Posted on 09/18/2017 7:17:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
That afternoon in late spring, her daughter finally got the jeweled belly button ring she had been asking for, and Breuner got a reminder that her little girl was growing up.
Breuner felt a swell of emotion, she said.
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“I’m not saying everybody should do that,” she added, “but at least for me, my sense of this whole world is that it’s changing right in front of us, and we can either have our eyes open and be supportive and help our children make informed decisions when they’re young adults, or ignore it and hope it goes away.”
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Richard Dukes focused much of his research on tattoos and piercings among youth during his career as a sociology professor.
The professor emeritus at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, who was not involved in the new clinical report, said it compiles current medical knowledge and does not contradict any of his own research findings.
“Tattoo regret is fairly common because meanings, values and norms change, and tattoos do not,” Dukes said, adding that when someone gets a tattoo at an older age, the likelihood for regret is less.
“We have three grown sons. Two of them wanted to be tattooed. We said to wait until you are 18 and be sure to get good artwork,” Dukes said of his own family.
“They complied,” he said. “Now, one of them has had the small tattoo removed from his back, because he did not want his young daughter to think that he thought it was a good thing to do. The other son has two tattoos. I asked him if he would ever get another one. He said that if he had no tattoos, he would not get one. Since he already has tattoos, he is more likely to get another one.”
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Number of people begging on the street are still about the same, though.
When I was young I saw circus ads where people would pay money to see a tattooed woman, and other freaks.
I figure hair grows back, though it's not been a problem yet.
Clothes? So long as he's appropriately dressed for church and other important functions, I say "whatever". Except the time he showed up for school in sneakers, black socks, plaid shorts and a camo T-shirt. Yikes! He looked like Picasso threw up.
I asked him if he got dressed in the dark, he looked down, chuckled, and went back to change...
Amen. Preach it, Bro!
For the same reason everything stinks. Bacteria build up.
Learn how to keep things clean and you will not stink.
Military tattoos should have gone out with Popeye. I was in the Marine Corps back in the 1980s and even back then, tattoos were highly discouraged. One of our COs said that if he found out anybody in his unit got one, he'd have them written up for destruction of government property.
See, no. Never. Why would anyone even do that.
Those experts are saying that they stink no matter what.
I concur.
I work at various venues so I see literally thousands of tattoos, none of them memorable or noteworthy other than their overall negative visual.
Most tattoos are crap art at best.
Exactly what it sounds like.
People would slash themselves as a blood sacrifice for the dead. The reasons varied from trying to ensure they reached paradise to showing that you were real sorry they died so they wouldn't haunt you.
Sometimes they would even cut off body parts.
It was common in cultures that practiced human sacrifice. God told the Israelites "Don't even START down that road."
I got my ears done at 27. My dad forbade any tats or ear piercing so that was that. When the General spoke, we listened (even when he was just a Lt. Colonel). My son thought about getting an ear pierced until his father told him “You know your mother will rip that sucker right out of your ear”.
No bacteria build up, no stink.
Now to keep bacteria build up from happening you may need to remove the thing and clean it and the pierced area many times a day.
This is generally nature's way of telling you that you picked a stupid place to introduce a foreign object into your body.
Well yeah.
Which means they have zero interest in working.
The opiod crisis and drug abuse is so prevalent that labor employers no longer drug screen. They are more likely to ask “What drugs are you on.” so they can decide what level of risk they want to take.
So, a junkie who wants to work should be able to find something to earn an income on, and since he’s already sleeping in a tent, he doesn’t need to change his arrangements.
Them be folks who like pain
Mine will 30 this year and is one of the best nurses I know
They mature eventually
“But copying people with piercings to be different isn’t being different.”
Exactly. This is the folly of young rebellion. My earrings were designed using trig.
Everything faces a specific direction, in 3 dimensions. I interviewed 5 piercers before finding the guy who could do it, a guy who is so well educated in body modifications that he’s nationally known, televised and documented.
But 99.9999999 of people just go to “some dude” and get “Something”. From the word ‘go’ it is just an exercise in stupidity.
And just about any tattoo isn’t art worthy of hanging above my toilet. I’ve been searching the world over for significant tattoos and have yet to see anything that really catches my eye.
If it’s ceremonial, such as military and the like, then all is good. But unicorns on ankles prove only one thing: Time and money were wasted gleefully.
I told my sons when they were 40, they could do what ever to their bodies. But what a 20 year old does will most likely be seen as stupid and make the 40 year old angry. Would you and dad pick the same tattoo? They actually understood and both have no piercings or tattoos.
It used to be you got a tattoo to be different.
Now you get one to fit in.
” suggested she get a temporary one before she did anything permanent. .... she wanted it off within a week. She scrubbed it with a scouring pad until it came off, and that was the end of that! “
This is what I mean. If Tattoos really represented commitment, then she would buy a box of these tattoos and put them on the moment the old one washed off.
That’s commitment. Just getting it done once and removing the possibility of going back on it, that’s not commitment. That’s for people who CAN’T commit.
I am year 14 of my ears. Everyday I put them in. I clean everything everyday. I polish the jewelry and went to a jeweler to have them made. That’s commitment. but I also take them out when I’m doing business and they would ruin my chances of dominance. That’s intelligent.
At least I like to think I’m intelligent. And my dad said “Once you’re the boss, you can have whatever metal you want sticking out of your head” and he was right. I’m the boss now and I wear a suit and have 6 spikes sticking out of my ears. And when MY boss walks in (My clients I have like a 100 bosses) I make damn sure I’m dressed the way that they need me dressed to inspire confidence and expertise.
I eventually got my ears pierced, but had so much trouble with infections, no matter what materials were in the earrings, that I finally just gave up and let them close up.
My daughter never had her ears pierced.
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