Breast Augmentation And Female Power


by Mediasophia - Date: 2010-06-06 - Word Count: 408 Share This!

A woman's breasts are her sexual and fertile symbols of her power. Large breasts offer a tantalizing temptation for sexual conquest and her ability to feed her children. Smaller breasts are subtler and not as noticeable in terms of a woman's sexual prowess and her relationship to the public visual sphere. Women with large breasts are familiar with the symbolism behind their breasts and often choose to display them prominently as a point of pride and power, often at the risk of submitting themselves as sexual objects of desire. When a women chooses to display her breasts with no bra, cleavage, or in any way that highlights them, she straddles the line between sexist sex object and sexual power. There is no simple way to become one without the other and women know this.

When women critique the male gaze and the objectification of women all the while continuing to display their bodies in tight-fitting outfits that attract sexual attention, they are being hypocrites and undermining their so-called feminist values. When women dress modestly, in loose or large clothing, hiding themselves in shrouds, they are avoiding the male gaze but also choosing to forgo, for whatever reason, their visual sexual power quotient.

A woman's breasts are rife with so much sexual, physical, and political meaning and women who undergo breast augmentation surgery understand this. Breast augmentation surgery used to be a desperate attempt to attract male attention and artificially endow breasts with a metaphorical neon sign that reads: "Look at me!". Breast augmentation and breast implants were once uncommon and so expensive that only celebrities and the exceptionally wealthy could afford them. But all of that has changed in the past 15 years with the proliferation of cosmetic surgery clinics across the world, from the Caribbean to Europe and South America. Today, cosmetic surgery is both socially more acceptable and more nuanced.

Women who would like firmer breasts without looking like Dolly Parton can easily achieve their desired look with carefully chosen variations in breast implant size, shape, and technology. Contoured breast implants, usually filled with silicone gel, offer a more life-like naturalistic appearance that provides both firmness and smaller volume than traditionally large breast implants filled with saline.

Many celebrities, from Nicole Kidman to Marisa Tomei, have chosen smaller more subtler breast augmentation surgery in order to retain their sex appeal, feel and look younger, and garner more male attention at the pass the age of 40.

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