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ORIGINAL: sabswife

i am collared and tattoed :)

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ORIGINAL: slavejali

so I can only imagine how I would feel about a tattoo combined with the fact tattoos have been another area of resistancy within myself. I do love marks, carrying the imprints of his ownership of me on my body is an awesome thing.

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Original: Sab
Then you need a tattoo, jali.

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ORIGINAL: Littlepita

I have been thinking about tattooing recently. Something I NEVER thought I would do, but things and times change don't they? Anyway, just curious but where do most subs get a tattoo put on their bodies? I gather it's up to the person but I would be interested in knowing where the "norm" is.

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ORIGINAL: feastie

Personally, I don't have any interest in a permanent marking.  I really don't care for piercings or tattoos, much less brands or scarification.  It is such a hard limit for me, that it is a deal breaker.  I find them redundant anyway.  But that's just my personal feeling.

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ORIGINAL: Noah

With very few exceptions I find tattoos ugly and my partners know this. The few decorations I don't find ugly I still find less attractive than unpainted skin. For me to have one applied to a partner, or to apply one to her myself, maybe prison style, would be a grievous punishment--if it were one. It would be a fairly diabolical bit of torture otherwise. The idea of how long and how badly it would hurt her for me to make her less attractive in my eyes, well I'll admit that this prospect is something I can savor sadistically.

To remove a tattoo which someone came to me with would be a better way of marking for my taste. To eliminate what you chose and reduce you to what you are. That has a much nicer conceptual ring. Do they use lasers for that or wire brushes or what?

In extreme physical interaction, marks get left. I've never left one I didn't enjoy, though almost all have been temporary. There is this cool thing you can do with a push-pin which makes it look as though she is wearing old-style seamed stockings for a couple of weeks, for instance (if you're reading this, I miss you sometimes and yeah I know stockings don't usually have seams like that.)

Not counting teeny scars from temporary piercings, the only permanent mark I'm sure I've left (except on their little hearts and souls, of course) was a brand. It was by surprise, un-negotiated, during the woman's first and only visit to me--though we had known one another for a long time. The logistics were such that when it started she didn't know what was causing the pain. Nor when it finished or for several hours afterward for that matter. Since she had never experienced a serious burn it was quite a mysterious phenomenon for her.

It was on the spur of the moment but it would be wrong to say it was on a whim, as the moment it was on the spur of was beyond extrordinary, as is she.

I guess I got lucky because none of the dire consequences constantly trumpeted by the safety police came to pass, and the mark endures. The gift keeps on giving (to each of us) in that touching the brand is incorporated into a daily ritual which she periodically takes the trouble to write and thank me for. The ritual is a lovely thing if I say so myself, inspired by the Sign of the Cross, but yet quite distinct and with a novel and much more handy source of holy water.

I wonder if you would mind, twicehappy, if I extended the thread topic to include a request for reports of ways that people may have made tattoos or other marks something more than a static signifier. I think this is still in keeping with your original requests.

Has anyone else incorporated them into ritual or used/adapted them in ways I'm not clever enough to anticipate but might enjoy hearing about? I mean besides the now-trite gratuitously shocking word placed so as to be publicly visible (though come to think of it, on someone who abhorred triteness beyond rudeness this old idea could be re-invigorated.)



I'll edit this question out to a new thread if you would prefer, twicehappy.