The boom in breast implants is less about male approval than the supremacy of the market. Two stories have neatly coincided this week. The first is that there has been a surge in teenagers having breast enlargements, with a 150% rise in operations over the past year. The second is a new internet game, Miss Bimbo, which is based on a beauty pageant: you win if you become the "hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world", having "stopped at nothing" even "meds or plastic surgery". As ever, the situation is blamed on the twin modern evils of celebrity and the internet. Young people get their role models from the television and the computer. Neither of these has traditionally been a source of much wisdom, but they do provide an endless supply of very perfect breasts. You can forgive an 18- or 19 year-old for mistaking a perky rack for a passport to success.
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