This might drop off with age. I'm in my early fifties and only ever saw tattoos on bikers, sailors, manual labourers and Bon Scott. I don't think criminality

This might drop off with age. I'm in my early fifties and only ever saw tattoos on bikers, sailors, manual labourers and Bon Scott. I don't think criminality was ever the main association, although I always assumed the tattooed men knew criminals from watching TV news. Younger people would have never made those mental associations but like you, I do struggle to disassociate tattoos with lower class people. I often wonder what some of these young people are going to do as they get older, as the heavily tattooed amongst them just look like an indiscriminate mess of green and black bad decisions.