My response...
No thanks. Our bodies are beautiful enough.
Defacing them with tattoos is like putting graffiti on the Mona Lisa
or carving your initials into a Giant Redwood.
I genuinely support the way the Copts use tattoos: a cross, as an in-your-face declaration of their Christian faith to the Muslims in surrounding society.
Other than that, I can see military types getting their service branch or unit’s insignia on the upper arm, at least once they’ve served long enough to have a permanent sense of membership (I’m told that happens very quickly for U.S. Marines — as in the dictum “there are no ex-Marines”).
Beyond that I’ll go with the “I don’t get tattoos” crowd.
**an emerging trend where people are paying upwards of $100 a pop per session of laser treatment to remove tattoos. Oh, and apparently it hurts like hell.**
I hope more and more get them removed. They make a woman ugly in my opinion.
I’ve noticed something odd lately about tattoo people. I used to think people got tattoos in order to be ornery, not caring what others thought of them, an in-your-face rebellious sort of thing. And maybe originally that’s why people got them. But now I think many people get them just to be victims. I’ve seen posts on Facebook saying things like, “Stupid bigots stare at my tattoos!” (Why’d you get them if you didn’t want people to look at them?) “Ignorant people have the nerve to dislike my tattoos! How dare they judge me?! They’re ART, people!” and similar snotty, scolding sort of posts.
My theory is that all the heroes nowadays are victims. So if a person doesn’t have any particular reason to claim victimhood, they get tattoos, then cry “victim” when not everyone falls down in joyous admiration of their tattoos. People with tats have gone from “I’m a rebel and don’t care what you think,” to “You have to love my tattoos or else you’re victimizing me.”
I was at DFS taking a foster kid to a supervised visit; the government program to tattoo everyone on government assistance seems to be going well.
No thanks. Our bodies are beautiful enough.
Defacing them with tattoos is like putting graffiti on the Mona Lisa
or carving your initials into a Giant Redwood.
When in the service I saw all kinds, but the one that spooked me was a shipmate who had dashes around his neck with the words "Cut Here". I stayed away from him.
However, I think a certain tattoo is what obama & Crew have in store for each of us: 
new band name - Tattoo Regret
I thought I saw an ad the other day for an electronically modifiable tattoo. My memory is vague on that and maybe it was a fantasy or proof of concept rather than something currently selling. But this if real would let the wearer blank his or her tattoo at will. Frankly I say why bother. If I want to wear graphics that’s why the good Lord inspired the t-shirt and the belt buckle etc. Then I can doff them at will.
Nothing screams, “I’m a skanky ho” quite like a tattoo or a tongue piercing.
Just my opinion.
I got a tattoo when I was younger. I might get more someday, it’s not a subject that frequently occupies my mind.
Stupid Baw-stids!
I was considering a tat of my hockey team’s “Batman” logo. This was when I was 59 yo.
But then the team moved to Winnipeg.
There are to types of tattoo people.
1. Those who are so ugly that the tats don’t help
2. Those who are good looking and you have to ask why the need to deface art.