Fake 'uns don't do this!
Posted on 03/21/2007 8:11:58 AM PDT by 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)
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.smh.com.au ...
It's a 'Bless your heart cubed'. ;)
Sorry about the sprout.
just remember hun, being beautiful on the ouside may be a reason to say "hi,"
but being beautiful on the inside is a reason to say "I do."
Can't beat the view...
Laz is...getting married?
I'm afraid you won't be as funny, afterward. Hmm, I'll have to think on this.
Every prenup should give the husband the option of trading in his wife for two 25 year olds when she turns 50.
CHINA: Thousands maimed by 'miracle' implants gel
The Times | May 31, 2006 | Jane Macartney
Posted on 05/30/2006 7:26:11 PM EDT by MadIvan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640848/posts
From the blog "All Men Are Liars", where this article comes from:
"* The picture at the top of this post is of French dancer, actress and porn star Lolo Ferrari, who was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for possessing the biggest breasts in the world, weighing one-eighth of her body weight. Lolo, who underwent a reputed 18 operations to achieve her bust, eventually had implants, designed by an aircraft engineer, that contained 3.3 litres of surgical serum in each, taking her chest size to 71 inches. She died on March 5, 2000, the day after her 38 birthday, apparently from an overdose of prescription drugs. She had made several suicide attempts previously."
Also, a link to the "Leg Shaving" blog mentioned above"
http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/allmenareliars/archives/2007/03/hairy_legs_and_all.html
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