Snake

You'll think I have mutiliated myself, but you may also take heart that the tatt I have writhing down my back is of a diamond back python I designed myself.

I have had it for 15 years now, have thought about getting another but I am happy with what I've got - can't seem to find anything I'd want forever like the snake. As the tattoo is on my back I don't scare the easily disturbed, unless I'm swimming. My partner thinks its a turn on - during the process of outlining the python and filling the colour, my partner was very happy to rub in the thick healing cream needed to treat the skin as it heals from each application of injected ink.

I had an eyebrow piercing for a while, but it used to irritate, so removed it. Do have pierced ears - 3 in one ear and 2 in another. Each to their own - I'm not harming anyone least of all myself.

StG

I quite accept that I'm an old fuddy-duddy. All I was trying to do was discover the reason people do it and express an opinion which is what this forum is all about, although I try not to use pejorative language as so many do here.

Actually I have asked a number of people, but most think it is offensive to ask except the few older ones who freely admit that it was a mistake made in the passage of youth. Somehow I can't see me asking a bikie !

Houeliebecq.

Thanks for that link to "tramp stamps" I thought some of the comments were hilarious.

Individualism - as expressed by those who rush out to get inked to ape celebrities.

Bogan birthmarks, “Arsch Geweih”- otherwise known as “Ass Antlers”, very funny.

Tat's, piercings and the like have been tribal, decorative, fashionable and fad's. So what. Had an earring most of my life and always wanted a tattoo. I was talked out of the tattoo by a friend who is covered from head to toe with tat's, he suggested that once you have one you are branded by certain parts of society with a prejudice and to be sure i wanted that.
Beside that, personal choice really.
Runner, quite bizarre but am used to that from you.

My partner thinks its a turn on,
Johnny Rotten,
Have you encouraged him to have a tattoo also ?