Just an observation...

Sometimes, it's not about what guys want!

Sometimes, it's about what you want!

Good self-esteem is extremely important to character development. 

All surgery is dangerous, whether it be elective, or not!

Never fool with Mother Nature!

real > fake

Sorry, but the medical technology behind breast implants just isn't where it needs to be for me to change my opinion on the above.

OH..believe me I know that all surgery is bad but tell some of the younger girls these days that. Many of them do it to impress the boys but will tell you it is because they want to look better in their clothes..maybe but I doubt it. I would never encourage it for any reason.

Auzziegirl;
Well said! I have all girls and I hope they feel good enough about themselfs so they don't feel the need to hack thier bodies up!

Nature does wonderful work!

Point 1: There is a chance of a chance, and if you understand scientific correlation does not equal causation principles, that is a chance of a chance of a chance. This information has no actual value to the public, it is purely headline games to attract viewers, at the cost of anxiety to a lot of women. That places this article in the "ghoul bin" category.

Point 2: Unfortunate aspects of human behavior are such that there is about a 25 year window for women to leverage their appeal to men (and women) to "get what they want." Despite some characterizations of women as victims, implants are really weapons to be used against men's "logic".

In the mentioned case on the relationships aspect, to stand on principle that your love interest must not be attracted to bust size, hence loosing a possible "best fit" mate in a close competition between women, is a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face, I think.

Point 3: Soon (10ish years) tissue engineering will allow for actual increasing of breast tissue mass without invasive surgery. It will all be *you*. A study will probably then make headlines that women with higher breast mass have a greater chance of developing cancer.

Wait, don't we already know that? Reductions, everyone must get reductions!

Point one makes good sense, but I am still asking my gyn to check out lump near the implant, due to mastectomy.

Personally, I'm a fan of the silicon over the saline implant (it's too hard).

And anyone saying "real is better" is either a) with a woman younger than 22, or b) hasn't laid their..."eyes" on a fake pair in quite some time. They've made big strides since the 80s folks!

sanescience - #1 - we dont know enough about genetics to understand why SOME people exposed to the same thing react differently. For example, smoking. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, but many do. Does that mean that smoking does not cause lung cancer because EVERYONE isnt getting it? No...and the same theory applies even if the people affected are smaller in proportion. I would think, if you were genetically predisposed to react horribly to something, you'd want to know so that you could avoid it, right? Perhaps 99% of women who get implants will have no problem, but what if 1% who do have a serious problem? Im guessing that 1% would like to know why, so that if its a genetic answer...women who share the same genetic predisposition could conclude not to take that risk.

#2 - if your "best fit" cares that much about your breast size that they chose someone else, it clearly was not your best fit. How hard is this to grasp?

#3 - ya know, your idea of breast tissue engineering sounds more likely to cause cancer. we arent talking about skin tissue, we are talking about mass. and the tissue in womens breast (prior to menopause) is already quite dense, and making it MORE dense would lead to many cancers going undetected because the mammogram just cant see tumors in dense breasts.

you want to talk about a cancer scare...try waiting for the biopsy results. Far worse than scaring women with a FDA requested review.

Jessica - regarding #1, the point is that if, for example, 1% of women WITH breast implants were getting the disease, and 1% of women WITHOUT breast implants were also getting it, then that would strongly suggest that the breast implants were not the problem. If the numbers were 1% and 2%, then that would suggest something else.

Jessica:

Human nature is not all roses. And where is the line? Should a woman shower every day? Should she shave? Short hair or long hair? Wear certain bras? Should she wear a little make up, a lot? Should she dress a little sexy for just dates, at work to? A lot sexy? High heel shoes? Do we really want militant feminism again?

(How about the man, certainty *he* has to work for it, yes?)

Granted certain actions (procedures) are bigger steps than others to take, but I'm not going to play the holier than thou card on where the line is. I think what gets a lot of people in trouble is the "over expectation" angle. Like the dumb blond looking for a meal ticket stereo type.

There are plenty of men out there that don't know what is good for them, and if a little extra bosom pushes the right buttons in his primitive brain parts to sway him in the balance, who is to say it isn't win-win?

"How hard is this to grasp?" Well, it might not be the happily ever after fairy tale, but waiting for "ideal human" anything is a recipe for a lot of wasted time and great disappointment.

This is very rare, but the lawyers will as usual make the most money off of this.

Big boobs and a settlement, what more could you ask for?

Actually, Hollywood recently announced they are seeking actors who have had no plastic surgery!

no no no ladies, bill doesn't know @!$%#... +2's are way hot. Well worth it. i got my gf them for her bday. Needless to say, Well worth it...

