U.S. dating pool: Nearly 50% of 18-49 year olds have tattoos

[Anonymous]

I knew it was bad but this is pretty shocking. If you are a single millennial or gen X and have an aversion to tattoos, the dating pool is quite shallow. Although you have slighter more favorable odds the wealthier and more educated your orbit is, but still, remove upwards of one-third of your suitors.

[Anonymous]

Well, there are tattoos and then there are TATTOOS. You can't put them all in same pile. One is impulsive mistake or attempt to be cool, other is a billboard of questionable life choices.

[Anonymous]

What a weird post.

[Anonymous]

Jeez, I don’t have any tattoos but you peeps are a bunch of tight a$$es. I could care less if a man or woman have tattoos, which includes sleeves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a weird post.

Not really. Many singles have severe aversions to tattoos, often for religious purposes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, there are tattoos and then there are TATTOOS. You can't put them all in same pile. One is impulsive mistake or attempt to be cool, other is a billboard of questionable life choices.

One of the most liked comments under the viral tweet caught my attention. Are tattoos just small mistakes or do they tease out trauma and potential relationship issues?

"Lots of men and women in this strata are survivors of one form of abuse or another. Men externalize and take out their aggression others. Women internalize and inflict pain on themselves. Tattoos are one way of doing this."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, there are tattoos and then there are TATTOOS. You can't put them all in same pile. One is impulsive mistake or attempt to be cool, other is a billboard of questionable life choices.

I agree. Also, I'd rather no tatoos at all. I also feel this way about piercings, and that weird creepy habit of mutilating some little boys at birth.

[Anonymous]

And?

I mean, I wouldn’t go out explicitly searching for a tattooed man, but my husband has tattoos from his late teens, but he’s successful at work, a wonderful husband and father, and he can F. I don’t think about his tattoos at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a weird post.

Not really. Many singles have severe aversions to tattoos, often for religious purposes.

But tying it to the "dating pool" when the numbers are not describing single people, and lumping 18-49 together as though there's not going to be a difference by age, is weird. Acting like this is a calamity when in fact it's just "half the people like what I like and half don't" is weird.

And if the issue is a religious aversion to tattoos, that person's dating pool is likely already restricted to people with the same beliefs and they'll be encountering significantly lower percentages of tattooed people than average. It's not like half of adults having tattoos means you flip a coin on your 18th birthday and Uncle Sam tattoos you if it comes up heads. It's still a choice for each individual person and if their religion forbids it they won't do it. I don't have any tattoos but I stand by my comment: this is a weird post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a weird post.

Not really. Many singles have severe aversions to tattoos, often for religious purposes.

Tattoos make people religious or irreligious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a weird post.

Not really. Many singles have severe aversions to tattoos, often for religious purposes.

What are their opinions on piercings? It seems 80% women and 20% men have something pierced. That leaves a very small pool for dating.

Somehow male circumcision is okay with religious folks, no one questions why god didn't do it right in first place?

[Anonymous]

All of that being said, 90% of tattoos look ugly and aren't beautification.

[Anonymous]

I noticed tattoos have become very popular with people sub 30 in Europe.

[Anonymous]

you need to correlate this with more information. someone's dating pool is not the entire 18-49 population.

I would have to have that correlated with education, HHI, geographic location, etc.

[Anonymous]

I absolutely hate tattoos. My teen sons (for now) feel the same- though we joke about the entire family getting our dog's face tattooed on our bodies. My 26 year old nephew got one which the whole family is not a fan of--he jokes about it too.

I see tattoos everywhere. Women with calves and full sleeves and tatted out.

I really hate the look of women in wedding dresses or beautiful evening gowns with tattoed arms and back. It just doesn't look right.