This is just retarded

[bowdown201]

Body art and deviant behavior: Study finds link between multiple tattoos, piercings and trouble

Here's a new aphorism: "The more body art you have, the more likely you are to be involved in deviance."

So says Jerome Koch, a sociologist with Texas Tech University's "Body Art Team" -- true moniker -- which surveyed 1,753 students at four colleges and found a correlation between multiple tattoos or piercings and "deviant behavior."

The severally inked or poked at the unnamed Midwestern and Southern colleges said they engaged in, roughly speaking, more promiscuity, more drug use, more binge drinking, more arrests and more cheating on academics than their peers.

The research team has been studying tattoos and piercing since 1999; its latest study will be printed in The Social Science Journal in March and was first reported in Miller-McCune magazine, which tracks academic research.

But the new data also suggest parents needn't freak about a lone dolphin (14 percent of surveyed students had a tattoo) or a belly-button ring (37 percent had a body piercing). "For low-level body art, these kids are not any different from anybody else."

The correlation with deviant behavior came among the 4 percent of students who had four or more tattoos, seven or more piercings, or one "intimate piercing," said Koch. Over at Taylor Street Tattoo, close to the University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-illinois-at-chicago-OREDU0000154.topic)'s Near West Side (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/us/illinois/cook-county/chicago/near-west-side-PLGEO100100806010794.topic) campus, owner Timothy Gooding stood up for his clients.

"The people I see on a regular basis that get tattooed are some of the nicest, most well-mannered people," Gooding said. "I see college kids, screaming, yelling, fighting on a regular basis. Those are not my kids."

Koch doesn't necessarily disagree. He says what the study really demonstrates is how body art going mainstream has upped the ante for those who would treat it as more of a subculture.

[AdriSciontC]

I have a total of 4 peircings... used to be 5 AND thinking about getting more...... I've never been a deviant...

[bowdown201]

I have a total of 4 peircings... used to be 5 AND thinking about getting more...... I've never been a deviant...

Its crazy how people are so quick to judge people just because they dont agree on what they think is "different"

Its like "Hey I have a tattoo or gauges in my ear, now I'm gonna whoop your ass"

[oneSLOWex]

Its always the dumb ones that ruin it for the good people.

[AdriSciontC]

Its crazy how people are so quick to judge people just because they dont agree on what they think is "different"

Its like "Hey I have a tattoo or gauges in my ear, now I'm gonna whoop your ass"

Everyone's different...successful serial killers (not condoning killing) are the ones that BLEND into society, they're usually the kind and normal looking "good" neighbors, "friends" etc... not usually the tatted up peirced up looking people, that way they DON'T stick out...

[bowdown201]

Everyone's different...successful serial killers (not condoning killing) are the ones that BLEND into society, they're usually the kind and normal looking "good" neighbors, "friends" etc... not usually the tatted up peirced up looking people, that way they DON'T stick out...

lol you are correct.

[amandDA]

this is stupid...

[S2KJD]

surveyed over 1700 students over 4 colleges and thats what the stats showed so why so retarded?

maybe a little weird to try and prove the correlation bw the 2 but thats what the facts showed so it is what it is. at least bw those 4 colleges.

this doesnt mean if you have more than 4 tats now you are apart of the deviant behavior group but for 4% it proved to be so...


and its "ratarded" :D

[bowdown201]

surveyed over 1700 students over 4 colleges and thats what the stats showed so why so retarded?

maybe a little weird to try and prove the correlation bw the 2 but thats what the facts showed so it is what it is. at least bw those 4 colleges.

this doesnt mean if you have more than 4 tats now you are apart of the deviant behavior group but for 4% it proved to be so...


and its "ratarded" :D

So basically because of their own personal actions (having nothing to do with tattoos or piercings) puts them in a category JUST because they do?

[bdydrpdmazda]

I have lots of tats and Ive only been arrested a few times...

[xxbckiexx]

I have a total of 4 peircings... used to be 5 AND thinking about getting more...... I've never been a deviant...

look you imbecile, there's a difference between having piercing on your ears/stomach/clit and having piercings and looking like this

http://z.about.com/d/diyfashion/1/0/b/G/-/-/Punk_Piercings.jpg

It's just stereotyping. And frankly, 99% of inked people or people with odd piercings get themselves into trouble, or "do deviant things". Now some of you who are goody goody, and just like the look, and don't do deviant things, you're choosing to be put in the class of all the other deviant individuals, because you look like them. Don't like it? Change it.

