Inked Mag Staff
April 21st, 2017
Men Vs Women! Who Takes The Tattoo Pain Better?
Not What You May Have Thought! The discussion and/or debate as to whether getting a tattoo hurts, or more appropriately, how much it hurts– has been going on forever. We…
Not What You May Have Thought!
The discussion and/or debate as to whether getting a tattoo hurts, or more appropriately, how much it hurts– has been going on forever. We are not going to delve into that topic, however what we are going to state, as fact, is that getting a tattoo does hurt — for some more than others, but it does hurt.
The question we are going to address is, “Who deals with the pain of getting a tattoo better? Men or women? And we are not going to ask tattoo artists, clients, shop girls or the guy at the deli.
We are going to base our decision on a recent study conducted by a panel of researchers at discover.com.

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