Get An Understanding Of Tattoos For Women

Women and tattoos

Women form sixty-five percent of those who get a tattoo done on their body according to a certain survey. Women, like men, get the tattoo done all over their body including the private parts but the lower back is popular with women to get a tattoo done.

Sometimes, women also get a tattoo on their buttocks or breasts or cleavage. This may just reflect their own desire or them responding or submitting to male desire and male lust.

Previously tattoos were looked down upon as uncouth and indiscipline. Now, things have changed slightly and tattoos are not that looked down upon.

If women got a tattoo, it was considered even worse than men getting a tattoo. With the restrictions patriarchal society places on women, certain things are attempted to be limited to men. If women got tattoos, they faced problems at their workplace and even in their neighborhood.

They were looked down upon as unrefined and with loose morals. This made even women apprehensive about getting tattoos.

An extreme example of such oppression was when in Boston in the 1920s, a woman who had gone to court as she had been raped, was turned out of the court as an immoral woman as she had a butterfly tattoo on her body and the male judges decided that the tattoo was a sign of depravity and the woman was inviting rape with such gestures. According to the judges, her body was already impure when she got a tattoo on her body and rape did not make her body less pure. The stupidity and horror of this case is evident to all with any semblance of justice and wisdom.

Generally performing women, such as those who were part of a circus, got tattoos. Their poverty which forced them to prostitute themselves further fed this social stigma.

However, things have changed quite a lot now. A tattoo is not looked down upon in that sense and to that extent. Women get tattoos of all shapes and sizes. As with men, it is quite common for women to get a tattoo depicting their lover or love. Hearts are a common motif for tattoos.

Some surveys suggest that women fare better through the tattooing process as in they respond in a much better way to pain and can withstand it more than men. It is due to social customs that some men believe in machoism and the over-dominating male.

They think that they are very strong and can withstand a lot of pain. This perhaps makes them unprepared for the considerable pain that one feels while getting a tattoo without being completely anaesthetized. These surveys suggest that women expect the pain and thus handle it better.

Tattoos are fashionable and trendy. Getting a tattoo done now doesn't raise too many eyebrows. Women are getting more tattoos nowadays and it is an artistic fashion statement.