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.
LOLOLOLOL!!!
Sad that the tattoos still pretty much mean the same thing but so many more girls have them now.
Wrong, they mean the same thing in the eyes of the guys, but not to the girls. Honest Injun, it's true. For example, there's a perfectly straight, probably conservative, sporty type mom I see at the gym who has a friggin' race motorcycle tattooed on her calf, and I think her husband and sons are into racing. Women get tattoos for the damndest reasons.
Perfectly stated.
Well, there is one thing about it. If this kid ever gets into a confrontation with the law, the cops can connect his earlobes to an immovable object with cuffs, and he won’t get away.
Gen-X/Y/Z should take note when we geezers dump on you. This is what we see. Protest all you want about the evil Boomers, this is your generation.
Egg-zactly!!! Spot on!
If anyone wanted to know what demons look like.
That’s probably the one that is infesting him or her or whatever it is.
Like I tell my late 20s early 30s kids, when they hit about 50 they’ll be paying more taxes so idiots with piercings and tats can have them cosmetically erased. The same thing with people with the loud speakers disguised as s#itty little cars. Hearing specialists will clean up in about 20 years treating those dim bulbs who blew their ear drums out.
I completely agree. It’s one thing to get a small one on the wrist, but some go wayyyy over the top.
“When i see a tat on a god gifted body it’s the worst, I always ask myself what the F were they thinking?”
Ditto. So my question is... after having all that ink pumped into their skin, the take that first look in the mirror and can actually convince themselves they look “hot?”
And BTW, included in that 1-in-5 stat must be all adults, including elderly who still mostly reject them. Among younger adults, I’ll bet that prevalence is minimally 50%.
I think you might be aiming at the wrong target if you want to get laid.
The tramps with stamps are trying to show their “individuality.”
I’m surprised.
usually in the past these tattoo threads would bring out the Freeper Tattoo Defense Force.
Not too many here tonight....
That’s because it’s morning and they aren’t up yet.
I remember an SNL fake commercial years ago regarding some type of Tramp stamp removal gel or something and it hurt like hell.
I was pretty funny.
Maybe the same one, but they had one with Amy Pohler with a tramp stamp at a young age, and then morphed in a melting mess as the years took their tool on the “ work of art”
That should be shown to anyone thinking about getting one.
I saw way too many tattooed women at Wal-Mart yesterday. White, black, brown, most fat and ugly, sporting their tats. It wasn’t pretty.
yea it was one of the funnier ones.
Jack found the vid clip in post 52.
“That’s because it’s morning and they aren’t up yet.”
Good Point
Ridiculous.
What men?
Not me.
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