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An illustration of a scantily clad and physical levels. For many, it is someone I don’t know that much power
voluptuous woman with a black tribal- also a spiritual initiation of profound over my body and to a degree, life.
design tattoo running along the left side significance. Tattoo fetishists do get Or am I making too big of a deal of this?
of her body stares up at me from my turned on by the dynamic. Personally, I know that some people regard getting
local freebie magazine. An ad for Black I find the proposition terrifying on all a tattoo quite casually, like getting a new
Lotus Tattoos. I’m researching tattoos levels. The idea of offering up a delicate haircut, or something.
for an assignment and I can’t stop area of my skin to a needle bearing Then there is the lexicon of sign and
looking at this picture. One of her bikini brand meister.... um, I mean tattoo signified, the linguistics of it. Whether
straps is broken... giving the impression artist, is... just, not my cup of tea. But to be adorned or desecrated, flesh is
that she is either too voluptuous for I have to admit, I am fascinated, even the ultimate, though most temporary
her suit or has been manhandled. It’s slightly titillated on a fantasy level. The of canvases (unless mummified,
a 1950s, Vargas girl type, with yellow- reality part is another matter. I mean, more about this later). A tattoo re-
blond hair and ruby red lips in sly pout. even if get to the point of deciding contextualizes skin as something more
Are tattoos associated with sexual to go ahead with the procedure and than merely, cosmetically appealing,
availability these days, as in this ad I feel certain about what it is you want skeletal and guts containment. It literally
wonder? imprinted on your skin, you still have turns it into an art surface, canvas,
Sex, as with anything else, sells one more threshold to cross and that medium, or if you prefer personal
permanent body art, as tattoos are is...trust. You have to absolutely give statement or notice board. Granted
more elegantly described. There is of over your trust to the tattooer, a person many of these “personal statements”
course, the erotic aspect of submitting who, in most cases, you don’t even are canned, seen on the masses, e.g.
ones tender skin to the pierce of a hot know and let them permanently mark How many times have you seen a
needle loaded with ink. This submission your skin. Intense, if you ask me. I am heart with dagger in it for example, or
happens on psychological, emotional stressed at the very thought of giving rock skull imagery? On the other hand,
the wild world of
by Denae D’Arcy, co-author Suzanne Bella Land
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