Crowdfunding used to pay for breast implants
Crazier ideas have been conceived in the Las Vegas party scene.
A 2005 web site, “my Freeimplants.com” which allows women to crowdfund their own breast enhancements.
It seems men around the world will always lend a lady a helping hand especially when boobs are involved. Breast implants where thousands of women have met their financial goals needed to feel more comfortable in their body. With an established network of plastic surgeons to choose from, women can sign up to receive free support, from both men and women all around the world in exchange for messages, photos, and “everlasting gratitude.”
The breast enhancement business attracts women who choose to change their image if they just desire a bigger bosom or to cope with the after effects of breast cancer; others argue that this business redefines the image of a woman’s body.
The girls” with male benefactors who will donate funds to cover breast augmentation surgery. To sign up, the women post photos and some personal information, then they start soliciting donations. The woman can have a list of things they’ll do for various donations, or they can enter “contests” held by donors to see who they’re going to give money to. Messaging a woman costs a donor a dollar, but chat sessions are free, although the site is programmed to automatically delete chat histories.
Women are free to request any amount of money for any kind of image or video, and donors are often happy to oblige. The most ambitious women participate in the aforementioned donor-generated contents. When my friend signed up, one open contest promised $100 to the woman who could prove she had “the best ass on MFI.” One offered $50 for the most delicious-looking picture of just a hamburger And one offered $2 for a photograph of a vagina.
“Invest in Breasts” the site says, but I feel compelled to make a public service announcement to any prospective investors: This is not actually an investment. You will not receive dividends, nor will you be able to sell your stake later for a profit. Giving a woman money to buy bonus boobs will not in any way help your future self attain financial security.
If a woman quits MFI, any donors get their money back. Even if she successfully reaches her goal, the woman never actually gets her hands on the money. When people donate to her “boob bank, like an escrow account ” the money is held there until she reaches her goal. When the goal is achieved, the money is transferred directly to a board-certified, MFI-affiliated plastic surgeon, who then puts the implants in the woman.
The site currently has 3,500 women registered and 10,000 registered men. More than 1,000 women have gotten breast implants through MFI. The site raised $2.8 million in 2008 and says it has raised over $12.5 million since it was founded in 2005. The website takes 19 percent of all donations.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons would like to go on the record as being very much not in favor of this mischiefs.
“It turns a surgical procedure into a contest, and that is not something we think is appropriate,” said the president of the American Society.
“I thought I could no longer be appalled by the circuslike atmosphere surrounding plastic surgery,” said a former president of the British Association, “but this is really quite shocking.”