bloody_rose20

I like tattoos. And mean I never had one until my fionce wanted to get one and wanted me to as well, you know to join in on something he enjoys to do. I was scared out of my mind lol pale as ever when I got my first one. He kept telling me that its not going to hurt as bad as everyone says and that once I got it I would want more. I was like "pssh, Yeah right." Anyways my right arm if tattooed and it really didn't hurt as bad as I thought. It felt like a cat scratching its claws in my skin over and over again. I know doesn't sound good still but I am used to cats getting me with their claws lol. Anyways I soo went off the topic kinda lol. I am getting another one soon and I don't plan on stopping My man said he likes them on me (I make sure not to choose something dumb that never would fit a girl, but I make sure I liek it and he does too.) But I say if the man you are with likes them, then who cares if other guys think its gross. We aren't here to impress you all anyways :P

Also, I do liek tats but I wouldn't be dumb enough to get the tramp stamp on my lower back. Or if I were to it wouldn't be something girly. Too many fat and skanky girls always get the crap that looks tribal or butterfly'ey like most say I think that is just hideous.

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There's not a woman in the world who was ever made more beautiful by a tattoo.

Shirtninja

I second that. I have seen some tattoos here and there I like, but nothing that ever made me think the person might have looked better after they would have gotten it. And there are some areas that are just plain turn offs to me.

highthief

It's a personal choice, but I don't particularly like tattoos on a woman. Would it stop me from dating a woman who had one? No (though my wife might put the kibosh on such a relationship) but all things being equal, I'd rather a woman I was hypothetically seeing didn't have one.

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Charlatan

I agree with the sentiment that it all depends on the woman and what she has chosen to adorn her body with.

I've seen some tattoos that are just... unfortunate. Others have pique my interest in all the right ways. There is this one woman I know that has a full sleeve... hottest thing ever. It just suits her.

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Lizra

I have a little one near my cleavage that I got about 25 years ago....HATE IT! The ones on the lower leg sometimes remind me of varicose veins.....I'd be leery of any blue/black ink near the ankle or calf....bodies slowly change over time.
It's really quite pricey to get one removed (last I checked, about a decade ago) how does the skin look after tattoo/tattoo removal? Anyone know?

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Lady Sage

Like it has been burned. My aunt had one removed and it looked like she had spilled acid on herself.

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Blackthorn

I agree with this. The female canvas is such a beautiful work of art to begin with it seems like a tatoo would just spoil it. Now on the other hand if a woman I'm interested in has them then so be it... it's just part of what makes her real.

Now.... I wonder if *Nikki* is still in the bathroom....

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Rinndalir

I'm going to go against most of the men here, I love tats on a woman *IF* they are done right. The only kind I just don't care for no matter what are face and breast tatoos. Beyond that, as long as it is well drawn and nicely colored and not your ex-boyfriend's name, rock on.

I think tramp stamps are hot.

CaliLivChick

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=113742

I love my tattoo. I got it about 1 1/2 years ago, but I wanted it for 11 years before I got it. The design is my own, and the only things that changed in the years that I thought about it were the location (instead of an anklet, I got it on my lower back), and I added the Virgo symbol. Everything else in it had been seriously pondered for that time, because it is permanent, and I wanted to make sure that I was still into the same things for a long period of time. Turns out, my interests have only grown with time, so I'm very comfortable having this. If a guy doesn't like it on me, that's his problem, and if he doesn't want to date me because of it, it's his loss. Having my tattoo hasn't changed me. I'm still the same wonderful person I was before I got inked, and I'll still be the same wonderful person after I get my next tattoo.

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Jetée

I believe Richard Jeni put it best:

"I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, OK, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future."

I, personally, prefer my women au natural, but have no serious qualms about a woman wanting to express herself, even it be with permanent ink as artwork; it serves as a reminder of who she wants to makes herself out to be. Only when it may spread across to me is where I draw the line.