[bowdown201]

It's just stereotyping. And frankly, 99% of inked people or people with odd piercings get themselves into trouble, or "do deviant things". Now some of you who are goody goody, and just like the look, and don't do deviant things, you're choosing to be put in the class of all the other deviant individuals, because you look like them. Don't like it? Change it.

lol im by far no goody goody. The point of the thread was stereotyping. You can by no means blame tattoos or piercings on someones own personal behavior

[NEMO]

i have 4 tattoos and 5 peircings. I have never been arrested

[AnthonyF]

LOLOL

I don't think Scott Peterson had any tattoos.

-Ant.

[S2KJD]

So basically because of their own personal actions (having nothing to do with tattoos or piercings) puts them in a category JUST because they do?


hey i said the corrallation bw the 2 was weird to go after but thats what it showed so how can you argue with facts. again for those particular people at those particular schools so dont get offended or anything. :cheers:

[xxbckiexx]

lol im by far no goody goody. The point of the thread was stereotyping. You can by no means blame tattoos or piercings on someones own personal behavior


of course not, and that's not what this guy was doing. He just surveyed and found an obvious relation between the two. Also, "deviant" does not mean being a serial murderer. It could be vandalism or a number of any CRIMES. This guy didn't state "you got tattoo's and piercings? you're a criminal" He just said, that there seems to be a correlation between the two.

[S2KJD]

i have 4 tattoos and 5 peircings. I have never been arrested

so you wouldnt of made the 4% like many others there that are just like you and didnt either im sure...:goodjob:

[S2KJD]

of course not, and that's not what this guy was doing. He just surveyed and found an obvious relation between the two. Also, "deviant" does not mean being a serial murderer. It could be vandalism or a number of any CRIMES. This guy didn't state "you got tattoo's and piercings? you're a criminal" He just said, that there seems to be a correlation between the two.

this guy gets it :goodjob:

[SE-R_Li-Go]

woww really? i have 3 piercings and one tattoo with more to come. does this mean im going to be more of a deviant then than i am now when i get those other tattoos?

so the 1700 students studied from 4 colleges decide that the more tattoos or piercings a person has the more deviant they are more likely to be? what about the remaining hundreds of thousands of students from the other thousands of colleges? their sample population is not even big enough to cover a minute percentage of the remaining population. let alone make that presumption.

[bowdown201]

hey i said the corrallation bw the 2 was weird to go after but thats what it showed so how can you argue with facts. again for those particular people at those particular schools so dont get offended or anything. :cheers:

Lol no offense here :cheers:


of course not, and that's not what this guy was doing. He just surveyed and found an obvious relation between the two. Also, "deviant" does not mean being a serial murderer. It could be vandalism or a number of any CRIMES. This guy didn't state "you got tattoo's and piercings? you're a criminal" He just said, that there seems to be a correlation between the two.

Point taken. But it also makes you wonder what the percentage would be of the people with no tattoos or piercings

[S2KJD]

oh my :thinking: to se-r's post...


please read both of xxbckiexx post for simple clarification to the matter then repost your thoughts...

[S2KJD]

Lol no offense here :cheers:



Point taken. But it also makes you wonder what the percentage would be of the people with no tattoos or piercings

good. sure but thats not as exciting to talk about :D i kid i kid :goodjob:

ok back to serious: your post says ""So says Jerome Koch, a sociologist with Texas Tech University's "Body Art Team" -- true moniker -- which surveyed 1,753 students at four colleges and found a correlation between multiple tattoos or piercings and "deviant behavior.""


it wasnt 1700 tatooed people.

[SE-R_Li-Go]

oh my :thinking: to se-r's post...

what? their study population was not large enough to even make conclusions like that. and the 4% stated in the article is the percentage of students with 4 or more tattoos. not the ones who are more deviant because of the number of tattoos.

idk. maybe im only making sense in my head. lol

[xxbckiexx]

woww really? i have 3 piercings and one tattoo with more to come. does this mean im going to be more of a deviant then than i am now when i get those other tattoos?

so the 1700 students studied from 4 colleges decide that the more tattoos or piercings a person has the more deviant they are more likely to be? what about the remaining hundreds of thousands of students from the other thousands of colleges? their sample population is not even big enough to cover a minute percentage of the remaining population. let alone make that presumption.


