Comments on: Tattoos and Piercings May Advertise Good Health http://www.scienceoxfordonline.com/tattoos-and-piercings-may-advertise-good-health Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mark Pajak http://www.scienceoxfordonline.com/tattoos-and-piercings-may-advertise-good-health/comment-page-1#comment-93 Mark Pajak Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:59:30 +0000 http://www.scienceoxfordonline.com/?p=1840#comment-93 OK, but surely for this to work we must know, or subconsciously know, how our immune system will fare against such bodily invasion - i.e. "I know I have a good immune system therefore I shall get a tattoo". Or is the reverse true as well?: both people with good and people with bad immune systems get tattooed and piercings, those who survive get to reproduce. I suppose this works - you know you take a risk when you modify yourself, but if you think you are doing it for any reason other than to get laid you are just kidding youself right? ......time to get inked up! OK, but surely for this to work we must know, or subconsciously know, how our immune system will fare against such bodily invasion – i.e. “I know I have a good immune system therefore I shall get a tattoo”. Or is the reverse true as well?: both people with good and people with bad immune systems get tattooed and piercings, those who survive get to reproduce. I suppose this works – you know you take a risk when you modify yourself, but if you think you are doing it for any reason other than to get laid you are just kidding youself right?

……time to get inked up!

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