A popular website promising women free breast implants is causing controversy in the plastic surgery community as members use titillating photos to cull donations from anonymous benefactors.
When the Internet was created back in the late 1960s, it was designed as a means of using digital technology to send academic and military information around the country. Today, the Internet is still used for sending information – mostly pirated movies, cat pictures, and porn.
And now, there is a website where anonymous men pay real, American money for the privilege of chatting with women who want bigger breasts.
It’s called MyFreeImplants.com – and it’s sort of like Facebook for women who want breast implants, and the men who want to pay for their surgery.
It works like this: Women who want implants join MyFreeImplants.com and receive a personalized web page from which to plead their case for funds. Men – known on the site as “benefactors” — can log on, using “message credits” purchased at $1.20 a pop to pay for chat privileges with a given girl.
Guys who are willing to front the $9.95 monthly membership fee get chat access to every woman on the site, along with access to each woman’s photo galleries, blog, and whatnot.
Benefactors can donate money directly to their favorites; the women can send spicy photos and the like to their benefactors in return if they so choose.
No phone numbers, e-mail addresses, or other contact information is exchanged — the guys give money without ever getting to meet the girls. All benefactor bucks are collected by the site management and held in escrow by an associated trust for each client’s benefit.
Once a given woman on the site racks up enough benefactor bucks to pay for her procedure, the trust pays the doctor out of escrow– in full, and in cash.
After the surgery, women who have their breast enhancement funded by MyFreeImplants.com are contractually obligated to stay on the site for six months, chatting with their benefactors and providing them with confidential “after” photos for scrapbooking purposes.
Not everybody is a fan, of course. Many board certified plastic surgeons are less than enthusiastic about the site, saying it promotes plastic surgery as a commodity. Some even say the women are virtually prostituting themselves online.
“It turns a surgical procedure into a contest, and that is not something we think is appropriate,” said John Canady, MD, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun.
Nevertheless, the site’s business model is completely legit, and the site’s creators insist they’re doing nothing immoral. So, it looks like MyFreeImplants.com may continue to do booming business for a while.
June 27th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I came across the MFI site tonight while searching for a life/augmentation (breastfeeding three kids took it’s toll, but was worth it). I am in absolute shock that women are actually willing to go to such lengths for an elective surgical procedure. I work full time as a firefighter and paramedic and cannot imagine being that desparate for implants that you would do that. (Then again I assume many of these “ladies” have less than honorable career choices and see nothing wrong with it). Thanks for posting this info! Off to search some more.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:16 am
To Angela who is CLEARLY misinformed. YOu need to stick around and be a part of the community to REALLY know what it is like. FOr your information i am member of MYFREEIMPLANTS and have had my surgery. I DID NOT send any videos or pictures to the benefactors. THe only thing i offered was friendship. I think it is narrowminded of you to think woman are desperate and therefore turning to a website than can help find another means to paying for surgery if you just dont have the funds for it. Alot of women on the site are mothers who just cant afford to put aside $10000 to pay for breasts when they have mouths to feed! What you see is not ALL what the site is about. Every journey is individual. Dont sit there and judge and assume that many of these “ladies have less than honorable careers” when you dont know everyone personally. I am a business owner and have worked in the medical/healthcare industry previously. Does that make me “desperate?” or less of a lady than yourself? DEFINATELY NO! I just happened to find a few good friends WILLING to pay for my cause. It makes me angry that so many misinformed people go by assumptions and make generalised derogative comments about ALL women on the site, when they clearly dont know the facts!
July 11th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
MFI never requires any woman to send any pictures to anyone. The only picture requirement is a “fansign”, a picture of the woman with the words My Free Implants on a real world item. So a sign saying My Free Implants carried by a woman in full firefighter gear would be fine as long as her face was visible.
Just like any social networking site, some will use it one way and others another. Yahoo chat is full of men and women looking for cyber chat and cam shows. Does that make Yahoo chat a porn site?
July 12th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I personally see nothig wrong with mfi. The women have the choice to
put as much or as little information as they want.
There are women out there accepting of bikini carwashes to pay for implants. Personally I see that as crossig the line.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
To Angela, who is firefighter, and probably not a feminine woman- Of course you don’t understand how women can want breast enlargements, you are probably not much of a girly girl. I want them because clothes don’t fit right and my boyfriend is a photographer who sees beautiful naked women all day, and I feel self-conscious. He loves me with my Bs, but I would feel more confident if I had larger breasts.
January 11th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
“To Angela, who is firefighter, and probably not a feminine woman- Of course you don’t understand how women can want breast enlargements”
um, did you not read Angela’s post? or are you stupid? Angela said “I came across the MFI site tonight while searching for a life/augmentation” so obviously she can understand how women want breast implants because she is in fact a woman who wants breast implants.
and btw, Angela is more of a feminine woman than you are, more of a woman period. She has children and saves lives. you are a shallow insecure twit who is altering her body to compete with her boyfriend’s clients. I hope the surgeon makes a mistake and puts the implants in your head. there’d be enough space.