The pierced women I'm referring to are way younger than 40, and I don't thing any of them have tatoos (or husbands and kids). They are mostly grown young women who live at home with equally trashy parents and pick up men in pool halls and taverns. A couple of them are unabashed professional prostitutes, and don't care who knows it.
This particular friend of mine is anything BUT trashy - she just decided that since she has wanted a tattoo for years she was going to get it...then decided on another - and is now talking about another!!!
the one on her ankle is the only one that is ever visible - even in a bathing suit the one on her back is not visible - but she is thinking about one on her shoulder.
I'm terrified of needles - so the idea of a tatoo is totally without interest for me!!!!