It's all personal preference Jerry.
All that stuff makes up only a small part of who we are
I am proud to say, my personality out shines stuff like that.

I don't mind people saying they don't care for them, or asking me about them, but just don't judge by appearance.
I am just as clean if not more so than some folks without them

For the record, I only have one tattoo that I have had since I was 19 in between my shoulder blades about the size of a CD, it doesn't get seen often by anyone other than my fiance' but I do have several piercings.
Most of which, I researched and did myself.

Pope - I can kind of see where you're coming from, though I still don't agree.
The perspective I'm coming from is that of a Traditional Roman Catholic, and as such, I beleive that our bodies are, quote, "The temple of the Holy Spirit," and that they should not be desecrated by anything such as tatoos, piercings, etc.