tattoos

[abcd1234]

I personally don't like them and I don't have any. My contention is how are these people gonna look with all those tattoos at 70 or 80 years of age! Also there's a guy in my neighborhood with a shaved head and he has tattoos on his entire face and head.To me that 's the height of mental illness.Why would anyone want to mar their body to that extent.

[Iceblink]

I do not have any tattoos, but if I were to have gotten one, what it would like at 80 would not have been a factor in the decision. Sure the tattoo would probably be sagging, but if I make it to 80, my face and neck will sagging, my ass will be sagging, my stomach will be sagging, there will be flab on the back of my arms sagging.

[meridannight]

Also...one of the most fascinating men I have ever met in my life had a bone through his nose and a peg leg and tattoos covering every inch on his body except for his face....

i get that. i once met a guy who more or less had arms like David Beckham, and he was also a fascinating character. in fact, i've met other guys with a lot of body art on them who were kind of more open-minded and interesting people. however, i just don't want such a paint job on my own partner. if i fall in love i fall in love, and of course i'll still take the guy, but i'd really rather prefer he was tattooless.

Having said that...for some reason either in porn or when I am having sex they get in the way for me...no idea why...

yeah, same thing here. they DO get in the way. i want to see naked plain flesh. tattoos somehow make it something else.

I was sitting in a tattoo parlor in Hong Kong waiting to get a tattoo once but I was on acid and I heard the guy in the next room screaming and it amplified and echoed through my entire body and I could feel it too...freaky...it's an empath thing LOL....I had to get out of there so no tattoo for me....

i doubt you could've sat through that entire process on acid anyway.

[CarGuy65]

Some day I plan on getting one on my upper arm. May happen, may not. My fear of pain is holding me back. Well that and my other half doesn't like them unless it is on darker skin. I am very light skinned. I thing the right tattoo on the right guy with the right skin tone is incredibly sexy! Eh... I'll just get my ear pierced.....eventually!

[Edward]

Like them, if they look good. If I'll ever get one myself, I'll tattoo a phrase that's important for me.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

I have a tat, my mother did it for me - she drugged me and did some sort of magic ritual and did this marking of/on me. Needless to say it has been a constant reminder all of my days of a past I would rather forget. Yet one more of those horror stories from the ancient past.

For decades I have wanted to cover it, get rid of it - something.... And I'm still stymied as to what to get.

Every time I go to a tattoo parlor I stand there and am overwhelmed by the quantity of art and I can't choose.

Currently I'm playing around with the idea of the tree of life.... But alas that isn't an easy subject as there are so many variations of that theme.

I think it takes a special kind of guts to pick something and decide 'I want to live with this for the rest of my life' and get it inked on. A certain kind of dedication to an idea which I just lack.


I don't mind tats on others. To me most of it is more or less 'meh' - however I have seen some very impressive inkwork (artwork).

[meridannight]

The reason I am getting one is based on the fact that I have reached the Dragon level in Shaolin Kung Fu and this will be my mark for the rest of my life because it represent my philosophy as well as my ability to control.

i took Kung Fu at some point. i really liked it, but i wasn't as dedicated to it, and it wasn't that important to me and i left it at that. i always wished i had that commitment to learn a martial art and become good at it, but i don't have such a commitment in me. i do own a real katana though, and i've thought about looking up and maybe taking shinkendo to learn to use it well. but the closest dojo is in France, lol. besides, i probably don't have it in me to complete such a thing. i have all the respect for the martial arts but for some reason it's never really been that important to me to actually practice it myself.

Alex has a very cute tattoo and it's on its left calf, it's a surfer boy, because that's what he likes and that's what he is from father to son and that's all he has.

he totally looks like a surfer. he doesn't need a tattoo to get that across. this is one of the instances where i think it shows the person really got it right with tattooing – when the tattoo is so much like who the person is that you can imagine one without the other.

And I kind of find it stupid when someone tattoos their loved one on their skin. Want to honor them, be there for them when they need you, that's all I ask. I don't want any of my children to have people's name tattooed on them.

the name thing, it's that it has this high-school-couple flair all over it. you see people pulling a stunt like that when they're 16-18 and not thinking straight. that's probably why it comes across rather silly.

[CellarDweller]

The first one I got, I got when I started my diet and exercise routines, I was at 295lbs, and 46in waist. I had decided that I wanted to make changes. Also, even though I had been out for some time, I was beginning to accept what it was to be a gay man, and so, I got this tattoo on my left arm....



For my second tattoo, I decided to get it when I reached the mid point of my diet/exercise routine. I had lost 50lbs by that time. I got 3 Kanji on my right arm. Reading from the top down, they say "Pride", "Strength", and "To Endure".




My last tattoo, I got after traveling to NYC, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, MD, to meet people from a Brokeback Mountain forum. Brokeback helped me get a lot of things in perspective, and I wanted to have a tribute to that movie, and all the wonderful things that have happened to be because of it, so I got the 3rd tattoo on my left arm, just above my first one.

Because of Brokeback I've been to 16 states, and 6 countries.

[ChadCoxRox]

The first one I got, I got when I started my diet and exercise routines, I was at 295lbs, and 46in waist. I had decided that I wanted to make changes. Also, even though I had been out for some time, I was beginning to accept what it was to be a gay man, and so, I got this tattoo on my left arm....



For my second tattoo, I decided to get it when I reached the mid point of my diet/exercise routine. I had lost 50lbs by that time. I got 3 Kanji on my right arm. Reading from the top down, they say "Pride", "Strength", and "To Endure".




My last tattoo, I got after traveling to NYC, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, MD, to meet people from a Brokeback Mountain forum. Brokeback helped me get a lot of things in perspective, and I wanted to have a tribute to that movie, and all the wonderful things that have happened to be because of it, so I got the 3rd tattoo on my left arm, just above my first one.

Because of Brokeback I've been to 16 states, and 6 countries.

LOVE love LOVE your post Chuck! GREAT story!!

[Virge]

tattoos are a real big turn off for me but I don't go around making a big deal out of it. i know I'm the minority.

I just love human skin as it is. To me it's perfect even with blemishes, scars and whatever else. It's a huge turn on to see goose flesh in foreplay. I admit some Tattoos are art and look good but when I see some guy with a dozen tatts that have no relation to each other and look like they came out of catalogs --- total turn off.