Its not something that bothers me.

If it is going to make a woman feel better about themselves then I feel they should go for it.
I'm naturally top heavy so its not something I have to worry about but if when I'm older I feel I need a little lift here or there then thats what I will do.

As long as it is for your own self confidence and not because you want others to think differently of you then go for it! It certainly wouldn't put me off dating someone because they had some(not too far) plastic surgery thats like saying you wouldn't date someone because you don't like the thought of them missing some apendix.

its crazy!

• I think is a personal desicion (I wouldnt do it).
• Also there is a certain age to do it, not when you are a teen.
• It shouldnt go too far, like getting a lot of surgeries.
• I dont think is nessesary for someone to have a surgery to feel good about themselves.

Personally, I'm not an advocate for plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons. If you have scaring, drastic weight loss or defects from birth (small boobs does not count) then I am all for it.  That being said, I'm only 25 and I haven't really experienced the effects of age either.  I do find "natural" women more attractive and though I'm definitely a breast woman, I would prefer them to be natural.

I understand that women and men do have plastic surgery to build self confidence but I think there are other ways of doing that too.  It's still playing into the "Barbie" and celebrity image that the US thrives on.  Celebrities should not be the standard of how the average women should view themselves as.  Not all of us can look like Angelina Jolie or Kate Winslet, yet most of us don't have that kind of money or help either.  Plastic surgery will not solve the problems of the body image crisis in this country, they're just banking on it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder- corniest line ever but to me it rings true. Besides, "flaws" give character.  Such as the scar on Tina Fey, it makes her appear real and human-aside from the fact she's a naturally beautiful woman.

In general, I'm against all that looks fake. If the person can't look better without fake boobies, then I don't think I would like her anyway, because that obviously shows how insecure, superficial, all-thoughts-on-appearance type of person she is.

I think people nowadays put too much effort on appearance. It has been said before, but I had to make this one clear. Besides, if it aint broken, don't try to fix it. If nature made you the way you are, then there gotta be a reason for that.Your kids are still gonna look like your previous-you. 

It's really weird that there's this ONE beauty ideal of everybody and they all reach out to be like the ONE. PEOPLE, not everyone goes for the same type of people. Thats why  I still can't get over, how one of my friends asked: ''why cant i be like everyone else?'' i was seriously baffled. I don't think people should be all alike. I wouldn't expect my next gf/bf to look like my previous one. Full lips and small nose and big boobs does not (always) equal beauty. I want interesting people, not a set of boobs. If i wanted a perfect doll-like creature, I'd get a sex doll (which is what everybody seems to be craving atm, by looking at pam e.g)

Also, I'm rather repulsed by the idea of having something inside/on my body, that's made of plastic or anything that isn't mine and real(some exceptions..). Not to mention I can't even wear jewelry, so uncomfortable..

I am also top-heavy, so can't imagine why people would ever want bigger boobs (I'd like mine to be smaller, but not enough so to get that surgery), but I'm not going to judge.

I probably wouldn't date someone who had had a boob job though...first off I don't really think large breasts are that attractive, so I probably wouldn't be attracted to her in the first place, but even if i was...it is a symbol that they are so unhappy with themselves AND thought that breast augmentation would fix it...and that's the sort of woman I feel like I should avoid!

Of course, in breast cancer or other medical things like I don't know, really really lopsided ones, or something, that might be different, and of course it would depend on the situation.

...Every person has their own to make and for their own reasons. I for one wouldn't, but then again some might argue that I don't need to. Would I date a girl with fake boobs? Maybe, my answer would really be circumstantial. Would I sleep with her? That would depend on whether I got the date or not. (probably not)

If homophobes always think what they've always thought, then they'll always get what they've always got...my foot have way up their

Women today are literally becoming sex objects. To me, it is just more proof that today is more sexist than when I was growing up.  Women are disfiguring their bodies so they will look like porn stars.  

 Women are expected to put silicon in their breasts, chop off any sign of ethnicity from their nose, lighten their skin, remove every strand of hair from their body (except for the top of the head, and then one should spend $100 on a haircut and perhaps get hair extensions), dewrinkle, vaginally "rejuvenate," paint the face, paint the nails, striptease and pole dance for exercise, and tottle around on shoes specifically designed to push out the ass and the breasts and restrict mobility.   The fact that so many women are "choosing" to become Real Dolls disgusts me.  

