Tattoo History

Society has developed many different ways to identify who a person is or where they may come from. Some distinctions are by a skin color, or by the way a person speaks. Many years ago and even to this day tattoos have been distinguishing who a person is. Tattoos have been put onto both sexes to decorate, enhance, and modify the skin given to us at birth. One site said that "tattoos are self-motivated expressions …

…University Press reported that Kant takes an affirmative stand against facial tattoos. He amalgamated both aesthetic and moral considerations into his objection to facial tattoos. Kant believes that facial tattoos will relate to the neoclassical ideal that allows facial tattoos to enhance human beauty. He also believes that the expressionist ideal of human beauty is consistent with the condition of moral respect, in that the ideal of human beauty is to be embody exclusively (Wicks).