Yes, ellar, the one thing I would not challenge you on is your choices. From what you say, your choices seem to be from particularly definite and positive reasoning so that's body freedom in action and that you have a preference for similar subjects in addition to the tattoos is similarly positive. What's a shame is that society imposes its narrower minded boundaries i.e. as you observe, there are "jobstopper tattoos" for some firms.
I believe there's a long and varied history to tats going back to prehistory. The extensive use of tattooing amongst american, australasian, african and indo-pacific peoples was, to invading and colonising western nations, an indicator of primitive cultures and of 'the heathen', consequently were not the 'done thing' in western Europe. Perhaps that attitude even colours attitudes to them today. Evidently early western explorers didn't have a word for it, I read. When I was a lad in northern UK in the 50's and 60s, tats were the preserve of the likes of sailors and labourers and never usually found on women(or seen, although they were there alright). A decade later they were discovered by members countercultures (and I think were always a counterculture thing in many nations) and so again were considered marginal. Quite when tattooing became so outrageously popular in the modern west, however, I don't know but I have observed its popularity mushroom in, say, the last couple of decades. It's an interesting thing that high profile people such as rock stars and models who change their fashion and evolve their styles, nowadays often have tats which don't change ever. I find that strange that they make such permanent choices in an impermanent world.
However, I am aware I'm talking from a knowledge base of zilch! That's all just my personal view.
That you say "I feel more confident and attractive with them" seems reason enough, I guess.
Hope you continue to get enjoyment and reinforcement out of your tats. Maybe you might post a picture?
John
