Breast implants: this is getting sili

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 3/21/07 | Sam de Brito

[Millee]

Do you remember when you first heard about the concept of breast enlargement? I reckon I must have been nine or 10 years old and can recall thinking: "They do WHAT? That's crazy, who would do THAT to themselves?"

"That", in the first agonising years of breast enlargement, was a doctor injecting silicone straight into a woman's breast (nothing as fancy as an implant), a delightful practice the origin of which lay in the prostitution industry of post-war Japan, where US servicemen found the local women's bosoms too small for their taste.

Elizabeth Haiken writes in the book Venus Envy that breast enlargement then spread to "topless dancers and Las Vegas showgirls" and, by 1975, "surgeons suspected that more than 12,000 women had received silicone injections (not implants) in Las Vegas alone; more than 100 woman a year were seeking help for conditions ranging from discolouration to gangrene".

Like the post two weeks ago about women shaving their legs, this one is again outside the zone of a direct men's issue but nonetheless impacts on us because of our role (active and tacit) in the decision so many women make to mutilate their bodies for male approval ...

Compared with some earlier attempts, injecting a pint of silicone into a woman's body seems positively high tech.

According to the book The Safety of Silicone Breast Implants published by Washington's Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, paraffin injections were attempted in 1889 with "disastrous results".

"Subsequently, in the early to mid-1900s, a number of other substances were tried, including ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, Terylene wool, gutta-percha, Dicora, polyethylene chips, polyvinyl alcohol-formaldehyde polymer sponge (Ivalon), Ivalon in a polyethylene sac, polyether foam sponge (Etheron), polyethylene tape (Polystan) or strips wound into a ball, polyester (polyurethane foam sponge)

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Ms. Coulter and Ms. Malkin are considered hotties around here and they're both lacking in upper torso assets.

Malkin ain't bad, but anyone who considers Ann Coulter (aka Skinny Crypt Keeper) hot needs a homo check.

[CougarGA7]

I dont know if you would even want to do that. My MIL just had her implants removed because they were causing her health problems.

[camle]

this is how I got to be my age.;-)

[camle]

#18 brings three words to mind:

"Boingie" "Boingie" and "Boingie"

[Lazamataz]

I have read thousands of posts over many years ...since the Quidam days and before, and you'll notice that any woman will be put in her place not by logical argument but by nasty put down words about their looks......very predictable..

The thing to remember is, only cute women can make good points.

My fiancee is a lovely, gorgeous woman.... and thusly, she makes good sense!

[najida]

Laz! Where ya been?

Good to see you.

[aruanan]

For every one thread about an average looking woman who's admired as being a great ___________, you'll see 50 about someone who has, erm, assets.

Sure, women know what men like and do what they can to enhance their ability to manipulate men via their desires. What they're not doing is thinking, "Poor me. My self-esteem is just so fragile and my ego so weak that I feel I must get bigger boobs so a man will like me and then everything will be okay." Men may be generally better mathematicians than women, able to move numbers around and weigh one against the other; they may be better at spatial visualization, but women are far more adept at calculation, at visualizing the positions of folks within her social space, weighing her interests against the competing interests of other women, and setting up one person against another to achieve her goals.

[najida]

LOL!
I think you made my point.

[marine86297]

Are these any better?

[Millee]

That HAS to be photoshopped!?!?!? {Caaaaack}

[marine86297]

Thats my wife! ;)




Not

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder where she got her Cross-Your-Knees bra?

[HOTTIEBOY]

I have a thought or two on the subject.......

[HOTTIEBOY]

Good argument,
the other side, however are the "T&A" threads here.

For every one thread about an average looking woman who's admired as being a great ___________, you'll see 50 about someone who has, erm, assets.

The message is pretty clear.
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WooHoo!!!!

[BulletBobCo]

[Yossarian]

For every one thread about an average looking woman who's admired as being a great ___________, you'll see 50 about someone who has, erm, assets.

Oh, come on, we bring home the torment of women torn between the worlds of the shallow and of the deep:

That's anguish, right there. I just elevated the level of discussion of this whole thread with that one pict!

[najida]

Thanks!

You both made my day (and my point).

Off to hangout on an all female board.

Seems one of the chicks has a hubby of 15 years that is dumping her for a trophy wife---- actually told her that because she is no longer the beautiful (now menopausal) woman he once married, it's all her fault.....we're helping her cope and find a good lawyer, and telling her NOT to put thallium in his Wheaties. Yet.

laterz!

[HOTTIEBOY]

Well if the marriage contract stated the weight limits....and she exceeded those limits....the man has no choice but to trade her in for a newer model. Thats breach of contract, pure and simple....

[najida]

Thanks HB!

You've made my day.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>What's the old saying? "More than a mouth full us wasted?"

"More than a mouth full is superfluous..."