A Well-known Beach

This study examined the approach behaviour of men
to women lying on a well-known beach.

The women were reading, (well- known)
lying flat on their stomachs

some with a tattoo prominently displayed
on their lower backs. On a well-known beach,

women were reading, (flat
on their well- known stomachs)

some with a tattoo on their lower backs,
some without. On a well-known beach

men were more likely to approach
the women with visible tattoos

not because they found them
to be more attractive but because

the women (well-known reading
on their lower backs) because

they believed the tattooed women
(the men well-known, the women lying

on their flat stomachs)
but because they believed the tattooed women

would be more likely to have sex
(well-known prominently displayed

on their lower backs)
more likely to have sex

on the first date
than their clear-skinned counterparts.

 


Source: Psychology Today: What People Really Think About
Women With Tattoos

From The Illustrated Woman. Reproduced with kind permission of Chatto & Windus.

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