Bre.st is Best
This is not about baby milk. It is about augmentation, enhancement or however you care to label it. Quite simply it is about boob jobs, and for increasing numbers of women, they are rather appealing.
"My friends tell me how real they look and how beautiful they are."
There are two camps when it comes to beauty. There is the 'real' camp, which effuses the idea of natural beauty, largely untouched by makeup and definitely not by surgery. The other camp sees fit that if something isn't right, honey, then you just go on out and fix it - especially if it makes you happy.
Yet many women appear to love to look down at the sight of another woman's gravity-defying chest. Husbands and boyfriends turn away from drooling at ample cleavage and sagely nod to their better half in acquiesence. "Oh yes, you can't beat natural," they concur. Yet according to a report published by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS - oh the irony!), there are now more than 6,000 breast enlargements carried out per year in the UK, up from 2,361 in 2002.
"I went back to a small C...to really get that nice round shape I wanted."
First off, let us dispel this notion of 'natural' versus 'false'. Breast augmentation is just another aspect of our desire to achieve some degree of what we perceive as perfection, and joins the long line of Botox, electrolysis, teeth whitening, liposuction, makeup and high heels - all of which are entirely unnatural. But never do you hear the anti breast-enlargement brigade decrying underarm hair removal. Some will point out that you don't need anaesthesia or a bank loan to put on heels (though it depends which heels you're buying, darling), but the counter to that is that x-rays clearly show the distortion that heels cause to the bones in a woman's feet. Not a million miles away from 'distortion' via breast augmentation.
"I was so self conscious of my body."
Is surgery really so unnatural in a society where almost nothing even approaches being close to nature? Having false breasts makes you no less of a woman, and in no sense more false or less real. Feminists are keen to point out that it merely sexually objectifies women, but the fact remains that women choose to do this, and there seems little evidence that it is due to male influence. They also miss the point that many women consider breasts an inherent part of being a woman, of something that does add to their sexuality, that is part of their figure, and that defines them amongst many other factors as being a modern woman in control.
The modern woman reserves the right to continue to choose how she presents herself and shape herself according to that. That's the real issue. None of us have the right to cast stones from our glass houses.
And remember, the next time you're spending an hour putting on your makeup or clutching your credit card for those Jimmy Choos, it isn't natural, but it sure makes you feel good.
There are two camps when it comes to beauty. There is the 'real' camp, which effuses the idea of natural beauty, largely untouched by makeup and definitely not by surgery. The other camp sees fit that if something isn't right, honey, then you just go on out and fix it - especially if it makes you happy.
Yet many women appear to love to look down at the sight of another woman's gravity-defying chest. Husbands and boyfriends turn away from drooling at ample cleavage and sagely nod to their better half in acquiesence. "Oh yes, you can't beat natural," they concur. Yet according to a report published by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS - oh the irony!), there are now more than 6,000 breast enlargements carried out per year in the UK, up from 2,361 in 2002.
"I went back to a small C...to really get that nice round shape I wanted."
First off, let us dispel this notion of 'natural' versus 'false'. Breast augmentation is just another aspect of our desire to achieve some degree of what we perceive as perfection, and joins the long line of Botox, electrolysis, teeth whitening, liposuction, makeup and high heels - all of which are entirely unnatural. But never do you hear the anti breast-enlargement brigade decrying underarm hair removal. Some will point out that you don't need anaesthesia or a bank loan to put on heels (though it depends which heels you're buying, darling), but the counter to that is that x-rays clearly show the distortion that heels cause to the bones in a woman's feet. Not a million miles away from 'distortion' via breast augmentation.
"I was so self conscious of my body."
Is surgery really so unnatural in a society where almost nothing even approaches being close to nature? Having false breasts makes you no less of a woman, and in no sense more false or less real. Feminists are keen to point out that it merely sexually objectifies women, but the fact remains that women choose to do this, and there seems little evidence that it is due to male influence. They also miss the point that many women consider breasts an inherent part of being a woman, of something that does add to their sexuality, that is part of their figure, and that defines them amongst many other factors as being a modern woman in control.
The modern woman reserves the right to continue to choose how she presents herself and shape herself according to that. That's the real issue. None of us have the right to cast stones from our glass houses.
And remember, the next time you're spending an hour putting on your makeup or clutching your credit card for those Jimmy Choos, it isn't natural, but it sure makes you feel good.
Here Is The Writer : Sonny Blue
Sonny Blue has only recently drifted into the financial arena and thought his timing was actually very good, since he thinks it's a great education to see events unfold from within the eye of the storm. Fortunately he's still practicing his guitar playing should the vortex choose to swallow him. Though he supposes guitars are not of much use in a vortex, but at least they're a comfort.
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