"Hollywood recently announced they are seeking actors who have had no plastic surgery!"

LOL!

That just means "if you can't tell," or, the people you see will be "naturally" better looking than you, not different looking. Plus, even if with a little work you could compete, that disqualifies you to compete. Now isn't that better?

This message brought to you by day spas offering homeopathic (snake oil) non-surgical face lifts using mysterious plant extracts and ancient Asian chi channeling hokum.

...And as if there isn't already methods in the works for body enhancements that won't count as "plastic". Tissue engineering anyone?

Plus that double decker look you get when you age...

Think double chins, but with boobs.

Please remember that all implants are not placed for "enhancement"...mine are for reconstruction after double mastectomy...

Thank you for that! I am going through the reconstruction process now after a double mastectomy from breast cancer on both sides. Then I have to decide on saline or silicon, well I go for saline because it is safer. I can't go with the other because I just got rid of one cancer and don't want to chance another. Now they are telling me that my implants may cause another. UGHHH And all of this just so I can have breasts again so I look like a girl. Well they sure doin't feel the same!

I'd rather be small! Clothes fit better and the toll that gravity takes doesn't look so bad :3 LOL!

Auzziegirl- clothes might feel better, but sweetheart i promise you, they dont look better

agree Auzziegirl (well not for me personally as I'd get implants in a heartbeat) my poor daughter has HUGE breasts (34D at the age of 14) all she wants is a reduction unfortunately no doctor will touch her until she's at least 18.

Auzzie girl: For very small-chested woman, clothes usually fit much better with breast implants. No more need for thick padded bras, either, to help fill up all the extra material in front.

Being 5 feet tall and around 100 lbs I'm a 36 B. Sure I'd like to be a little bigger, but it isn't going to happen. I'm not willing to take the chance with fake boobs.

Now for all you guys who think they're great and don't really care that it might put your girls life\health in jeopardy, what if we girls felt the same about you guys and your "manhood." Take a look in the mirror, is it BIG enough....hmmmm? Maybe you need an enlargement. Does she really enjoy it or is she faking or telling you a little lie when she say's it's big enough. Does your package really look good in those jeans?

Yeah Calidude69bella, Heaven forbid Auzziegirl should feel good about herself. You are a jerk.

hahaha ouch! "stool". you are so right. my whole life i hadent even noticed!

thanks for your concern.

Well, thank you, Randy!

I'm am one of those a la natural woman!

Me, too.

I'm happy with my natural "girls". My husband agrees. :-)

Ogden Nash wrote a 'poem' entitled: To the Girl with the Hourglass Figure

It went:

The sands of Time

Shift

As for me, I prefer 'perky' women.

LOL!

"If your boyfriend or husband needs bigger breasts tell him his penis is way too small get implants on it."

I just love this. If a man wants you to get surgery, maybe he should get one too. :)

What about being raised in a family of seven children (5 girls) all of whom tease you for not having any breasts for upward of 20 years? My wife wants them so badly she is saving every penny she can, on her own of her own accord, to get them. She has been teased, by women, most of her life for having small breasts and can't take it any longer.

Guys aren't always to blame you know. Average everyday cynicism can do just as much damage as Hollywood could ever do.

Oh, and for those wondering, my wife is from a small town in Brazil so I don't want to hear about how much influence Hollywood had on her. And I have told her, every time she mentions it, that I don't care what she does. Her breasts are fine for me and I have no intention of telling the doctor how big to make them (other than to not make them like hard plastic balls).

I love this....its not a hidden statistic that more women get breast implants due to their own right to choose and doing so of their own free will (and a continuance of their expressing their own vanity), than there are females getting the augmentation done because of peer pressure from husbands.

You talk about denial? This takes the cake!

<quote> Dave the doubter
If your boyfriend or husband needs bigger breasts tell him his penis is way too small get implants on it. <quote>

<quote> Kittin1124
"If your boyfriend or husband needs bigger breasts tell him his penis is way too small get implants on it."
I just love this. If a man wants you to get surgery, maybe he should get one too. :) <quote>

The issue is the health problems and not whether a husband has "small penis syndrome" or not! The article is about breast cancer and implants, not some dumb headed forum for putting blaming your woes n men like normal.

Leave it to the mental impudence of "some" women (and I use that word definitively) to turn it around to a self serving soap opera...sheesh

Many a female spends 20% of their life making excuses for spending the $'s they do on vanity, with makeup and clothing profits out in the industry nearing the national deficit extremes, then turn something like this around to blame it on "MEN"?!?!

Truth of the matter is, if women devoted as much time to family as they do to appearance we'd might have more harmonious family functionality ...

