Tattoos, piercings, and other styles of body modification.

[MSTarot]

Nice. Black and grey or colored?

Bit of a mix of the two. Black and grey with color accents and some places tribal dark. Sort of like this.

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[Catchalot]

dumb dragon that my daughters refer to as "puff"

I have three dragons on my back, and a castle

 

[lovecraft68]

You know you're hooked when you're getting one and scoping out the next.

After I kill puff this is the next piece and will be the first one below the waist, this will go on my left calve

 

[sr71plt]

Bit of a mix of the two. Black and grey with color accents and some places tribal dark. Sort of like this.

I prefer what he got.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

A physical beating is a different type of pain than I am describing. The pain if a tat is like a burn, but a good burn.

Hard to describe if you've never had one.

Still, no thank you.

 

[MSTarot]

A physical beating is a different type of pain than I am describing. The pain if a tat is like a burn, but a good burn.

Hard to describe if you've never had one.

The description my artist friend uses is like scratching a fingernail on you skin. Doesn't really hurt but if you keep doing it in the same place for hours you would be ready to climb the walls.

She also said getting more tattoos is like a tooth ache. If you would leave it alone it would stop hurting but for some sick reason you keep touching your tongue to that same sore tooth.

 

[lovecraft68]

The description my artist friend uses is like scratching a fingernail on you skin. Doesn't really hurt but if you keep doing it in the same place for hours you would be ready to climb the walls.

She also said getting more tattoos is like a tooth ache. If you would leave it alone it would stop hurting but for some sick reason you keep touching your tongue to that same sore tooth.

Reminds me of a joke

What do a nine volt battery and a woman's asshole have in common?

You shouldn't put your tongue in either, but just can't help it.

The outline of a tattoo hurts worse because that needle goes deeper. The color does not hurt as much, but that is when they usually start "coloring" and going over the same spot again an again.

The problem with a large work is that you take breaks. So you have to get used to the pain again.

the one on my back took about six hours and the guy stopped every forty five minutes.

The odd thing was when he was working on the right side of my back it was burning like a motherfucker, but on the left I barely felt anything.

 

[heather_baby]

In all honesty, tattoos- when done in the right way- are just beautiful. It's just a completely different feeling knowing you are about to get something on your body that will always resemble something for the rest of your life. Does it hurt? Well of course it does. Is it worth it? In my eyes, damn right.

Many people agree and disagree on the topic and have done so for years. But in the end, your body is yours and yours alone. If you want to mark it with the hand of a talented artist, then you do it. Tattoos are art. Plain and simple. Good art, bad art, mediocre art. It's all art.

On another topic, I like my tongue ring. I'm proud of it. Why? It's my body, not yours. I'll do what I want with it. You don't have to look or comment on it.

 

[sr71plt]

But I can comment on it if I want as long as you open a thread up here. It's an open forum. I wouldn't want to pay the dental bills on the teeth it chips. And since I don't have to pay yours, I don't mind a bit that you have one (and never said I did).

 

[lovecraft68]

I've been trying to get my wife to get a tattoo. She has beautiful fair skin for it. There is one she wants; the butterfly logo to her business, but in the end says she knows she can't sit through the three or so hours of pain.

However, she said she wanted to do something "bad girl" and made a deal with me that she will get her nipples pierced for my birthday. Figuring that is just a sharp one time pain.

I'm not sure I agree, I've heard they can hurt for a little bit, but don't know from experience.

What I know is I will get far more out of the piercings than the tat anyway so I'm fine with it.

 

[colddiesel]

Tatoos are gross, body piercings are worse - but both serve a purpose in labelling society's trash.

 

[lovecraft68]

Tatoos are gross, body piercings are worse - but both serve a purpose in labelling society's trash.

What a classy statement!

That's okay though that is the attitude of your generation which is rapidly facing extinction as you decay in old age homes.

I hope the guy who has to give you a sponge bath is covered in tats and has a pierced tongue.

 

[Catchalot]

Tatoos are gross, body piercings are worse - but both serve a purpose in labelling society's trash.

Yeah, but at least I can spell the word "tattoos"

 

[Saxon_Hart]

I'm like LC...the outlining stings. The shading to me hurts more than coloring, but I have never been in the chair thinking.."Ouch, I'm not doing this again."

 

[RoyceConnors]

Temporary body mods are something different again, when you consider the use of pumps to expand cocks, clits, pussies and nipples.

I love a beautifully tattooed female body. I've seen some stunning artwork that truly accentuates their beauty and doesn't take away from it. Inking has been around for centuries and always will be. Personal expression of the self, or clan/tribe will always be done with honour.

I have it on good authority that nipples hurt like hell getting pierced and cause desensitization of them. Clit hoods on the other hand only hurt for a day or so and then they are fun to play with.

 

[TxRad]

Temporary body mods are something different again, when you consider the use of pumps to expand cocks, clits, pussies and nipples.

I love a beautifully tattooed female body. I've seen some stunning artwork that truly accentuates their beauty and doesn't take away from it. Inking has been around for centuries and always will be. Personal expression of the self, or clan/tribe will always be done with honour.

