The Philosphy of Celebrity Breast Implants
Seduction is king and a woman’s power is based on her looks. Regardless of career, an attractive woman will attract wealthier men, get a higher paying job and lead a more glamourous life than a woman with similar qualifications who is less attractive: This is the sad truth of beauty, of seduction, of the relationship between youth, beauty, and women. This dynamic of terrible truth also explains why so many celebrity women choose to mutilate their bodies with cosmetic surgeries such as rhinoplasty, botox, and breast augmentation.
The psychology of an actress: soar to stardom in your 20s and achieve mainstream success up to your late 30s when the body begins to change and become “less beautiful” by the standars of pop American media culture, be it Hollywood, New York or any other major center of entertainment (music, film, television, etc.). To begin with there are the obvious examples: Pamela Anderson, Demi Moore, Jenna Jameson, and Melanie Griffith, each with various sizes and shapes of breast implants. Each woman near or past the age of 40. Each woman choosing to undergo breast augmentation surgery relatively late in their careers.
There are other examples: Jessica Alba, Victoria Beckham, and Maris Tomei, who have chosen smaller firmer breast implants that are a bit more subtle, tasteful, and less obvious and laughable than the gargantuan sizes of the likes of Jameson or Anderson. Of course, breast size, breast shape, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But who is beholding whom? Why do so many men in the American Pop cultural sphere or the banal domain of the suburbs, find large breasts on women so attractive?
The answer lies in the relationship between fertility and sex: a woman’s breast nourishes both a man’s sexual appetite and a baby’s apetite for food and thus survival. This relationship between sex and the life-giving essence of mother’s milk is the subconscious link that drives the eroticism of the female breast. The bigger the breast size, the more milk it theoretically holds and thus, the more a baby, or babies, can be fed. The bigger the breasts the more our appetite for female sexual nourishment is fed. The big inflated breast as sexual seducer and mother symbol!
Breast augmentation will never go out of style until women begin to critique the relationship between sexuality, fertility, and artifice. Breast implants are “fake breasts” to some, or an improvement to others. This is the debate.
George A. Magalios is a philosopher from Montreal. He writes about cosmetic surgery and contemporary art.
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