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I both fully agree and disagree. While there are several tattoos I would like to have gotten in my life, I've never been able to justify the cost. Monitary cost or time cost. I do have one tattoo and it is my wedding ring. I do not wear jewelry and work with my hands. Now some may argue thats stupid for different reasons but it remains my only tattoo.
A friend once drew me a tattoo to get, and that would have been cheaper to have traced on to me, but after many years, I find I'm just as happy to have that piece of art my friend made hanging on my wall.
I love seeing other people's tattoos, particularly when it's someone's art and not yanked from media as you said or just tattoos for the sake of tattoos.
My wife has a number and they all mean something to her individually and look great. My brother has a few that all have meaning to him, and they mostly look terrible, but are still original art.
Its just such a long history and wide range of tattoos and reasons for having them i find it hard to put a blanket statment like " tattoos are stupid" on them. On the other hand i feel "tattoos are stupid for me" completely accurate and reasonable.
But what if you want to take your ring off to fuck some chick you picked up at a bar? You're SOL. Didn't think of that, did you?
I know you're being facetious here, but I have to say, it's wild how much more I get hit on as a clearly married dad than I did as a single man.
So I dunno man, if youre looking to get laid maybe just slap a ring on for the night and see what happens.
I'm married. I never wear my ring because I can't stand the danged thing, and in the two years of wearing it, it got all dinged and scratched up from scrambling up cliffsides and shit while fly fishing. I was being facetious, yeah, and I've (so far) been faithful to my wife about 20 years in. I also don't feel like either of us (wife and I) NEED to wear a ring -- we're going home to each other because we still love each other and we have integrity.