Female Tattoos

Getting a tattoo or getting "inked" as it is known is becoming more and more common among women. It is a strange thing that women have been getting inked for thousands of years but it is only recently that the stigma associated with tattooed women is dying down. There are some cultures where only women got inked and men were forbidden from doing so. The tattoos in such cultures were used as badges by women to show off their skills like food gathering, basket weaving, marriage ability, and so on. The word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tattau" and it means "to get marked".