I recently received this letter;
In late February of 07, I joined a website called myfreeimplants.com, more out of humor than anything else. Free breast implants? Come on this could not be possible!
I have always wanted breast implants, but could never afford them. My first day on the site, I realized that the website is the real deal and it could work for me! How it works is women, like myself, ask men, or as the website calls them, “benefactors”, for donations to get breast implants. it took me 3 months to raise enough money for my surgery.
On june 4th 2007, I reached my goal amount, and decided to get a my free implants tattoo [by Cary at High Street Tattoo, Columbus OH] . My surgery is scheduled for September 1st 2007, and I can not wait to join the big boobie club.
The internet is a magical place 🙂
Thanks!
– Lindsay (iam:fancy heart)
Comments
298 responses to “Free Breast Implants (Celebratory Tattoo!)”
i aam, offering free breast overview ratings and feelations plz im me with a photo and a current address and il be there as soon as possiable .ps. I will even pay u 5 dollhairs if u let me kiss while i do all this .Thx im sorta lonley and i truly do appracaite it.^_+
Okay, so what if deep down on a subconscious level we are all slaves to societies pressures? Does that have to be a bad thing?
Do you drive a car? What model car? Do you choose Coke over Pepsi? Burger King over McDonalds? Nike or Adidas? Are you honestly telling me society doesn’t play a role in your day to day decision making process? Hogwash!
We are all obviously influenced by the world around us, we have to be. Its how animals evolve and adapt to their surroundings. It’s programmed into our DNA.
It’s just that wo/mankind has evolved so much that we now have new influences affecting our decisions than the ones we used to have. It’s no longer about choosing to run or fight a predator. Now it’s about choosing getting implants or tattoos (or in this case both) or not getting them.
Only time will tell what the end result of our decisions will be. So until that time, I can’t see how anyone can possibly pass judgment since the facts are not yet known.
Giles, if Fancyheart was have implants put anywhere else on her body, would you be questioning her motives?
I see breast implants as no different from any other implants. Either way, you’re putting something into your body. Why should the fact that they’re going on your chest make any difference?
Fancyheart, I love the tattoo!
I drink neither Pepsi or Coke, I don’t drive, do not eat McDonalds or Burger King and do not wear Nike etc. So no those particular companies play NO part in shaping my daily life. Neither do they play a part in many people’s lives. No less in part to their human rights violations across the globe, again it is awareness of their practices that helps shape others’ views of them. Awareness that the companies pay millions to keep secret and obscure from general view.
I think Giles has already said all that I would want to say on the topic, so I’ll just point out that the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has condemned the website as “frightening and potentially dangerous”.
Amanda – Nice one.
Awwww leave her alone. i think the tattoo is great.
I know a girl that can enlarge penisses without surgery, simply by putting her lips on it.
So much negative energy from a community that promotes body mods, astounds me. Having recently had plastic surgery myself, though not breast implants, I understand that this is a choice an individual makes for themself, and was not that different than choices I have made when being tattooed.
I think this particular comment amused me the most: “Millions and millions of ordinary people unable to afford genuine healthcare and yet people still throw money at this kind of bullshit.” Is this person suggesting we all take the money we would normally spend on body modification, or any other unnecessary pleasure in our lives, and give it all to health care? I, personally, give a great deal of free health care every year. So, I am not going to allow anybody to make me feel guilty if I choose to modify my body with plastic surgery.
wow, this is some argument.
On Friday I’m getting a free tattoo, my friend is a practising tattoo artist and I like to be his canvas.
I don’t see how that is any different to getting free breast implants. If she personally knew the person paying for the implants, would that make any difference?!
Basically, we all like things for free. If those things we like are implants or tattoos or piercings or anything, if there is a chance of getting them free, we will go for it.
So stop getting on your moral high horse and stop being jealous just cause she’s getting something that she wants for free!!
I believed this was a very open minded community.
