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Body piercings and tattoos are becoming a popular thing, the range of styles and sizes are limitless. As so many people are getting these body modifications, it is now original not to have one!

There are many different reasons why people have tattoos and piercings, it could be for fun, sentimental reasons or be a symbol which represents a view or a group, or anything if it's meaningful to the individual. Usually they do not represent anything bad, although in some cases tattoos can often cause trouble when they demonstrate race hate symbols for example the swastika sign which represents hate towards others. This tattoo is shown in the film 'American History X', the picture above shows 'Derek' with a large swastika tattoo.

When tattoos and piercings represent hate this is when they are bad, also when they cause biological health risks such as an infection, is when I believe they are not good. They can also become addictive which can have detrimental effects on your psychological health.

A theory is that because tattoos and piercings have a high risk of infection it is actually a unconscious sign of strength if they are able to survive demonstrating a strong gene pool, therefore attracting the opposite sex to have children with them. Do you agree with this theory?!

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