A psychologist in France recently conducted a two-part experiment to see how men react to women with tattoos. First, women (who were undercover research assistants) were asked to lay on their stomachs at the beach for one hours periods. In some of the trials, they wore a temporary tattoo of a butterfly on their lower back, and in others they didn't. When the women wore tattoos, they were solicited by men 24 percent of the time, but without the tattoos they were approached only ten percent of the time. Men also made faster contact with the women with a tattoo, taking an average of just about 24 minutes to approach a woman with a tattoo versus nearly 35 minutes for women without.
The second part of the experiment asked men to answer questions about the woman on the beach, including having the men evalute the probability of getting a date with the woman and the probability of having sex with her on the first date. Men thought their chances of both were significantly higher with women who had a tattoo.
What's interesting is that some previous studies have shown that men view women with tattoos as less attractive overall (for instance, less athletic, less honest, less intelligent, etc.), yet here, they were approaching tattooed women more often, leading the researches to believe that men think women with tattoos are more promiscuous.
Now, before you ink-loving readers get mad at me, I'm not saying that any of those qualities describe you (um, they don't), and I'm not saying you should even care what some bozo on the beach thinks of your body art. If you love it, express yourself, girl. But because I'm always interested in the dynamics of people interacting, I am curious to know if the ladies out there with tattoos think it has affected the reactions they get from men, and if so, whether the attention seems in line with this study. Enlighten me!
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