It is simply body modification, and nothing else. The reasons behind her choice should be none but her own and it should not warrant judgement.
We are nothing but close minded, picky, social scum to suggest she should not modify her body as she likes
good point 210, as i said earlier i think people are upset by the means in which she got them, and if it was her next door neighboor who has a surgeon and offered to do it for free and still got the tattoo but the back story was different i believe many of the people here would not have a platform to base their argument on. and others well, it would seem they think we live in a perfect world where every one has the same social values, and should look the same and (which by the way giles was a really bad argument), as was we are brain washed by the media, frankly i do not watch tv, i know many people who do not own a tv, a friend of mine she had a mole on her face and went to the plastic surgeon to get it removed- so i ask you giles did the media do this to her (even though she does not own a tv) or was it her that wanted to achieve a look that is diifferent from what she has. is this a disgrace to all women giles?
btw i think it is a cool tattoo that in many years you will be like “Hey i remember when”.
in all reality soem of u peopel are as stupid as most of my spelluing misteaks. implants can end up having a massive negitaive side effect on the body .
First I’d like to say that nothing Giles has said has offended me and yes, I am a women. I also would like someone to point out where Giles said that all women behave the way he has described. I didn’t see in any of his posts him saying that all women who get implants get them because of societal pressures. I did not see one utterance that ALL women act as he has described. If he did, I’d really like it pointed out.
Second I’d like to see some figures of how many women obtain breast implants vs breast reductions from the website. I think that would be interesting. And not just well 100 got implants and 10 got reductions, but ratios to how many are trying for each. Percentages for implants received vs reductions received. I would wager a guess that the percentage or reductions received is a tad bit lower than the implants.
Third I’d like to say that almost everyone who isn’t society’s predetermined “perfect shape” has probably felt the pressures to change the way the look at one point or another. I know personally I’ve felt the pressure to loose weight in part due to the fact I can’t fit in my old clothes and in part due to the media. Not just the mainstream media, but from modblog even. So, I do agree partly with what Giles has been saying. I also have known two girls who are semi/close friends who want implants for the sole reason because they feel that guys will like them more. They are also the only girls I personally know that what implants.
Fourth I see that website as a charity. I agree with everyone who said its pretty ridiculous that people are paying for others breast implants while people go starving, are being ravaged by cancers, and any other worthwhile charity goes without funds. I see it as a charitable donation and if you see breast implants as a better charity than say helping fund a cure for AIDS or breast cancer then I think your view of the world is a little fucked.
guys…i think the funniest/most ridiculous thing here is the Fancy_Heart keeps reiterating the hilarity of the site! stop taking everything so seriously–if even the girl at the center of this debate can laugh at the website that you are all debating, so, too, should you–it is pretty funny–and wish Fancy_Heart congratulations and good luck with her new chest!
P.S.
I think its funny that the BME poll is about this.
Emmmluk – Many thanks for
a) taking the time to read my posts properly and
b) understanding the real argument so much better than many people.
I feel kind of bad for the men donating.
Must suck knowing that a girl only wants to talk to you because she wants your money.
Then again, I now know how my boyfriend feels.
Ha, JOKE.
… he has no money 🙁
The only problem that I have with women wanting me for my $ … isa when it runs out..giles ur so stupid all ucare about is others reading and arproving urview point thats sad no one reads mine and if they did i no 4a facvt taht theyd hate me even more.but besides that i made a jellowie mode to look like a set of dellisouso rasberry boobies in honor of this thread… much tastsier than silocone …\__+__+__/
Anyway, serious post now… Fair enough if she wants breast implants… I’d love a nose job just because I’m unhappy with the shape of my nose. So I can see where she’s coming from. In this day and age, if you don’t like something, fix it.
