I generally find them esthetically pleasing, but I am slightly biased against them because it seems like an impractical waste of money that was used to serve vanity rather than some useful end. I don't hate people with tattoos, but I judge them about as harshly as I do people who read/watch fiction.
I don't agree they're any more trashy/degenerate than makeup (which I also dislike).
I don't have any tattoos but if I ever found myself with more money than sense, there are a few messages from literature and philosophy as well as a few classic symbols that I'd enjoy.
I once met a very conservative straight edge looking woman and was surprised and aroused to find that when she took off her clothes, she had tattoos all over her rib cage. It was pretty sexy.
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[–] GoddammitMrNoodle 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Having a tattoo once indicated a certainly level of bad assery, and also often membership to a group that was elite in some way that was mostly understood only by people with that tattoo.
Today a tattoo just means you had enough money to get one. It's window dressing nothing more, and says nothing of your inner qualities other than, of course, the ones you wished you had.
I stopped for coffee some place. It was early and the shop was mostly empty, as well it was nippy that day and the shop was cool because it was open to the outdoors. Anyhow I was greeted by a guy in a tank top and shorts sporting a full sleeve tattoo and some on his leg (or possible legs, I don't recall now). Then another fellow appeared, also lightly garbed but he had 2 full sleeves and some face tats, as well as on his legs. And then a 3rd fellow appeared but with even more tats and also gauges and piercings. It was quite engaging and humorous watching the, no doubt unintended but none the less actual, parade of oneupmanship. How ironic that these three fine specimens of edgy manhood worked at a coffee shop.