>>13725224Successul treatment for gender dysphoria was available since 1996
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8839957/Relationship of Tattoos to Personality Disorders
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5547&context=jclcInteractions between risky decisions, impulsiveness and smoking in young tattooed women
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829656/Activation of Herpes Simplex Infection after Tattoo.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29782308Who gets tattoos? Demographic and behavioral correlates of ever being tattooed in a representative sample of men and women.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22153289Tattoos, piercing, and sexual behaviors in young adults
https://www.academia.edu/7392787/Tattoos_piercing_and_sexual_behaviors_in_young_adultshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02791.xAdolescent and Young Adult Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarfication
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/140/4/e20163494.full.pdfDo young women with tattoos have lower self-esteem and body image than their peers without tattoos? A non-verbal repertory grid technique approach
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347139/>a study by Varma and Lanigan [62], showed that in 48% of the cases the main reason for tattoo removal was the desire to improve one's self-esteem>suicide victims were twice as likely to have tattoos compared to a matched sample of accidental-death victims observed in the same clinicThe women with tattoos tended to perceive the ideal body-image as being a tattooed body. Tattoos, just like breast implants, tummy-tucks and Botox injections are used to improve self-esteem through creating "a perfect" body-image
