Are tattoos a turn off to any other men?

[CALOVELY]

Today it's barbed wire around your arm, 20 years from now it's a picket fence.

[yongyong]

Are you playing being sarcastic or Are you serious?

 

Guys will compliment your tattoo like they compliment your clothes.

When you hear 'hey I like your shirt' does it make you think 'oh he is interested in me as a person' ??? :lmao:

 

It's just easy to start a conversation that way. Personally, I don't use that approach since I know they hear that all the time 'hey I like your tattoo, what does that mean' It's just lame I think.

Anyways, do you really think he wanted to know about the tattoo and about who you are? OR do you think he threw that as a line to get into your pants?

 

 

 

 

Oh my gosh! Do you really mean that all these guys I've been sleeping with because they complimented my tattoo were not really interested in me as a person? Is this why they haven't called me back?? You've explained so much! Thank you!

 

I don't see average-above average white girls wearing tattoos.

If I see many girls wearing tattoos at university campus, I will change my opinions about it.

When you usually see girls with tattoos? ghetto bars? how are they behaving?

 

I know you are going to say I am an exception :lmao:

 

 

Great argument!

 

I find it funny that you can't just dislike the way tattoos look and simply not date girls with tattoos. You have to go around making judgements and putting people down based on some crap theories. Real mature... Like I said, my tat would serve both of us well. We would immediately realize that we wouldn't want to date one another. What's the problem?

[Thierro]

Ruining something so perfect as a woman’s body is beyond me. I will never get in a relationship with a girl that smokes or has tattoos.

 

If my girlfriend decides on getting a tattoo, I will break-up with her. Different morals.

[kiss_andmakeup]

I love how you equate a profession or a college Ph.D (something you can train a monkey to get nowadays) with class. If you don't like judgement, then don't get something that was once reserved for whores, Lifers, and sailors. Objectively speaking, judgement is an individual choice, not what you feel people should or should not judge, because you certainly make judgements about people at first glance every day whether you like it or not and nobody is shaming you for it.

 

Class is something you're born with , whether you live in a trailer or in a McMansion. Maybe class and character had some mild corelation with going to college in the 30's, 40's , and 50's, but after the 60's the degenerate minds of Academia is usually composed of the trash of society swept into a classroom, nobody cares what care they drive.

 

That said, I don't mind tattoos on specific women, but in general I agree with Pierre. It's more rebellious to keep your body clean these days than anything else.

 

I think you misinterpreted my post. It was less a response to "class" as a general way of being and carrying oneself, and more a response to socio-economic class. IE the assertion that someone with a tattoo is probably uneducated and low-income (therefore "lower class").

 

I'm aware that people judge, and have the right to. I'm just expressing my opinion along with everyone else. And I decided to provide an example of educated, intelligent professionals in my life who chose tattoos as a medium of personal expression. I didn't intend to prove they were classy.

[Contrecoeur]

Respect for Pierre: down 100 points

 

I think a lot of the older generation's derision for tattoos is based in the fact that it reminds them they're no longer young and in touch with reality.

[kaylan]

Why with the ignorant assumptions still Pierre? Plenty of people see tattoos as art that accentuates the body, and plenty of people with tattoos never regret gettings theirs. To make a stupid assertion that most tattooed folks regret their tattoos and were only doing it to join the herd is beyond arrogant. How about you do a survey and ask people instead of making biased claims based on your close-minded point of view.

 

However, youd dismiss any information youd gather anyway, because plenty of people in this thread have told you why they got their tattoo and how it means something important to them....but of course you still bash tattoos after making your bs apology for "ribbing".

 

The funny thing is, that the guys complaining the most about this are probably not the guys women are breaking down doors to get to anyways.

[kaylan]

Are you playing being sarcastic or Are you serious?

 

Guys will compliment your tattoo like they compliment your clothes.

When you hear 'hey I like your shirt' does it make you think 'oh he is interested in me as a person' ??? :lmao:

 

It's just easy to start a conversation that way. Personally, I don't use that approach since I know they hear that all the time 'hey I like your tattoo, what does that mean' It's just lame I think.

 

Anyways, do you really think he wanted to know about the tattoo and about who you are? OR do you think he threw that as a line to get into your pants?

Actually plenty of young guys actually dig tattoos, especially in big cities. Why do some of you act like you speak for all men?

I don't see average-above average white girls wearing tattoos.

If I see many girls wearing tattoos at university campus, I will change my opinions about it.

When you usually see girls with tattoos? ghetto bars? how are they behaving?

