Why Do Augmented Breasts Look so Unrealistic?

The vast majority of augmented breasts (the results of a 'boob job') look decidedly unrealistic.

Unless a woman is wearing a push-up bra or she is laying flat on her back, there should be no upward mounding of her breasts. Generally, there's a tiny bit of asymmetry to natural breasts - just like feet no natural breasts are perfect mirrors of their counterparts. Natural breasts don't look like bubbles stuck high on a woman's chest.

Breasts should slope gracefully, not stick straight out. Then why don't cosmetic surgeons sculpt them that way?

I've finally developed a theory as to why plastic surgeons create breasts shaped so unnaturally when performing breast augmentation surgery. I don't think it's a lack of skill or technology, I think it's because they are shooting for a different shape - the shape of bra-clad breasts!

It's become so ingrained in our society that breasts should look like what Barbie dolls sport that some people react negatively to natural breasts or to unclad breasts. Women have been thrown in jail for "contempt of court" for not wearing brassieres. Girls in school have been required to wear bras once they fail the pencil test* if not before.

We women buy into this idea - hook, line, and underwire. We won't go out in public without a bra for fear of someone judging us for our "sagging" breasts. We come up with all sorts of rationalizations for wearing them when we are not exercising most of which don't really hold water - well, aside from the aqua bra. Very few bras are actually worn for comfort. I happen to wear a DD cup and I have to admit, I'm more physically comfortable without a bra on. I mean, really, if bras were for our comfort why do most of us sigh in relief when we take them off to sleep?

Some men aren't really exposed to what real, unclad breasts look like until they find themselves in bed with a naked woman. For some of them it's a surprise. Some men find natural breasts unappealing, mostly because their society has trained them to. Others, once they discover the wonderful world of natural breasts, scour the Internet looking for the real thing.

Am I going to burn my bras? Will I stop wearing them? No and no. These thoughts are my (more or less) logical conclusions, my emotions are still conditioned to accept society's ruling.

For more on beautiful, natural breasts and why you should love them, check out Love Your Sagging Breasts by my friend Juniper.

*The pencil test was to determine if it was indecent for a girl to go without a bra. The examiner would place a pencil under the girl's breast and if it stayed, the girl was required ever after to wear a bra in school.