Tattoos and society.

The use or the prejudgments made about tattoos is because there is a social context in which the tattoos belong to religious and spiritual strength, like the buddhist monks have some mantras and images from Buddha in the bak or another part of their bodies as a symbol of a connection between the monk and the religion. Nevertheless, in other societies  tattoos are seen as a transgression to the body, which is the most sacred temple in the universe; social groups such as jews, catholics, extreme asian societies, some circles in Latin America, and in some parts of the United States. Also, tattoos are considered as symbols of status in some mafias and fanatic partisan groups.

Despite the bad Western image of tattoos, some cultures in the central and southern part of Africa tattoos are used for rituals, class differentiation, priest union to the sacred gods, and for the transition from girl or boy to an adult individual capable for having new responsibilities. In a certain manner, in the Polynesian Islands have an use for tattoos like african tribes, but the great difference from the polynesian cultures such as the maori and aboriginal tribes in New Zealand and Fiji Islands use the tattoos as a communicational way, because in all their bodies they have their genealogical history, their adventures and their exploits of courage and strategy. 

My opinion about tattoos remains neutral, because if tattoos are used since millenary cultures, tattoos may be consider as acceptable at least to a certain point. Also, I consider that depending on social rules and manners, all the tattooed people must have a limit in their corporal modifications in general, not as oppression, but to have a better acceptation in society as well as the care that they must have in the tattoo shops, they must investigate establishments authorized for tattooing with sterilized material and with personal that have at least a narrow knowledge about medicine and the risks to tattoo a person.

By conclusion, tattoos are not bad neither good, but people must consider all the risks involved in tattoo industry.