tattoos

[meridannight]

what is your take on them? like them? hate them? have any yourself?

i generally find tattoos unattractive. especially if they are large, and/or some really pointless maxims (like ''like is beautiful'', really? you couldn't just say that, or put it on a bumper sticker? you absolutely had to ink it onto your neck?). and the ones that cover whole arms or other body parts, they're a complete turn off. i love the male flesh, i think the male body is amazing and beautiful, a work of art. and having some huge tattoo sticking off it some place is just unattractive, it ruins it. the male body looks so much better without any tattoos than with them.

you can pull it off, it is possible. but by far ca 99% of the tattoos people have are complete nonsense and pointless. more some childish whim, than any deep or essential revelation of identity, which tattoos purport to be.

this said, i do have one tattoo, it's a small one, and not really noticeable at first glance. i didn't get it done till few years after i'd come up with it, and it is something that expresses who i am very adequately. but i am glad i never got anything bigger done on me, and that i didn't add more. i did have a couple of additional ideas back when i was in my mid-20s but i didn't do it, and now i'm really glad about that.

what are your opinions on this whole subject?

[East]

I think some tattoos are sexy and artistic and I can appreciate and admire them ...depends on the artwork and the person who is wearing them. 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....

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...

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....

[Jake]

I have a very mixte feeling on tattoos, but in a way I also am getting a big one soon enough. My tattoo is to be a very defined mystical Chinese dragon that will have its head resting on my shoulder and his tail longing my side all the way to the tip of my right buttock cheek. 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. Now that's what I want, but I don't think after I've got this tattoo I will go with anything else because I find excessive tattoo to be extremely ugly.

When I watch a porn video and I see a dude with so many tattoos, it just disturbed my concentration on what's going on the screen because I try to understand the meaning of each and every one of its tattoos. And sometimes I have to admit that I just don't get why someone would go so far as to have their whole body covered in meaningless tattoo.

"Mens Sana in Corpore Sano" - a sound mind in a sound body. When looking at some guys' tattoos I really wonder sometimes what imperfection of their body are they trying to hide. If someone is going to get a tattoo, at least could they make it a work of art which will not be a sore for the eyes. 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.

At some point he had the idea of having all of our children names written on him and I didn't agree with that because, having your son's or daughter's names tattooed will not make you love them more. Although some of our children have been adopted, even though those one do not have our genetic broth imprinted in them, they will benefit from our wisdom and that is the only tattoo I want of my children. 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.

There's one porn star, in the world of twink that has a huge thorn tree that covers all his back, because the dude is so tiny, the only thing you see is that fucking thorn tree and really, as much of a good performer he is, that tree gets in the way and ruins his body. I could name so many more people who have seriously exaggerated when having themselves tattooed or that the tattooed are so meaningless that they need to explain it each and every times.

I know I will have to explain my tattoo, but at least this will be the only one and for me to make it on my body it cannot be cheap and I don't mind if it cost me 5000 dollars. And I didn't make the mistake of going for tattoo at younger age, because you can be sure, as naive I was I would be covered in meaningless tattoos that may have mean something back in my 20's which I would have forget the meaning in my 30's lol. So yes, at 38 I believe I have a curriculum vitae that allows me to have a tattoo that truly mean something to me as oppose of having a thousands that mean jack shit.

[Beaux]

I have mini-sleeves on both arms, and my upper back is covered with tats. Obviously, I like them. Lol

[Wolfpack]

I do not have any, maybe in the near future I might ge one :p

And I think they can look really hot on a guy, especially on the arms. * melts*

[Jake]

I have mini-sleeves on both arms, and my upper back is covered with tats. Obviously, I like them. Lol

Yet you can hide them when you need to... which is intelligent.

[BlueStar]

My small double infinity on my right arm, but not yet...
I don't like big body-covering tattoos either.

[CellarDweller]

I like tats. Currently have three, two on the left arm, one on the right.

[Iceblink]

I like them. I find them hot, even the ones covering most of a body, but it is art and of course taste and preference is up to the person looking at it and I have I have seen some really awful art on some people's bodies. I might find them sexy, but in getting a tattoo, you have to consider the world we live in. A person that makes their living as a musician, someone that is a tattoo artist himself, a mechanic in a bike shop, they can get away with a lot more than most of us. Get tattoos on your neck, you're probably not going to get hired as a television news anchor, a financial analyst at Chase or HSBS, or even a cashier at Target. Like it or not, being able to put food on the table should be a consideration when getting a tattoo, not just the choice of artwork.

[StingRay]

I'm one of those people who doesn't tan at all. 15 minutes in the sun without SPF 40 or higher and I'm scorched. Because I cant always get sunscreen on my back when swimming etc I ended up with giant freckles in three different shades. I hate it and it really does look ugly. Four years ago I worked up an idea for one tattoo to cover my back and all the freckled area on my shoulders. Feathers almost down to my butt an wings down to my elbows. By asking a girl with two nice feathers on her shoulder where she got them done I found a old biker guy in Sturgis who turned my idea into real art. The only problem is it's going on 4 years and I still don't have it finished but aiming at it being all done before spring.

My wings are symetrical and were planned out all the way around. I'm not going to have a bunch of other tatts all over me like I been tagged like the side of a building. It looks better than my back before it was tatted.