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Recently reporter Clover Stroud did a rather remarkable test, she is naturally a 36A, but she wanted to know if larger breasts really ‘made a difference’, so she had a pair of prosthetic 36D breasts made specifically to fit her, and wore them for a week.

Clover wrote a detailed account of her story, which was a pleasure to read. She talks about how instantly there was rather a large lifestyle change, men opened doors for her, offered to help with her shopping, served her more quickly at bars, and we just generally more attentive (but less so intellectually). Women on the other hand, treated her more as a threat, and were far less friendly by comparison.

What clover also mentions quite strongly in her article is that having these larger breasts made her feel far more feminine, more sexy, and more confident about her body.

My only question to clover is - why after experiencing this for a week did you not want to keep them?

Obviously not the prosthetic ones, but have a breast augmentation and get the real things. From my point of view there are two opinions when it comes to women and implants;

1. I want them to boost my confidence, to make me feel better about myself, and because I would like larger breasts

2. I don’t want them because women who have them are trashy, because they look fake, and because its slutty

What strikes me instantly about these two schools of thought, is that while the first contains actual reasons, the second contains nothing more than excuses and preconceptions about how society views breast implants. People used to think that the only people who had tattoos were criminals, so tattoos were trashy, but you certainly couldn’t say that these days, and its finally relatively accepted that people can not be stereotyped by the tattoos that they have. The same is more and more becoming true with regards to breast augmentation, and yes sometimes they do look fake, and in my opinion its the ones that look particularly fake that are the ones that look trashy.

Why?

Porn-stars have breasts that look fake, because they have been enlarged by too much in proportion to their bodies, this is where the association comes from. Having a breast augmentation to get yourself from a B cup to a D cup however, is hardly going to stretch you to un-natural proportions, and after all, thats what surgical consultations are for.

Its time for breast implants to stop being taboo, and to start just being accepted for what they are, people changing their bodies to how they want to look.

Some people get tattoos, some lift weights, some get piercings, some go on rigorous diets, some dye their hair, and some have excess fat removed, no one bats an eyelid when any of those things are done, breasts simply have more of a ’shock-factor’ because they are associated with sex.

If you want a breast augmentation, then go out and get one and stop worrying about being such a total conformist.