This isn't the end all be all factoid of the fucking century. It's the results from HIS personal surveys of the students in which he could contact. Sadly, I bet he would find these same typical responses in just about any state/school he went to. When you do certain things to yourself, you choose to look a certain way, you have to accept that society is going to view you a certain way. That will never change. And like I told scion bitch or whatever her name is, looking like a regular GIRL, and dressing like a regular girl, with a few regular piercings and the obvious tattoo that pretty much every 18 girl gets now, doesn't classify you in this. He's clearly talking tattoo's in obvious places that people can see at all times, and piercings that are out of place, on your lip, nose hook, etc etc. Obviously a girl with a tramp stamp and 3 piercings in each ear and a belly button piercing is not personified by this survey.

[S2KJD]

idk. maybe im only making sense in my head. lol

i hear ya and glad you didnt take offense to my post cause thats not how i was intending it to sound. but i really think people with tats/piercings are reading into this negatively from the beginning instead of actually understanding what the survey intels.

[SE-R_Li-Go]

This isn't the end all be all factoid of the fucking century. It's the results from HIS personal surveys of the students in which he could contact. Sadly, I bet he would find these same typical responses in just about any state/school he went to. When you do certain things to yourself, you choose to look a certain way, you have to accept that society is going to view you a certain way. That will never change. And like I told scion bitch or whatever her name is, looking like a regular GIRL, and dressing like a regular girl, with a few regular piercings and the obvious tattoo that pretty much every 18 girl gets now, doesn't classify you in this. He's clearly talking tattoo's in obvious places that people can see at all times, and piercings that are out of place, on your lip, nose hook, etc etc. Obviously a girl with a tramp stamp and 3 piercings in each ear and a belly button piercing is not personified by this survey.

i disagree but, hey, to each their own. :goodjob:

[5speed]

I have a tattoo and plan on a lot more. Even thought about becoming a tattoo artist. Had my lip pierced also before it became the cool thing for kids. Sure I was a deviant but before I ever had a tattoo, and only for the means of survival ( I only stole food). I think they just made a statistic and steered it the way they wanted it to go. Manipulation is key.

[S2KJD]

i disagree but, hey, to each their own. :goodjob:


true but dont turn deviant on us now :D

[swimshark]

vvvvv lol

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/35580398_529e12c2e9.jpg

[xxbckiexx]

i disagree but, hey, to each their own. :goodjob:


Of course you do, because you "fit" this stereotype.

When asked this question, the first type of person that pops into their head is someone with odd placed piercings and tattoo's everywhere.

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/x/Q/-/-/TattooSpikyBob.jpg

like that guy.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/157650572_d4eea92767.jpg
or that guy.


of course these are extreme examples, but this is the stereotype that people think of when questioned "hey do you think people with multiple visible piercings and tattoo's are more likely to cause trouble?"

[S2KJD]

good gosh that pic is HUGE lol!

[SE-R_Li-Go]

i hear ya and glad you didnt take offense to my post cause thats not how i was intending it to sound. but i really think people with tats/piercings are reading into this negatively from the beginning instead of actually understanding what the survey intels.

haha no problem. why get so bent out of shape over something on the internet, yah know? :)
but yeah, honestly i dont care what people think of me because of my piercings and tattoos. i love them. like bowdown said, its more about the sterotyping people based on something so minscule as tattoos and piercings.
anywho, in the end it doesnt matter what this guy's study says. i am who i am with or without my tattoo and piercings.

[SE-R_Li-Go]

true but dont turn deviant on us now :D

haha okay. ill try. i promise ;)

[xxbckiexx]

anywho, in the end it doesnt matter what this guy's study says. i am who i am with or without my tattoo and piercings.

clearly. however look at it this way, as a man, if i see a girl with a tattoo on the lower back, it might as well be a bullseye. That's why it's called a "Tramp stamp". This is the same thing. Stereotyping, and EVERYONE is guilty of it, in one way or another.

[xxbckiexx]

true but dont turn deviant on us now :D

unless of course she becomes a sexual deviant. amirite?

[SE-R_Li-Go]

clearly. however look at it this way, as a man, if i see a girl with a tattoo on the lower back, it might as well be a bullseye. That's why it's called a "Tramp stamp". This is the same thing. Stereotyping, and EVERYONE is guilty of it, in one way or another.

true. you are right.

[SE-R_Li-Go]

unless of course she becomes a sexual deviant. amirite?

hahaha :lmfao: