KNOWLEDGE OF LIQUID SILICONE DANGERS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF NEED FOR TESTING
TISSUE REACTION
Report prepared Food and Drug Research Laboratories for the Dow Corning
Toxicology department. There are relatively little specific experimental
data available on the reactivity of biological systems to silastics and
polymethylsiloxane (PMSs) fluids. Prior studies by other laboratories
showed "significant testicular atrophy resulted" from topical application
of a polymethylsiloxane fluid. In the present study, 15 applications of
PMS fluid was applied topically on rats, guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs
for a 20-day period. In the rabbits that were topically applied with
PMS fluid, "the reduction in the testicular weights of the PMS-treated
rabbits is considered biologically significant."
Silicone solution?
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Re: Silicone solution?
oh, please don't play with silicone.
Go and check out all the problems women had with silicone breast implants when they ruptured or leaked. Then with that in mind decide if you want to put that stuff on your body.
If that's not the reason you psoted (oops posted) the message, sorry I misunderstood.
Dan
Go and check out all the problems women had with silicone breast implants when they ruptured or leaked. Then with that in mind decide if you want to put that stuff on your body.
If that's not the reason you psoted (oops posted) the message, sorry I misunderstood.
Dan
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Re: Silicone solution?
Either make sensible, on-topic posts, or post it in The Cellar, or don't bother to reply. That's what the other forums are for. Thanks.
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Dave:
1) This is a news article, and was posted as news in the Eunuchs in the Arts and News section; sorry if you got the impression it was a personal statement advocating putting silicone on your (of my) testicles; like many other pieces of information on this website it is FYI and AYOR.
2) The "Silicone Scare" was started with a television scare piece done by the brilliant Connie Chung. It unleashed a hysteria which continues to this day; the negative information regarding silicone was based on industrial silicone being injected freely into women's bodies in the 1930's, not purified medical silicone. There is TONS of frightening information on the internet and elsewhere on "silicone toxicity syndrome" yet after all these years the FDA is letting silicone implants back on the market as there has been no scientific proof to substantiate any of the negative claims.
Of course I would not advocate putting anything foreign into or on one's body. Silicone implants can leak, rupture, wrinkle, sag, or even ulcerate from the body. The body isn't designed to contain foreign objects, it naturally seeks to reject them. But for millions of women silicone remains a viable medium term solution to the "problem" of having breasts they consider too small.
So the point is there are two sides to every story, and as is often the case, silicone use is a tradeoff -- what price are you willing to pay for the benefits it provides? Just because Connie Chung decides to go into career building mode doesn't mean we should all go hysterical and completely ban a substance that provides utility to millions of women (and men) around the world.
OK this is getting off topic I realize, but in this day of hysterical media induced action and reaction (Bin Ladim's Dead! Let's Celebrate! Bin Ladim's Alive! Run for Your Life!) I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and look for the deep rivers of truth that run quietly below the churning shallow ponds of media hype and urban myth.
1) This is a news article, and was posted as news in the Eunuchs in the Arts and News section; sorry if you got the impression it was a personal statement advocating putting silicone on your (of my) testicles; like many other pieces of information on this website it is FYI and AYOR.
2) The "Silicone Scare" was started with a television scare piece done by the brilliant Connie Chung. It unleashed a hysteria which continues to this day; the negative information regarding silicone was based on industrial silicone being injected freely into women's bodies in the 1930's, not purified medical silicone. There is TONS of frightening information on the internet and elsewhere on "silicone toxicity syndrome" yet after all these years the FDA is letting silicone implants back on the market as there has been no scientific proof to substantiate any of the negative claims.
Of course I would not advocate putting anything foreign into or on one's body. Silicone implants can leak, rupture, wrinkle, sag, or even ulcerate from the body. The body isn't designed to contain foreign objects, it naturally seeks to reject them. But for millions of women silicone remains a viable medium term solution to the "problem" of having breasts they consider too small.
So the point is there are two sides to every story, and as is often the case, silicone use is a tradeoff -- what price are you willing to pay for the benefits it provides? Just because Connie Chung decides to go into career building mode doesn't mean we should all go hysterical and completely ban a substance that provides utility to millions of women (and men) around the world.
OK this is getting off topic I realize, but in this day of hysterical media induced action and reaction (Bin Ladim's Dead! Let's Celebrate! Bin Ladim's Alive! Run for Your Life!) I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and look for the deep rivers of truth that run quietly below the churning shallow ponds of media hype and urban myth.