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Artist sets up fake "tattoo parlour for children", gets genuine requests from parents
AN ARTIST WHO set up “Britain’s first tattoo parlour for kids” as a statement on the sexualisation of children was surprised to get genuine requests from parents who wanted to ink up their kids.
Locals in the UK town of Whitstable first saw a notice for a new tattoo parlour on a high street shop window yesterday.
A banner stretched across the front of the shop advertises “20% off your child’s first tattoo” and features the slogan: “A gift for life, at pocket money prices.”
But the ‘parlour’ is actually a project by artist Sadie Hennessy, who also created a website and email address for her fake business.
An article in the Canterbury Times yesterday said witnesses thought the banner was a practical joke, but the ‘business’ got ten genuine requests from parents hoping to get their kids inked.
Kent Online reports one such request was from a father asking “if it would hurt for his six-year-old daughter to get a tattoo”.
According to Metro.co.uk, Sadie’s aim was to generate discussion on the sexualisation of children.
She explained:
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