Re: Butt jobs . . . this is sickening!

[Guest guest]

I was stunned recently when my husband said something about penile

implants, as if he was entertaining such an idea. He was probably

joking, however I said after all he's seen me go through, what would

make him even think something like that would be worthwhile? I

definitely think he's still got some doubt in his mind as to what

made me sick, but it doesn't bother me that much - I know what made

me sick.

Sis

>

> One would think that God doesn't know what He's doing

> when He makes women's bodies - He should have

> consulted this plastic surgeon! - Rogene

> ------------------------------------------

>

> http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-

buttsurgerymar12,0,5951694.story?coll=sfla-features-headlines

>

> The bottom line

>

> " No matter how perfect that posterior seems, there's

> always room for a nip or a tuck. "

>

> By Natasha Singer

> New York Times

> Posted March 12 2006

>

> Dr. Constantino Mendieta, a plastic surgeon in Miami,

> has never seen a woman's backside that he didn't want

> to tweak with a little surgery.

>

> " A casual observer might think that's a pretty

> buttocks over there in the pink sweatpants with the

> narrow waist and full bottom, " Mendieta said one

> evening last month as he pointed to a young woman

> window-shopping on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach.

> Perched at an outdoor cafe table under an orange

> umbrella, Mendieta had agreed to a reporter's request

> that he rate buttocks as they sashayed by -- all in

> the interest of medicine of course.

>

> " But, professionally speaking, I would enhance her

> buttocks by adding more fullness and projection at the

> middle and the top, " he said. " I can always make a

> pretty butt even prettier. "

>

> After decades spent developing and refining treatments

> for the breasts, a few American plastic surgeons are

> beginning to focus on procedures for the buttocks.

> Mendieta is among those who have become experts in

> enlarging women's posteriors with solid silicone

> implants or injections of fat. And at medical meetings

> in the last two years, these doctors have taught the

> techniques to nearly 400 of their colleagues.

>

> Many women would shudder at the thought of padding

> their bottoms. But certain fashions like low-rise

> jeans and spandex workout gear call attention to the

> derriere. (This spring there are even bustle panties.)

> And now some women have begun to fixate on their

> backsides.

>

> Last year 2,361 Americans had buttock augmentation

> surgery, almost four times as many as in 2002, the

> first year that the American Society for Aesthetic

> Plastic Surgery kept statistics on the procedure. The

> operation typically costs about $20,000.

>

> " The buttocks used to be something you hid, but now

> it's something you show off, " said Dr. L.

> III, a plastic surgeon in Spartanburg, S.C.,

> who has performed more than 300 of the procedures.

>

> Some women over 50 get the surgery to bulk up

> deflating derrieres, while younger patients say they

> want larger buttocks to complement prominent busts. " I

> always got compliments for my front but never for my

> back, " said Del Rio, 18, a high school student

> in Miami who had the procedure last month with

> Mendieta. " Now my mom says I look like a Coca-Cola

> bottle. "

>

> Compared with breast implants and face lifts, buttock

> augmentation is in its infancy. Surgeons are still

> perfecting their techniques. And although many

> patients know what looks good to them -- said

> they often arrive in his office with magazine photos

> of Beyoncé Knowles or Serena -- doctors do

> not agree on what constitutes ideal buttocks.

>

> Efforts to enhance the size of the posterior date to

> ancient Greece, when Spartan women performed a

> bottom-kicking dance, said Dr. V. Leroy Young, a

> plastic surgeon in St. Louis who is chairman of the

> emerging trends task force of the American Society for

> Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. " Women would kick

> themselves in the fanny to make themselves bigger and

> firmer. "

>

> The word callipygian, meaning having a shapely rear,

> comes from the Greek kallipygos. Modern gluteal

> enhancement began in the 1950s when surgeons in Brazil

> and Mexico tried transferring fat cut from the

> abdomen.

>

> In the 1980s and '90s surgeons experimented with

> rounded silicone implants specially made for the

> buttocks. But the incisions often broke open and

> became infected, and patients didn't like the way the

> solid implants felt.

>

> Finally, in the late 1990s, adapted a

> fat-grafting procedure originally designed for the

> face. In this technique, fat is removed from the

> stomach and thighs via liposuction, mixed with

> antibiotics and purified. Then thousands of fat

> droplets are injected one by one, so the fat can be

> contoured to mimic flesh and muscles.

>

> " It's like sculpting with clay, " said. " You

> are trying to create a shape tailored to each

> individual patient and a fullness of the outer buttock

> that you can't get with implants. "

>

> The transplanted droplets are thought to establish a

> new blood supply more easily than a mass of fat tissue

> could, theoretically allowing the fat to survive in

> its new location for years. Sixty to 80 percent of the

> fat stays where it is injected, said, and the

> rest is absorbed.

>

> Each augmentation takes six to eight hours,

> said, and typically 1 to 2 pounds of fat are added to

> each side. Skinny patients are asked to gain 10 to 15

> pounds before the procedure to create enough fat to

> work with, said.

