Posted by Matthew Grogan: 

Posted by theda: 

Posted by McKenzie: 
Believe it or not, I have implants.

Umm... I believe it.

Candy: It looks like you only went up about one cup size. You'd be one of the girls who could fool me. 

I can tell Candy had them done as well, but it's not something that your eyes immediately pick up because as you said Theda, she didn't over do it. I'm not going to point out how it's obvious to me, because that's not important. 

More questions that I never thought I would ever have to hear, yet somehow, hear them all the time...

What's your insertion point?
What sized bag did you go with?
Who was your surgeon?
Underinflated or full bag?
How many cc's?
What shape? Teardrop or round?
Over muscle or under?
For how long did you poop suberballs?
Any internal scar tissue?
Have you seen a massage therapist?

yadda, yadda, yadda...you're killing me.

I should get hired to shoot the damn surgeries, just so the girls can compare battle field photos.

Posted by Udo R Photography: 

Posted by Joe Kozlowski: 
I wonder if the fascination with big boobs has something to do with the fact that most contemporary men were bottle fed.

Which is a very popular theory among social behaviourists. Of course there are exceptions, but it shows the tendencies.

Ah, what do shrinks and behavioral experts know? *grin* Most are out of the swing of things, because of all the time they spent becoming Professional Students. Okay, unfair to mock our academic counterparts and I do apologize for my cantankery. Anyhow, if I can properly recall the timeline accurately, the rise of interest in breast augmentation took off during Donald Trump's peak in power and fame. Everyone remember how all the women in his office were blonde and had breast implants? That was actually an employment requirement. Once it was revealed on national T.V., "big boobs" became the public and household buzz. Big boobs has become a symbolic visual of wealth, fame, personal power and empowerment and surprisingly, a damn good fallback for a woman if she needed to make good money on the side...posing nude obviously. When presented with an "easy money" opportunity like that, a lot of women will consider getting theirs done too.

This trend became "an issue" months following that report, because the technology for breast augmentation then was in its infancy and undergoing growth pains (like software and hardware do...but in this case, women suffered and were hospitalized). On the heels of this came another phenomena...this time, involving girls in their middle and high school years, many of whom are very impressionable and developing symptoms that was conveniently delineated to depression and other mental and physical disorders. Remember that report on T.V. and the articles in popular magazines? Later, did you all manage to catch how the researchers delineated this issue to the teen suicide death?

I like to think I monitor the trends pretty well and I have to say that the interest in breast augmentation seems to have died a little. That might be a good thing, but leave it up to society to find an equally worse fad as a replacement. It's only been recently published that now, many girls and women are getting into steroids. Once again, the motivation for it is the same as it was with the bigger boobs phenomena -- to look like a million bucks and be accepted by social circles a girl never would've dreamed of.

It's for those impacts on society why I'm not completely enamoured with all the aspects, sub-cultures and what not of this industry. A lot of people have the tendency to say, "awww fuck you" as a response to being overwhelmed with very large and complex problems. I feel that everyone (including me), is not doing all that we can to send out a responsible message to everyone. Our pictures says a lot and our actions even more. That's why I've always been a firm believer in keeping minors out of online communities like MM and OMP...at least until we can all safely say that our images aren't contributing to society's various ills and disorders.

Yes, I do realize that we're all stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I do know that I'm being very idealistic in a world that's built upon a circular logic, dog-eat-dog economy. But hey...there's no harm in trying to right some wrongs right?

Okay, I'm done mental vomiting for the day. *grin*

Posted by Miss Lollerpop: 
I don't think I could never get implants. I'm getting by with the size I have. However, I am often dissatisfied with the *shape* and the size of the areola in proportion to the rest of the breast. I have considered getting the areola reshaped, but that is not a concern on the forefront at the moment, and something I still need to do a lot more researching on and thinking about.

They look fine to me ... I mean seriously, I don't see where you have a problem. Maybe it's just a guy thing with me?