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eileenbunny

I love my tattoo and it's on my lower back. I don't think it makes me more or less beautiful, just different. I like tattoos on some girls and hate them on other girls. I feel the same way about guys. I think it's crazy to believe that just because of the placement of a tattoo on a woman's body you can judge whether or not she will give you a bj in a bathroom though. I was already married when I got mine. Then again, I try not to judge people I don't know at all. I think it is extremely limiting.

biznatch

It depends what kind of Tattoo. My sort-of friend has one of those stars that seem to be so hip these days and a Scooby Doo tat. They're not very well done, either. To be honest, they look stupid. But he's the sort of guy to do that, and I don't think he's a very smart guy in general.
My wife has two tattoos that are beautiful, and have a special meaning to her. One is across her lower back, but I wouldn't call it a tramp stamp, just because it's there.

To me, a tramp stamp is a pair of those "ass antlers", or a stupid tribal-style bunch of squiggly lines. I used to contemplate getting a tribal myself, but I realized that they're retarded.

Piercings I'm not against, unless they leave a big permanent mark on your body (like those huge holes in the earlobes).

I don't think people should judge tattoos before knowing what they're about (except if it's something completely retarded). Some people view their body as a canvas, and tattoos as something that truly belongs there.

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Sultana

I am frustrated by the idea I perceive being perpetuated in this thread that the main purpose of a woman's body is to please a man. Not that it's the physical container for her being.

The main purpose of a woman's body is to please herself only.

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God of Thunder

I came in here to express my honest opinion about the subject, but the king summed it up perfectly for me.

Every one is entitled to do what they want to their own body, but for fuck's sake, put some thought into it.

As for me, no thanks. I don't see the need.

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tisonlyi

It's all about the combination of tattoo, lady, personality type and originality or lack thereof.

If you're a fairly dumb sort, watching reality tv and reading celeb magazines as your guides to happy living, then tramp stamps/tasmanian devil/copycat tribal/flowers/li' devil/etc tattoos might be just your things. If you happen to have a brain that is capable of independent thought, then something more original might float your boat. If you hanker after purity, then not a spot of ink is required.

I've been with a lady covered in tribal style ink all over her arms, back, breasts and legs. She WAS bad ass, so it made perfect sense. I've been with a lady whose only tattoo was a beautiful pre-raphaelite style painting on her back. It suited her perfectly. Several exes had absolutely no ink, for most that was the perfect decision, for others, they either had plans or should have had - to suit their personality types, etc (IMHO).

I love tattoos on women. I love plainskin women. I love women who are themselves with a look that matches. End of story.

Although, kiddie portraits are EVIL and WRONG.

Go to BMEzine, look around on the web, you'll find yourself incredibly wrong.

IMHO.

Mileage may, of course, vary.

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kylere

W o w

Amazing how much intolerance, arrogance, and outright foolishness can be packed into one thread. Unless you are a female with a tattoo or considering one, none of your opinions on it making them look x, y, or z have any value whatsoever in a sane world. Especially as (numbers pulled out of my heinie but clearly true) 90% of all men would sleep with and worship any HWP female who asked them to, regardless of the presence of a tattoo or not. This is like fat old pseudo-xtian (though pseudo and xtian are redundant in most cases) anglo males debating abortion, it is moot for them to do so. Tattoos are not for YOU, they are for the person that wears them.

In the interest of full disclosure, I do not have any tats but would consider one, and my entirely sexy wife has two.One in the lower back region, and I would beat the snot out of anyone who referred to it as a tramp stamp in her presence. Clearly the primary problem is a lack of common courtesy towards those with tattoos, not the tattoos themselves.

mixedmedia

I think the lower back is a pretty spot for a tattoo.

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pig

i'm about to get another one or two done this summer myself. although they won't be lower back, and i guess i can't call them trampstamps.

drat and double drat!

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mixedmedia

I don't have any, but I've thought about it off and on over the years...

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World's King

God I love you...

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pig

well, don't do it until you're ready. i love mine, but there you go. then again, i'm heavily freckled, so i'm sort of used to this whole body-marks thing.

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Sultana

We'll call yours Slut Stamps.

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cadre

I agree, I think tattoos should look good on the body and the lower back is perfect anatomically for such a thing.

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Toaster126

Perhaps not to you. I believe people can have opinions, sometimes even educated ones, without being a part of what is being discussed.

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spectre

I guess I can't say that it would suck to have my head cut off because I haven't had a guillotine used on me.