Yet if a woman isn't as gifted and it truly demeans her own comfort to struggle with it mentally and she truly wishes to augment her appearance in this way, so she should and have the right too, and not blame it on someone else pushing her into it.

There is a point of "self abuse" naturally in this arena as we can see examples where "elephantiasis" would better describe the change, but seriously, a slight modification for some women who weren't blessed with any displacement in the boob area is understandable, and gives a woman who may feel "lesser" much more comfortable with her appearance in public, with slight modifications to her breasts.

Personally I like "au naturale" yet I am not vexed enough with a personality glitch driving my opinions to say that a woman shouldn't do as she wishes with her own appearance.

Yet I have experienced such rhetorical ignorance from females out there in the social world before (and mind you I didn't say WOMEN as there is surely a difference) and this is mainly from those who "were" blessed with being bestowed a bit better than other women.

Why some females think that a couple of fatty deposits with some glandular membranes should have anything to do with being more of a woman I can't fathom, any more than someone would prize a well endowed man, with being any more of a man than another. (maybe more pleasing to some female's "tastes" but non-descriptive of a truer manliness in virtuous definitions).

The truth be known, females generally speak as some do here, then hypocritically turn like a rabid wolverine on another woman in mindset, and have heard more than a few females say "At least I was born with boobs like a woman should have" or spitefully comment of some woman on TV saying, "To bad God didn't give her a set of boobs to go with the good looks" when they wish to speak evil of another that caught their spite.

So to hear what some may call a moronic concept of the point being made that allot of the problem is that men prompt their ol' ladies into getting breasts, shows the vain mentality of what we have to go through just to try to FIND a REAL woman out there amongst the buzzards.

Hell yes! You got it completely right in my opinion. Yea, I'm all natural, and just like everyone else, I got flaws, its true. But it doesn't matter what husbands or other women think. It's just are YOU happy with your body. Doesn't mean you should go get plastic surgery over every situation. No matter what you do, how many botox or implants in god knows what kind of places you get, you're going to get older. And all that stuff you worked so hard to be pretty for, is just going to be a pretty face in a picture. Soon all those implants will start drooping and I doubt you'd want to spend a @!$%# load of your retirement money on REMOVING the implants you worked so hard to get. It doesn't really matter what you look like, because people have so many different ideas of beautiful. Find the person that thinks you're beautiful and you shouldnt worry about "fixing" yourself. God forbid you have a spare tire, or if your breasts aren't big handfuls. Find a guy that'll laugh and say, "more cushion for the pushin" and, "your breasts arent small, they're fun sized." I may not be small in that aspect, but eh, I wish I was. A lot less work for me and finding clothes, haha. I'm done with my rant now, but djdrew is right. You men, find a REAL women, and you girls, find a REAL man that will love you just the way you are.

I do find it stunning how many people think women get them for other people rather than themselves. How about I'd like to be happy with what I see in the mirror and how I feel in my clothes or out of my clothes? ME. For ME. Nobody else. My decision, my risk, my money. Nobody else's business. Period.

Dave the Doubter asked whether f it is the cutting and pushing and stretching that is causing the cancer. The way to answer that (and I'm sure the researchers thought of this) is to look at the rate of that cancer in women who have had breast reconstruction (breast lift) without implants. They get even are cutting and pushing than the implant-alone group does.

It isn't always about women wanting larger breasts. Some have had mastectomies from breast cancer, have growth deformities, had tragic accidents, changed after children etc. Though it is still cosmetic, not all women are getting large boobs for their man. Breasts make a woman feel feminine and when she is not confident in how they look she feels out of place. It is narrow minded to isolate breast augmentation as a simply superficial cosmetic procedure.

It's only the guys that want "Trophy" wives and they are not what you would call intellectual!

Those that want a life-long companion are not that way. Just be yourself. Take what nature gave you and make the most of it. Guys will respect you more.

Anyone that would just care about someone because of the size of a breast (or two) is not worth having....

Move on you haven't lost a thing :)

I want implants so bad I can taste it, my husband on the other hand wants me to not do anything "he likes them the way they are" well guess what? I DON'T, it's not always about what a man wants.

1SGFitzsWife4ID

it's not always about what a man wants.

True. I hope to make sure my daughters feel good about their bodies as they are. Then there will be no need the hack their bodies up.

Actually, my wife wants to get them because of the way women treat her, not men.

She says she's married and could care less what men think but she can't try on a dress or talk to other women about running or fashion without someone making a comment of some sort. Not everything breast is driven by guys.

