In our circle of friends and acquaintances it's much higher than that. It's at least 50%, which sounds odd, but it's probably demographic. Most are DH's friends from high school, and he lived in a very wealthy area. They are still definitely in the upper class bracket. A lot of the girls got implants as graduation presents. If not then, they got them after having kids when they got their mommy makeover surgery.

Interesting, BunnyGirl.

I was slightly tempted in the other direction, but pushups between writing jags (10 every time I make coffee, which is about four times a day) keep the girls firm.

"I was slightly tempted in the other direction, but pushups between writing jags (10 every time I make coffee, which is about four times a day) keep the girls firm."

1) Oh, that's why they're called pushups.
2) Exercise just became more distracting.

Thousands of years from now when future archeologists are unearthing our burial sites and plundering our tombs (or perhaps they will be explorers from other planets), I expect they will scratch their heads (or appropriate brain pods), and wonder about the strange saline filled bags ritually placed on the skeletal ribs of some of the deceased--apparently and perhaps paradoxically after the body melts away. What is the significance?

I saw that article. I think if you control for income, BunnyGirl's observation is more true than you know.

Poor people can't afford to lay down 5 big ones to a boob job. As I recall, there was a time series chart showing implants over the last 15 or so years, and I suspect that the correlation to the stock market is in the 90% range.

Probably as a trailing indicator of economic health.

As for future archeologists, I doubt that saline bags will survive intact more than a few hundred years. A google search indicates that such implants have a life expectancy of 10-15 years.

Wow. I didn't think it would be that short. So...breast implants = license to print money, if you're a plastic surgeon.

Yeah its the same for me BunnyGirl. Being from Orange County sometimes I wanna say 75%.

I have a tiny tiny skinny little friend that got them because she felt she needed them aka everyone else had them. Ruined her look! It made me so sad.

I like tasteful fake tits but that's not very American (same with nose jobs--it seems they basically want their noses to be upward ski slopes) with puckered butthole lips.

I shop at WalMart too often; I wish MORE folks could afford cosmetic body surgery.

Either that or, at least, not wear spandex if you do NOT have the body for it. True for both women and MEN.

Why do women do this? Monkey see, monkey do? Do they think it looks good? Torpedos jutting from their chest? Do they think guys like plastic sewn under a woman's skin? This guy thinks it's disgusting. Natural is beautiful. To this guy, anyway.

ppen

"I have a tiny tiny skinny little friend that got them because she felt she needed them aka everyone else had them. Ruined her look! It made me so sad."

This seems to be female-female competition ("runaway"; "egalitarian", to establish sameness), not so much guided by men. I appreciate the form and size art can give. But three (interlinked) elements go against that: 1) Diversity 2) Harmony 3) Essentialism/Naturalism. All three apply to your case.

Charles,

Something to remember: When real women wear see-thru yoga pants as everyday wear, it's empowering and don't you dare criticize her even if she's a 14yo middle-schooler. But when a cartoon/cgi woman is drawn/rendered with them, then it's one of the biggest acts of mysoginy in the world.

Or when women gain weight and now think it's sexy because they're now a 42 DDD or GG. But somehow you're not supposed to notice that they're resting on a 56 inch waist? I gained weight when I hurt my back, and my happy 32c is now a 32 DDD (with bra extender. If I went up to the 34 DD, it's still too big). My 22 inch waist is now a 32 and I'm under no illusion that because my breasts are bigger it's suddenly more sexy. I hate it! I'm losing weight now and can't wait to get back to my smaller bra and 22 inch waist. And btw, if you're a 32B or C, good luck at Victorias' Secret. If you mention that you can't find anything in those sizes, they whip out a tape measure and pronounce you a 34b, which they carry by the truckload, as it must be an average size

Dated a slender older woman who had absolutely rock-hard fake breasts under her nicely shaped nipples. What a shock and total turn-off!

Women: Its the nipples, not the sacks o'fat!

Codger, the woman you dated must have had the old-fashioned injection treatments. There are any number of reasons why that was a bad idea, that being one.

Whenever Ppen makes an observation on fashion excesses, I laugh because it's a laugh of recognition. I've met professional women in Cali who had very obvious, and bad, boob jobs, and it totally ruined the image they wanted to project. There's an art to making it look good; the surgeon has to be good at it and the implants have to be properly proportioned and shaped. One thing that makes me cringe is skinny little women who have ribs sticking out everywhere except where their C-cup implants where shoved in between their skin and their ribcage. It looks painful. And then there's the strippers who get basketballs put in. It's a total cliché and they look ridiculous.

That all said, breast implants are a thing; they're available, and if you want them and have the scratch, why not. A gal that used to hang out in my social circle had them; she went from A to a smallish C. They looked good on her; they were well proportioned to her body and looked natural. She was happy and they helped her confidence.

(And a P.S.: My wife has the same complaint about Victoria's Secret that Amy does, so reading Samm's note was interesting. Are 34B/C the only sizes they make?)

Some of us have big boobs the natural way, which means "Victoria's Secret" is "We ain't got no bras for you."
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Er, why do they only sell small bras?