While body modification are a growing in popularity, but the society and parents still claims that tattoo bring a significant negative impact to the personal appearance as a sign of rebellion and irresponsible. According to Leo (1995), he discusses of tattoo as “cultural crises can't really be dealt with by letting loose our personal obsessions and marking up our bodies.” Leo uses word choice to express his view of non-traditional body modification in America is done mostly for shock value. He doesn’t believe that people should modify their bodies. Leo (1995) argues that "the yearning to irritate parents and shock the middle class seems to rank as a motive for getting punctured repeatedly.” This reflects his opinion that young people modify