Giles, I admire your clear and calculated arguments… however that manipulation can go both ways… just look at the girls out there (literally) dying to be Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham. We are all socialised to recognise what society sees as beautiful, e.g. most would agree that Angelina Jolie is good looking. However, it is up to us how we define that vision of beauty. Being deviant from the mainstream (liking tongue splitting and suspension, perhaps) is probably just as bad as sticking to it. We all conform to SOMETHING in some way or another… whether it be getting breat implants like a lot of women nowadays, or tongue splitting like so many people associated (or not) with bmezine, modblog, or any other modification community.
The fact is, compared to the number of people getting breast implants, there are only a handful of people getting what we as a group know as “modifications” such as scarification and tongue splitting. Perhaps as the mod community grows, women will be percieved as “beautiful” if they are covered in tattoos and piercings, and so, will strive to do that. The fact that most of us who post here already think that they are beautiful only seems incomparable because of how wider society currently views modification.
And fancy heart… I’m glad you’ve taken a step to make you feel more comfortable in your body… however I can’t help feel that you’d have appreciated and enjoyed them far more if you’d worked hard to earn them, a bit like the 16 year old who slaves away hour after hour in some shitty job to buy himself a car instead of daddy buying him one straight off. He really feels like he’s achieved something once he’s earned enough money to buy it.
When the men donate the money, isn’t that their personal choice too?
They are only spending money on what they want to. Everyone does that, well everyone reading this anyway, we do not need the internet to survive, but we pay money for it anyway.. isn’t that the same thing?
I suppose it’s their personal choice, but to me they just seem like poor lonely guys who have to pay people to talk to them! Perhaps that’s not the case.
I don’t know if she got her payout from the site yet but I did a little research on that site and found out that a lot of girls had been taken for their money. Not saying that he isn’t legit but there is a large population of girls who lost out big time, never got any money and their pics won’t be removed from the site.
Do a quick google search for myfreeimplants “scam” and you can find a lot..
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/975/
Anyone who reads this who has been scammed, signed up to the site and is having second doubts, here is some of the hard to find info that all the other girls have been searching for at no Charge..
The sites owner is Jason Grunstra
He resides in L.A
His online resume with all his personal contact info:
http://www.grunstra.com/jason/resume/jason-grunstra_resume.pdf
His myspace page
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=343069
Again. I’m not saying that he is not running a real company. There is just a large population of woman who did not receive what the website claims
K~
Hanargh, it’s funny you should say this, where, if I would have paid for them myself, I would have had to take out a credit line form the Plastic Surgeons office, putting myself in major debit, causing so much stress on myself and my future, I can’t see the “woo hoo I did this myself” factor in that. I have tried to save for implants MANY MANY MANY times, and it just would never work out. Where, myfreeimplants.com gave me something to earn (yes it is earning still, there are over 1,400 hotties to compete with that all want implants), in 3 months time, making friends, sharing stories, and really, just have fun for the sake of boobies, I am going to be so proud of my new set, you can’t even imagine- hense, my new tattoo 🙂
Hey – more power to you, if that’s your route, take it. I couldn’t go the charity-case way myself. I hate even being in debt to a mate, never mind taking a big hand out from strangers.
Oh – and although its no business of mine – I personally don’t like fake tits… I hope your op goes well though and they look good at the end of it ‘cos there’s a hell of a lot of people who’s fakes look tragically bad. Models and actresses included…
giles u still havent answered my question in post 212 you just say most people here dont understand the real argument, yet you dont answer question directed to you…
Sorry Smash, I have tried to read ll the responses but do have a life outside of here.
>>a friend of mine she had a mole on her face and went to the plastic surgeon to get it removed- so i ask you giles did the media do this to her (even though she does not own a tv) or was it her that wanted to achieve a look that is diifferent from what she has. is this a disgrace to all women giles?
Not all women at all. Moles however are a very different situation as I’m sure you realise. Did she do it for aesthetic reasons (looks?) or was there a health implication?
Removing a mole to make her look ‘acceptable’ would certainly fall into a similar category as breast augmentation as it about not accepting the look she has and favouring one which is generally seen as more acceptable within our unforgiving society.
