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Plastic Surgery, lets just say for the polls sake, that if you have the money to get plastic surgery, any type of plastic surgery, money is not in question here... A chance for you to look better. Would you take it?

Give reasons.. either fear of the knife/disfiguration, to ethical choices? Or is it your just SO DAMN PRETTY already that you don't need it? :D

I selected "NO," but I think it is fine for people with genuine disfigurement, birth defects, or other medical issues (such as a need/desire for breast reduction).

Oh yeah! I'd walk in and say 'Give me the Hasselhoff..'

I think it is a problem that society or rather: the media, even dictates the way we all should look. It is scary how much the giant corporations dictate our lifes.

Ok, to kick the ball rolling, I don't believe in Plastic Surgery.

I'm more old school (not into these metrosexual stuff), and I like true beauty, plus I'm not so picky. And I'm not that shoddy looking. Just need to lose weight. :p

Now for my wife and girlfriend, would they get plastic surgery.. Somehow, I don't subscribe to it. I wouldn't recommend if my wife/gf wanted to have it. But if she already has it before I met her, then it's alright. I'm not anti-plastic surgery or anything.

I think for people who can afford, and they have some disformities, plastic surgery is a real blessing. And if it helps for your business, like women is sales, plasticate yourself away if it would helps you get a better life.

I need it...bad...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/vonbek/batboy.jpg

I need it...bad...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/vonbek/batboy.jpg

Yes you do. :D

Good but long article.. From my other thread that Diastallia 2014

http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020805/story.html

Check out the before and after pictures. Especially Yumi Sakaguchi.

And on the fourth page writes..

"One of the program's most memorable guests was Yumi Sakaguchi, a 26-year-old from Osaka. Even today, her lips tremble as she recounts her life. Born with droopy eyes, a receding chin and prominent buckteeth, Sakaguchi endured merciless teasing in her youth. Classmates even drew caricatures of her on the chalkboard. "I always walked with my face to the ground," she says. After high school, when her diabetic father racked up big medical bills, Sakaguchi sought work as a bar hostess to pay off the family debt. "They turned me away flat, saying, 'You'd make the customers sick,'" she recalls. "It was then I realized I had only my body to sell." Sakaguchi found work at a brothel, but many customers rejected her because of her looks. "I was at rock bottom," she says, softly. "I kept thinking, something will work out, somehow. My life depended on it."

Last October, Sakaguchi appeared on Beauty Colosseum and won free dental, eye and chin surgery that would otherwise have cost over $30,000. She quit the skin trade, landed a high-paying hostess job, and plans to study psychology. But nearly a year after her surgical windfall, Sakaguchi sounds circumspect, as if the enormity of the change has come to weigh on her. Though open about her surgery and her past, she was hurt when a recent boyfriend told her he would not have dated her before her surgical alteration. "I always wanted to believe people were ultimately judged by what was inside," she muses, her gaze hesitant and sad. "But I knew from my personal experience that this wasn't true. It's always the pretty girls who win the good things in life."

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wow! Looking at the before- after pictures I'm really quite impressed. So...all one needs is money and surgeons will make you look gorgeous?
Wonder if it works out this great for everyone. If ever I were to get cosmetic surgery I'd be scared to death they messed up and I'd end up looking worse than before ;)

Plastic surgery can be a godsend to those born disfigured or injured in serious accidents.
For those of a more vain disposition , if they wish to pay the money, why shouldnt they get the surgery?

I personally would never get it, unless I was disfigured in an accident.

There are just too many damn complications with it, and the reasons for doing it are mostly wrong, and people are just prettier natural!

As pretty much said before, if you have a disfigurement or get in an accident, reconstructional plastic surgery is terrific. But I wouldn't do it for any other reason. Not exactly ethical... but I don't think it's right for people to go through all that just so they can look "better". A personal preference thing.

I've always wanted small satyr-horns poke out of my head.

To be honest, if it were safer I'd probably consider it (not that I can afford it) to get...perkier boobs, smaller tummy/butt and bigger eyes, and lipo the batwings under my arms. As it stands now though, it's far too expensive and dangerous to indulge my vanity that way, so it's just makeup and exercise for me!

No, I don't feel the need. And it's not because i'm "so damn pretty" either. I just don't care :p

most people who get it, dont really need it.

they never talk about the downsides. botched operations that take you from pretty OK looking to horrorshow. the time that it KILLS you.

last year the author of "the first wives club" (dont know her name, didnt read the book) went in for a bit of a touchup on her chin. it killed her. no double chin is worth that.

Personally, I wouldn't. But I respect the right of a fifteen year old to look like Pamela Anderson.

Im a Boody God i dont need it LOL
I think Disfigured War Vets and retard children yes retard Hollywood Stars(SIC)Hell no shoot them all send them to the glue factory washed up Actors/actresses shoot them all.