Girls can Order Breast Implant at Miss Bimbo Game

An UK website that encourages young girls as nine to give virtual dolls breast implants and put them on crash diets has caused concern among parents and children’s activists. The provocatively named “Miss Bimbo” website was launched last month and is described as a “virtual fashion game for girls.” This new computer game has nearly 200,000 British players, most of whom are girls aged between nine and 16.

Although it is free to play, when the contestants run out of virtual dollars they have to send cell phone text messages costing $3 each or use PayPal to top up their accounts.

When a girl signs up, they are given a naked virtual character to look after and pitted against other girls to earn “bimbo” dollars so they can dress her in sexy outfits and take her clubbing. Girls are encouraged to compete against each other to become the “hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world.”

Users are given missions, including securing plastic surgery at the game’s clinic to give their dolls bigger breasts, and they have to keep her at her target weight with diet pills, which cost 100 bimbo dollars. Breast implants sell at 11,500 bimbo dollars and net the buyer 2,000 bimbo attitudes, making her more popular on the site.

Parents’ groups are horrified that the game is taking off in Britain, fearing it could send the wrong message about eating disorders and plastic surgery to young girls.

Bill Hibberd, of parents’ rights group Parentkind, told the Times the game sends a dangerous message to young girls.
He said: “It is one thing if a child recognizes it as a silly and stupid game. But the danger is that a nine-year-old fails to appreciate the irony and sees the Bimbo as a cool role model. Then the game becomes a hazard and a menace.”

However, the creators of “Miss Bimbo” claim it is “harmless fun.”
Nicolas Jacquart, the 23-year-old Web designer from Tooting, south London, who created it was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: “It is not a bad influence for young children. They learn to take care of their bimbos. The missions and goals are morally sound and teach children about the real world.”

He added: “The breast operations are just one part of the game and we are not encouraging young girls to have them, just reflecting real life.” -source: CNN