Sexual philosophy
Sexual satisfaction and death
Optimal love and sex, and a gentle death, instead of a god (1.4)
  German: Optimale Liebe und optimaler Sex, und ein sanfter Tod, statt eines Gottes (1.0)
  Italian: Ottimi orgasmi e una morte delicata, invece di Dio (1.0)
  Italian: Ottimi orgasmi e una morte delicata, invece di Dio (1.3)
The idea of a gentle death (1.1)
Consciousness and cognition (2.0)
The meaning of life (1.5)
Sexual desires (2.1)
The metaphysics of sex (1.4)
The pursuit of sexual joy (4.2)
The Marquis de Sade (1.4)

The suicide option
Committing suicide (3.3)
Better alive or dead? (3.2)
No benefit (1.5)
Making sense (2.3)
  Spanish: El Sentido de la Vida (1.0)
  Archive: Making sense (1.2)
Drugs (1.3)

Elusive joy
Nature, our enemy (1.2)
Nature wants us unhappy (1.2)
Nature depriving us (1.2)
Engineering happiness (2.1)
Neuropharmacology - the alternative route to happiness (2.1)

The emerging irrelevance of aging
The other “eternal“ life (1.1)
  German: Das andere “ewige“ Leben (1.1)
  Italian L' Altra Vita "Eterna" (1.1)
  Slovenian Drugacno "vecno" zivljenje (1.1)
  Simplified Chinese: 新人类生命的延长 (1.1)
What medical science will achieve before the other “eternal“ life (1.0)
Youth instead of immortality (1.0)
The philosophical relevance of cosmetic surgery (2.0)
  Italian: L'aspetto filosofico della chirurgia estetica (2.0)
Exciting prospects for women, even as they get older (1.1)
Engineering youth (2.1)
Anesthesia and cosmetic surgery (1.0)

Sexual market value
Appraise your value (1.1)
  Simplified Chinese: 鉴定你的价值 (1.1)
Asian sexual market value (1.2)
  Simplified Chinese: 亚洲女性的性市值 (1.2)
Protect your sexual market value (1.0)
Know your enemies, and your prey (2.0)
Your most important decision (1.3)
  Spanish: Tu decision mas importante (1.0)
  German: Deine wichtigste Entscheidung(1.0)

Sexual morals
Moral values (3.3)
  German: Moralische Werte (3.3)
Disease and sexual morals (2.0)
A dialectical view of morals (4.0)
Morals and sexual arrangements (1.0)
Animal rights and morals (1.0)

Political activism
A political career (3.0)
The new feminism (1.0)
Honesty (2.0)
  Archive: Political strategy (1.0)
  Archive: Activism and solidarity (1.0)

Advice for women
Advice for women in poor countries
My advice to young women in Third World cities (1.3)
  Dutch: Mijn advies aan jonge vrouwen in derde wereld
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(1.0)
What is your virginity? (1.0)
  Simplified Chinese: 贞操与女人 (1.0)
  Bahasa Indonesia: Apakah itu Keperawanan Anda? (1.0)
Advice for Chinese women (1.0)

Addressing intellectually advanced women
What are intellectually advanced women? (1.0)
The bisexual ideal (1.1)
What women want (1.0)
  Italian: Quello che le donne vogliono (1.0)
What a woman needs in life (1.0)
In praise of unfaithfulness (1.3)
  German: Gelobt sei die Untreue (1.0)
  Italian: Elogio del línfedelta (1.3)
  Slovenian Hvalnica nezvestobi (1.3)
Why I don't need many females? (2.5)
China and female sexuality (1.0)
  Simplified Chinese: 中国与女性性欲望 (1.0)
Vacancy for female editor (1.1)

Advice for men
Competing for sexual success
Sexual competition (1.0)
Competing rationally in an irrational world (1.2)

Improving sexual function
Pharmacological enhancement (1.3)

About the author
Biographical note (4.1)
Introduction to my work (1.3)
How I view myself (1.6)
Drafts and version numbers (1.3)
To write or not to write (1.5)

 


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Anesthesia and cosmetic surgery

Version 1.0, November 2007

Numerous risks are associated with anesthesia, especially general anesthesia. While discussing them is beyond the scope of this website, any Google search on the topic will come up with many relevant leads.

The principal philosophical, not medical, reason why I do not consider general anesthesia appropriate for any cosmetic surgery procedure, is the risk, however small, of anesthesia awareness.

To undergo a surgical operation under full anesthesia (sedation plus muscle relaxant), and then to wake up in the course of it, feeling all the pain but being unable to give notice in any form to the surgical team, is such a horror scenario that in retrospect, it would result in a negative pleasure balance for even the most fulfilled life.

Anyway, no general anesthesia is necessary for any cosmetic surgery, as discussed on the pages linked to below.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/88944.php

http://www.cosmeticsurgeryanesthesia.com/


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