Are tattoos indicators of mental illness, lack of foresight and promiscous behaviour

Scientific studies are revealing some alarming findings shown here: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=165302521 The majority of this article is taken from this research, often verbatim.

Research listed on these links reveal some startling psychological information

Heywood: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22153289
Nowosielski: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22616886
Yen: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22726901

Being tattooed is associated with greater numbers of lifetime sexual partners (Heywood 2012), earlier sexual initiation, higher frequency of sexual intercourse and increased preference for oral sex (Nowosielski 2012). In adolescents, tattoos also correlate with the likelihood of having unprotected sex (Yen, 2012), but not in adults (Nowosielski 2012).

Tattoos indicate lack of foresight

Tattoos indicate impulsiveness (Kim, 1991). In students, tattooing is associated with risk-taking behaviors, including smoking and cannabis use (Heywood, 2012). Participants with tattoos or body piercings were more likely to have engaged in risk-taking behaviors and at greater degrees of involvement than those without either. These included gateway drug use, hard drug use, sexual activity, and suicide.

Gateway drug use was associated with younger age of both tattooing and body piercing. Hard drug use was associated with number of body piercings (Carroll 2002). In Croatian prisoners, tattoos correlated with lower IQs and those possessing them demonstrated significantly higher levels of impulsiveness than the non-tattooed group (Pozgain 2004). An overview of autopsy reports also revealed that persons with tattoos appear to die earlier than those without. A negative tattoo may suggest a predisposition to violent death, but is eclipsed by the presence of any tattoo (Carson 2014).

Kim: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1781185
Heywood: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22153289
Carroll: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12042538
Pozgain: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15119003
Carson: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24926092

Impulsiveness, increased risk taking behavior, increased change of death = Lack of foresight

Body modifications = mental illness

There are links between tattoos and psychiatric disorders such as depression (Heywood, 2012), eating disorders (Carroll, 2002), borderline personality disorder (Raspa, 1990), neuroticism (Pozgain, 2004) and increased risk of suicide (Carroll, 2002). Seven or more piercings, or intimate piercings, described higher risk behaviors and emotional distress (Owen 2013). In high school students, tattoos correlate with suicidal idealization, suicidal attempts, and depression (Yen 2012).

Raspa: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2333825
Owen: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23938068

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