----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Tits (a womans perspective)
But I think it's *appalling* that teenagers are given breast implants as 'graduation presents' -- and SHAME on those doctors!!! _Any_ surgery involving general anesthesia carries a small but definite risk of death. How pathetic to risk one's life to be "well-endowed"...
I think I know of an exception. My daughter's friend is highly asymmetric because of birth defects. Among other things, she was born without an esophagus. The problem in question is that one breast developed normally, and one not at all. Her mother paid for one implant when she graduated.
Although she is a beautiful young woman, she was very self conscious....and this seemed worth it.
I think that may be along the lines of the exceptions Debbi approved of. That's the first case of implant surgery at the time of graduation that I've heard of that I wouldn't object to if it were my own daughter.
I knew a young woman in college who was reasonably intelligent but carried herself in a sluttier manner than most of the young women I spent time with. (She wasn't a bad person to go shopping with, though, if you were trying to figure out how to most effectively display assets.) A couple of years after I met her, I found out that she'd gotten implants as a graduation present, and if I'd heard of the practice before then, it wouldn't have surprised me. (Since that was the first case of it I'd heard of, I was appalled, but if I'd known how widespread it was, it would have been one of those things that made sense, knowing her.)
And I've had conversations with various women about their boobies, most were not happy with them when they graduated from high school, but they felt a lot better about them by the time they were 25. I think that it's a good idea to put off any sort of body-altering surgery until at least a few years after high school, if it's purely for cosmetic reasons.
Julia
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