Looks like more women than men now do have tattoos:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/26/more-american-women-than-men-are-tattooed/
When 23% of American women have tattoos, it has clearly moved beyond being an edgy counter-culture thing—even if that is what it symbolizes to those getting them.
Kind of like when so many lawyers and investment bankers move into SoHo or the Village in Manhattan that it no longer signifies anything about their being artsy or counterculture.
“Looks like more women than men now do have tattoos:”
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I never saw it in America, except for a discrete tattoo
on something like an ankle. I never noticed them when living in central Europe. I do, however, see them as VERY prominent
on the History channel women. It is hard for me to believe that it is so common now.