When I was in Colombia last month, the debate over breast implants was on. The same scandal occupied our return to Europe, and has not subsided. More than 300,000 women in 65 countries, mainly in Europe and South America, have breast implants installed at high risk of rupture. Composed, among other questionable substances, industrial silicone fuel additive, were produced by the French company PIP (Poly-implant-prosthesis), which was closed since 2010 on charges of fraud.

Health agencies recommend removing them immediately. In countries such as Colombia, France and Britain, the system offers to assume part of the costs of the operation to remove, but not replace, except medical cases as mastectomy for cancer, which are less than 3 percent. The clinics and plastic surgeons do not want to assume the responsibilities placed and, for the most part, have shown indifference. Disputes are multiplied.



It's no secret that breast implants involve high risks. Not only can break, but it's not easy just remove them and the operation is costly (averaging 3,000 to $ 5,000, depending on the country) and painful. It's not like high heels, so many other unnatural attachments imposed by women's wear and also involve risks of falls, deformed feet and column damage. The shoes can always remove or not to use every day.

Following the scandal, many women with implants have not gone to sleep upside down, do not play with the children for fear that they beat their breasts, do not exercise and develop irritations and other physical and psychological product of anxiety and fear. Not to mention the effect on their romantic and sexual lives. In confessions analysis and explaining the motivations that compel many women to undergo the operation appear related reasons esteem, ego and image, but the predominant is vanity. The female model has big breasts today and thousands of women are willing to do anything to achieve them, because they believe, as in the TV series, that without big boobs no paradise.

From Paleolithic goddesses to modern feminists, religious art to pornography, female breasts have always been a powerful and contradictory ideological baggage. These glands, without whose product the human race would not have survived, have become aesthetic and erotic in-commensurable values, usually influenced by the fantasies of men, especially in Western societies. In his book The History of the breasts, Marilyn Yalom describes how the dialectic of the breasts has varied over the centuries, depending on the needs and customs of the time. Buenos breasts and bad breasts, breasts breasts submissive and defiant. Sometimes motherly breasts have been rising, as in the Renaissance Madonnas with nursing the baby Jesus and by extension all Christians.  With that in mind, we can still opt for natural breast enhancement products like Breast Actives and Breast Success?

Others have been sexual breasts which have reigned as symbols and often provocative moral chaos. Now is the turn of the breasts of lies that can sicken and even kill.

These iconic life-giving organs and destroy are, in any case, expression of needs, desires and power of women who, in the end, belong. Will they find a relationship between experts sacrifices, even at the risk of their lives, to which many women are subjected to have large breasts and erect, even if false, to please a male bias in the genetic need for survival? Probably.


 


I prefer to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, who said that "sometimes a breast is just a breast"