Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Tatoo and piercing.

After looking at the title of the article, I became worried about the dangers of body art. Body art has previously been affiliated with tough and rough looking people, or outcasts in society. It is odd to see that so many more people today are getting tattoos. I wonder what the risks are, and how people can prevent dangerous things from happening to their bodies. Hopefully the article can help answer some of my quetions.
The article lists a few problems that occur to people with tatoos and piercings, such as infections and skin irritations. Most body art places do not use sterile methods when piercing people or giving people tatoos. In unclean and dirty work conditions, piercers and tatoo artists can give their customers diseases such as HIV, hepatitis b and C, tetanus and many other diseases. Body art, as beautiful as it may seem can be harmful, or even deadly.

This article pretains to all people with body art. All people should be aware of the dangers and give a lot of thought about what they want to get before they get something done permanently to their bodies. Body art can be beautiful but pain is a price to pay. For anyone interested in getting a tatoo or a body part pierced, I suggest you be extremely careful and think before you get something you might regret in the future.

3 comments:

  1. I think tattos are an interesting way to show art, there are alot of interesting looking tattos but once you get them they can never come off

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  2. I'm still going to get a tattoo, even though they talked about how you could possible get the "HIV".

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  3. I want a tatoo so badly but where can i get a good one that doesnt have the posibility of getting HIV in the process

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