept these individuals and may deny them the right to change their bodies into what is comfortable for them.

The show is very sexual and drama filled, but I like that they expose viewers to unconventional people and ideas, hoping that we can change societies views and become a more accepting people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nip/Tuck_characters

Have any of you watched the show? Thoughts?