Despite every AFAB person I've ever met with one telling me tattoos feel great and don't really hurt, my brain is convinced that I will suffer a dislocation in the chair and it will be even more painful than being stabbed with a triggerpoint needle, which nearly did me in

It might be a chronic pain thing but everyone with ehlers-danlos I've heard talk about it says the tattooing feels GOOD, that it's an unbeatable analgesic from the endorphin rush, though I've never heard a cis guy agree about that part