Would you incourage your husband get a tattoo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are not tattoo people, and we wouldn’t be together if either of us were. Also no strange piercings or haircuts or colors.

Lol, you sound like my H. He was very anti-tattoo, piercings, weird hair, etc. I wanted to get a few purple highlights in my hair when I was in my 20s, and he threw a fit.

Guess who hit their midlife crisis and got a full sleeve? Yup. You never know, somebody can suddenly become a "tattoo person"

Affair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tattoo on buttocks is best

+1 if it says “insert here”

+2 of its says “spit here”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A science fiction character on his arm is kinda awful but a bible verse on his rib cage is super hot.

Nothing about the Bible is hot

But it gets (really) hot if you don't follow it. Ironic, huh?

[Anonymous]

"Compared to women without tattoos, women with tattoos showed significantly lower self-esteem and displayed stronger relationships between three constructs: ideal body, ideal self and tattooed woman status. No significant differences in body image were detected between the two groups. Women with tattoos were characterized by an association between body image and self-esteem, while women without tattoos did not display such a correlation. Thus, it appears that links between self-esteem, ideal body, ideal self and constructs of "woman with tattoos" may play a role in tattooing behavior in young women.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347139/

[Anonymous]

People change as they age and marriage requires you to adapt to those changes. My husband is not a "tattoo person" but I got one a few years ago because I really wanted it. He definitely did try to stop me but he also wasn't particularly encouraging. But I think he realized after a while that people evolve and part of the job of a partner is to support in the evolution. He's gotten more on board since then and now when I talk about getting a new piercing or dying my hair a crazy color, he is more likely to get on board. I think he also realized that a tattoo is... just a tattoo. We don't have to live in this weird paradigm where "good" people look and dress a certain way. People can be expressive and experimental and still be ethical and reliable and faithful. I'm happy I didn't grow up when my parents did, when this kind of stuff would mean you couldn't get hired for a lot of jobs or might be targeted for violent crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Compared to women without tattoos, women with tattoos showed significantly lower self-esteem and displayed stronger relationships between three constructs: ideal body, ideal self and tattooed woman status. No significant differences in body image were detected between the two groups. Women with tattoos were characterized by an association between body image and self-esteem, while women without tattoos did not display such a correlation. Thus, it appears that links between self-esteem, ideal body, ideal self and constructs of "woman with tattoos" may play a role in tattooing behavior in young women.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347139/

Did you read the whole study? All the way to the conclusion? Where they admit they can’t conclude much from this study? Did you notice it is from an Israeli university? Tattoos are considered taboo by a lot of Jewish people. They’re entitled to that! But I don’t really think this study about young women has much to do with OP’s husband wanting a tattoo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A science fiction character on his arm is kinda awful but a bible verse on his rib cage is super hot.

Chunks of bible verse are high on the list of horrible tattoo ideas. I’d put Dr Who fandom on that list too but to each his each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only if it’s Marvin the Martian

I am not a fan of tattoos for manifold reasons.

But I think I, too, would allow an exception for a Marvin the Martian tat.

Jesus Christ, why don't you get some barbed wire around your bicep or a star on your elbow while you're at it?

[Anonymous]

Sure. He's a grown man - if he wants a tattoo I'd be supportive.

I got mine (a Seuss character) at age 28. Would be totally hypocritical of me to be other than supportive of my husband.

Of course, in his eyes, it's a small miracle that he married me - given the shocking fact that I have a tattoo. So this is a pretty moot point in our house.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, an arrow on each side of his butt cheek pointing towards his hole... Target practice for my strapon.