Henry, very true. We women can be horrible nasty bee-yotches. But your wife is making the mistake of believing that all her problems are going to magically disappear after she goes under the knife. They're not. Shallow people don't suddenly become deep and profound people because someone gets surgery. And getting surgery may only boost her self esteem for the moment, but poor self esteem has much deeper roots than what's on the surface.

I had my teeth fixed a few years ago for both dental health and cosmetic reasons. There was a big boost in my self esteem when after the work was done. I had straight, white teeth for the first time in my life (they were crowded and stained from both genetics and smoking) and the first time I saw them, I nearly cried. But in the long run, once the "high" and the newness wore off, the work I had done didn't boost my self esteem. All those issues were still there. I had to take care of that myself.

Maybe your wife could go to counseling first and deal with those issues. Then after awhile, if she still wants them, then she can get them.

First off, I have never encouraged her to get implants. That said I think your point goes both ways: no amount of counseling my wife will make society ease up off her back about it.

And, more to your point, any reputable plastic surgeon will have an in-house counselor to talk to you about your decision and make sure the procedure will be OK for you. My sister was turned down for Lap Band surgery twice before she got her head around her issues enough to please the in-house counselor. So there are places that do care why you are doing this. And if you get a place that doesn't - leave. If they don't care about your mental state then odds are they don't care about your physical state, they just want money.

The think a better description is superficial!

I'm sure any woman who has gone through what you have gone through would feel the same way.

Congratulations on being a cancer survivor. 

I think the comments you are finding insensitive are all aimed at the more elective-in-nature surgeries, K. As for your advice not to look, that would be a lot easier if they weren't propped up and hung out there for all to see...

They are not attractive at all. Rather slutty looking. Especially those who insist on wearing plunging necklines after 50!

@K - atta girl! I too had a mastecomy after breast cancer. If I would have had it my way, I would have had them take the other one too. However, no genetic history in my family, so no one will do that. I was small chested, but the remaining side looked pretty large when you compared it to nothing on the other side. There is definitely a major difference when one is there and the other is not - it was surprising how much breast tisse there is and where it extends to. I could have cared less what anyone else thought - I wanted to be "balanced out" for me and me alone. Who the heck would want the hassle of a prosthetic? Some might - not me. I took it a step further and figured if I had to go through all the reconstruction, they might as well "enhance" them - I got a "job" on good side and a bob with a "job" on the bad side. Though I would have preferred not to have anything done than this type of deal, I have to say my clothing and swim suits fit better than they ever had in my life. It was painful (mastecomy was worse), but worth it in the long run. I agree - if anyone else wants to get new ones - for whatever reason - it is no one else's business, but their own.

I wish you much luck with your surgery (or surgeries)!

People actually comment to you?

What is your response?

I was young-in my 20's. I told them they were ignorant, but it did not take away the hurt I felt.

Really attractive-except for that one freak thing. Ever try to buy a bathing suit with that going on? Do you think people don't stare?

The implants were one of the best decisions I ever made. They are small, but make me "normal" and i do not even think about it 24 years later!

Yeah I agree many of these comments are coming from a kind place but just aren't realistic. I come from a small breasted family and fitting into clothes when you are a medium in the shouldiers but not the tata's is draining and frustrating. It falls wrong/fits wrong and it makes you feel crappy about not wearing what you want. I also know people who have breasts completely different cup sizes- that's pretty sucky too. I have no problem with plastic surgery as long as you get it for yourself and no one else.

I'm proud of you. You did what you needed to do for you. To hell with with those who were so cruel to you!

I can understand where you are coming from...and a lot of people out there just plain suck. That said...to each his/her own but I'm of the thinking that I couldn't give a tiny rat's butt what others think about me physically. If you're attracted to me....great.....if not...that's fine too. But if anyone is superficial enough and vain enough to take issue with someone because their boobs are too small...then they aren't worth a second thought....much less surgery. I wouldn't want to be socially accepted by anyone like that. F-em and feed em beans I say.

As for 'no fit.' You would ROCK the 1920s Flapper and the Twiggy look!

My wife is in the same boat.

She's not as small as she thinks she is, but she is smaller than she could be. She wants implants to simply be allowed to have a conversation with others and not have to hear the comments.

I've told her I'm fine with her body the way it is, I married her as-is. But she still wants implants. She's been teased from the time her first sister developed breasts and, to her, the teasing has not stopped.

Thank you Henry

She may be more confident with the surgery.

I can't tell one HOLLYWOOD blond from another, they all get their lips done, the same, then the nose (so the lips look BIGGER) then they nip this tuck that. It goes on and on until...... well they are Joan Rivers!!

