Body art, deviance, and American college students

Changes in Aesthetic Appeal of Tattoos Are Influenced by the Attractiveness of Female Models

“…Past research shows that having a tattoo alters your perception of other tattooed individuals (Koch, Roberts, Armstrong, & Owen, 2010), and these results concur. However, while not statistically significant, post hoc tests during this experiment honed this idea, providing evidence that the only distinction between tattooed individuals arises from those participants who have three and four tattoos.…”

Gender Differences among Self-Reported Genital Piercing Stories

“…As alluded to earlier, prior research has given substantial attention to these backgrounds and has frequently pathologized genital piercings through associating them with a range of activities and experiences that this research has typically considered to be dangerous, debilitating, or otherwise problematic (e.g., Buhrich 1983;Favazza 1998;Koch et al 2010;Stirn et al 2011). It is interesting then that we found very few indications of these kinds of activities and experiences.…”

“…Coming from a wide variety of fields including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and especially medicine and nursing, research on body modification has considered everything from the more socially acceptable, such as cosmetic surgery (e.g., Morgan 1991;Sarwer et al 2005), to the less socially acceptable, such as cutting, branding, and scarification (e.g., Klesse 1999;Raza et al 2009). In between these two poles of acceptability, body piercing has arguably occupied a somewhat unique position of simultaneously being widely practiced (Armstrong et al 2007;Deschesnes, Demers, and Finès 2005) and yet, depending on the location of the piercing, often still being perceived as quite deviant (Koch et al 2010;Swami et al 2012). Research on body piercing has looked at topics including contexts and demographics (e.g., Bone et al 2008;Mayers et al 2002), motivations and decision-making processes (e.g., Stirn 2003;Wohlrab, Stahl, and Kappeler 2007), psychological and physiological risks (e.g., Koenig and Carnes 1999;Tweeten and Rickman 1998), as well as associations with broader cultural phenomena (e.g., Adams 2009;Pitts 2003).…”

“…In particular, research has found that in comparison to persons without genital piercings, persons with genital piercings are more likely to have been involved with or subject to a range of activities and experiences including BDSM (Buhrich 1983;Myers 1992;Rosenblatt 1997), risk-taking behaviors Koch et al 2010;Rinard et al 2010;Young et al 2010), sexual abuse and/or rape (Hewitt 1997;Hogan et al 2010;Liu and Lester 2012;Pitts 1998Pitts , 2003Stirn 2003;Stirn et al 2011;Young et al 2010), mental illness (Stirn et al 2011;Young et al 2010), esoteric spiritual practices (Myers 1992;Rosenblatt 1997), self-injury (Favazza 1998;Pitts 2000), domestic violence (Pitts 2003;Young et al 2010), and substance abuse (Koch et al 2010).…”

Evidence of Anticipatory Socialization Among Tattooed, Wannabe, and Non-Tattooed Adolescents

“…Negative views of tattooed persons may be related to correlates of tattoos that include many harmful behaviors, such as increased drinking (Brooks, Woods, Knight, & Shrier, 2003;Deschesnes, Fines, & Demers, 2006;Guéguen, 2012, Koch, Roberts, Armstrong, & Owen, 2010, drug use (Adams, 2009;Deschesnes et al, 2006;Dukes & Stein, 2011;Koch et al, 2010;Roberts & Ryan, 2002;), school truancy (Deschesnes et al, 2006;Roberts & Ryan, 2002), earlier sexual activity (Nowosielski, Sipinski, Kuczerawy, Kozlowska-Rup, & Skrzyplec-Plinta, 2012), multiple sex partners (Koch et al, 2010), delinquency (Deschesnes et al, 2006;Dukes & Stein, 2011;Roberts & Ryan, 2002), gang membership (Deschesnes et al, 2006;Roberts & Ryan, 2002), weapon carrying (Dukes & Stein, 2011;Thurnherr, Michaud, Berchtold, Akré, & Suris, 2009), violent behavior (Vanston & Scott, 2008), arrest (Koch et al, 2010), and time spent in jail (Adams, 2009). Correlates also involve decreased psychosocial health (Nathanson, Paulhus, & Williams, 2006;Roberti & Storch, 2005), increased sensation seeking and risk taking (Swami, 2012), eating disorders (Preti et al, 2006), increased self-cutting (Stirn & Hinz, 2008), and even suicide (Vanston & Scott, 2008).…”