Tattooes are Grave Matter

This is something I often wonder, how much do we take for granted we know, when actually we are already corrupted by the culture and are actually quite wrong. I’m sure it’s a lot, since there is no way not to be corrupted by this culture to at least some degree. I need a different catechism, the JP one is the only one I have.

I have had older patients who really regretted their tattoos. As the skin ages and sags the tats begin to look distorted. That aside, why do you think they a regularly testing older adults for Hep C? If the parlor does not use an autoclave to kill the virus it goes into to another client via the tattoo needle. Now even the scopes and tubing for sigmoidoscopies and colonoscopies are being sterilized in chemical baths because it is cheaper and proven less effective than the old autoclave method.
Tattoos are not the only body disfigurement being habituated today. i have been noting with amazement how so many relatively attractive persons are piercing themselves all over and dying their hair unnatural colors which do not appear in nature on anyone’s scalp. It’s almost as if people are rejecting their own humanity Maybe they are.

@Mundabor
Leviticus 19:28 says, “Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves. I am the LORD.”
While this sounds like a fairly clear condemnation of tattoos, we have to keep in mind the context of the Old Testament law. It’s fairly obvious to me that the prohibition against tattoos was directly related to pagan worship, just as the prohibition against graven images was.
But regardless of the original intent, it is Catholic teaching that the old covenant ceremonial law no longer applies to us as new covenant faithful, and to say otherwise is contrary to the whole message of the New Testament. For example, immediately preceding and following that verse are prohibitions against trimming one’s beard and eating red meat. Now, I recently ate a medium rare steak, and I’m pretty confident I didn’t sin. I also regularly trim my beard, which also isn’t a sin (though some might think it is!).
There are literally hundreds of old covenant laws that no longer apply to us as Christians. We can’t cherry pick laws from the Old Testament to use as ammunition for our personal preferences. Either we follow them all, or we don’t—and St. Paul makes it perfectly clear that the ceremonial law is no longer binding.
I’ll cut to the chase: There is nothing immoral about tattoos. Mother Church has never condemned them, and neither can I. It is one of those areas where a Catholic must follow his or her conscience.
Personally, I wouldn’t get a tattoo. I don’t find them attractive, and they are far too permanent for my taste. That said, those of us who dislike tattoos should be careful never to judge a brother or sister in Christ who chooses to get one.
And i’m a 75 years old catholic, i was educated in my catholic faith way before the Council.