Tv or no tv am sure she interacts with people who are directly influenced by a sociatal perception of beauty which would not fail to influence her.
Have you ever told her that true beauty has nothing to do with outward appearance? Have you ever told her that she had no reason to remove her mole?
But maybe she just wanted to remove her mole. Just like you just wanted to stretch your ears, or lip. If she had no reason to remove her mole, then surely you have no reason to do anything you do?
If it’s what she wants, I don’t see the issue. It doesn’t matter why she wants them, it’s not like she needs to prove to random people on the internet why she should have big fake tits. I think she was generous for even telling us why, since it’s nobodies business but hers. Based on the comments, she sounds like a great woman.
I’d like bigger boobs, but they’d look strange on my small frame so I’m just trying to come to terms with my meager 34B boobs. I understand where she’s coming from and more power to her for getting them for free from men willing to contribute to her cause. She’s getting breast implants the same reason why I just got my tragus pierced – personal aesthetic. I like how I look with piercings and tattoos, she likes how she’ll look with implants. I see absolutely no difference.
Kudos to Shannon and Pauly for having great points and arguments.
Lucy please try to understand that every action you make has implications regardless of who you are.
Nobody removes a mole, stretches their lobes, gets fake breasts etc for no reason at all, whether they know the reasons behind their actions is a different thing.
Psychologists, philosophers and sociologists have spent thousands of years looking at human behaviour and how it effects others. Every action has a reaction regardless of how small.
For some getting a mole removed means nothing, for others it is a growing sign of female dissatisfaction with their looks and the body they were born with. Maybe for you it means nothing but for me (and several others here) it is a small part of a move toward a society obsessed with facile appearances. A society that alienates those who do not fit into the ideal, a society that welcomes breast enlargements but isolates facial implants.
I can’t believe people on here are actually bitching about this. I read it, laughed, and was going to post a comment saying something like “haha props to you for raising the money!” if she wants breast implants, then she should get them. i dont know why its so skeevy to some people.
reading through some of the comments i had to check to make sure i was at the right site. weird.
I LOVE TITTIES.
I LOVE THE TITTIES.
I’m not a fan of fake boobs at all, but I do support the point of view that people have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies.
What creeps me out more here is the website itself. I don’t think you can say one side is more exploitative than the other…the women are exploiting these guys to get free implants, and the guys are exploiting the girls to get their rocks off by seeing them with bigger boobs, and at a psychological level, they probably get a thrill at knowing that they themselves are responsible for a woman having altered her body to a state that they personally find more desirable. It’s mutual exploitation. Which I agree with Giles, kind of is a sad commentary on the state of society. But, it’s one that happens every day. Even if you go to work to collect a paycheck, that’s mutual exploitation as well. It’s pretty hard to escape it.
But I wonder, if there were a site called “freesleeves.com,” where if I couldn’t afford tattoo sleeves, I just signed up and solicited the money from people with a tattoo fetish who were willing to pay to see me become more inked, if people would have a problem with that. Would they think it was fine, or would they tell me to earn the money myself to get my own modifications instead? I’m willing to bet a number of people would have problems with my joining a site to get my tattoos for free. But why? If we’re going to compare breast implants to all other mods, there shouldn’t be a difference, right?
There’s just a lot of weird underlying stuff here that doesn’t really sit quite right with me. I also find the tattoo kind of unsettling, just because it promotes the site, and the site and its concept, while hey, if people want free implants, and people get off by paying for them, more power to both sides I suppose, still seems kind of disturbing to me.
giles, I still don’t see why being influenced by society is unique, and somehow wrong. All societies have expectations about how people should look, for various reasons. What makes this example so much worse than any others? And how do you know that your opinions are really yours, and you haven’t been influenced by all those psychologists, philosophers and sociologists? I’m sure that if you and I were friends, and all our other friends agreed with you, but I wanted implants, I’d feel a pressure to keep my body “natural.” Would that be acceptable to you? The way people feel about their bodies, and the things that influence them subconciously and conciously are so complicated that I think it’s simplistic to just say “women are pressured without realising it. That’s bad.”
