You're right of course. And what about ear-rings?...
I'm not defending the logic just relaying it for ithaka's benefit since he asked.
The same argument has been used against cigarettes too, by the way.
There are many bedouin women, by the way, who have tattoos in places like Sinai and Jordan.
This of course leads to a whole new discourse but I'm not sure it's something we want to get into here. Do you?