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A Scientific Formula for Perfect Breasts?

A 'Scientific' Formula for Perfect Breasts?

This week, at the first international conference on breast enlargement taking place in London, Patrick Mallucci will present a formula that he claims makes up the perfect set of breasts. He is sharing his discovery in the hopes of helping other plastic surgeons that also perform breast enlargements.

According to Mallucci, it's all about the location of the nipple. He says that on the perfect breast, "the nipple sits not at the half-way mark down the breast, but at about 45 percent from the top."

Just what kind of research, field-testing and evidence gathering went into this calculation? Nudie magazines. According to the U.K.'s Daily Mail paper, Mallucci spent hours pouring over photos of topless women in magazines and newspapers (in the U.K., papers such as The Sun feature photos of topless models every day).

His 'findings' combined with his own personal tastes formed a schematic of the perfect breast on which Mallucci now bases breast augmentation surgeries.

"All of the models I looked at conformed to these parameters. None of them were augmented and yet they were clearly considered to have beautiful breasts, so I wanted to examine how that could be achieved in someone not so well-endowed by using an implant."

Mallucci is the co-founder of the site MyBreast.org, a site where surgeons can share best practices and where women can find reputable doctors. According to Mallucci, the British model Caprice (above, right) is in possession of a perfect pair of breasts, while Victoria Beckham (above, left) has the breasts his clients most often cite as the ones they do not want.

What do you think? Is this guy a crackpot or is he onto something? Is there really such a thing as the perfect breast, or is beauty in the eye of the...ehem...beholder?

From Daily Mail

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Breast-Feeding "Lactivists" Revolt on Facebook

Facebook Getting on People's Nerves

As Facebook becomes more popular, it's bound to have every move it makes more closely scrutinized. This week, the social networking site made a couple of such provocative moves, one of which will likely piss some people off, and another that is already drawing the ire of some Facebook members.

First up -- Facebook has decided to open members' public profiles to search engines such as Google and make it possible for anyone to find a profile without having to log in the site. On paper, this sounds like a major invasion of privacy, but remember, public profiles contain only a member's name, a friends list, and the option to poke (a mildly suggestive Facebook term for instant messaging someone) or add as someone as a friend.

Secondly, Facebook lets you know about this change the moment you log in, and makes it very easy to opt out completely. MySpace already lets you view public profiles without logging in, and professional social networking site Linkedin is searchable via Google and Yahoo, and a LinkedIn member's profile will often turn up early in search results.

The other move this week that has already stirred up some backlash from the Facebook community is the site's recent decision to start pulling down images of women breast feeding, since it considers these pictures to be "obscene content." This move has created a group of angry breast feeders and supporters who call themselves -- semi-wittily -- 'lactivists.' Some of these protesters have complained about the obscenity label and have said that since they don't show nipple, the photos aren't obscene.

The lactivists have created a group on Facebook that has already garnered 7,000 members, so it's only a matter of time before they cave on that one.

Considering the recent anti-Wal-Mart action and anti-HSBC protests that students recently staged online, it looks like Facebook is increasingly as much a site for social unrest as it is for social networking.


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