These are both in the news today. I don't want to comment too much on them except to say:
-The cake is provocative. I think it may be of importance to mention that Swedish culture seems to deal with race in a different way than American culture does. For a particularly liberal minded and socially advanced society as Sweden (which accepts and aids an exceptional number of refugees and asylum seekers globally) it surprised me to learn that the former name of the national and personal favorite Chokladbolls was commonly used as recently as decade ago. Historically, there has never been a large population of black people living in Sweden, unlike in the US.
-While I appreciate the considered nature of this vagina cake, I would also appreciate a cake of a man with an uncircumcised penis which I could slice the tip of in order to comment on the importance of the role circumcision may play in reducing the spread of HIV. I remember eating a few homemade penis cakes at the all-girl Catholic high school I once attended. Now I see them as strong performance art pieces; the breeding of radical feminists; the complete rebranding of eating cock. Back then, I saw them as hilarious, but most of all delicious. Cake is powerful. Cake talks. Go ahead a bake a cake for public health's sake. Just make sure we get a taste of both sexes.
-There are now a handful of studies conducted in both Scandinavia and North America that suggest that the population of women who have undergone elective plastic surgery displays a higher risk of suicide than the general female population. In particular, women who have had elective breast augmentation have a three-fold increase risk compared to the general population and a higher risk than the cohort of women who have had other types of plastic surgery. By no means does the data imply a direct causal relationship between breast augmentation and suicide, but it does speak to the increased psychiatric morbidity of the population of women who elect to have the procedures. Given that the most popular procedure in both the US and Sweden is breast augmentation, I find this to be an increasingly relevant issue and am interested in whether patients can be more effectively triaged to appropriate mental health professionals prior to surgery.
I should probably make a cake about this.
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