So, back to the question, no.  No, I would not be with someone who got a boob job. 

i still rub down my body with pat' oil and pray to the goddess....nothing wrong with that....kinda sick of the young and hip BS that goes on at AE ....smack down the older sisters with cutsie remarks after so many of us battled out in front for freedom?...maybe marketing research says go for the young crowd...who knows...just keep noticing the ageist stuff on AE...now that is gettin kinda old....and as far as breast/plastic surgery...a woman's body and what she does with it...her choice...

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Let's not forget: Mia Kirshner also had a boob job. Look at her in season 2 when she strips in front of roommate Mark, and look at her in season 5 when she takes out her boob and shakes it at Shane...

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Is everyone really so pro unnecessary plastic surgeries? I guess I'm one of those lesbians of old, then, even though I'm only 22. Let me go on record saying I am AGAINST ANY augmentation made to the body that is potentially life threatening and unnecessary. This to say that the only problem with plastic surgery that I have is with certain forms of cosmetic surgery. I'm not talking about reducing the size of your chest to help with getting rid of back problems and such but I do have a problem with certain others.

I think that an insecurity about one's body will never be resolved by plastic surgery and that includes procedures like Asian blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery, usually performed to look more western), breast enhancement, and rhytidectomy (face-lift). I'm sure some people here think these are good things but I have a problem accepting these as a whole. Most other procedures... well... I'm against but not as opposed as the others. 

When I notice the person I'm talking to had something done, I'm completely done with that person (provided it was done for beauty, not necessity). I'm even that way with stars. I really loose most, if not all, my respect for them.

People can do whatever they want with their bodies. It is theirs to do to whatever they want. And I'm sure my views on plastic surgery are probably hypocrite. I can't help them. I think plastic surgery for the beauty is succumbing to the demands made on a man or woman by society and I'm never, ever pro that.   

Who you gonna be if you can't be yourself,
you can't get it from t.v., you can't force it on
anybody else.-- Ani Difranco

being 18, and shockingly average in the body dept. i admit, the draw is seductive. perfect face, perfect body. but having watched waaaay too many episodes of dr. 90210, i know that there are deeper issues surrounding that and decide to get to the bottom of those instead.

that being said, i actually like a girl with small boobs and don't really understand the appeal of anything over a medium c-cup....but that's just me...

I think a lot of people hear boob job and think DD (or bigger) horribly fake looking boobs.
But what about the women who wear a AA or AAA cup and are past the stage of their lives where their boobs would be getting any bigger?
My cosmetology instructor (yes, I'm a lesbian hairdresser - shocking) had B cup boobs, and the thought never crossed my mind that they'd be fake. They weren't huge and unnatural looking.
She said before she got them done, she was a AAA cup and had to buy her bras in the little girls section where they sell the training bras.

I never think plastic surgery is necessary, and I definately think that if a woman can be comfortable with who she is without changing herself to fit other people's standards of beauty, that's best. But sometimes women can't - blame our culture, blame the media, blame whoever you want, but for whatever reason they don't feel comfortable with themselves.
And if a boob job makes them happy, who are we to judge?

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It's a woman's right to do whatever she wants with her body. So I think we should also stop judging women for having eating disorders.  Who cares if it's unhealthy and potentially life threatening.  It's her choice.

I think any augmentation to boost self-image is unhealthy.  These issues could be handled by seeing a therapist.

Seems like a quick fix to a lifelong issue.  

Of course no one is going to be against reconstructive surgery due to an illness or to correct a functional issue.

Would I date/sleep with someone who had a 'boob job'?  If it's done well enough, I wouldn't even know she had one.  If the augmentation is glaringly obvious, then no; because I don't think it looks attractive.  We can just be friends.

Famous words of Gomez Addams, which really say what I think. I'm not for the surgery, and don't believe any woman should think she needs to change something about herself for the sake of any other. I have a close friends that seriously considers getting her breasts enlarged because she feels very self-conscious about the size.

I think it's about time someone in the media took a stand to go against the grain and show this consumerist world that it's wrong to put this pressure on young women. Almost show examples of what the media does and spin it to show what it really means.

But this brigns up another body issue, for those who worship their bodies with patchouli oil, what about tattoos?

