TATTOOS-Becoming more socially acceptable

[NC]

My bestmate that is teaching me how to tattoo, his daughter of 8 years old tattooed a heart on my wrist today, after I tattooed a clothes peg on my leg. Now I'm a pirate. I'm past the point of giving a fuck about what other people think

[buellbabe]

Hey Riderinblack! Just checked it out...well done. I LIKE!

[Skyryder]

I think there is now a greater proportion of society that has tattoos. Where once this acceptance was only in the male domain this has now crossed over the the female.

I have mentioned some of the historical aspects of the tattoo in other posts so will not go into this in any detail here other than to say taht men have always to some extent accepted the tattoo on males there has been some reluctance for the same acceptance with females.
Some woman in Victorian times had tattoos but these were discreet and could not be seen in public. It could be argued that the dress standard of the time gave little oppertunity compared to todays acceptance of more liberal dress codes.

The other oddity here is that it was the male lower classes navies, seamen etc that got the tattoo the complete opposite occured with the female where the aristocroacy and the so called 'upper classes' of female got themselves 'inked.' The same is true of drugs but this is another issue.

I could be wrong in this but I think the difference in the reasoning why the two sexes get tattoo's may be vastly different too.

While I have no tattoo's myslef I do on occasions watch some of the 'ink. shows' on TV and there appears to be three main reasons why people get tattoos.


The guys see it mainly as an image thing. The artwork projects the image that they see themselves. Some it is a rememberance thing.

The rememberance thing is more a female reason and is usually associeted with the death of someone.

But by far of the most females get a tattoo to enhance their femininity. The tattoos are placed in areas that many men associate as a sexual part of the body and in keeping with the victorain woman is usually placed in a relitively discreet loacation.

There are however still large sections of the population who still hold strong views of tattoos. This I believe is more of cultural thing born out of the western tradition where tattoos have not been a part of our cultural heritage but socity is more liberal in it's tollerance than what it has been in the past, so any objections are in the most part not of heard in public.

Skyryder

[buellbabe]

Skyrider, thats an interesting and thought provoking post.