 

I know you are going to say I am an exception :lmao:

All kinds of women have tattoos...especially on a college campus. Have you even been to college? I went for 4 years and still visit my alma mater from time to time and plenty of different women have tattoos. You wont always see them or know they have them when you go out to the bar, club, or coffee house though. You find these things out talking to people though, and I got to know many people on campus during my time at school.

[Contrecoeur]

Why with the ignorant assumptions still Pierre? Plenty of people see tattoos as art that accentuates the body, and plenty of people with tattoos never regret gettings theirs. To make a stupid assertion that most tattooed folks regret their tattoos and were only doing it to join the herd is beyond arrogant. How about you do a survey and ask people instead of making biased claims based on your close-minded point of view.

What you're asking him to reflect upon can be equated to asking your great-grandpa why he thinks black people shouldn't marry whites. You'll get the same sort of logic. People just didn't so stuff like that back in his heyday, and it scares him.

[Million.to.1]

I have an incredibly unique tattoo that even people coveredfrom head to toe with ink themselves don't understand. It doesn't look like a tattoo either. It's really big, but sometimes people never notice it.

 

Someone mentioned before about a rose on an ankle or a butterfly on an arse being nice or ok.

 

Blurrrghhh!!

 

Tattoo is art. It's an aesthetic. Why hide it on your arse?

 

My tattoo is an idiot detector. People reactions to it tell me a great deal about who they are. If a guy finds me less attractive because of it, then good. Saves me the trouble of figuring out that he is a shallow or wrong for me in other ways.

 

If you aren't into tattoo's then fine. Don't get one, don't date people who have them.... They probably don't care whether or not YOU like their tattoo..

 

I come from the most tattooed country in the world. I love how people here express their art and culture. It's tribal, it's a passage, it's a process.

[Contrecoeur]

My tattoo is an idiot detector. People reactions to it tell me a great deal about who they are. If a guy finds me less attractive because of it, then good. Saves me the trouble of figuring out that he is a shallow or wrong for me in other ways.

Sorry but that's not possible. The only reason people get tattoos is to be "unique" (and thereby be followers/posers/sheep).

 

The more you know, LS edition

[Million.to.1]

 

As a young man I had long hair, however, I knew I could be cut. Not a permanent decision.

 

 

It a shame your attitude isn't as impermanent as your long locks Pierre.

[Contrecoeur]

please post photos of your tattoos. No need to show your face.

Where did I say I have tattoos? That's not a requirement to be a well-adjusted, accepting, and non-judgmental person. (Although, as evidenced by this thread, it sure does help!)

[Million.to.1]

Sorry but that's not possible. The only reason people get tattoos is to be "unique" (and thereby be followers/posers/sheep).

 

The more you know, LS edition

 

And this comes from your vast experience with having tattoos does it?

[kiss_andmakeup]

And this comes from your vast experience with having tattoos does it?

 

I believe she was being sarcastic.

[Jane2011]

I've never had any and don't really want one (though last summer I went through a 3-month phase of applying the fakes ones). If I were a guy, I'd probably prefer that a woman not have any, but I wouldn't be opposed to her having one or two if they're relatively small, nice images, and placed in tasteful places on her body.

 

If I were an employer, I'd try not to discriminate if someone had them. It may not be the most professional presentation of the person, but he/she may well be extremely smart, efficient, and hard-working.

[Million.to.1]

I believe she was being sarcastic.

 

Oh. Right. Oops

 

 

If I were a guy, I'd probably prefer that a woman not have any, but I wouldn't be opposed to her having one or two if they're relatively small, nice images, and placed in tasteful places on her body.

 

This i don't get. Only if they are small and pretty and unimaginative. BORING. what's the point of it then? These are the tattoos that are dumb. A butterfly on a breast, or a flower on a shoulder. THAT is being a sheep. Getting something small and hiden just so you have one. That is not ART.

[xxoo]

Listening to these arguments against tattoos reminds me of listening to my grandmother explain why nice girls MUST wear pantyhose, or my mother complaining about a woman having a bridal shower after living together for 2 years.

 

Times change, with or with<out> you! What was an issue then just isn't an issue now.

Edited August 17, 2012 by a LoveShack.org Moderator

[Million.to.1]

How about an ******* tattoo ?

 

.. I mean, this chick, is all class.

 

[kaylan]

If I were an employer, I'd try not to discriminate if someone had them. It may not be the most professional presentation of the person, but he/she may well be extremely smart, efficient, and hard-working.

