Comments on: Lose the Tatts, seek purity. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/lose-the-tatts-seek-purity/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Chris https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/lose-the-tatts-seek-purity/comment-page-1/#comment-2305 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:54:05 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=2152#comment-2305 In short, there is a correlation between tattoos and at risk behavour and this with mental illness. But the method of this is probably that getting a tattoo is a risk behaviour, and that is the factor that matters.

]]> By: Iris https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/lose-the-tatts-seek-purity/comment-page-1/#comment-2302 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:11:08 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=2152#comment-2302 My dermatologist has a “tattoo removal specialist” in his practice. I know this sounds mean, but I always get a kick-out of the middle aged women in the waiting room in the process of getting their tramp stamps lasered off.

On a serious note: I beleive there’s been a few studies linking multiple tattoos with mental illness. I know in Japan people typical assume a tattooed individual is off their rocker (alternatively, in the Yakuza).

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