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"Take the Tattoo survey Now!" Tattoo Story
Full source citations in our “With ‘Miami Ink,’ ‘Inked,’ body art hits prime time. Part of the appeal, say executives with both shows, is that tattoos are becoming more mainstream.” A Oldenburg, USA Today “The market demographics for tattoo services are now skewed heavily toward mainstream consumers. Tattooing today is the sixth-fastest-growing retail business in the United States. The single fastest growing demographic group seeking tattoo services is, to the surprise of many, middle-class suburban women.” H. Levins, A Report “Personally, my friends, tattoos make me sick. I just have to be honest about it. I don’t know what you tattooed people don’t like about yourselves that you’d want to mark yourselves up. I don’t think it’s very becoming at all, but that’s just my opinion.” Rush Limbaugh, Tattooed People "I propose a differentiation between people who have tattoos and tattooed people. People who ‘have tattoos’ often only have one or two, and they are usually personal images in places easily hidden from view…. “Tattooed people,” on the other hand, have many bright or bold tattoos in obvious places, closer to the idea of Japanese body suit in terms of body coverage. These people have decided to cross that point of no return.” S.Bell, Tattooed “Our results indicate that, regardless of gender, having a tattoo tended to harm people’s image more than it helped (i.e. tattoo wearers, compared to non-wearers, received lower ratings on Character, Competence, and Sociability)…. (T)here was one exception: tattooed models were perceived as significantly more extroverted that those without tattoos.” J.S. Seiter & S. Hatch, The Effect of Tattoos “Almost without exception, the women’s underlying reasons for being tattooed; the shapes, sizes, and placements of their tattoos; the social presentation of their tattoos; and the active construction of their tattoos reflected desire to communicate specific messages about gender to particular audiences.” M. Atkinson, Pretty in Ink “I believe I exist somewhere amid the sociopolitical narratives written on my body. I hover, duck, and dodge to resist a reifying surface/body politic of mother, daughter, woman, white, heterosexual. My body is a cultural billboard advertising the effects of selves/others/contexts interacting with and upon it.” T. Spry, Tattoo Stories “Less favourable attitudes towards people with tattoos were reported by MDs and RNs….” O.J.Stuppy, M.J.Armstrong, & C.Casals-Ariet, Attitudes “Bodies are tattooed by some individuals in response to fears…. These tattooing projects communicate a sense of self-empowerment, efficacy, and restraint in the face of such daunting conditions.” M. Atkinson, Tattooing and Civilizing Processes “In the simple bi-variate analyses, tattoos were more common in women reporting sexually abusive experiences. Being tattooed was also associated with more psychiatric symptoms, more borderline personality characteristics and higher alcohol use. On several parameters, women with tattoos showed more psychopathology than non-tattooed women.” S.E. Romans, J.L. Martin, E.M. Morris, & K. Harrison, Tattoos “Taking care not to overstate my case here, I think I speak for all men living, dead, and those yet to be born when I say that in the matter of tattoos on women, I quote the immortal Martin Lawrence in saying; ‘That s—t don’t look good.’ (Actually, that may be a tad broad. There may be one or two guys wearing Harley-Davidson shirts stretched dangerously – and in vain – over their 68-inch guts and their nine strands of hair tied pathetically into a scraggly little ponytail who probably find tattooed women to be real mamas. But make no mistake about it – the number of guys who find tattooed women appealing is about equal to the number of natural teeth each one of those guys still has in his mouth.)” T. Danehy, Tattoos and Triple-Digit IQs “So the next time you talk to grandma on the phone, ask her if she’s been to the parlor lately – the tattoo parlor.” K. Kaiyala, The Skin Game And, this wonderful poem by Susan Donnelly……TATTOOWhen the sensible, blunt-spoken woman who cuts my hair bends down to plug in the blow-dryer, a dragon slithers at the top of her left buttock like a jazzy vein, giving me a whole new glimpse on her home life and I want a dragon just like that on my butt, or a starfish flexing on my shoulder, a frog on my throat, tiny and cloisonné as those in Brazilian jungles, or anyway, a runic sign of some promising sort, maybe at the base of my slightly scoliotic spine.
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