<p>AOM???</p>
<p>Art of Misdirection?</p>
<p>^^We have a CCist symbol? CC favicon?
^Heathen!</p>
<p>^^AOM was CCer a long time ago.</p>
<p>Not that many people think tattoos are evil. A lot of people think they’re stupid. I’m with those people.</p>
<p>What is our CCist symbol?</p>
<p>Warts, where it has the URL there’s a little picture of a Blue C and a pink C.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s dumb, I just don’t have one interest I might like for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>People always talk about those old wrinkly people with deformed tattoos that have no muscle/taut skin under them to back them up.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t get a tattoo myself because I don’t see it as something of personal meaning or significance.</p>
<p>The association of tattoos with mental illness has been frequently investigated. Tattooing has been empirically associated with personality disorders (Armstrong, 1991; Caplan, Komaroni, & Rhodes, 1996; Ceniceros, 1998; Measey, 1972; Post, 1968) and psychopathic personality (McKerracher & Watson, 1969; Yakamoto, et al., 1963). In Measey’s (1972) study of Royal Navy detainees, the correlation with personality disorder increased in significance with the number of tattoos possessed; 48% of those with no tattoos had a personality disorder whereas the percentage increased to 58% for those with 1 to 4 tattoos and up to 82% for those with more than 16 tattoos. Raspa and Cusack (1990) found the association between personality disorders and tattoos so clear that they state “finding a tattoo on physical examination should alert the physician to the possibility of an underlying psychiatric condition” (p. 1481).</p>
<p>And many people just think they are ugly…debrockman (2010)</p>
<p>@romani: I agree. I see no religious reason not to get a tattoo, unless it falls under 1st Corinthians 8 “Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.”</p>
<p>1st Corinthians covers a lot of things, I wish more Christians would read it.</p>
<p>Debrockman, that must be a ridiculous study. For one, it appears to only cover a VERY small percentage of the population. For two, many, many cultures have been tattooing for millenia and I’m fairly certain that they don’t have a higher rate of mental illness than anyone else. For three, it’s just a ridiculous conclusion that since I have a tattoo, you should check for some underlying mental illness.</p>
<p>Also: mental illness is such a subjective term that it is nearly moot. A researcher would have to be fairly subjective in his or her analysis of an individual to decide if they had a “mental illness” and who knows how objective they were or what motivation they had.</p>
<p>Actually, the verse in 1 Corinthians that best explains why not to get a tattoo is 13:11: “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
It’s just harder to put it away if it’s inked onto your body.</p>
<p>Hunt…good point. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, there are things we think sound great when we are young that we ask ourselves, “what were we thinking?!” as we get older.</p>
<p>romani…It is multiple studies. It also does not say that everyone with a tatoo has an underlying psychiatric condition. It says that if someone presents with a tattoo, they are MORE LIKELY than the general population to have a mental condition.</p>
<p>^^ But that’s a practical objection, not a religious one.</p>
<p>^^ I’d guess that people likely to have psyc problems are more likely to get tattoos, not the other way around.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes: I’m curious, what’s your tattoo like? (Will not be offended if you ignore this)</p>
<p>debrockman: Even if that study is accurate, it is still no reason to not get a tattoo. If you have a mental problem, getting a tattoo won’t make it worse. Also, what Mosby said^.</p>
<p>Hunt: That’s a bit of a stretch. At worst you would be embarrassed by having a childish tattoo. It’s hardly going to interfere with your relationship with God.
Anyway, can’t you get a skin graft if you really want to get rid of a tattoo?</p>
<p>I’d guess that right now, while tattoos are a “fashion statement” that might be an accurate assessment. Fortunately, fashion comes and goes.</p>
<p>Tattoos are VERY expensive to remove. I do wish that they would prosecute tattoo artists for certain kinds of tattoos…like tattoos all over someone’s face. I saw a guy on cash cab last night with tats all over his face. Clearly unemployable in 99% of jobs. A tattoo artist who did that should be held responsible IMHO. The guy was obviously smart…and very unemployed…almost started crying when he received 650.00. He was crying because he was behind on rent and could not believe his good fortune.</p>
<p>^ I’m guessing that the guy wanted to get it, and probably even paid the artist to do it. The artist shouldn’t be held responsible for carrying out his customer’s wishes.</p>