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In a just world, this would be prosecutable as a war crime – in the war between taste and tastelessness, beauty and ugliness. That war is, thus far, undeclared; it’s an insurgency. The Charlies are, unfortunately, winning.<\/p><\/div>\n
But many have; some stats say over a third of all adults below the age of 40 have some kind of tattoo or another. \u00a0 Some have gone completely overboard; men and women with “sleeves” (tattoos running up their arms), college age women with huge obnoxious tattoos covering vast swathes of skin.<\/p>\n
Look – a clever, tasteful tattoo here and there can be fun. Don’t get me wrong. \u00a0It’s not my style, but knock yourself out.<\/p>\n
But there are few things in the world quite as depressing as sitting at the pool and seeing a gorgeous woman in a bikini, looking hand-tooled saddle from neck to waist, shoulder to wrist, hip to knee.<\/p>\n
An aesthetic atrocity? \u00a0I don’t think I’m overreacting, here.<\/p>\n
But let’s forget about aesthetics for a while. \u00a0 Let’s focus on science.<\/p>\n
One thing that’s\u00a0always\u00a0<\/em>skeeved me out about tattoos is that you are puncturing one of your body’s most fragile yet essential organs – one that is designed to\u00a0protect the rest of your body<\/em> – thousands of times, and impregnating it with chemicals containing God only knows what.<\/p>\n
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