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Well Whittled Versus Wellbeing: the Onslaught Upon Female Self-value

After spending many years tuning my ears, I’m now in the habit of ‘overhearing’ other people’s conversations. In a busy restaurant I homed in on a group of upwardly mobile twenty-somethings discussing the merits of breast augmentation.  When one of the men asked why anyone would do this, his girlfriend replied in a somewhat incredulous whisper: “But … we’re doing it for you!” 

Even more taken aback was she when her beau was adamant that a pair of “plastic knockers” was not something he wanted. This wasn’t the first time I’ve heard (or overheard) men say they would rather have real flesh to cuddle than the lipo-sucked, nipped & tucked man-made versions churned out by the surgeons.

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