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Tattoos in General

Do Tattoos make a person more or less attractive?

  • More attractive

    Votes: 4 13.3%

  • Less attractive

    Votes: 18 60.0%

  • IDGAF

    Votes: 8 26.7%
  • Total voters
    30
Cherub786 said:

“Every culture” is an exaggeration. Many cultures don’t do tattooing, including my own. Our women do put henna on their hands and feet, but those aren’t permanent. Likewise, tattoos aren’t part of Chinese and most East Asian cultures, especially due to the influence of the Confucian school, which disapproved of it. These are basically massive cultures. The ones that do practice tattoos are usually primative tribes like the Maori peoples of New Zealand (Ta moko).

I appreciate that many people tattoo as forms of self-expression and art, but I fundamentally disagree with it from my own religious and cultural perspective. The fact that many people end up regretting getting a tattoo only serves to reinforce my perspective. In my previous posts I was trying to get to a very specific point, which is the understanding of why people get tats from a purely psychological approach, which should be an interesting study that may reveal something about feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing.
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You should stick to discussing subjects that you have some knowledge of.
 
Sweden said:
But we should care what you think? Like your much expressed opinion is valuable but Cherub's is not?
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His opinion is based on knowledge of the subject, unlike Cherub's opinion.
 
Superfly said:
Edison had a tattoo. Winston Churchill had a tattoo. George Orwell had a tattoo.

Just because someone is tattooed does not indicate a lower intelligence.

Your blanket generalization, however, does indicate as much.
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In the 19th and early 20th century tattooing was all the rage in European royal families. A tattooed king was Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, who was originally Napoleon's marshal and a revolutionary firebrand before later becoming king of Sweden and Norway. He reigned for 26 years after Napoleon was deposed, and during his reign he never allowed doctors to see his naked torso. After he died it was revealed that on his torso he had a tattoo that said: "Death to kings".
 
"Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves." (Bible; Leviticus 19:28)

Narrated Abu Huraira: A woman who used to practice tattooing was brought to `Umar. `Umar got up and said, "I beseech you by Allah, which of you heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying something about tattooing?" l got up and said, "O chief of the Believers! l heard something." He said, "What did you hear?" I said, "I heard the Prophet saying, 'Do not practice tattooing and do not get yourselves tattooed.'" (Sahih al-Bukhari)
 
Cherub786 said:
"Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves." (Bible; Leviticus 19:28)

Narrated Abu Huraira: A woman who used to practice tattooing was brought to `Umar. `Umar got up and said, "I beseech you by Allah, which of you heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying something about tattooing?" l got up and said, "O chief of the Believers! l heard something." He said, "What did you hear?" I said, "I heard the Prophet saying, 'Do not practice tattooing and do not get yourselves tattooed.'" (Sahih al-Bukhari)
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This is not the religion forum.
 
Winston said:
Even ****ty ones,

more attractive or less attractive?

I vote more, because of the thigh tattoo.
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Bad idea. You are not going to get a job in a Fortune 500 company with tattoos showing.
 
zyzygy said:
This is not the religion forum.
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Our opposition to tattooing is an ancient as the practice itself, as evidenced by these quotes from sacred texts. Tattooing originates as a religious practice of paganism, so you cannot ignore the religious element on any discussion of it.
 
Cherub786 said:

Our opposition to tattooing is an ancient as the practice itself, as evidenced by these quotes from sacred texts. Tattooing originates as a religious practice of paganism, so you cannot ignore the religious element on any discussion of it.
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Want to bet?
 
I used to appreciate them and there are still some really beautiful ones, but on the whole I now associate people with a lot of tattoos with douchebags and narcissists, especially in modern hipster culture. If I see a man with a beard, short-short pants and tattoos, the chances are high that we will have unintelligible conversation. The same goes for women with leggings, half their head buzzed, and piercings.

Every day looking people with tattoos are different. They aren't usually trying to be cool and there's a story behind their body art. It's the people who make tattoos part of their identity or the weird neo-tribalism I'm seeing that I get turned off. A lot of people who get tattoos live to regret them later in life and I don't understand why you'd want to look so different that you're alienating yourself from the rest of society.
 
Tattoos used to mean something. They were a symbol, usually of status, skill, or prominence/rank. Used to be, you saw someone with ink, that was likely a badass. Criminally, in many cases.
 
zyzygy said:
In the 19th and early 20th century tattooing was all the rage in European royal families. A tattooed king was Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, who was originally Napoleon's marshal and a revolutionary firebrand before later becoming king of Sweden and Norway. He reigned for 26 years after Napoleon was deposed, and during his reign he never allowed doctors to see his naked torso. After he died it was revealed that on his torso he had a tattoo that said: "Death to kings".
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:lol: :lol:

Talk about a regrettable tattoo! Almost as bad as getting someone's name on a tattoo.
 
it's just me said:
Bad idea. You are not going to get a job in a Fortune 500 company with tattoos showing.
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Define "showing." Face or neck tats? I might tend to agree. However, full sleeves can easily be covered up with a long sleeved shirt.
 
KevinKohler said:
Tattoos used to mean something. They were a symbol, usually of status, skill, or prominence/rank. Used to be, you saw someone with ink, that was likely a badass. Criminally, in many cases.
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Tat of the sailor's ship. That way, if he got to drunk it would be obvious where to dump him.
 
Superfly said:
Define "showing." Face or neck tats? I might tend to agree. However, full sleeves can easily be covered up with a long sleeved shirt.
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Exactly. If you are going to have them you should be able to cover them.
 
Cherub786 said:
"Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves." (Bible; Leviticus 19:28)

Narrated Abu Huraira: A woman who used to practice tattooing was brought to `Umar. `Umar got up and said, "I beseech you by Allah, which of you heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying something about tattooing?" l got up and said, "O chief of the Believers! l heard something." He said, "What did you hear?" I said, "I heard the Prophet saying, 'Do not practice tattooing and do not get yourselves tattooed.'" (Sahih al-Bukhari)
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Just more evidence of how totally F'd up organized religion can be. :roll:
 
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