Butt, but, but: The trend in butt implants

Are you willing to spend up to $10,000 for a bigger, firmer butt? Thousands of women and men have gotten butt implants to make themselves more sexually attractive. They're willing to shell out the cash as well as travel to Argentina and Brazil to make their butts bigger or perkier. It is part of the designer body and face trend, which ranges from the inflated trout pout lip to the "design-a vagina," to the all-over insanity of The Cat Lady who distorted her features to look more like a cat (and ended up looking like a lion with leprosy).

Fix-a-butt
Lack of self-confidence compels people to re-create their bodies to the extent it has been happening in recent history. They may feel that they are sexually unattractive as they are because of unrealistic media images and their own self-hatred. If only their butts stuck out like J-Lo's all their problems would be solved. But as with all plastic surgery, butt augmentation has its down-side. With buttock augmentation, there is a possibility that the implants may shift and cause the buttocks to appear asymmetrical. Another complication is that the butt implants may rupture, or break. Many times patients will not be aware of complications until days or months after the procedure has been performed.

Ouch!
The implants are made from silicone. The procedure takes about an hour and a half and is often performed by making an incision in the fold between the buttock "cheeks" and inserting a solid silicone implant into the pocket below the gluteus muscle and above the pelvic bone. The implants do not move. As with all implants the body may reject them.

Bowling balls
Sometimes, as in the picture, the results are so unnatural as to be grotesque. Also they may feel like bowling balls. The butt implants may feel too hard to touch, so even if you do not have scars, your partner may figure out that your butt is not your own. It is, but it is not your original butt.

Ouch again!
The recovery period is long and can be problematic. The usual complications such as bleeding, infections, are not very sexy. As Doctor Jan Adams from the TV program "Plastic Surgery - Before and After" said, "You do not walk with your breasts." But you do use your butt to walk, sit, and sleep. Dr Adams was referring to the fact that butt implants have some unique challenges to heal during the recovery period. For instance, you cannot sleep on your back or sit for long periods of time, and that can make the whole process of recovery somewhat challenging for most women.

As with most implants, it is a life long commitment. You have to maintain a stable weight and you may need to change the implants after a 10-year period. Pregnancy may affect the original results as well.

Deadly
If you think that silicone injections are safer than the full implant, think again. They can result in death, as they did recently for a lady in the Bronx.

Plastic people
Plastic bodies with oversized flotation devices for breasts and hardened balloons for butts are the next step towards the totally artificial person. Who are you after you have undergone so many surgeries? Who is being loved? Who is doing the attracting? Is it the plastic surgeon who created the new you? Are you both composites of silicone and other materials?

I recommend natural bodies,with all their flaws and idiosyncrasies--feeling pleasure and love, without the possibility of fatal complications or ridiculous results.