Reply #54: they usually look nice, but it's her choice [View All]

[amazona]

It's easy for me to say, "I would never get implants," when I naturally have huge ta-tas for my size. We have the technology, so why shouldn't a woman have her body look the way she wants it to look? My understanding is that doing it for cosmetic reasons is far safer than doing it as reconstructive surgery, and no one here would stand in the way of a woman getting reconstructive surgery, because we know if reconstructive surgery was not available, a great many women simply would not get mammograms, regular check-ups, let alone chemo/mastectomy because they would rather die than look freakish. Having looked freakish as a child, I completely sympathize with this point of view. We live in a visual society, this world is extremely cruel to women who are physically unattractive, and if someone doesn't want to live that way, why should they be forced to when there is an alternative? To people who say implants look fake, it makes me wonder if you automatically assume that any well-endowed woman who is not overweight looks "fake?" A friend has told me that strangers just assume that my endowment is fake, and I don't necessarily appreciate such judgements. If you want big ones to ride high after 40, you've got to work your pecs -- I didn't get this way "naturally," I worked out to get it. Is surgery less natural than lifting weights? They are both technologies, developed over time, to change our body profiles. If you think big breasts look tacky, and a surprising number of people do, fine, but plenty of other people don't, and you just can't please everyone...so each woman ultimately has to please herself.

As far as the poster who said, every woman is beautiful and it is inner beauty that matters, come on. We women do have mirrors, and as a child I personally always found it an insult to my intelligence to be told of inner beauty when what I needed was to have my face repaired. The concept of inner beauty seems to me to be a form of snobbery, of congratulating ourselves on our superiority because we can see something that the common run of the herd can't see.

As far as the person who thought that women who get implants should give the money to charity because they have too much money...whoa! You can get a set for $4,000, and your surgeon can arrange for you to borrow the money if need be. We are not talking about a sum of money that would put anyone through college. For many young women, it's a career move -- they make a LOT more in tips with bigger hooters. And as far as real jobs go, it has already been proven many times that better-looking people get faster promotions and bigger salaries over time. So the money could be seen as an investment.

The main reason I would be leery of getting implants is that the saline implants go pfoof after a decade or so, so one day you are going to wake up flat (maybe even just one on side) and maybe need a replacement at an inconvenient time. That would make me stop and ponder.

But I certainly want the right to choose my own cosmetic procedures, so I am not going to jump on another woman for choosing implants. If we have the technology but are afraid to use it to improve our lives, we might as well not have it.