But Western society took longer to get into it. If you were a proper gentleman on the streets of London or Paris in the 1600s, you did not have a tattoo (although you were probably sporting a codpiece). Finally, by the 1700s, there was a kind of man who looked at the world differently who fled the safety and constraints of civilization for another kind of existence. Thats right, were talking about sailors. According to what records exist, it was the men on Captain James Cooks crew who first chose to get tattoos as mementos of their journey to the great tattoo cultures of Japan, China and the Pacific Islands. And thats pretty much how it stayed for the next 200 years or so.
Travelling is my life
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