The Semiotics of Breasts and Fashion

by Sarah Lincoln Beautiful Breasts are only limited by our erotic imaginations. A woman’s breasts are her twin signposts denoting and connoting both sex and life, fertility and Eros, in one tight sweater, bra, or low-cut dress. Women’s bodies go through many changes in life through time’s passing, and the breasts are the most obvious and sexual aspect of this passing. They speak the truth...
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The Siren’s Call: Cosmetic Surgery, Sex, and the Beauty Codes

by Helen Sheelyan It seems that the older women in the entertainment industry get the more pressure they feel to succumb to the cosmetic surgeon’s scalpel. Cosmetic Surgery is the siren whose call few women can resist and this begs the question: Why do so many beautiful women fall prey to this artificial need to live up to an impossible standard of beauty that can never be achieved?...
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Subtle Breast Implants: Marisa Tomei

by Franck Bono All too often breast augmentation goes wrong or is wrong. By wrong I am referring the error most women make in over-compensating for their insecurity by choosing breast implants that are too large for their bodies, make their breasts look like inflated beach balls, and make them look desperate and sad as a result. Celebrities are as guilty of this as middle-aged banal women are. I...
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Nicole Kidman: Critique of a Porcelain Doll

by Heather Hallie Nicole Kidman has been taken over by space aliens. It appears that she really did fall victim to possession in “The Invasion” her universally-panned and underrated 2007 film co-starring Daniel Craig. In the film she plays a mother and psychologist trying to elude the pursuit of humans possessed by alien beings devoid of emotion. Her role as super-mom and...
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The Embalmed Muse: The Slippery Slope of Cosmetic Surgery

by Jason MacGill In beauty as in movies we must understand the relationship between seduction and procreation. The female form is the seducer. The male can never be. Women alter their bodies, their hair, their nails, their fashion and any other variable in an effort to stay fresh, new, young and attractive because they know that the flame of beauty, of desirability is not eternal when it...
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