@Abaxvahl
What with your recent link about Bosnians;
What with the discussion earlier today where it was pointed out that in some parts of the world - Middle East, for example? - getting one's wrist tattooed with a cross is a widespread custom for young women from a professedly Christian background to do; the rationale is to insulate them from the unwanted attentions of men from widely differing religious backgrounds (and one could also readily understand if young women's parents would encourage them to have it done);
...and the example of the quote about the Victorian era: ....
"...one of the major resurgences of interest in tattoos in Europe occurred among 19th century high society Victorian women (as well as men), after British explorers .. brought back the practice to Britain. .. [It] grew during the 19th century, and even Winston Churchill’s mother had a tattoo .. on her wrist. Queen Victoria was also believed to have had a tattoo of a Bengal tiger.. . From Victorian Europe, the craze spread to America. In 1897,
(art critic, Margot) Miffin says that an estimated 75% of American society women were tattooed.."
(Black Fire: Women, Tattoos, and the Transformative Power of Body Art )
....
I just
don't get that it's supposedly not a womanly thing to do (whatever individual preferences may indeed be).
right?)
