Okay, I confess I haven't read all the letters, but something Cary did not address nor many of the letter writers...

when you have kids you are going to regret this.

breast feeding is a lot better for infants, improves their immunity, prevents many allergies, etc. Not to mention your breasts will become larger!

If you think you feel crappy now, wait until you have your baby and find out you cannot breast feed him/her because of some totally optional surgery you felt ambivalent about in the first place.

Maybe you are fine with all that after due consideration, but if you haven't thought about it, please do. Breasts were designed to nurse children and most mothers today want to nurse. Your breasts will grow and shrink and continue to change through the childbearing years. They will do this even if you get implants--the implants will just make things more uncomfortable and complicated.

Cary's answer was pretty good--changing your breasts will not change how you feel about yourself. Maybe give that some consideration first.

If you decide to go ahead, realize that it means a dishrack full of baby bottles, sterilization of bottles, keeping formula, heating formula--all of it. Of course some people have to raise bottle babies and it can be done and the baby can be healthy, but it's messy and inconvenient and the baby will have to adjust...why do all that when the perfect, tidy and always clean solution is attached to your chest?

Just give it a thought before undergoing a cosmetic procedure. Breasts don't serve a cosmetic purpose. Sorry guys. My friend has four kids and spent 11 years nursing. Another with 2 has nursed for three...about the minimum for most women I'd say.

So it's not a minor issue. It's easy to talk big, but when she has a baby and she's sitting there in tears with a screaming baby trying to struggle with a cold rubble nipple because she wanted to put plastic in her chest--she'll rue the day. I guarantee it.

Thanks for your first post, in articulating what I have often thought. The deification of sex, esp. by so-called feminists is very weird. Sex is one thing in a life full of incredibly wonderful things. But it is just one thing, and very frequently it is like someone wrote back in the day:

"As for sex--the position is ridiculous, the pleasure is fleeting, and the expense is exorbitant".

Sums it all up nicely. Only very immature people pursue sexual pleasure like some kind of great spiritual revelation. In the end, it's like trying to have a fulfilling life by becoming a gourmet or wine taster or some other kind of epicurean--pretty empty.

BTW I think you, like other clear thinkers, are probably great in the sack. Don't listen to these kooks. To them it's all getting to the shudder and nothing else. I think you are probably suggesting there is another dimension that is usually missed, and you are right.

"There is nothing sexy about the terms 'husband' and 'wife'."

I think that's the saddest, most pathetic thing I've read in a long long time :(

Very typical, though.