Breast Implants, what do you think?

Dragan

panda100 wrote: »

Just like If there was pictures of ‘perfect’ penises everywhere, on the newsstands, in the movies, in the papers, in music videos, in adverts, on tv men would start to feel inadequate too about how their penises look.

The psychobable is already being aimed at men. If i pick up a Magazine aimed at guys it will be loaded with ads for Viagra, Calex, penis enlargement, books about chat up lines and how to succeed with women, how to make more money, how to look betters.

Ads will imply that David Beckham is a success not because he is him but rather because he is not like me.

Articles and Editorials will detail why Actor A or Singer B is so much better than the rest of us, how his looks help him lay some random bint and why he was loved in school.

Advertisements and "shopping sections" ( Thanks GQ for that one you shower of gurlz! ) will tell me that sandals and gardigans are in, t-shirts are out and if i really want to do that chick behind the counter in Morgan i had better dress to impress.

It's all a load of rubbish. No offence to the Ladies or the Lizards but i personally find the whole thing pathetic.... popular media is kept alive by praying on fears....for newspapers its' largely xenophobia, safety and economic instability, for magazines it's grinding down the esteem of the reader and then offering a substitute.

That said, it is simply not my place to decide what someone else wants to do to themselves, or why.

Flamed Diving

Is that what magazines say? I wouldn't know because I don't waste my money on such rubbish. That must be why I am quite comfortable with my looks!

Dragan

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Is that what magazines say? I wouldn't know because I don't waste my money on such rubbish. That must be why I am quite comfortable with my looks!

From what i can see, yeah. I don't buy them but end up flicking through them in friends houses whilst waiting for them to make my tea.

Reku

Bags of mostly fat Vs. bags of mostly fat & silicone... can't say that I see a big difference appeal wise.:rolleyes:
Recently I keep hearing about this injection method that increases your breasts by 1 cup size, costs £3000 STG and only lasts 3 years. In short some women's bodies are depreciating by £1000 STG a year, AFAIK most cars (after the first year) don't even suffer that level of depreciation per annum!:D

I do tend to feel that whether or not people admit it to themselves they are getting the cosmetic surgery for others (whether male or female) and if their lives are so shaped by others that this matters that much to them I have to wonder if they will ever in fact be happy. Fix A people start to notice B is a bit off, fix B & people start to notice C, etc....
The body was not meant to be perfect, if it were evolution would be out the window as would dating & love since the offspring would be the same regardless of who mates with who. Every time a person goes under the knife like this they give up some of their uniqueness to fit to what marketing tells us all is the ideal beauty/shape.
Some will genuinely get it for themselves, but then even when you look at the far cheaper body augments of piercings and tattoos there seems to be a rather large proportion of people who worry about what others think of their mods and whether so-and-so thinks they are cool as a result, as such I'd say most cosmetic surgery is also more about other people than the person getting the work done.

Besides, reality is if someone likes you for your body (whether augmented or not) then they'll be gone soon enough since aging will take it's toll, if someone likes you for you then even after you're dead they'll still think of you and wish to have you around, so you can fork out the cash for fake friends or get real ones for free.

Oryx

I had breast surgery for medical reasons, leaving me asymmetric. So I thought long and hard about augmentation. I decided against it for the following reasons:

1. The pain and risk of surgery
2. That I would end up with more scarring
3. I would inevitably have to get it done more than once given my age.
4. Encapsulation was a big risk, esp given my medical history.
5. I would end up not liking the result, or it would go wrong.

Eventually I came to terms with how I looked and I realised it did not define me. Overcoming how I initially felt about it and learning it did not matter was what defined me.

Plus, I reckoned that if I gave in to the feeling that bad boobies were making my life wrong and I fixed them, then it was my confidence that was at fault and not my body. Other things would sag or whatever, and Id never be happy! We all get bad hair/boobs/skin days, you need to deal with it somehow without taking drastic measures, (or wed all have a surgeon on speed dial and be seriously messed up)

Dee369369

I would never get it done i couldn't put myself through the pain i wouldn't wear plasters for years cos i was afraid of the pain pulling it off!
Anyway even though mine are small they're a nice shape and i'm happy with them.

Also i never knew dita von tesse had fake boobs they look great you really wouldn't think it.

Madame Razz

meh, I've got small boobs and am proud.

I don't think i'd like them to be any bigger to be honest, they're very manageable the way they are, and its great not to have to mess around with special bras, or having trouble getting clothes to fit etc.

I have two good friends who are quite slight but well-endowed, and they have such difficulty with simple things like underwear, and clothes, and swimwear, a lot of the time ending up having to buy a size or two bigger for their chest: i would hate the hassle of this!!!

They also attract the attention really leery drunken scummy men when we're out:eek:.


And I have been told a few times that mine are lovely in the flesh, so i can't complain!!;)


Although I must say the difference in bra sizes between companies is ridiculous; they really should make them more uniform!! I'm a proper 34b, but can be a size 34A or C depending on the manufacturer!!!