If you think only porn stars or trashy girls are getting tattoos, you must not have seen very many other people with their clothes off recently
I'm a college student, so most of my friends are also college students and about evenly split between undergraduates and graduate students. Most of them have a tattoo or two. And I *don't* live in California.
My friends (and myself) probably put a lot more thought into the exact design and placement of our tattoos than the average porn star, though. I took two years getting my personal design exactly right and sought out a world-reknown tattoo artist to make sure it was done perfectly.
The problem isn't tattoos or people who get tattoos. It's BAD tattoos.