Persuasive Essay on Breast Implants

Breast Implants Breast implants seem to be a quick easy fix for someone who may think that they are not meeting up to the ideal body image of today. With all of the different things influencing women, especially the media, how would they ever be able to view their body as sufficient or even adequate without any alteration? Would it be possible for breast implants to really solve the issue of having a negative body image? After a woman gets breast implants, where would the unnatural enhancing stop? Women become obsessed with dissatisfaction of their bodies and want to continue with altering their entire figure. With growing numbers of women getting breast implants, more women start to believe that this is the way to receive that ideal body. Research done by Kristen Harrison suggests that, for women, exposure to ideal-body images guides women to making the decision to receive surgical body-alterations such as breast augmentations. With this being done, they will then have the perfect and accepted body (Harrison 257). Do breast implants in women today improve or damage a woman’s body image? Some may wonder that if a woman were to get breast implants, would her view of her body be more positive? There are so many influences that are saying yes to this question that many people may have. Body image is a huge problem in today’s society. It is not that there are too many women out there thinking that they have the most “rockin’ bod”, the problem is that so many women have a negative body image. They see themselves as being inadequate and in some more extreme cases, undesirable because they do not feel that they fit into that ideal body image category. So, my question is, if you could do something to improve your body image, would you do it? Breast implants can boost a woman’s self confidence tremendously. In the study conducted by Cash et al., “Women’s Psychological Outcomes of Breast Augmentation With Silicone Filled Implants: a two year prospective

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