Comments on: Done and Done http://50plusmale.com/2010/07/09/done-and-done/ A forum of men's trials, tribulations and exhilarations in their fifties and beyond Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: INA http://50plusmale.com/2010/07/09/done-and-done/comment-page-1/#comment-158 INA Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:07:53 +0000 http://50plusmale.com/2010/07/09/done-and-done/#comment-158 Truthfully, the tatoo has gone out the window along wih many many many other traditional jewish reasonings for why/how/don't we do many of what once was sacred. I believe the armed services and the brotherhood of this huge fraternity engaged it for ALL, and just a few, like Jews stopped, but that was possibly WWI and WWII. After those wars, it was a forgotten taboo. I personally do not like them, especially if they are seen, and on a women who is young and gorgeous, to me only, it is a symbol that unless hidden away for only the one they care about to see is the OK part. But, I still think about when that gorgeous women is 50+ and no longer has the body, not the face, but body to flaunt a tatoo smack on the middle of a bicep that has bone flabby due to many reasons. THIS IS STICTLY MY OPINION. I have a brother in law who has never had any real jewish connection whatsoever, doesnt' mean he isn't a jew in his heart, but at age 65 yrs old, he went and had a tatoo that appears as if it's a bracelet, all filled with jewish stars. I was speechless ad I rarely am speechless. It's a growing leaps and bounds field of body art. So, if your wife says NO, and I would too, I am not educated enough in jewish laws to know whether G-d would not allow you with the righteous people because of it. I have 4 young women in my life. My daughter, step daughter and 2 very close nieces (like my daughers). Everyone has a tatoo except MY daughter. Granted they are done tastefully and at the base of their neck so it's rare that it will be seen. My step daughter of course put it where most women do, the standard one right above the crack of the backside. We're all following trends now, have been, but no one mentions the horror stories and the possibilities that can go wrong, as a surgery, because you think if you go to the BEST where you're waiting a year for an appointment, that with using all sterile instruments, etc.....nothing can go wrong. WRONG!!!! But when you're in that frame of hype to get it done, it's the least of what you will worry about. Oh, and Neal...sounds like you're bored enough to consider it, but your wife is more important and you're a bit iffy on the jewish law. I say as a friend of 40 years, if it's placed where you can see wearing a T-shirt, it cheapens you. And I know, that this is only my opinion. Stay the GQ type of guy you are and find something else to amuse you, like one of the gorgeous cars being engineered...i can give you ones that wash off after a week if you want... just kidding!!!!!!! Truthfully, the tatoo has gone out the window along wih many many many other traditional jewish reasonings for why/how/don’t we do many of what once was sacred. I believe the armed services and the brotherhood of this huge fraternity engaged it for ALL, and just a few, like Jews stopped, but that was possibly WWI and WWII. After those wars, it was a forgotten taboo.

I personally do not like them, especially if they are seen, and on a women who is young and gorgeous, to me only, it is a symbol that unless hidden away for only the one they care about to see is the OK part. But, I still think about when that gorgeous women is 50+ and no longer has the body, not the face, but body to flaunt a tatoo smack on the middle of a bicep that has bone flabby due to many reasons. THIS IS STICTLY MY OPINION. I have a brother in law who has never had any real jewish connection whatsoever, doesnt’ mean he isn’t a jew in his heart, but at age 65 yrs old, he went and had a tatoo that appears as if it’s a bracelet, all filled with jewish stars. I was speechless ad I rarely am speechless. It’s a growing leaps and bounds field of body art. So, if your wife says NO, and I would too, I am not educated enough in jewish laws to know whether G-d would not allow you with the righteous people because of it. I have 4 young women in my life. My daughter, step daughter and 2 very close nieces (like my daughers). Everyone has a tatoo except MY daughter. Granted they are done tastefully and at the base of their neck so it’s rare that it will be seen. My step daughter of course put it where most women do, the standard one right above the crack of the backside. We’re all following trends now, have been, but no one mentions the horror stories and the possibilities that can go wrong, as a surgery, because you think if you go to the BEST where you’re waiting a year for an appointment, that with using all sterile instruments, etc…..nothing can go wrong. WRONG!!!! But when you’re in that frame of hype to get it done, it’s the least of what you will worry about. Oh, and Neal…sounds like you’re bored enough to consider it, but your wife is more important and you’re a bit iffy on the jewish law. I say as a friend of 40 years, if it’s placed where you can see wearing a T-shirt, it cheapens you. And I know, that this is only my opinion. Stay the GQ type of guy you are and find something else to amuse you, like one of the gorgeous cars being engineered…i can give you ones that wash off after a week if you want… just kidding!!!!!!!

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