As a guy who had a bit of a delinquent streak and was sleeved with homemade tattoos by my late teens (in the mid 90s) I am SO happy that tattoos have become soc

As a guy who had a bit of a delinquent streak and was sleeved with homemade tattoos by my late teens (in the mid 90s) I am SO happy that tattoos have become socially acceptable. Through an accident of fashion all of those warnings about never being able to get a job or be taken seriously have been rendered moot. Now most of my original tattoos have been covered with much nicer, less embarrassing work and I blend in with every other vaguely edgy middle aged adult. The tattoos I had when I was young meant something, but only in the sense that they were meant to signal a teenager's rebellious and dangerous nature. In a way you could say that the tattoos didn't have to be physically removed since the surrounding culture did that for me. The effect of the big sea change in fashion meant that the permanent marks on my body no longer kept me outside of polite society. Far less involved than lasers, that's for sure.