What is a girl to do?

[diwana]

@X2

well..how are the ‘normal’ the point is not about what is normal or something that people have been doing for 100s of years..niksik had a very specific statement that many people use against any cosmetic surgery in general..let me refer to that statement and the get back to my point

so breast implants are alterations, and so are piercings, so are shaping brows and waxing. My point here was that simply that statement is not going to answer the question.

do we leave kids born with cleft palette as they are, because well thats how they were and you cant alter what god has given you.

The extreme example is to make a point, and that is that blanket statement does not cover everything,…and if it does…then it covers everything…including piercings. we have to look at it and think, and my view is that its the former and not the latter.

You may want to pose this question to a breast cancer survivor who had mastectomies, and whether the implants as part of the reconstruction were solely for the sake of attracting the opposite sex.

btw- there are rulings on this subject, that if there is severe mental stress due to it, reconstructive surgery or enhancements are completely fine, whether they are breast implants, reductions, whatever.

Yes to many points.

We also need to think about if even cancer survivors do really need implants by surgery?

It could be looked at case by case. Just implanting the idea (pun intended)in the head of a woman immediately after mastectomy to make money by these industry people or plastic surgeons should not make it right.

Many older women, unmarried or divorced or otherwise not going to marry do not need this surgery. They could just be happy with fake bras.