{"id":21681,"date":"2010-07-27T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21681"},"modified":"2010-07-27T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:47:24","slug":"the-meaning-of-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21681","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning Of Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager, who was born in 1948, says that as a kid, he almost never saw tattooed women. &#8220;There was a sideshow in circuses of freaky people and one of them was the tattooed woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand the appeal of women covering their skin with anything. Women&#8217;s flesh is the allure. If it is painted, why is it alluring?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother-in-law is a psychiatrist and she says that tattooing is a diagnostic issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where there is a heavy dose of tattooing there may be an element of will someone try to get to know me through this major barrier, this veil, I&#8217;ve put up. It&#8217;s a statement of profound emotional insecurity. I&#8217;ve read that some women who&#8217;ve been raped will get obese to not attract any more men. I wonder if heavy tattooing is a way of psychologically working through something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A caller says that a tattooed woman is a signal to men that she&#8217;s more sexually available.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis says his show was prompted by going out for coffee with his wife at 1 a.m. and seeing an attractive young woman whose breast was tattooed &#8220;Badd.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager, who was born in 1948, says that as a kid, he almost never saw tattooed women. &#8220;There was a sideshow in circuses of freaky people and one of them was the tattooed woman.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23016,29761,23013,23015,23014,23017],"class_list":["post-21681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-circuses","tag-dennis-prager","tag-emotional-insecurity","tag-heavy-dose","tag-meaning-of-tattoos","tag-sideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}