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Lol, the moronic fad of body modification through subdermal ink is thousands of years old, and I can assure you that it's not going to end in either of our lifetimes. It's interesting that one permanent body modification is hideous and criminal to you, but another (building very large and unnecessary muscles) is beautiful. It's also interesting that something that is much more open-ended like choosing/designing/enduring/wearing tattoo art is somehow conformist, in your view, but going to the gym 5 days a week and adhering to an insane dietary regulation and supplementation schedule, performing hundreds of thousands of repetitions of the same exercises that millions of others do every day, in order to achieve a body shape ideal, is not at all conformist.

I mean, obviously I'm not rallying against the great musculature of the bodybuilders that I too enjoy on many levels, but you might as well call a spade a spade: from Greek statues, to mainstream macho media, to gay !#!%, to the bronzer-doused poser-wearing stage routines, to the Mr. Olympia monsters on magazine covers, the pressures to conform, compare, and compete are incredibly high. I'd even say that "what's beautiful" in terms of a physique is trendy--look at who was on the covers and winning competitions 5, 20, 35 years ago, and you'll see that things change. Anyway, I think it's great, especially given these pressures, that Joey still found his niche, expressed himself, shaped himself in a new and different way, and completed such an awesomely large piece of work.

So, to those who want to spew these strangely off-kilter blows about a guy who has achieved and created a whole lot for himself, including a life, a history, a family, a career, and yes, a great physique and some amazing tattoo art, why don't you do some thinking about your opinion, and why you feel that way, before you "go there"?