>

> For several weeks after their surgery, patients are

> not to sit down or lie on their backs lest they damage

> the fragile fat. They must also wear a surgical girdle

> to help the abdomen and thighs contract. Patients say

> they don't mind the discomfort.

>

> performed augmentation surgery in 2004 on

> Frances , 63, a retiree who lives in northern

> Virginia. " Before I had the procedure, I had a nice

> bust line, but I didn't have much booty or whatever

> they call it today, " said. " It was totally flat

> back there.

>

> " Now it's rounder and fuller, " she said. " I'm

> thrilled. "

>

> Fat grafting to the buttocks is such a new procedure

> that little is known about how safe it is, how well it

> works or how long it lasts.

>

> The most frequent complication is infection, which

> occurs in 2 to 3 of every 100 patients, said.

> Other surgeons have reported tissue necrosis, in which

> the fat dies and must be removed. Patients also may

> have scars at the injection sites that fade over time.

> As in all liposuction, there is a small risk that fat

> drops or blood clots will migrate to the lungs,

> causing respiratory problems and even death.

>

> What exactly constitutes good-looking glutei? Two

> Mexican plastic surgeons, Dr. Ramon Cuenca-Guerra and

> Dr. Quezada, examined 132 patients and more than

> 1,000 photos and concluded that a beautiful bottom has

> four features: slight hollows on each side, a curved

> fold where the buttocks meet the thighs, a V-shape

> crease that looks like cleavage at the top and two

> dimples in the lower back. Mendieta also examined

> hundreds of photos but came to a different conclusion:

> that the overall shape of the buttocks is most

> important. He proposed that female buttocks come in

> four basic configurations: square, round, V-shape and

> A-shape.

>

> " The prettiest buttocks look like A's, like

> upside-down hearts with a wider bottom than top, "

> Mendieta said.

>

> argued that each ethnic group has its own

> standard of beauty. Asian patients look for small,

> shapely buttocks, he said, while Caucasian patients

> are after either " voluptuous Playboy bottoms " or the

> " athletic, tiny " rear. Hispanic patients want full

> round buttocks, said, while African-American

> and Afro-Caribbean patients often ask him for " as big

> a buttocks as will fit their bodies. "

>

> Young said buttock augmentation may turn out to be,

> like 19th-century bustles, a passing fashion. But

> others say it may have staying power.

>

> " In primeval days the butt was the primary sexual

> attractor, not the breasts, " said Galdino F.

> Pranzarone, a professor of psychology at Roanoke

> College in Salem, Va. " This is really a return to what

> cave men were originally interested in. "

>

[Guest guest]

One sure sign of Satan's fingerprint is perversity of God's works.

And this whole buttock implant thing is just perverse! How SAD!

>

> One would think that God doesn't know what He's doing

> when He makes women's bodies - He should have

> consulted this plastic surgeon! - Rogene

> ------------------------------------------

>

> http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-

buttsurgerymar12,0,5951694.story?coll=sfla-features-headlines

>

> The bottom line

>

> " No matter how perfect that posterior seems, there's

> always room for a nip or a tuck. "

>

> By Natasha Singer

> New York Times

> Posted March 12 2006

>

> Dr. Constantino Mendieta, a plastic surgeon in Miami,

> has never seen a woman's backside that he didn't want

> to tweak with a little surgery.

>

> " A casual observer might think that's a pretty

> buttocks over there in the pink sweatpants with the

> narrow waist and full bottom, " Mendieta said one

> evening last month as he pointed to a young woman

> window-shopping on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach.

> Perched at an outdoor cafe table under an orange

> umbrella, Mendieta had agreed to a reporter's request

> that he rate buttocks as they sashayed by -- all in

> the interest of medicine of course.

>

> " But, professionally speaking, I would enhance her

> buttocks by adding more fullness and projection at the

> middle and the top, " he said. " I can always make a

> pretty butt even prettier. "

>

> After decades spent developing and refining treatments

> for the breasts, a few American plastic surgeons are

> beginning to focus on procedures for the buttocks.

> Mendieta is among those who have become experts in

> enlarging women's posteriors with solid silicone

> implants or injections of fat. And at medical meetings

> in the last two years, these doctors have taught the

> techniques to nearly 400 of their colleagues.

>

> Many women would shudder at the thought of padding

> their bottoms. But certain fashions like low-rise

> jeans and spandex workout gear call attention to the

> derriere. (This spring there are even bustle panties.)

> And now some women have begun to fixate on their

> backsides.

>

> Last year 2,361 Americans had buttock augmentation

> surgery, almost four times as many as in 2002, the

> first year that the American Society for Aesthetic

> Plastic Surgery kept statistics on the procedure. The

> operation typically costs about $20,000.

>

> " The buttocks used to be something you hid, but now

> it's something you show off, " said Dr. L.

> III, a plastic surgeon in Spartanburg, S.C.,

> who has performed more than 300 of the procedures.

