Men and cosmetic surgery
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
More men have considered cosmetic treatments during the pandemic. Has spending more time at home staring at ourselves in video conferencing made us more worried about our appearance, and have the pressures of ageism in the workplace also had an impact. Ed Butler speaks to psychologist Helena Lewis Smith, and Past President of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons Dr Alan Matarasso about just what’s motivating men to make more changes. Plus, he tries a treatment for himself.
(PHOTO: Ed Butler checking out his frown lines at a cosmetic clinic in London, Credit: BBC)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Ed Butler and today, for the team, I'm having Botox. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm feeling little jabs. Oh, I'm feeling a bit like a pincushion. |
| 0:13.4 | Yep, I'm just one of thousands of men these days who, it seems, have emerged from lockdown and sought cosmetic intervention. |
| 0:21.3 | Has the pandemic made us men afraid of looking old? |
| 0:25.2 | Males are as concerned as anybody else about their appearance. |
| 0:29.2 | And whether we ascribe to this or not, |
| 0:31.7 | many of us judge people significantly on our first impressions. |
| 0:36.2 | And our appearances have a lot to do with that. |
| 0:38.6 | Plastic surgery for men, business daily from the BBC. |
| 0:46.1 | So here we are. |
| 0:47.8 | A cloudy midweek morning. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm outside the clinic. |
| 0:52.7 | It's got a top reputation, I'm told, which I guess it's just as well. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm feeling a little daunted. |
| 1:01.5 | Time to go in. |
| 1:02.6 | Into the breach. |
| 1:04.7 | Here goes the old me. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, the new me. |
| 1:15.4 | The next to the clinic. the new me. Hi, hi, it's Ed Butler. |
| 1:16.9 | Hi, it's Ed Butler, |
| 1:17.1 | from the BBC. |
| 1:21.9 | Okay, well, more from me at that |
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