Plenty of working professionals have tattoos. They just have them in places that you cannot see in business attire. My tattoos are on my chest and arm. In a suit no one knows I have them. So its easy for me to be an inked musician and a business minded guy.

 

Tattoos dont need to interfere with ones professional life unless someone gets hand, face, or neck tattoos...and those arent super common spots for tattoos.

[kaylan]

Oh, please it is insulting to compare the struggle against racism with tattoos. Furthermore, in America tattoos were 1st associated with an underclass that was generally white. Tattoos in black people is a very recent phenomenon and somewhat unusual as the copying usually flows in the opposite direction.

Copying?

 

How wrong you are...black people have been getting tattoos for hundreds of years. With ink and with scarification tattoos. Africa buddy...look at some of the cultures there. Hell...all races have been getting tattoos for hundreds of years. Research is your friend.

Nevertheless, you may have a point and it may apply to reactionary conservative republican types. These are the same folks that thought Elvis Presley was an evil influence because he moved his hips.

 

For the record I am on the left. Not conservative at all.

You still have old school conservative views of women and dating. Everyone on this board knows it. People mean conservative in the dictionary sense of the word...not the political sense.

[taiko]

Anyway, I'm finding it very difficult to find women to date in my area because they're all tattoo'd. Now, before I get the "I didn't get tattoos for anyone else and I don't care what you think about them" speech, I want to know if any other guys find tattoos on women to be a HUGE turn off. At one time I guess they were seen as rebellious, but now every time I'm out in public or talking to a girl I notice the majority of them have ink!

 

It used to be a sign of being unique, now in my eyes it's a sign of following the herd because everyone's got them, and with women with the beautiful bodies they already have I don't understand it at all. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I've met countless chicks who were VERY PRETTY and had a nice body, but then I see the ink and I'm like "Another one? Really? Is this a disease or something?"

 

So, FELLAS, do any of you feel the same way?

Yes, to be fair when they first started showing up on the dancers and sex workers I was hanging with 20 years ago I never imagined the situation where it seems like every girl and her grandmother would have full sets of tattoos as if her having them made her different instead of part of a rather large mass.

 

Now all women don't have them but I don't know any statistics on how many of those without are already in committed relationships thus out of the potential pool. I see them just like smokers, sure they cut the number of potential mates and my eventual wife gave up cigarettes. The all other things being equal argument about tattoos did not have to be made.

[xxoo]

If you say so.

 

Why do you think she is classy?

 

She is a pretty 22 year old woman that is destroying her body. Why a tattoo in her peri-anal area?

 

I think that was sarcasm. There is nothing classy about that girl

 

So how come you don't have a tattoo? PLease explain why not.

 

I simply have no desire to wear a tattoo. Others do. I often like tattoos on others, but don't want one on me.

[xxoo]

Yes, to be fair when they first started showing up on the dancers and sex workers I was hanging with 20 years ago I never imagined the situation where it seems like every girl and her grandmother would have full sets of tattoos as if her having them made her different instead of part of a rather large mass.

 

Eh, 20 years ago I was hanging with an alternative group of kids at uni, and the girls were getting tattoos and piercings.

[Million.to.1]

If you say so.

 

Why do you think she is classy?

 

She is a pretty 22 year old woman that is destroying her body. Why a tattoo in her peri-anal area?

 

I don't think it's classy at all.. i think it's hilarious. The woman is a muppet.

 

The fact that you say she destroyed her body is even funnier than her getting a tattoo on her butthole.

 

Destroyed it for who? You ? Your opinion?? You say destroyed, she says improved.

Can you not see that what you think of her body HAS NO RELEVANCE.

[taiko]

Copying?

 

How wrong you are...black people have been getting tattoos for hundreds of years. With ink and with scarification tattoos. Africa buddy...look at some of the cultures there. Hell...all races have been getting tattoos for hundreds of years. Research is your friend.

.

 

However by "Black people" it was not meant those living in an African culture but rather African Americans who had assimilated into western culture. And those Black people only started getting tattoos about the time that Dennis Rodman and other elite athletes started wearing them. And those first people where thought of as freaks.

 

I am watching the same thing going on in the Philippines today. Where the Spanish and American influenced culture had dropped tattooing and now after the world's culture setters are wearing tattoos on their movie and TV screens many are starting to wear tattoos again claiming the precolonial cultures when Filipinos wore elaborate tattoos. But not wearing them because Angelina Jolie is a megastar and I want to be cool like her , right.