>

> Some women over 50 get the surgery to bulk up

> deflating derrieres, while younger patients say they

> want larger buttocks to complement prominent busts. " I

> always got compliments for my front but never for my

> back, " said Del Rio, 18, a high school student

> in Miami who had the procedure last month with

> Mendieta. " Now my mom says I look like a Coca-Cola

> bottle. "

>

> Compared with breast implants and face lifts, buttock

> augmentation is in its infancy. Surgeons are still

> perfecting their techniques. And although many

> patients know what looks good to them -- said

> they often arrive in his office with magazine photos

> of Beyoncé Knowles or Serena -- doctors do

> not agree on what constitutes ideal buttocks.

>

> Efforts to enhance the size of the posterior date to

> ancient Greece, when Spartan women performed a

> bottom-kicking dance, said Dr. V. Leroy Young, a

> plastic surgeon in St. Louis who is chairman of the

> emerging trends task force of the American Society for

> Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. " Women would kick

> themselves in the fanny to make themselves bigger and

> firmer. "

>

> The word callipygian, meaning having a shapely rear,

> comes from the Greek kallipygos. Modern gluteal

> enhancement began in the 1950s when surgeons in Brazil

> and Mexico tried transferring fat cut from the

> abdomen.

>

> In the 1980s and '90s surgeons experimented with

> rounded silicone implants specially made for the

> buttocks. But the incisions often broke open and

> became infected, and patients didn't like the way the

> solid implants felt.

>

> Finally, in the late 1990s, adapted a

> fat-grafting procedure originally designed for the

> face. In this technique, fat is removed from the

> stomach and thighs via liposuction, mixed with

> antibiotics and purified. Then thousands of fat

> droplets are injected one by one, so the fat can be

> contoured to mimic flesh and muscles.

>

> " It's like sculpting with clay, " said. " You

> are trying to create a shape tailored to each

> individual patient and a fullness of the outer buttock

> that you can't get with implants. "

>

> The transplanted droplets are thought to establish a

> new blood supply more easily than a mass of fat tissue

> could, theoretically allowing the fat to survive in

> its new location for years. Sixty to 80 percent of the

> fat stays where it is injected, said, and the

> rest is absorbed.

>

> Each augmentation takes six to eight hours,

> said, and typically 1 to 2 pounds of fat are added to

> each side. Skinny patients are asked to gain 10 to 15

> pounds before the procedure to create enough fat to

> work with, said.

>

> For several weeks after their surgery, patients are

> not to sit down or lie on their backs lest they damage

> the fragile fat. They must also wear a surgical girdle

> to help the abdomen and thighs contract. Patients say

> they don't mind the discomfort.

>

> performed augmentation surgery in 2004 on

> Frances , 63, a retiree who lives in northern

> Virginia. " Before I had the procedure, I had a nice

> bust line, but I didn't have much booty or whatever

> they call it today, " said. " It was totally flat

> back there.

>

> " Now it's rounder and fuller, " she said. " I'm

> thrilled. "

>

> Fat grafting to the buttocks is such a new procedure

> that little is known about how safe it is, how well it

> works or how long it lasts.

>

> The most frequent complication is infection, which

> occurs in 2 to 3 of every 100 patients, said.

> Other surgeons have reported tissue necrosis, in which

> the fat dies and must be removed. Patients also may

> have scars at the injection sites that fade over time.

> As in all liposuction, there is a small risk that fat

> drops or blood clots will migrate to the lungs,

> causing respiratory problems and even death.

>

> What exactly constitutes good-looking glutei? Two

> Mexican plastic surgeons, Dr. Ramon Cuenca-Guerra and

> Dr. Quezada, examined 132 patients and more than

> 1,000 photos and concluded that a beautiful bottom has

> four features: slight hollows on each side, a curved

> fold where the buttocks meet the thighs, a V-shape

> crease that looks like cleavage at the top and two

> dimples in the lower back. Mendieta also examined

> hundreds of photos but came to a different conclusion:

> that the overall shape of the buttocks is most

> important. He proposed that female buttocks come in

> four basic configurations: square, round, V-shape and

> A-shape.

>

> " The prettiest buttocks look like A's, like

> upside-down hearts with a wider bottom than top, "

> Mendieta said.

>

> argued that each ethnic group has its own

> standard of beauty. Asian patients look for small,

> shapely buttocks, he said, while Caucasian patients

> are after either " voluptuous Playboy bottoms " or the

> " athletic, tiny " rear. Hispanic patients want full

> round buttocks, said, while African-American

> and Afro-Caribbean patients often ask him for " as big

> a buttocks as will fit their bodies. "

>

> Young said buttock augmentation may turn out to be,

> like 19th-century bustles, a passing fashion. But

> others say it may have staying power.

>

> " In primeval days the butt was the primary sexual

> attractor, not the breasts, " said Galdino F.

> Pranzarone, a professor of psychology at Roanoke

> College in Salem, Va. " This is really a return to what

> cave men were originally interested in. "

>