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I had a hidden fixed brace put on at 30 to give me a 'perfect' smile.  I had one when I was 15 but 4x wisdom teeth since then move them and they started to look crowded.  I didn't really need one but it's not major cosmetic surgery so thought why not!

I'd consider that laser hair removal too so I didn't have to shave so high up my cheek!

for me nothing, i am perfect... for the wife? (thats not her dancing in my sig, )

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for me nothing, i am perfect... for the wife? (thats not her dancing in my sig, )
You've had plastic dreams.

I think a brain transplant might be quicker and cheaper for me.

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I am in favour of plastic surgery to repair damaged skin etc, but really hate this latest trend for nips and tucks etc for vanity's sake.

Women who had implants after mastectomies should certainly have them removed and replaced with safe ones at no cost to themselves, but everyone who opted for an enlargement to supposedly make themselves more beautiful should have to pay to get the dangerous implant removed. Might make them think twice before the next bit of unnecessary surgery.

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but everyone who opted for an enlargement to supposedly make themselves more beautiful should have to pay to get the dangerous implant removed. Might make them think twice before the next bit of unnecessary surgeryWhat about people who feel they are having it to make themselves less ugly?


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What about people who feel they are having it to make themselves less ugly?
What about people who cut themselves to feel better about themselves?  In theory having bits chopped off, sucked out and stuffed in etc in an effort to make yourself feel better is tantamount to self harm?

I'm not sure doing something once that is admittedly quite painful, but the pain is nothing to do with making yourself feel better, is the same thing as self harming.

Do tattoos count? It's a painful thing to do, and a permanent change. What about removing one? Is there any difference between having your teeth fixed because you are scared to smile, and a boob job because you are sick of people joking about how flat chested you are?

If doing something would genuinely make you feel less self concious about yourself, say a nose job, and you could afford it, what is the harm in it? Is this not a good quick fix in comparison to the amount of therapy someone might require to achieve the same aim?


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Do tattoos count? It's a painful thing to do, and a permanent change
Using the same argument, yes they do, and mine were certainly done as part of the healing process after various events in my life.  My mum's answer was that I was mutilating myself and shouldn't do it.

I think a large part of the reason people feel so awful about their bodies is the way people are depicted by the media, women have to be tanned, skinny, big boobs, pert bottoms, no cellulite, no bits drooping or weight gain after kids, and heaven forbid an attack of spots break out.  Men have to be tall, muscly, firms bottoms, and again with the permanent tan.  We and our children have therse images which are often airbrushed and not real at all rammed down our throats continuously, and if someone gets a bit of a belly, something droops, then the media is all over it telling them they should diet and taking the mick and so on.  Then we have the paegants, where children are tanned and made up and flaunted mostly on their looks, and everyone seems to think that we need to fit this perfect image.

If I was to have one of the perfect bodies that everyone seems to think I should have, I'd need to loose weight, have some liposuctions, a tummy tuck, boob job, bum job, dermabrasion and a premanent fake tan, and even then I still wouldn't fit in the perfect image, so then I'd need to start looking at botox, veneers and so on.

I suppose I just feel that no-one is perfect and ramming perfection down our throats, and because of this people feel the need to risk their lives with general anastetics (sp?)and  invasive surgery to try and make them look the part.  And, once you;ve had one thing done, surely the next thing isn't right, and maybe just another quick op to fix the next bit and so on and so forth.  My body is nothing like what it was 3 years ago before I had kids, but this is what a real body looks like, there's lumps and bumps and saggy bits and stretch marks and wobbly bits, but it's my body, and it looks like this for a reason, and I'm proud of it.

Maybe if we were all more honest with each other and the media represented a few more real people, then perhaps people wouldn't feel so awful about how they look.