I should say, trained people can do a pretty good job in a tight spot. My family isn’t really rich, and when I was a kid I got a cut on my leg from a nail and my mom stitched it up. No problems, and it cost just a few dollars instead of the cost of a hospital visit. Not encouraging that, but for people of limited means knowing how to do just some basic medical care can save a good bit of money or keep people healthy who otherwise wouldn’t visit a hopsital anyway.

        DV82XL said:

I wrote “…there is nothing in the way of body enhancement that is worth risking one’s life“ A statement I still stand by.

Cosmetic surgery does indeed have it’s legitimate applications, however wanting a huge rack, or huge butt well beyond what is average, or appropriate for your body type, is not among these.

I could be a bitch and say that all surgery has the remote risk of loss of life due to a bad reaction to the anesthesia or something, but i get your point. I’d say that there’s a huge difference between the tiny risk associated with a procedure to correct a major disfigurement or something versus having a non-professional pump your rear end full of industrial grade silicone.

        apotheosis said:

How does one even offer such a service? I can’t imagine the chutzpah required for rolling up on a strange woman and asking her if she wants some caulk in her butt.

Craigslist?

        Q said:

Perhaps, but cosmetic surgery has it’s place. It could be used to correct a real and obvious defect, like a scar or malformed caused by injury or surgery or it could be just to make the body look more like the individual wants it to.

I wrote “…there is nothing in the way of body enhancement that is worth risking one’s life“ A statement I still stand by.

Cosmetic surgery does indeed have it’s legitimate applications, however wanting a huge rack, or huge butt well beyond what is average, or appropriate for your body type, is not among these.

Medical grade silicone is very pure and there are just a few silicone compounds that are approved for medical use. So just buying ‘industrial silicone’ and injecting it is a HORRIBLE idea. Industrial silicone, depending on the application could be a compound intended to harden over time or it could be a product that contains toxic additives like solvents, lubricants or bacteria inhibitors.

        DV82XL said:

There is a point to this activity? Look there is nothing in the way of body enhancement that is worth risking one’s life. People who feel they need this sort of thing have a major problem with body-image on a par with anorexics.

To me any guy that puts a woman’s bottom or boobs ahead of kind eyes and a quick smile isn’t worth the time of day, because for sure those are the things a woman will still have after thirty years and a couple of kids.

Perhaps, but cosmetic surgery has it’s place. It could be used to correct a real and obvious defect, like a scar or malformed caused by injury or surgery or it could be just to make the body look more like the individual wants it to. Like breast augmentation could be done in someone who has a severe asymmetry of the breasts which is difficult to hide and looks very akward. Someone might also want cosmetic surgery because for their whole life they’ve been annoyed by the fact that their nose is ****ed to the side or has a big bump in it.

I mean we do live in a world that judges by looks quite a lot and for those who are in the entertainment field its basically a necessity. I don’t see why there’s any problem with it when someone looks in the mirronr and keeps thinking ‘damnit, I always look tired with those big bags under my eyes.’ If it makes a person feel better to have a facelift or a boob job or whatever then why not?

It can be overdone, that is for sure. It can be overdone badly. I’m just saying that I don’t see why it needs to always be considered a problem or anything. If someone has an asymetric butt or a butt that they just don’t like the look of and can’t seem to get right with exercise then why not get some work done?

Of course, I’m in no way suggesting that industrial silicone from an unlicenced person on the internet would be the way to go, but I’m just saying that it’s not something that is universally to be looked down on or anything. I’d consider cosmetic surgery myself if I weren’t so amazingly handsome as is.