the last 100 years tattooing was commonly associated with criminals, motorcyclists and gang members but amazingly in the last 20 years drastic change has been noticed. Nearly 50% of all tattoos are done on women.You did not see tattoos on women very much earlier but women from ages of 18 to 40, the soccer moms
tatooIt is completely a wrong idea that tattoos prevailed only with men but there are certain tribes where women practice tattooing with definite reason. For instance women from Borneo would mark themselves to show what they were skilled at, such as weaving or the gatherer of medicinal herbs and this further communicated their rank as marriage material. Even girls of western Asia were marked to show their place in society. In some society tattooing were strictly practice by women and not the men.
