This isn't just individual dumb, it's like an epidemic of young women whose body image issues have been funneled into a more extreme direction, and their parents should be beaten for feeding into it. I bet these parents would freak if their girls went and got a (perfectly reversible) body piercing of some sort (beyond the ubiquitous nostril studs, or "belly rings," that is). I suppose the trend in the alternaporn aesthetic toward more mainstream porn body types (implants, skinny otherwise), the general lolita thing (in and out of porn) and antifeminist backlash giving young women the impression they can only be validated through sexual display rather than respect for their minds (I'm pro-porn, but I'm not gonna ignore facts) feed way into this.
I'd be more likely to cry than laugh when the health consequences come to visit on these girls. Ethical plastic surgeons turn away young women from doing this until their bodies have finished developing, at least. It's not like a piercing or a tattoo, there are SERIOUS risks they should weigh before undergoing such a radical procedure. It's also preying on the most insecure and vulnerable population to take teens as patients and do something that drastic to their bodies.
I would have loved to get it done at 17. Its not like at 18 you go through this giant breast growth spurt or something. And no they do not grow at age 21 either, need_fire. For some people they are just never growing!!! Mine grew a tiny bit and stopped when I was 14 and after that I never went through any growth until surgery last month. I wish I had it done years ago... so I don't at all agree with "ugh". It is not about "mainstream" "society" shit, it is about being proportioned and fitting into adult clothes etc. It is about looking on the outside the way you feel on the inside... like a woman and not like a little girl who's upper body never entered puberty. Nobody ever told me that I needed boobs, and I am not a man's sex object either. As for invasive... I was in pain for 1 day and uncomfortable for 4 more days. Complications only arise if one does not abide to pre-op diet (no aspirin, aspertane, green tea, ginseng) and if one does not take antibiotics during the first week and/or soaks the sutures in the tub. Just thought I'd put up a pro- comment.
++ Silicone was banned by the FDA, and after extensive research no connection between silicone leaks and any other kind of the 'late- stage' complications was proven. +++ Capsular contracture can be prevented if one keeps their check-up appointments BTW! Alot of these late-stage complications happen because people think that once their new boobs are implanted, they don't have to be careful anymore. In the beginning weekly check ups are crucial etc. Plus and implant is not a permantent pleasure, they need to be renewed every 10 years.... I just hope that everybody is told that before they get it done.
They say submuscular implants are better for this and for not interfering with mammograms, but there are other disadvantages (quadruples recovery time, as a matter of course).
(I'd rather look into MRI or ultrasound than get a mammogram, but you know I have a family history of breast cancer, so it is fortunate I'm happy with my minis)
I think everybody's experience is different, but it's worth waiting til 18 to see if the young woman's body is settling down. Also, in this country especially, to get the young woman away from the social pressures of high school. (People in high school had me convinced I was just hideous in every way. I just didn't happen to care.) And to take into account weight fluctuations in college that are so common. And although it was not my own experience, so many young women, when they go on the birth control pill, have breast size increase.
A lot of trendy clothes are cut for ridiculously-proportioned skinny girls, tinier than me, almost exclusively. I wouldn't go on a diet to fit them. And then there are bras from victoria's secret which only fit breasts with helium implants, apparently (seriously, if they want them to be pointing upwards in the first place, is there an under-bra bra to go with that?)
I'm a little puzzled by this trend anyway since girls seem to start developing so much younger these days, for whatever reason (endocrine disruptors in the environment? hormones in milk?) - I'd think more would be concerned about looking "tall enough" than "busty enough." Maybe there are parents feeding their kids HGH too, and it just wasn't reported here.
You're an adult, you made the decision for yourself and not because your partner insisted on it, either, and I can respect that. You had to make many decisions for yourself at a younger age than many of us, and you also grew up in a different culture from the one here, so the influences on you are different. I do still think that the trend in American teenage girls doing this is alarming. I don't think that anyone expressing contempt or shadenfreude toward the young women making that decision is appropriate though!
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Date: 2005-12-16 09:03 pm (UTC)I'd be more likely to cry than laugh when the health consequences come to visit on these girls. Ethical plastic surgeons turn away young women from doing this until their bodies have finished developing, at least. It's not like a piercing or a tattoo, there are SERIOUS risks they should weigh before undergoing such a radical procedure. It's also preying on the most insecure and vulnerable population to take teens as patients and do something that drastic to their bodies.
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Date: 2005-12-19 08:17 pm (UTC)As for invasive... I was in pain for 1 day and uncomfortable for 4 more days. Complications only arise if one does not abide to pre-op diet (no aspirin, aspertane, green tea, ginseng) and if one does not take antibiotics during the first week and/or soaks the sutures in the tub.
Just thought I'd put up a pro- comment.
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Date: 2005-12-19 08:27 pm (UTC)+++ Capsular contracture can be prevented if one keeps their check-up appointments BTW! Alot of these late-stage complications happen because people think that once their new boobs are implanted, they don't have to be careful anymore. In the beginning weekly check ups are crucial etc. Plus and implant is not a permantent pleasure, they need to be renewed every 10 years.... I just hope that everybody is told that before they get it done.
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Date: 2005-12-19 08:43 pm (UTC)http://www.justbreastimplants.com/risks/capsule-contracture.htm
They say submuscular implants are better for this and for not interfering with mammograms, but there are other disadvantages (quadruples recovery time, as a matter of course).
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Date: 2005-12-19 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-19 08:31 pm (UTC)A lot of trendy clothes are cut for ridiculously-proportioned skinny girls, tinier than me, almost exclusively. I wouldn't go on a diet to fit them. And then there are bras from victoria's secret which only fit breasts with helium implants, apparently (seriously, if they want them to be pointing upwards in the first place, is there an under-bra bra to go with that?)
I'm a little puzzled by this trend anyway since girls seem to start developing so much younger these days, for whatever reason (endocrine disruptors in the environment? hormones in milk?) - I'd think more would be concerned about looking "tall enough" than "busty enough." Maybe there are parents feeding their kids HGH too, and it just wasn't reported here.
You're an adult, you made the decision for yourself and not because your partner insisted on it, either, and I can respect that. You had to make many decisions for yourself at a younger age than many of us, and you also grew up in a different culture from the one here, so the influences on you are different. I do still think that the trend in American teenage girls doing this is alarming. I don't think that anyone expressing contempt or shadenfreude toward the young women making that decision is appropriate though!