Legitimating The First Tattoo Summary

Irwin discusses in the article Legitimating the First Tattoo: Moral Passage Through Informal Interaction on the internal struggle of those who get tattoos must go through as they commit to art that they get on their body. Throughout the article, Irwin refers to the idea of tattoos with the common assumptions that were associated with like a low status social class and surrounded by a stigma of lacking sense and basic elegance. Tattoos were often once associated with stereotypes such as “dangerous” outcasts that had often associated with this form of body modification. The phenomenon of tattoos started as a sort of strange and more unique practice (as it wasn’t as common) that was surrounded mostly by stigma. Meaning it was focused around