tattoo culture is sucking my gf in

they can be done tastefully and sparingly and be really sexy on women, but that's the exception.

Just scribbling some random drawing and getting it inked is retarded.

I don't see much wrong with using carefully selected, meaningful tattoos as a kind of permanent record of important moments or as a literal "mark" of something valuable in your life/psyche/whatever.

This is kind of the traditional purpose of them since the dawn of time... a young man becomes a warrior, he gets a permanent mark to show he is such and so on.

Like if I see a guy with say, a USMC tat' I know he is a trained warfighter, has served his country, has maybe seen combat the likes of which I could never imagine etc etc, I respect him, I respect that mark.

But just getting them for the sake of getting them is stupid, hasty and she'll regret it... not probably regret it, 100% will regret it when she's old and all that once youthful skin is saggy, wrinkly and covered in diffuse blurry ink.

I have zero tattoos, not because I don't like them but because nothing has yet happened in my life that I feel warrants one.

Finally dude, her whole attitude suggests there is more to this... as somebody above said, you might want to go down to the shop where she's getting inked and figure out which guy is putting the moves on her because that's the vibe I'm getting off this too.

Good luck man, I think you ought to just move on.

What? tattoos are taken off pretty easy now days, Hurts but can be done.

'Hurts' is kind of an understatement bro. Sure, you may have a hope of successfully removing it within 5-12 painful laser "zapping" sessions (with weeks between visits)... but the bigger the tattoo, the bigger the blister. The more tattoos you have to remove, the more seemingly hopeless the task. Young people today who get too many, too fast, too big, too visible end up changing their minds and wanting them all gone… only to realize removal is a very long and expensive process, matched by its painfulness. People need to research before they make permanent changes to their body. Is that really so much to ask? People are not contemplative enough these days, they're not in touch with who they truly are. Lifelong decisions shouldn't be made in that state.

if I was her, i'd lose YOU. you don't like her?? fine. split.

her body, her choice
now you have a decision to make

her body, her choice
now you have a decision to make