AGeorgiamother who was arrested for allowing her ten-year-old to get a tattoo said she had no idea it was illegal for him to get one, even with her consent.
A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. The first written reference to the word, “tattoo” (or Samoan “Tatau”) appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook’s ship the HMS Endeavour in 1769: I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humour or disposition.
Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, Ötzi the Iceman, , was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps. He had 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle. These tattoos were thought to be a form of healing because of their placement which resembles acupuncture.
Evidentially, people think body art is pretty. Anyway, it’s in vogue. A lady who worked for me, went with her mother for a tattoo. They each had something inscribed on their ankles.
A friend once asked me what I though of body art and piercings. (Jesus had body piercings.) We tried at one time to prosecute some guys in the army for defacing government property. It didn’t work. I can tolerate some of the small, tasteful tattooes…it’s those gross, all-over tattoos that the pro basketball players have that keep me from watching them on television. Could we prosecute their mothers for allowing them to get all that ink injected?
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I got a “tat” years back – trendy and pretty then, not so much now…Don’t think I’d like the kind of piercings Jesus endured….