I´m a big girl and have no shortage in the breast department but my girlfriend is a slip of a thing and quite often will complain that she wants bigger breasts, even on occasion threatens to get a boob job. I always tell her I prefer her the way she is, in fact I find boob jobs quite unattractive. It never looks normal, little bit of skin stretched over a big bit of silicon. How is that ever going to look natural and in most cases it isn't older people who get them its young girls who haven't even stopped growing yet. I have friends (male) who have been with girls with a tit job and they told me it feels very different from natural tits. Your not supposed to be able to bounce quarters of your tits you know. They are supposed to be soft and depending on the moment look different from one moment to the next, not constantly erect and look as hard as a bowling ball.

Even if it wasnt obvious that someone I met had had their tits done, I would be put off when I descoverd they had, call me shallow but its not like it will go away and like any kind of cosmetic surgery it always seems to need fixing up at some point. Dont do it girls, love what you have.

Why is it the JUDGEMENT I hear coming across on this thread sounds alot like the judgement us gays get from the bible thumpers. I mean seriously,you'd stop being someone's friend because they had a boob job.And to automaticly assess that all boob jobs mean a toxic poor self image?

When I've finished nursing four kids and have mine done I sure hope to God none of you are my so called friends or enemies.

While I don't and wouldn't judge those who decide to get breat implants, and it is their body and they have the choice, I don't like them myself.  Even when their shape and size is natural, the movement isn't, and I don't find them attractive. 

What is shocking and sad is how many thousands are getting comesmetic surgery, not just breast implants.  In a world where cosmetical surgery is the norm, we are teaching girls that a plastic, sculpted body is ideal.  And it is, to me, gross that we've altered our idea of beauty to be something I find so unattractive.  And much worse, it is the culture of airbrushing and plastic surgery that causes young girls to talk about how they are too fat at 8 years old and develop eating disorders at age 11.  In that sense, it is not just your body and your choice.  Celebrities are not the only role models.  Even if there is not a single girl or teenager in your life, you are a participating in the culture that tells them they will never be naturally beautiful.  We all participate and aid this culture, of course, but cosmetic surgery is very active participation.

I am lucky enough to not have been brainwashed yet. There are certain things that are considered to be pretty these days.. that I find to be unbelievable unattractive.

It's not only fake boobs. It's also fake kindness. Or fake red lips. Or fake longer legs (high heels). I don't want those things on a woman that I want to touch. It really puts me off. I don't know why. I remember when I was about 15 and a good friend of mine started dressing all girly like. She looked exactly the same, not more or less female than before. But she had make up on and wore high heels. And I made a scene about how she is becoming this ugly fake Barbie person. I was seriously appalled. I can't even explain.

Since The L Word was mentioned, I have to admit that it's the same for me with these women. Alice is more a "girly girl" now than she was before. Hardly ever jeans and always high heels. She is not that pretty anymore in my eyes.

Apart from my personal taste I have to say that any woman can do with her body what she likes. It's hers. But she should reflect her decision. She should ask herself and answer honestly: Is this breast implant something I want or something that I want because it's a trend. Like, let's say, a tattoo. I've heard that LBTs have been popular once.

And I don't want to even go into the details of how Hollywood is a bad influence for teenagers and women in general and how every actress has to look like this and that and use botox and whatnot. It's crazy.  

I think of them as ballons sometimes, well the ones that look really fake and large. As for "natural" looking breast implants, I'm indifferent.

But I do find it funny when a woman said are you by yourself. It's been awhile since I been to summer camp but, self-confidence does relfect on how you see yourself dealing with people, how others might see you, etc., so is it really about you? No, you want to make an implicit impressions and if going up a size makes you more confident, it not about you, it's for them and how they might see you.

If anything dealing with implants, I want to just have the implant just to play with; they seem like cool looking paper weights.

What's up with the amount of girls getting implants before 18, you're better off with that laptop and certain things, trust me. They are young and do not have the foresight of their actions, so I think counseling would be a better option. I personally like the Kleenex method of enlarging breasts, holds fond memories.

Unless your in the sex industry I *personally* really do not see any point in having very large implants.

To each their own!

Plastic surgery isn't much my thing but I don't undestand how it's a huge deal. Of course you can say that it's ruining the world and every little girl's self esteem and you very well may be a little right. Still, I believe in a woman's right to choose what to do with her body and that extends beyond her reproductive rights.