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The next great freebie on the internet: breast implants
By Larry Knowles
August 21, 2006
San Diego--First, there was free e-mail. Then free data storage and online photo albums. Now, a Los Angeles company has initiated what could be the next movement in online give-aways: free breast implants.
MyFreeImplants.com, launched in June 2005, is a community-based web site that helps women get boob jobs and other cosmetic procedures, such as butt implants, for free. Its mission is to connect women unable to afford cosmetic surgery to men who wish to pay for the procedure.
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Natasha, spokesmodel and member, MyFreeImplants.com (Photo: MyFreeImplants.com) |
The site works much the way a dating web site works. Men, or “benefactors” as they’re called, and women join for free and put up profiles with photos. A woman can send any of the 5,000 benefactors on the site messages at no cost, and a benefactor can purchase “message credits” to contact one of more than 900 woman. Each time a guy sends a woman a message, she earns the amount on the credit. Unlike a dating site, however, women on MyFreeImplants measure success in cup, not karat, size. Once a woman reaches her monetary goal, she chooses a doctor, has the surgery, and graduates from the site. |
Men, for their part, get to flirt with women who might otherwise be unavailable. The women on the site range in age from 18 to over 40, many of them housewives, and men are allowed to send messages requesting photos of the women in a certain pose, or wearing a particular outfit.
Another benefit is that benefactors get to see post-op photos of the women they supported. Whether the women are topless in the photos depends on the agreement reached between woman and benefactor during the fundraising stage.
Jason Grunstra, creator of MyFreeImplants.com, came up with the idea for the site while at a bachelor party in Los Angeles.
When one of the girls at the party commented that she didn’t have enough money for a boob job, Grunstra, on a whim, said, “I got five-hundred!” Another guy chimed in, “I got five-hundred!” A few minutes later, they had gone around the room and nearly collected enough for the procedure.
A few days later, Grunstra, 28, put up a web page just to see how much interest he would get from women. Fifty women signed up in the first week, and Grunstra knew he had tapped a niche.
So far, four women have gotten breast implants through MyFreeImplants.com and two more are waiting for surgery.
Grunstra says that he’s gotten criticism, especially from “feminist blogs” over the site, but believes that the attention brings welcome publicity. “They rag on the site a little bit,” he states. “But I don’t mind.”
For more information, visit MyFreeImplants.com.
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Larry Knowles is the Editor of Vyuz. He can be reached at lgkiii@vyuz.com
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