Are you sure the tweets about 12yo getting tattoos weren’t from a scorned adolescent who wanted one? The body modification industry is one I am intimately familiar with, and there are no serious pushes to get kids tattooed. Most piercers I know won’t even pierce noses under 15 or 16– even with parental consent. While I agree teens are ab…
Are you sure the tweets about 12yo getting tattoos weren’t from a scorned adolescent who wanted one? The body modification industry is one I am intimately familiar with, and there are no serious pushes to get kids tattooed. Most piercers I know won’t even pierce noses under 15 or 16– even with parental consent. While I agree teens are absolutely not old enough to consent to top surgery and the impending lawsuits will be staggering, there’s no reason to believe this will spill over into the body art industry.
I’d also be eager to know if any states have reduced their age of consent in recent years. I doubt it.
Television shows have portrayed all of the above for decades, from 90210 to The OC to Skins. I’d actually argue the 00s, and its pushing the limits of a then still new reality show format, was the raunchiest time in television. Everything feels pretty tame compared to Bad Girls Club and Rock of Love. **Edit: While reality shows like these didn’t center around teens, teens were very much part of the intended audience.
I don't think the person who said a 12 year old should be able to consent had any links to the body mod industry. It's interesting that tattooers and piercers are acting more responsibly when it comes to minors than educators and medics.
In the UK we have a concept called Gillick competency - a very Christian woman called Victoria Gillick in the 80s tried to ban the supply of contraceptives to minors without parental consent. It backfired on her, because Gillick competency is now a measure of if a teenager is mature enough to understand the consequences of their medical treatment and if a child is deemed Gillick compentent then they can consent to treatment. It was used by the likes of online GPs to provide hormones to teenagers, until the Kiera Bell court case which ruled that children could never be Gillick competent when it came to puberty blockers. Gillick competency is going to be a major battle ground over the next few years and will probably come up a lot in detransitioner court cases.
Re: TV shows, it used to be that a drugs or crime storyline would centre on one character who was going off the rails or that it would show negative consequences for those acts. Now, it feels like the adults who write and star in teen TV shows want to make it appear that kids are living these hedonistic lifestyles - when the actual research suggests that today's teens are actually the most straight-laced ever, the vast majority are not drinking, smoking, taking drugs or having sex and the numbers that are keep falling. It's very strange.
Are you sure the tweets about 12yo getting tattoos weren’t from a scorned adolescent who wanted one? The body modification industry is one I am intimately familiar with, and there are no serious pushes to get kids tattooed. Most piercers I know won’t even pierce noses under 15 or 16– even with parental consent. While I agree teens are absolutely not old enough to consent to top surgery and the impending lawsuits will be staggering, there’s no reason to believe this will spill over into the body art industry.
I’d also be eager to know if any states have reduced their age of consent in recent years. I doubt it.
Television shows have portrayed all of the above for decades, from 90210 to The OC to Skins. I’d actually argue the 00s, and its pushing the limits of a then still new reality show format, was the raunchiest time in television. Everything feels pretty tame compared to Bad Girls Club and Rock of Love. **Edit: While reality shows like these didn’t center around teens, teens were very much part of the intended audience.
I don't think the person who said a 12 year old should be able to consent had any links to the body mod industry. It's interesting that tattooers and piercers are acting more responsibly when it comes to minors than educators and medics.
In the UK we have a concept called Gillick competency - a very Christian woman called Victoria Gillick in the 80s tried to ban the supply of contraceptives to minors without parental consent. It backfired on her, because Gillick competency is now a measure of if a teenager is mature enough to understand the consequences of their medical treatment and if a child is deemed Gillick compentent then they can consent to treatment. It was used by the likes of online GPs to provide hormones to teenagers, until the Kiera Bell court case which ruled that children could never be Gillick competent when it came to puberty blockers. Gillick competency is going to be a major battle ground over the next few years and will probably come up a lot in detransitioner court cases.
Re: TV shows, it used to be that a drugs or crime storyline would centre on one character who was going off the rails or that it would show negative consequences for those acts. Now, it feels like the adults who write and star in teen TV shows want to make it appear that kids are living these hedonistic lifestyles - when the actual research suggests that today's teens are actually the most straight-laced ever, the vast majority are not drinking, smoking, taking drugs or having sex and the numbers that are keep falling. It's very strange.