In this lecture we discussed many topics on body piercing and tattoos.
The history of body piercing and tattoos have been around since the Neolithic times, Mummy bearing tattoos dating back from the end of the second millennium BC have also been discovered. I found it interesting to know that tattoos have served as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility,protection. Personally i think tattoos are okay, i have my ear pierced and one tattoo at the moment which is a flaming sun on my arm. I choose a tattoo of the sun because the sun brings life to plants and all living beings on earth and also the sun makes people cheerful. i think one or two tattoos in the right places can look nice, but some people just go over the top and seem too have the idea of wanting to tattoo there whole face. i was shocked by the picture's shown in the lecture on body piercing. i had watched faces from the audience cringed in disgust and a few individuals licking there lips!!! well hey every man and woman to there own devices. i was also afraid of going to sleep that night on Thursday frightened of waking up with subliminal flash backs of the picture's shown in class of a pierce you know what staring at me, lol only exaggerating.
Now days young youths see tattoo's as a sign of being masculine, as (being bad) and i think it's been glorified too much in society, through music video's.
The question is what makes people want to inflict that type of pain on them selves?
who knows?
No comments:
Post a Comment