This isn't really funny, however I find studies like this more and more perplexing. It seems in our more recent attempts to quantify and clarify social conundrums (probably exceedingly so in the wake of explosive tragedies like the VT incident) science-minded people are working around the clock to tell us things we already know.
Maybe the actual statistics are shocking to you, and you just needed someone in a seat of authority to help you process the information, but what this article is telling me is something that after-school movies have been harping on since the advent of high-school filmstrips. Is it really that surprising that a woman who gets breast implants might also suffer from *gasp* low self-esteem? That she's modifying her body to reflect the conventions of what's accepted on a massive scale?
Not that there's anything wrong with self-improvement, especially if it gives your self-image a booster shot. But there's always the danger that any body modification is just a veiled cry for help, that any surgery or piercings or tat is just a quick-fix confidence shot, a drug by its own right, so powerful and necessary for survival that it drives itself deep below the skin's surface, to the very core of your being. How can you ever be sure what the difference is between desire and addiction?
Where's science on that one?
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