The only thing the doctor "can think of"? Strong medical conclusion for a doctor who needed something to pin the unknown on. Please.....

wouldn't it make sense for them to CHECK maybe? if they're leaking they should be removed and replaced or not depending on what she wants

Lol, for starters, implants are not able to drain into the GI tract at any point in time- if they were, then she would require trauma surgery to repair massive tears/ruptures to the abdominal wall, stomach, intestines...and then there would be something far more serious than "leaking implant fluid" to be concerned about- peritonitis (or leaking stomach/intestinal contents into interstitial spaces or vascular system), septicemia, septic shock to name a few.

All implants are either submuscular (placed within a pocket the surgeon creates within the chest muscles) or subglandular (on top of the muscles and within the breast tissue itself- very natural looking, but the woman must have a bit of breast to begin with. Plus this placement is more affected by the effects of gravity), and this is self-contained in the thoracic cavity.

Furthermore, implants are filled with either saline or silicone. Silicone is viscous and doesn't "leak" in a dripping-type fashion; it slowly (over a period of years) leaches into the bloodstream, should an implant go down, but it does not "leak", "pour", or "drip". Matter of fact, that is one of the problems with silicone implants- they are difficult to diagnose as ruptured because the silicone will stay in place within the implant, and the implant will appear to be intact (the breast will look normal), but the chemical components of the silicone will be slowly seeping into the blood supply. If your friends implants were saline, then there's nothing to worry about at all- other than a flat breast in a short amount of time (minutes to an hour or so).

Sorry, your story of implants "leaking into her stomach" and causing her suffering is asinine and untrue. Perhaps you are uninformed or have been deliberately mislead, but this story is an example of blatant (and comical) prevarication.

No way silicone leaked into someone's stomach. My implant (after cancer) ruptured and I have silicone in my blood stream now. My surgery was in 1974.

You have silicone in your bloodstream? Isn't your liver supposed to clean your blood? What has the Dr. told you concerning the silicone in your blood?

More power to ya - I had a mastectomy on the left and am going through reconstruction for both. I couldn't do what you're doing, but it rocks!!!

you GO Justablonde!! I hope it works out to your liking! like I previously said I'd love to get implants too! I come from a family that have bigger breasts yet I'm still not sure what happened to me, and after nursing two babies myself I feel like I have two half-filled water balloons sitting on my chest.

LOL! Babies....they do a number on us! Very few of us bounce back like the hollywood moms....half of whom I suspect got tummy tucks themselves.

If I was in a position to get a tuck, I would. Even if you're like me, and worked for a LONG time to get thin, the skin can, or can't, go back to normal. It all depends on the person. It's your body, your choice. Like it or not, if you FEEL delicious and beautiful, you ARE delicious and beautiful.

Not to mention their personal chefs and personal trainers on the payroll...

I have saved for this for a long time!!

Mike, Dow was allowed to take bankruptcy i the 90s due to the huge number of lawsuits that were filed against them. I was a victim of the government allowing them to get out without paying up.

Thank you, Marky........very much for your story. There are thousands and thousands of women who have breast cancer and want to be "restored".

LOL! My husband is 5'5" and he'd be in line with you...but I love him and one day you will find love, height is nothing if you have it going on everywhere else.

Ha ha, OK thanks, however, I've been in love 3X, had a few hot girlfriends but wherever we go out guys come RIGHT up to them like I'm not even next to her which sends me into ORBIT!

I'm the youngest of 4 boys so lots of Machoism flows in my veins. Not sure I even want to be in love anymore...ends badly with a tall guy in the mix.

Matthew de Leon

Matt, just a thought, but are you maybe too machismo for women, and then maybe you want to blame it on something else? I have a friend who is your height or shorter and is just soooo easy to be around that he attracts everyone. Not a criticism, just an observation that sometimes guys who are shorter can come out with a fighting attitude and frankly, that turns off a lot of people.

I tried to change this comment a bit, but I timed out. I wanted to say that women love a man that is confident and doesn't have his feathers ruffled easily. Maybe the next time you're entertaining a woman and a "tall" man injects himself into your conversation, maybe you should just carry on with the conversation as if you are perfectly interested in hearing what he has to say and that you aren't even concerned in the slightest that this woman would be more interested in him. If you have more to offer personality-wise (and certainly if you appear relaxedly confident that you do), you will always be more interesting and attractive (to a woman of any intelligence and depth) than a body. Again, just a thought.

@fishy - only if they over do it and go too large for their frame. There are plenty of gals who have been enhanced with the "right" size and you would never know they weren't real. When you can see the obvious circle of the implant - it's too large and it can look quite clownish.