More Christian tattoo artists a positive development?

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

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[farouk]

I do understand ones desire to get a tattoo, but ear piercings, if it's a girl understandable, but I don't understand guys doing it haha.

@Josho Your comment is fine! what I would do is suggest you think about what tattoo parlors do typically. They do tattoos; they also do ear piercings, etc. At parlors they expect to tattoo women; and they expect to pierce men and boys' ears. It has greatly changed from when it was overwhelmingly men who got tattoos; it has greatly changed as regards ear piercings also. Quite simply, at parlors they expect to tattoo women as well as men; and they expect to pierce men's and boys' ears as well as women's.

For a long time now, it's moms who have often spearhead boys' and young men's earring acquisitions; FYI, condensed quotes on the other thread:

My son wanted his ear pierced ... all my friends that have boys had their ears done. He wanted to be just like them. .. I let him .. so he got it done...

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My mom took me to get one ear pierced when I was about twelve. .. I didn't even know what was happening when she told me we were going to the mall. .. ear piercings are fully accepted for both genders.

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This is from the Bible Belt, FYI:

Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.

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Leaving aside individual preferences, @Josho , to which everyone is entitled, now, generally speaking, getting tattooed is a womanly, as well as manly, thing to do and getting ear piercings is a manly, as well as womanly, thing to do.

You might not remember 40 years ago, but in the late 70s it was becoming very widespread for teen girls - and their moms - to acquire 2nd / 3rd ear piercings. So imagine the situation of a boy or young man 40 years ago who asked for 1 stud in one ear — when his mom and sister already had 2 or 3 in each ear. Natural justice would seem strongly to indicate that it would have been very unfair to deny a young man or boy even one stud put in one ear in such circumstances. So it's now very well established at tattoo parlors for them to do the ears of men and boys as well as of women and girls.

(2c...)

If this is at all logical?

 

[Sabertooth]

Q: How much does a pirate pay for his piercings?
A: A buck an ear!

 

[farouk]

(Addendum here also, because relevant: )

I dont stand a chance, I have short hair, wear trousers, divorced, have a tattoo..

@Butterfly My wife chopped her hair years ago - very widespread among Godly women. My wife wears pants most of the time - very widespread among Godly women. She's not inked but being inked is very widespread among Godly women.

Hi, @Butterfly As well as its history of being manly, getting tattooed is very well established as a thoroughly womanly thing to do; there are Godly women who do it, meditating on Scripture about it, still liking it years later, enjoying opportunities that it brings to share testimony and truly feeling good about it.

 

[farouk]

Q: How much does a pirate pay for his piercings?
A: A buck an ear!

@Sabertooth I think I'll paste it to the other thread... :)

 

[farouk]

Christians can GO to secular artists.

@Sabertooth They do! :)

 

[farouk]

1 Cor. 7:4 cuts both ways, anyway.

@Sabertooth Did you know that some couples today at their wedding ceremony include getting a mutual tattoo, to symbolize the marriage's permanence?

 

[Sabertooth]

Did you know that some couples today at their wedding ceremony include getting a mutual tattoo, to symbolize the marriage's permanence?

No, I didn't. It isn't unprecedented, though. Live-ins, a type of common-law marriage, have been doing this forever.

If one outlives the other, it is awkward for subsequent marriages.

 

[farouk]

No, I didn't. It isn't unprecedented, though. Live-ins, a type of common-law marriage, have been doing this forever.

If one outlives the other, it is awkward for subsequent marriages.

@Sabertooth Well, I guess that there is nothing shameful about marrying a widow/widower; so I guess one permanent inking could be followed by another, later in life...

 

[farouk]

She says would have to work as an apprentice for 1 year minimum ...

@Waiting on him Guess it depends just on how much it is a desired strategic aim on the part of someone with evident, proven artist flair; and it's possible for ppl to contemplate it for a very long time without doing anything to move it forward, of course; leaving aside the part-time/full-time equations, depends really I guess on how strongly the person would relish doing it in expressivity to all the people who want it and would trust her to do it, right?

 

[farouk]

@Sabertooth FYI, this is an example:

 

[farouk]

...quite frequently about things like tattoos ...

@Hidden In Him Well, they are undoubtedly a quite frequent occurrence now these days among Christian men and women, aren't they?

Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.

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[amadeus]

@Sabertooth Oh it's doctrinally conservative all right; it's just that I guess those things are so much part of the culture now that to give them a hard time about it would be senseless.

Even that word "conservative" like the word "liberal" has different meanings to different people, similar, I would say, to the differences among believers in Jesus as to what it means to be "saved"? Don't you agree?

Have you ever heard the expression: "Creeping worldiness"?

 

[farouk]

...tongues pierced...I see no point at all.

@Josho Well, the lady serving in my local Christian bookstore had a tongue ring (not that I was trying to look into her mouth, but she opened her mouth to talk...) I supposed one could say that earrings have no point, either, but like earrings tongue rings are very widespread, anyway.

 

[Josho]

@Josho Well, the lady serving in my local Christian bookstore had a tongue ring (not that I was trying to look into her mouth, but she opened her mouth to talk...) I supposed one could say that earrings have no point, either, but like earrings tongue rings are very widespread, anyway.

You know how painful that sounds right?

 

[farouk]

You know how painful that sounds right?

Well, I never did it (!) but ppl say the actually putting through of the needle canula doesn't hurt much; though subsequent swelling of the tongue can be uncomfortable; if you've ever had your ears pierced you'll know that the similar needle method is actually less invasive than a gun which rips the flesh.

 

[Josho]

Well, I never did it (!) but ppl say the actually putting through of the needle canula doesn't hurt much; though subsequent swelling of the tongue can be uncomfortable; if you've ever had your ears pierced you'll know that the similar needle method is actually less invasive than a gun which rips the flesh.

Just imagine it though, food already gets stuck in between teeth, now imagine getting food stuck in between a tongue piercing, and then quite possibly getting a fish bone stuck in your tongue piercing in the hole where the piercing went through.

 

[farouk]

Just imagine it though, food already gets stuck in between teeth, now imagine getting food stuck in between a tongue piercing, and then quite possibly getting a fish bone stuck in your tongue piercing in the hole where the piercing went through.

@Josho Point taken; although ppl who have them would remove them for cleaning (not unlike brushing one's teeth); just as if you or any siblings have pierced your ears you might remove the studs/rings from time to time. Tattoos also are sometimes lubricated and even touched up with more colour eventually.

 

[farouk]

So glad I got it.

@Mayflower Would you yourself clearly, then, be quite a firm supporter of the tattoo industry, really?

 

[farouk]

...I have in times past considered getting a Tattoo

@Truth Clearly, over and above the many ppl who do get tattoos, a lot more at some stage have thought of doing it.

The tattoo industry anyway is there and growing, available for those who are considering some personal ink. (Hence also the poll question, above.)