I’ve talked in a previous post about how we have been wired towards consumerism from childhood.   But this may be going a little too far:

Yes, the middle machine is offering fake lower back tattoos.  The same type of lower back tattoos that the lacivious protagonists in Wedding Crashers described by saying that a woman wearing one may as well be wearing a target.  The same ones which are often viewed as a sign of sexual promiscuity and referred to as “tramp stamps.”

There are two even more troubling things about this picture.  One is the fact that the machine is in a Toys R Us store, in a specially branded “Stickers R Us” machine.  The second is the placement of the product between stickers of pre-teen icon Hannah Montana and stickers of Disney cartoon characters.   Am I the only one who thinks promoting a supposed sign of sexual promiscuity to the Hannah Montana crowd is just a little bit wrong?