If someone hasn't experienced something, it doesn't invalidate their opinion, it just means that they may not have the background on the subject. They still can form an opinion and express it, the validity of it is up to you to decide, but invalidating people's opinions outright is just silly.

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pig

yes, i rather always felt that way.

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mixedmedia

ooh, nice

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Carno

Sure you would, tough guy.

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kylere

Carno, If someone called my wife a tramp in my presence? I would, otherwise I would be a coward like most of the people on the internet Am I wrong for reacting to some clod insulting my wife in public? Hell, if I am, I am proud to be wrong in that case.

It is clear a lot of you missed the point and that may have been my fault and it also may have come from you trying to score cheap points off the new guy (nice pile on from the crew, amazing that 7 people have to say the same thing, does that give it more value somehow?) or a combo of both. Here is the deal, you can have your opinion, you can feel tattoos are nasty on women, make them ugly, use whatever name you wish internally. But none of you get to decide if it is right or wrong, the second you choose to do so, and many of you have openly condemned it, you are wrong. So many of you have voiced your views as being right, rather than as just being your valueless individual opinions that you negate any value in your words.

My opinion is that no one has the right to tell another what to do with their body, but that is because I am sane. It is right? Well, unfortunately it is not, because humans are control freaks and cannot grow beyond the do what I want you to do stage socially. The only time you get to make any calls on another human being is when they violate your space, your home, etc. when they do something that lacks common courtesy towards you. But the amazingly rightwingish, conservative xtian uptight and anal view of "tattoos bad" is silly. They may be wrong for you, but to attack others for having them is ignorance, intolerance and arrogance.

Bill O'Rights

A.) Settle down.

B.) You're absolutely right. Well...at least about the part about no one having the right to tell another what to do with their body. I can go along with that.

However...

If one chooses to do so, especially with some of the more "out there" things that I see people do...then I reserve the right to point and laugh.

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No one's trying to "score any points" off you. I've never even seen that done on this forum...

This thread wasn't about whether tattoos on women are right or wrong, and obviously no one can decide what another person should do with their body (regardless of what pro-lifers would have you think, but that's another can of worms entirely).

It's just that your comment about beating the crap out of someone for saying that tattoos are a "tramp stamp" in your wife's presence is, well, insane. You may feel that the old-fashioned outdated notion of chivalry you find in resorting to physical violence is proper, but the suggestion of violence negates the credibility of anything else you have to say on the subject. Lack of self-control over words doesn't make a man in my book, but I guess that's just another thing where I'm wrong to have an opinion.

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Jackebear

I agree and this goes for they guys too. I have seen, along with most of you I'm sure, the stupidist tattoos on guys. Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Yosemite Sam and I know one guy that has the old logo 'Late Night with David Letterman' on his back. Jeez. I like the show but I also used to like 'The Wonderful World of Disney' as well, but I wouldn't etch it on my skin.

If guys have tattoos, they like them on women (or they should, lest they be called hypocritical). Guys without tattoos may or may not like them on women, that's the way it is.

Not big on calling them 'tramp stamps' though. I don't think your sister, wife or girlfriend is a tramp.

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SecretMethod70

I know a guy who has a care bear tattoo on each side of his waist. *shakes head*

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Bill O'Rights

See? This was a failure on the part of his friends. Friends are absolutely required to keep you from doing stupid shit like this, and calling your ex, when you're drunk.

Or...

Does this friend also have a manicure per chance? Do the curtains in his apartment match the fabric of his sofa? Is the ringtone on his phone "I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair", from South Pacific? Does he own a salad spinner? Does he bring Todd, "From the gym", over to cookouts?

Just askin'...

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biznatch

LOL. That's all I have to say.

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calibrich

My ex has tattoos and it really does nothing for me because they are like random little things. My fav are tattoos that flow with the curves of a womans body. Not just a dolphin on an ankle.

SecretMethod70

LOL. He's a guy that used to live near me when we were kids. We only talk a couple times a year now and while he's not any o the things you described, he *is* pretty emo. In fact, he still thinks the tattoos are cool and claims that girls love it. So...yeah.

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The_Jazz

Tattoos of Carebears.
And "the girls" love it.

Hmmm. Not a particularly good vibe.

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