Tattoos & Body Modification

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As a person who is heavily tattooed I have a lot to say on this topic. I think tattoos and piercing are incredibly artistic and almost define you as an individual. They should be worn with pride as they take hours of painful stabbing to complete.

Over the last ten years tattoos have become more socially acceptable as more and more people are getting inked and pierced year to year. Although there are people that take it the extreme such as scarification, implants and dismemberment. There are those who do this for a living and its relatively well paid but it takes years to gain the skills required to enter this field of work.

There are piercing that people wouldn’t agree with, such as genital piercing and suspension, and there's also offensive tattoos out there for all to see, like last week i saw a tattoo on a skinheads neck that read 'burn niggers burn’. There are also gang tattoos belonging to some of the world’s most dangerous criminals, such and the yakuza (Japanese mob who tattoo a ring around their forearm for every person they kill) this is the side of body modification that I strongly disagree with.

Along with the pain and risk of infection, no matter how clean the studio is, tattoos and piercing and still seen as wrong to the older generation, especially those of religion but nower days there are religious individuals with praying hand tattoos and crucifix piercing that represent god, so what’s all the fuss about.

I can see the public problem and their refusal to come to turns with people who modify their bodies but it’s a personal choice.