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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We had our kid get a tattoo.
He is diabetic and wouldn’t wear the medic alert bracelet he is supposed to have on at all times. The tattoo is on the inside of his forearm.
As long as a child lives under my roof, it’s Family Rules (decided by Mommy & Daddy).
No tattoos. Ear piercings for the girls at an appropriate age decided by Mommy. Nothing else.
When you leave my home, it’s up to you.
Nothing like marking yourself for perpetuity.
Anytime I see neck or facial tats when walking the hand reflexively goes....
Another sign of societal degeneration.
I am SSOOOO sick of tatoos everywhere. My youngest nieces got them, albeit so far minor. Whole other bunches of “related” people with them have worse.
Disgusting, low-class trash. Our society has decided the lowest trash is its aim, not any higher callings. Pants on the ground, and tatoos. Yeah, we have alot of class.
show them a 20 year old tattoo...they all turn fuzzy and green in due time...
Well someone should tell them that they won’t be getting hired by me anytime soon.
I have a strict policy on not hiring losers with tattoos.
Your entire post should be deemed POD -- Post-Of-the-Day.
Or, mom could have done what my mother did: screamed “No!” in my face and kept shrieking “no” until I gave up the lousy idea.
I have never really had a problem in the old days with a guy getting a small or medium nondescript tattoo on an arm, forearm, or calf, but I grew up in a Navy family and saw lots of guys with them, so it seemed normal to me.
I also don’t mind if a woman has a discreet one, that is, one that can’t be seen with normal clothing, or if seen in a bikini or underwear, is small and discreet.
On a woman, they are a turn off to me, including the “tramp stamp” kind. Doesn’t mean I can’t find a woman with one attractive, but it doesn’t weigh positively in the overall appearance index everyone has. I just don’t find a woman attractive at all with large, prominent, visible tattoos.
The only people who had tattoos in the neighborhood where I grew up had numbers on their forearms. I remember seeing a picture of a lampshade made from tattooed human skin.
Tattoos are a huge turn off.
More worried about scalpels in the pubic area, in what is known erroneously as “sex change” operations.
Those ear stretching (and nose stretching) things completely bug me out. Which is, what I suspect, the effect the wearers want to have.
I also hate those pins that stick out of the nose, posts coming down out of each nostril, with a booger catcher on the end of each post. They look like snot channelers. If I am sitting across from them, I always expect to see stuff dripping off of them.
I just don’t understand those, beyond the need for attention or to provoke a response in someone.
Gahh.
I hate tattoos, and look especially trashy on women. Hate the facial and belly piercings even more.
If you genuinely love the look, you can always get a permanent one later. If not, it's gone in a few weeks. But remember the words of a sage:
"A woman with a tattoo is like a rose dipped in mustard." -- Herb Caen
I had to wait until I was a Senior in HS just to get my ears pierced; Dad gave me permission at HS Graduation. Of course, I’d been pestering him about it since I was 12, LOL!
In our house, ‘NO’ actually MEANT, ‘NO!’
Sensible tattoo
I would have no issue with such a tattoo. Are medical personnel trained to look for a medical alert tattoo?
“but I think of gauges as large-diameter piercings.”
Those poor fools who do the large gauge stretched earlobes are in for a shock.
If they have a job, most can’t wear the gauge. Now they have this stretched thing hanging off their ear that looks like a, whatever.
A doctor I know charges $10,000 to snip and stitch the ugly earlobe off.
Cash only, payable in advance.
It's a generational fancy. I have one niece and one nephew who have adapted those ear-stretching gauges. The nephew is a computer programmer, so he's sort of in style. The niece is an otherwise nice looking woman but a bit confused with New Age foolishness.
I was joking with the wife about those gauges, and wondering when and if Ubangi-style lip stretchers will ever be popularized.
Keep it simple. Other than girls with ear piercing, the answer is, NO
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