We were at school together paroxetine brand name And when it comes to tattooed guys, I’m sceptical. If I'm approached by a man with an assortment of scratchy doodles across his skin, purchased on a stag-weekend whim, or a tribal armband he had inked in the early Nineties and which has proceeded to catalog his diminishing muscle tone ever since, I find it off-putting and unattractive. But only because I don’t find it visually appealing, not out of misplaced snobbishness on my part. Tattoos are not signifiers of a bad upbringing or a dangerous personality, and it’s a myth that historically they were found solely on the skin of sailors, inmates and other ruffians. Princess Valdemar of Denmark was the Kat Von D of the Victorian-era, commemorating a visit to the Far East with a tattoo of an anchor on her arm; George V had a dragon on his arm, and Edward VII a Jerusalem cross on his chest.