>>24015965>>24015968>>24015970>>24015971Relationship 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?
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 clinichttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41289395/> inflammatory reaction at local and systemic levels follows ink capture...the inflammatory process is maintained over time, as we observed clear signs of inflammation in the draining LN 2 mo following tattooing. In addition, the capture of ink by macrophages was associated with the induction of apoptosis in both human and murine models... the ink accumulated in the LN altered the immune response against two different types of vaccines. 
