Why are piercings and tattooes considered bad? And which one do people usually think of as worse? I have 8 peircings, ears and bellybutton, and a few people told me that having those are trasy, but they have tattooes. How is one worse than the other?
What your doing is taking for granted that all these facts are true. They are just opinions. You should be asking is "are piercings and tattooes considered bad?", and "is one worse than the other?". If the answer to these questions are no, then you can't ask "why?".
In my opinion, i don't really see why people get either of these. If i had to chose one as worse i would choose tattoos, because even though they can be really cool, i don't like the idea of painting your body. If i had to choose one as more disgusting, i would choose piercing, because the places that people get those is just wrong.
Tattoos didn't used to be considered bad. In fact, originally, they had to be done by hand, making htem very expensive, and therefore an accessory of the nobility. However when the first proper needle machine was invented, by a Frenchman I believe, it made them cheap and affordable to the great unwashed. Thus began the decline of the status of the tattoo.
On a side note, my local dentist who has been in the practice for decades, said that back in the 60s, the only patients they were instructed to wear sanitary gloves for were those with tattoos. Because only sailors and prostitutes working on the docks would get them, and therefore both groups were likely to be carrying STDs.
As for piercings, they are considered bad by members of an older generation partly because of their association with the punk movements, and over here in England, with class stereotypes. So they're not considered 'bad' depending on who you're talking to.
My personal opinion? I think it's important for tattoos, to have meaning. I generally don't like it when people get tattoos just because they want one. However if it's good body art then I don't mind so much. I have 2 tattoos. One a souvenir of my military service, and another some body art which I got on a whim. I'm not interested in getting any more.
As for piercings, I had both ears done when I was 14, although I grew out of them fairly quickly. I don't have anything against piercings per se, but too many does look a bit odd to me, especially on the face. And of course there is the issue of hygene and infection to take into account with piercings you don't get so much with tattoos.
i have both. i've got ears, and bellybutton. for tattoos, i've got 2 on my hips and then 1 on my back. neither one is bad, just dont get it at a lame place that reuses needles.
Neither. One the needles are not always clean needles. Witch can lead to a lot of disease's and so forth. And Body Peirce's can get infected and so forth. So neither.
I have neither, but I support both, albeit within the constraints of moderation. I wouldn't mind if somebody had two tattoo sleeves, two big tattoos and a dozen piercings, but any more than that would be too much.
I think tattoos are probably better than piercings (depending on where you get them). if you are going to have a tattoo, put it on a place where you won't regret putting it there later. the same rule applies to piercings. for example: trampstamps are bad, something on your arm is okay as long as it won't offend anybody, and anything on your neck or higher is just plain crazy and wrong.
Well, for a many religious groups, mainly them die hard Christians, marking your body in any way is defiling yourself, so on and so forth. Your supposed to be happy with the way god made ya! Oh yeah! I don't really mind piercings or tattoos, I want more peircings myself. A tattoo here or there'd doesn't really matter, as long as I can look at the tattoo and think of something fondly. Not, oh this is when I got drunk with a stranger and got his and her tattoos
Well, I personally thought of peircings as cool which was why i got so many, and i think tattooes are cool too, but i dont want to go overboard with either. And not that it matters, but im a girl, and i just want to stay in the realm of what is reasonable and i dont want to appear trashy or anything.
It's people's choice's if they want tat's and so on. I'd never get one. I hate them. But that's cool I guess YOU got Body Piercings. That is good. That you know your limits of the Piercing you want.
I think that one of the reason that tats and piercings are considered bad, is because the New Testament (the Torah to me) says that piercings is one of the ways to make a consenting person a slave for life, and the reason that tats are disproved of is because supposedly we are made Betzelem Elohiem (in the image of God), and we shouldn't desecrate our bodies.
i have both. i've got ears, and bellybutton. for tattoos, i've got 2 on my hips and then 1 on my back. neither one is bad, just dont get it at a lame place that reuses needles.
Also, what I don't think so many people realize, is that tattoos are PERMANENT!!!! Once you get one you can't remove it without painful surgery. That is why I will never get a tattoo, and I won't get piercings because I think they look just weird on a guy.
