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Breakpoint

The Rise of Plastic Surgery for Under 30

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

American plastic surgeons are reporting a spike in clients under 30 seeking changes or "enhancements" to how they look.

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With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:04.5

American plastic surgeons are reporting a spike in clients under 30, seeking changes

0:09.0

or so-called enhancements to how they look.

0:11.1

Many of these young people report being bullied about their appearance often online.

0:14.7

While our incredible medical technologies now make it possible to help people with physical

0:18.9

conditions that were from much of history untreatable.

0:21.6

This current spike, however, is far less about physical conditions and far more about a

0:25.7

social contagion.

0:27.2

Of ideas about beauty and identity lies that alienate young people from their God-given

0:32.2

bodies.

0:33.2

Just as God made his male and female, he also gave us particular bodies.

0:36.5

Because of the fall these bodies break down.

0:38.4

Restoring these bodies to health is one thing.

0:40.6

Carving, renovating, so-called enhancing them, that's another.

0:44.2

People who hope to improve their bodies, that's nothing new.

0:46.5

But today there's an epidemic of young people who see their bodies as a mistake, instead

0:50.9

of as the good carefully designed gift from a loving God.

0:54.2

But the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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