Blog 8 Tattoos

http://http//answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080516022832AA2gBG1
http://http//www.bookrags.com/researchtopics/body-piercing-and-tattoos/
http://http//www.college.library.wisc.edu/research_guides/tattoos.shtml
http://http//library.osu.edu/sites/humanecology/tattooresearch.html

Tattoos are cool and hip, many people enjoy this bad behaviour because they use it as an accessory. It does take confidence to get a tattoo.
Academic researcher Anne Velliquette observes, "Today's social climate welcomes body art to an extent that no other period in modern history can rival." She maintains that tattoos can provide meaning to persons bewildered by the fragmentation and chaos of postmodern society:
Your body is the one thing you have ultimate control over. Tattoos are a way of committing to something permanent and stable, of recording who and what you are right now. . . . The traditional stereotype is gone.

Recording who and what you are NOW!! So what about when people grow and change ? Is it really a good idea to get a permanent Tattoo, what ever ones thoughts and feelings may well be at any given time, they do not remain the same!! This is an important point to consider. By the way just because all those narcissistic celebrities get them all over their ridiculous bodies does that really mean we should follow suit. Just because some fame hungry idiot has decided to show off should that be reason enough to follow. However it is more acceptable and those people who do have tattoos are not seen as an outcast as they once were. If people want to go to a safe place and get a tattoo then that is their right, however be warned that removing a tattoo can be expensive and painful, even more painful than getting it done in the first place.