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On the Beach, Men Are More Likely to Approach a Tattooed Woman
Smithsonian.com ^ | 23MAY2013 | Unknown

Posted on 05/26/2013 7:52:47 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

There are a lot of reasons to think twice before getting something permanently drawn on your body. One is that people still treat those with tattoos differently than those without. One recent study, for instance, looked at how men treat women with tattoos. What they found was that men are more likely to approach a woman with a tattoo and more likely to expect a date or sex with that woman.

Here’s how the study worked. Researchers had women place temporary tattoos on their lower backs and sent them to a well-known beach. The women were instructed to lay on the beach reading a book, staying on their stomachs so that the tattoo was visible. There were two parts to this study. In the first one, once the woman was in place, researchers watched and counted how many men approached her. In the second, once the woman assumed her position, a male researcher walked around the beach and asked random men whether they would be willing to “respond to three questions about a girl somewhere on the beach.” Every single man they approached said yes.

Here’s how the researchers summarized their results:

Two experiments were conducted. The first experiment showed that more men (N = 220) approached the tattooed confederates and that the mean latency of their approach was quicker. A second experiment showed that men (N = 440) estimated to have more chances to have a date and to have sex on the first date with tattooed confederates.

Interestingly, the study did refute an earlier finding about women with tattoos. In 2007, researchers from the University of Liverpool showed that men rated women with tattoos as physically less attractive, but sexually more promiscuous than those without. In this study, researchers found that physical attractiveness—as rated by the men on the beach who agreed to answer questions about the woman—wasn’t impacted by the tattoo. Another study in 2005 also found that tattoos don’t change attractiveness, but do negatively impact a person’s credibility, regardless of their gender.

So tattoos might not be bad for picking up dudes at the beach, but they might impact what those dudes think of you in the long run.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beauty; carnyrubes; circusescapees; easy; genderwars; napl; psychology; sex; tattoo; trampstamp; women
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To: whitedog57

No doubt, this screams federal grant all over the place.


101 posted on 05/26/2013 9:22:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: CitizenUSA

No doubt, and the stamp is obviously not there for her to look at, so one can only assume...


102 posted on 05/26/2013 9:25:17 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

American female, circa 1953.

103 posted on 05/26/2013 9:25:34 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
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To: Sherman Logan

The old saying “a bad apple ruins the barrel”, was based on long recognized facts.

The hoodlum and gang culture was introduced into the American childhood apple barrel in the 60’s by JFK and LBJ and has gone downhill from there.


104 posted on 05/26/2013 9:28:29 PM PDT by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends



Tattooed Women are my only kind of Women!

105 posted on 05/26/2013 9:28:37 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“tattoos don’t change attractiveness, but do negatively impact a person’s credibility”

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Of course it does, particularly in the professional world. The only places where people can make serious money with tats all over the place are in music or sports—in other words, they have to have money-making talent. JMHO.


106 posted on 05/26/2013 9:30:09 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who just passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

107 posted on 05/26/2013 9:30:35 PM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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To: Travis McGee

OMG Travis—please tell me that’s photoshopped! If not, this girl won’t be a lawyer or accountant anytime soon. How short-sighted that is.

Julie


108 posted on 05/26/2013 9:33:15 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who just passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: Neidermeyer

Wow, that would cut my dry-cleaning bill to zero! Where do I sign up?


109 posted on 05/26/2013 9:34:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jack Hydrazine
What they found was that men are more likely to approach a woman with a tattoo...

Is that why pilots call them approach lights?

110 posted on 05/26/2013 9:36:20 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Marathoner; Parley Baer

“What you said! I may be older than dirt, but I just think those things look like s##t, especially on women.”

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I’m a middle-aged woman, and I couldn’t agree more.


111 posted on 05/26/2013 9:40:01 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who just passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: doorgunner69

“Turns out they were the ear lobe all stretched out by some sort of thing”
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I’ve seen those—very bizarre! And you’re right—it looks like it’s straight out of National Geographic.

Why people want to mess up their bodies is beyond me.


112 posted on 05/26/2013 9:45:33 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who just passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: onyx

OMG!! He made himself a dimple.

I forsee some major plastic surgery in this guy’s future. I guess the earlobes can be fixed...maybe. But the nostrils? Not likely.


113 posted on 05/26/2013 9:46:48 PM PDT by berdie
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To: mowowie
I remember an SNL fake commercial years ago regarding some type of Tramp stamp removal gel or something and it hurt like hell.

I remember that -- it was hilarious!

114 posted on 05/26/2013 9:52:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: JoeProBono

Oh, baby! Please tell me what you’re doing tonight, so I can make sure to be somewhere else!


115 posted on 05/26/2013 9:53:43 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: proud American in Canada

I have a semi-friend that was into that giant hole in the earlobe thing a few years back.
He doesn’t wear the rings anymore but his lobes are permanently disfigured and mangled.
It’s actually pretty pathetic........and Gross.


116 posted on 05/26/2013 9:53:54 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Still Thinking

Jack has the clip on post 52.
pretty funny stuff.
OUCH!!!


117 posted on 05/26/2013 10:01:29 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Owch!


118 posted on 05/26/2013 10:01:52 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: JoeProBono

Is she part Feringhi?


119 posted on 05/26/2013 10:03:09 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: TennesseeProfessor
My theory is that tattooes alternate generations. The WWII people had them, so many of the late-boomers saw what tattoos look like after 10-20 years and decided not to get them. But now that that generation is dying out, the current young generation hasn’t seen that, and so are getting a bunch of tattoos. Give it 10 or 20 years, and no one will want them anymore.
My father (a WW II veteran) had a tatoo of the Philippine Islands on his forearm. When I was a little boy I said "daddy, what is that?" He said "that is the second most stupid thing I did. The first was lying about my age and enlisting in the Navy when I was 16."
120 posted on 05/26/2013 10:11:50 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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