I found the lecture on Tattoos and Body Modifications really interesting! Its was quite gruesome at times, but my stomach managed to hold out. Pheww! I found out loads of information that I never knew before about tattoos. We were told loads of reasons why people actually go and have tattoos done - they were pretty common sense but why some people do it to themselves, I don't know!I agree with the idea of getting tattoos that mean something to someone and aren't massively noticeable, but I don't understand why people would want to cover their whole body in them. I don't judge people if they do it, but my personal thought on this is that they're not that nice to look at and you have to have it with you for the rest of your life. I've always wanted to get a tattoo on my wrist, but I have never been able to decide what I wanted on it. Therefore, I won't get one until I'm completely sure because otherwise I'm stuck with it. Before this lecture I was thinking about getting a little star on my wrist, even though everyone has stars, but the lecturer said that the star represents emo's... and I'm not quite an emo haha.
Some of the reasons that were mentioned were like for fashion, rebellious and a form of control. People get tattooed for fashion because they believe that it's the norm to have a tattoo, like the star for example. Therefore they feel like they can fit in with a certain group of people just because they have this body marking. Rebellious people for instance, they are completely the opposite, they get tattoos not to follow the norm. Meaning that they would get tattoos all over the body that are clearly visible and make people look at them twice. Also, for the rebellious reason, teenagers might get a tattoo to shock their parents and get a reaction from everyone - this gives them a thrill as they might be under aged or their parents are totally again them.
I can understand why people want to do it because I have friends that are totally into tattooing and even want to do it as their profession. It's a really artistic thing to do and if you have the confidence to do it, then good on them. I could never do it!
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