Should unnecessary cosmetic surgery be criminalised?

Proponents of this position hold that non-essential cosmetic surgery should be made a crime: that it exposes healthy people to surgical risk for no medical benefit, that consent to it is shaped by commercial pressure, and that medical skill is diverted from need.

Those who hold this position argue that non-essential cosmetic surgery should not be a crime: that adults may accept risk to their own bodies, that the line between cosmetic and necessary cannot be drawn, and that prohibition would drive the practice underground.