>>936612993 (OP)it used to just be tribal peoples, sailors, criminals, bikers, and concentration camp guests, but now every liquored-up slut with a credit card has one
in other words, tattoos used to be more about identification and solidarity with marginal groups, but they've become mainstream
a lot of people who get tattoos these days have a weak sense of identity and strive to build a personality through permanent body decoration
or they seek to express their supposed uniqueness by doing something that's not that uncommon anymore (often with a generic tattoo that an "artist" has inked dozens of times)
then there are those who get tattoos to wear their supposed values on their sleeve, so to speak; these are the tattoos that say "Mom" with a heart background on guys who would whore out their own mother for a bump or the memorial tattoos of SIDS babies on absent or neglectful fathers