Personally, I’ve never met a man who likes fake tits. They all say, “that’s so gross, they don’t feel natural, they look wierd, don’t get implants.” Like their opinion matters!
Giles said:
>>Thirdly you DO NOT have to have a vagina to write about women and their issues. So I am more than within my right to address issues of how women are portrayed in society, more so than most women.
Since, evidently, women need to devote their lives to studying the issues that affect them directly to, in your opinion, actually comment them, I’ll ask you to kindly never, ever speak about politics, the computer industry, space exploration, astronomy, automotive engineering or, for that matter, most areas of science, religion, or, for that matter, anything else.
After all, if you haven’t chosen to study any of these areas as the primary focus of your life, how can you believe you have the right to comment on them?
(And, yes, in case you missed it, that was sarcasm.)
Noisy asked:
>>Giles, do you seriously believe that you’re one of only very very few people intelligent enough to REALLY know what they REALLY think?
Yes, he seriously does. It’s quite obvious from his posts. That’s precisely what he believes. He’s clearly elitist, specifically he’s an academic elitist, who believes that, unless you’ve engaged in scholarship regarding a specific issue, you can’t have anything worthwhile to say about an issue.
My only thought was that I just dont want to see her get scammed, especially now that she has that tat.
I hope that the website keeps their word, and that she has a good doctor.
BAAPS only condemned the website because they don’t fully understand it. They ASSUME we are a medical company, which is absurd. We are simply an alternative to expensive and costly financing solutions that would put you into dept.
Nothing starts a good flame war like titties!!
Grats to Ms. Fancy, the tattoo is cheeky and funny and if somebody gave me money for implants I’d do the same thing.
Hmm,free titty implants…how about free breast reduction surgery because that’s what I want?
ty giles and for the record i have nothing against you, i just jumped in b/c it looked like a hot topic.
I think I would have waited until I actually got the free boobs before I got the tattoo.
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Most lesbians have a stronger self image than heterosexual women… apparently. The media doesn’t often portray lesbian women anywhere near as often as straight women.
Posted by Giles Wallwork on June 26th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Are you seriously even trying to open that $hit up now you want to add sterotyping to your long list of offences you jerk.
“Blahh Blahh BLahhh”Posted by Giles Wallwork
Ur so fucking stupid its pathetic …
Quite a lot of men learn the basics of feminism and wield them like a stick against women. It’s bizarre. And gross.
giles – i understand your argument, and while i do hear you, i must disagree in some of your points. i agree when you say that people shouldn’t do something for acceptance. however, i must disagree when you say someone wanting breast implants is doing it just to fit in. you’ve studied, you’ve read books, but have you really asked a real woman on their opinion. it sounds like you’re saying that all women can’t make choices because they want to, but because they have to do it for others. i’m not speaking for all women, which, you and i CAN’T do, when i say that my decisions are for myself and i can stand by them.
dOC cHRONICS
For those who haven’t quite understood the arguments here (Kyle, Bradly, Jordyn, Hatamot27T etc etc).
Sigmund Freud observed that recipients of criticism often respond badly sometimes even confusing the issues deliberately in an effort to understand them. It is a perfectly understandable defence mechanism so whilst your mails on the topic are of little use, they are at least forgivable.
🙂
Ophelia – “it sounds like you’re saying that all women can’t make choices because they want to, but because they have to do it for others.”
Not at all and this is the point I have made time and time again often with misinterpretaion. Not once have I claimed that ALL women make their choices based on the whim of others. What I have said is that there is constant, consistent and overwhelming influence from society and the media and advertising to make the choices they want.
The demands placed on women to conform to a stereotypical image are enormous and one of the most successful things the media has done is make women believe they NEED breast enlargements, make up, hair care etc and that their decisions to do buy into this image are their own.