Posted by Joe Kozlowski: 

They look fine to me ... I mean seriously, I don't see where you have a problem. Maybe it's just a guy thing with me?

It really does depend on the angle. The picture I have with me in the red corset turned out fabulous.

I mean, it comes down to me being rather self-critical. I'm sure we all have things that stand out to us more than it does to others.

Posted by Herb Way: 
They almost never look "right."   

If a girl is a full B or small C and gets no bigger than 1 cup size, then most of the time, it looks right.  It also depends on who does the surgery.

Posted by Miss Lollerpop: 

Posted by Joe Kozlowski: 

They look fine to me ... I mean seriously, I don't see where you have a problem. Maybe it's just a guy thing with me?

It really does depend on the angle. The picture I have with me in the red corset turned out fabulous.

I mean, it comes down to me being rather self-critical. I'm sure we all have things that stand out to us more than it does to others.

Vanessa, you're beautiful and there's nothing wrong with your breasts.  Work at feeling really comfortable in your own body.  Sure, angle has a little something to do with that photo, but what was more important was the aura that you exuded during the shoot.  You were a joy to work with.  That's why I got all caught up in the experience, shot an exhorbitant number of photos, and am now faced with a daunting editing task.  LOL 

Posted by Blacklist Visual: 
I like ice cream.

I like ice cream too - but not in the form of 2 flesh balls on a chest

Boobjobs are great when they look natural and compliment the model instead of becoming human bumper guards

Posted by Joe K. Perez: 

if I can properly recall the timeline accurately, the rise of interest in breast augmentation took off during Donald Trump's peak in power and fame. Everyone remember how all the women in his office were blonde and had breast implants?

Well, Joe, you are correct regarding the IMPLANTS, however, the implant craze may have started with trump, but the obsession of America for hughe breasts reaches much further back.

Remember Russ Meyers?

That was only a reflection of American fascination with hugh mammarie glands.

The technology just enabled women with naturally shaped bussoms to become humungeous (sp?).

The problem I see is that way too many women getting their breasts done and they end up being totally unfit for their bodies.

Then there are the nazi-tits... unmoveable, always pointing in the same direction, no "jiggling" just screwed on balloons.

As many said here already, when the breasts are done and in "body range" of maybe a cup size bigger and well done... then it actually can look better.

But as I said... for me... there are other criteria (gluteus maximus athleticus) ;-)

Anyway, to each its own.

Posted by Joe Kozlowski: 
I just took a pass on an opportunity to work with an otherwise lovely young lady. Because of her boob job, I'm sure that when she dies, somone's going to have to bounce on the coffen lid to get it closed.

Hey,that was a good one!  ha ha ha...

::::Reese scratches kudo point on tally sheet for Joe::::

Posted by Lady Atropos: 
real breasts...

most fake breasts look like someone took an ice cream scoop and molded the breasts from that

Hey now...  A LOT of people like ice cream...  Don't pull ice cream into the debate... 

Posted by Lady Atropos: 

Posted by Blacklist Visual: 
I like ice cream.

I like ice cream too - but not in the form of 2 flesh balls on a chest

Another funny ha ha line!

::::kudo point scratched on Lady's tally sheet::::

Posted by Ami: 
It really is a personally decision. Only you can decide if you want to or not.

Exactly!

It is also quite interesting that the openess and defense for augmentation and "as is"... varies drastically from East to West coast.

If you take a look who is defending and supporting augmentation, you see that most are in the West coast region and the ones the prefer naturals (but don't discriminate) are on the East coast!

Euro is a totally different situation. I grew up there without implants being even a discussion and was an "exotic" American thingy.

Posted by Udo R Photography: 
Remember Russ Meyers?

That was only a reflection of American fascination with hugh mammarie glands.

The technology just enabled women with naturally shaped bussoms to become humungeous (sp?).

yes but I'm like russ meyer women I am naturally big breasted.
russ's girls didn't have implants and were nice big and natural breasted.
xxx
MP

Posted by Lapis: 
I would like to hear everyone's opinions on breast augmentation.