If someone compliments you on a body part that is artificially enhanced, do you feel the same as when they compliment you on a natural body part?

I’ve never gotten any compliments on my crowns as yet so I wouldn’t know.

I feel pretty good about it… I got that breast implant on my forehead,just for the compliments! ;)

@lucillelucillelucille Love the look!

The wife often compliments me on my….ahem, “third leg!”

@lucillelucillelucille Same here. My breast implants on my back scare the girls at first, but I get a lot of bro hugs now.

Why would it be any different from someone complimenting your clothes or your car? Don’t people have their body parts worked on to look better? (Well, mostly, I recognize that there are some exceptions.) Hell, I would’ve would have had my height enhanced if they could have done it!

I get looked in the eye alot more now! It’s a win/win situation! :)))

All of you: LMAO! Great job.

I get strange looks for having a third testicle implant.

@ChazMaz Well, what’s more strange is your junk hanging out while your walking around in public.

Now that makes sense.

Note to myself: Keep junk in pants.

Not easy with a third testis.

I dont have any “enhanced” body parts, but ive noticed that I get alot more attention and compliments like “your so hott” fallowed promptly by “I love your tattoos” since I got them and it doesnt feel the same as when someone says “I love your eyes”. My first thought always is “you wouldnt have talked to me/thought that if I didnt have them”.

I don’t have any artificial body parts, but I would much rather be complimented on my shoes or fake hair color or lipstick or whatever than on my eyes or nose.

I didn’t make the choice to have what I was born with, and would prefer to be complimented on a choice I made than something I had no say over.

I’ve an artificial left hip…no compliments as of today! After next Monday, will have an artificial right hip! Just maybe one of the nurses will want to rub it and give me a compliment! One can always hope!

@JilltheTooth I think you make an interesting point. However, I think I see a difference between being complimented on clothing and being complimented on profile. With clothing, it’s clearly artificial. So it’s clear that you are being complimented for your taste, not for an attribute you were born with. With plastic surgery, there are many people who can’t tell. Only you know that they are complimenting you on something you bought. And as @Inked_up_chic said, you might easily think “you wouldnt have talked to me/thought [I was hot] if I didnt have [the modification].”

To me, it’s the same thing as being complimented for something I didn’t do. People can either accept the compliment and the credit, or they can tell the complimenter who really deserves the praise. I always feel very uncomfortable getting praise for something I didn’t do. So if I got a tummy tuck, and someone told me I looked like I’d been working out, I would probably come clean and tell them Dr. so-and-so is the one who got me lean.

It’s kind of like when people tell us we made some beautiful children. “Yeah, the doctors sure picked the right egg and sperm, didn’t they?” Which is the same as a believer saying, “Thank God. We are blessed.” There are things we simply aren’t responsible for and yet we get credit for them. That always bothers me. My looks, sad as they are, really aren’t my responsibility. They are not really even my parents’ responsibility. They are a matter of chance.

I tell them I have more spare parts on me and have had more rehab done then anything you see on Mecum’s auto show.

Hey! I payed a lot for these tits!

I don’t know, I have no add on parts yet.

@noelleptc What is it that you think you need to fix?

@BoBo1946 Awesome left hip dude! The hipster! Next week, twice as cool!

@Adirondackwannabe loll…thank you my friend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If someone compliments a person for a feature that has been artifically enhanced, surely they would appreciate those comments. Otherwise, why do it?

@Pied_Pfeffer Because there is social pressure to do so? Because they want to look that way, but don’t want to explain how they got that way, or rather, feel guilty about not explaining. If looks are a kind of advertising, then are enhanced looks a kind of false advertising? After all, the way you look is not in your genes.

The real in the deal is I figure it if were seen as a part I was merely enhancing and not replacing I would feel better about it. Maybe if it was something natural I might feel even better about it because I know it was strictly unique to me. If it was a body part I never liked and felt was terribly wrong I may love the complement because it was a relief but might not feel totally vindicated by it because I know they were complementing the replacement part and that the real was actually defective or not up to snuff.