more than 100 million Americans have at least one tattoo
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Back when I was a kid the only people that had tattoos were some Navy guys and some gangster punks. It was regarded as a sigh of a weak personality, insecurity, and shiftlessness.
***and some gangster punks.***
I remember them. Too cheap to find a real tattooist they would take a needle look in a mirror and do their own tattoo. And they looked like they had done their own as they were horrible.
And in the military we had guys go to real tattooists. Their tattoos looked sharp and they had to rub them with Vicks for a week or so. After about a month or two the ink would seep and the sharpness went to a minor blur.
Tattoos have been around for thousands of years and are a big part of some cultures.