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Many, many, many years ago only really tough guys had tattoos, almost exclusively sailors and former or current prisoners.

Today teenage girls go to the tattoo shop together with their moms. If you get a tattoo today, it just means you want to be like everyone else.

This has had the unintended side effect of prisoners having to tattoo their faces to show they are harder edged folks then your average teen. And this in turn makes it harder form them to a get a job once they are out of prison, because previously you could just wear long sleeves and that would do the job most of the time.

Also back in the day if you had tattoos, with nothing else, a lot of people would actually think better not mess with that dude. Today, it means nothing.

But according to my anthropology professor, most civilizations thought the ages. had body modifications well beyond what we're doing today.