I have it on good authority that nipples hurt like hell getting pierced and cause desensitization of them. Clit hoods on the other hand only hurt for a day or so and then they are fun to play with.

I've heard just the opposite about pierced nipples. I've been with five different ladies when they had theirs done. Most said it was a little worse than getting their ears done. One said it was like a bee sting but quickly turned into a burning tingly itch.

As for desensitizing, I think who ever did the piercings that you know of didn't know what they were doing. The where on a nipple is more important than the how or gauge size.

 

[Catchalot]

Yeah, nipple piercings increase sensitivity, and I have that on good authority

 

[Handley_Page]

Why? It's my body, not yours. I'll do what I want with it. You don't have to look or comment on it.

Understood, but the rest of the world may occasionally Have to Look at It.
The observers may not share the same values of beauty.

 

[colddiesel]

What a classy statement!

That's okay though that is the attitude of your generation which is rapidly facing extinction as you decay in old age homes.

I hope the guy who has to give you a sponge bath is covered in tats and has a pierced tongue.

You like tats, I don't, and I do not apologize for expressing that view.

You are welcome to attack me but why you extended that to an assumed attitude of an entire generation is at best odd.

Regretably, tattoos do label society's trash. The most tattood people in society are the inhabitants of our prisons, the second most, are the gangs, bikers and street gangs. You get inked, and it will be inevitable that you will be associated in other peoples minds with those groups. There is also plenty of data which indicates that people whose economic and social successes are modest, are much more likely to obtain tattoos.

As for my sponge bath you needn't concern yourself. My business has over the past 30 years been so financially successful that I shall not require the ministrations of one of your friends.

Though it is amusing that you assumed a low paid, menial aged care worker would necessarily have tattoos; but I guess you know your own class.

 

[sr71plt]

Understood, but the rest of the world may occasionally Have to Look at It.
The observers may not share the same values of beauty.

A lot of them will make instantaneous judgments about you too, which of course is their bad (maybe, depending on the nature of the tattoos), but that doesn't mean that it won't be a disadvantage of some sort to you.

The same happens with bumper stickers on cars. Beyond AAA, my insurance company logo, and a reference to one of the universities I attended, I don't put stickers on my car. And even the university sticker gets some flak back. (Of course that's at least partially because it's a tongue-in-cheek sticker. The University of Virginia is so "nose in the air" in its region that one of its car stickers simply says "The University." That's the one I use.)

 

[Handley_Page]

A lot of them will make instantaneous judgments about you too, which of course is their bad (maybe, depending on the nature of the tattoos), but that doesn't mean that it won't be a disadvantage of some sort to you.

The same happens with bumper stickers on cars. Beyond AAA, my insurance company logo, and a reference to one of the universities I attended, I don't put stickers on my car. And even the university sticker gets some flak back. (Of course that's at least partially because it's a tongue-in-cheek sticker. The University of Virginia is so "nose in the air" in its region that one of its car stickers simply says "The University." That's the one I use.)

Point taken.
I have two signs on my car windows; one the name of the garage that supplied it which I'm too bone idle to remove, and one that says "Wear your Poppy with Pride". This last is a reference to Remembrance.

 

[sr71plt]

"Wear your Poppy with Pride". This last is a reference to Remembrance.

That or all of your neighbors have identified you as a drugee.

 

[RoyceConnors]

Interesting that we talk about tats and piercings as labelling someone, but everything we wear and do to ourselves represents a label of one kind or another.

The cut of one's hair, the fashion they wear, the jewelry they put on, the place they live are all labels we put on. Tattoos and piercings are a common practice in ceremonies and religions and now they are an accepted form of self expression. Rings are symbols and whether they are worn on the skin, or in it, they still hold the same value.

To say that those who express themselves openly with ink and metal are the lowest of the low, only shows someone who is thoroughly immersed in a label of their own, that shows the world they are prejudicial against any label but their own. Life is not a label, it's an expression of a person living their life their way.

 

[BurningMonkey]

*shrug* It's your body, do what you want with it.
But for my part, I find them a HUGE turn-off.

Not to elaborate too much, but there was a woman I was lusting after and it actually proceeded to the get-your-clothes-off stage--whereupon Mr. Stiffy turned into Mr. Noodle in record time. She had a tattoo on her flank that stretched up under her breast, and it just took the wind completely out of my sails.

I consider a woman's skin to be a work of art in itself, and putting permanent designs and colors on it is, in my opinion, tantamount to penciling a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

As I said, it's your body and you can do what you want with it. But if you have one I won't fuck you, no matter how hot you are otherwise.

 

[sr71plt]

I, for one, didn't say that we necessarily labeled ourselves by doing anything (although some intentionally do). I said that there are others (lots of others) who choose to define folks that way--and, yes, they do so on visuals other than tattoos too. To say they don't is just being blind to reality. And you don't stop anyone doing so--and choosing it to let them color their response to you--just by saying it's wrong or misleading to do so. It is also spitting in the wind. It's going to happen whether you think it's wrong or not.

Not all tattoos are going to get a uniform response from people either. A rosebud on the ankle is likely to rate on the "oh, cute" end of the scale. A skull with "Death to All N-----s" blazoned on your forehead is going to get people crossing the street as you approach.