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It's not about tattoos being in style or our of style, it's just that the shock value is completely gone. I got my tongue pierced in 1992 when I started college, for no other reason than the girl I was dating then was really pierced up at a time when people were still calling guys with their right ears pierced fags. She talked me into it, I did it, and I remember people would actually act like they wanted to vomit when I showed it to them.
Now 65 year old grandmothers have their tongues pierced. Same thing with tattoos, where once they were a sign of rebellion, now it wouldn't surprise me to see a nun getting a tattoo on her lunch break. If anything you're considered a rebel now if you don't mark your body up in any way, and it wouldn't surprise me to see an odd rebellious counterculture come out of this. You know how Straight Edge people don't drink, smoke, do drugs, eat meat, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to see an anti-tattoo/body piercing Straight Edge group pop up among the youth...
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