Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Carlos Andrés Joya Martínez.

Tattoos and body piercing common perspective

There is a lot of people think that tattoos and body piercing are just for drugs problems persons or criminal but the truth is that both tattoos and piercing are a form of art that reflects the personality and individuality of the person that wear them, now we are going to know the real reasons of how a person get a tattoo a piercing and most important of all that all the taboos that involve them.

Is very common that a person associate a tattoo or a person with some kind of body perforation for a bad but the truth is that there is nothing different or bad about these person just because they have something draw in the skin or a hole in some part of the body or because you draw something with a marker in your arm you start to thick in make a crime or consume drugs. Other wrong idea about these thins is that if you get a piercing done you are going to get AIDS but the truth is that these can happens if you do it without the proper health conditions, normally the needle is new and sterilize before use it and you must take care of if after is done to avoid infections. If all these aspects are take care of you don’t have to be worry about any heath complications.

Other important point is that these persons don’t do this type of thins because they are crazy or something many people do it to remember somebody that is gone or very far away, to calm the pain or just because they appreciate the art and there is no better way to admire something that you very like that carry it with you in your own skin.



Other thin that people don’t know is that tattoos have a very antic and extend history for example the Maori people in “New Zeeland develop a technique to tattooing name Moko and consist in wood cancels with little points on the end an a lithe hammer” (http://www.tattooarchive.com/tattoo_history.htm), like these culture many others use this form of art to express themselves and their believes, the same thin goes to de body piercing in fact even now there are aborigines tribes that use body perforations. “Nose piercing was first recorded in the Middle East aproximately 4,000 years ago, it is mentioned in The Bible in Genesis 24:22 Abraham requested his oldest servant to find a wife for his son Isaac, the servant found Rebekah, and one of the gifts he gave her was a "golden earring" the original Hebrew word used was Shanf, which also translates as "nose-ring".”(http://www.painfulpleasures.com/piercing_history.htm)
In conclusion the tattoos and piercing are a form of expression and all the real reasons behind them and the taboos and wrong ides that the people have about them were nothing but that wrong ideas, and the truth is that there are more and more acceptable in society as the person are informed about the real facts of tattoos and body piercing.

Text citations
(body piercing history, http://www.painfulpleasures.com/piercing_history.htm, Jewels & Women; The Romance, Magic and Art of Feminine Adornment" Marianne Ostier, Horizon Press, New York, 1958)
(tattoo history, http://www.tattooarchive.com/tattoo_history.htm,

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