Lucky you! I couldn't figure out which picture I liked better so you get to see both of these hotties. Now, on with the article.
I think tattoos are very sexy, though I don't have any myself. There are many reasons for their appeal, perhaps the least of which is the look. Of course, like these lovely women point out, the look of a well placed and artistically designed tattoo has obvious sex appeal.
Much like lingerie, the idea of these tattoos is to emphasize the wearer's nudity. When people ask, "Why is she wearing a g-string? You can see everything. She might as well be naked!" they are clearly missing the point. The carefully positioned stringy things are not meant as a cover, but as a decoration. Rather than hide her "naughty bits" lingerie is supposed to attract the eyes (hands, mouth, etc.) to them. It's supposed to make her curves and shadows that much more tempting...Just like a good tattoo (IMHO).
But even sexier than making your fingertips itch to run over the dips and contours of every tattooed line, the real eroticism is decidedly psychological.
First you have to consider the design, character, etc. of the tattoo itself. It's safe to assume that for whatever reason the wearer decided to forever identify themselves by and with it. For example, the woman above has a detailed Dragon on her back, something that must have taken a very long time to do. Why did she pick a Dragon? What does it symbolize to her? Does that say anything about the type of person she is, her values, her imagination, etc.? And if someone else's tattoo holds you transfixed, even momentarily, does that mean you have a connection to them...perhaps on a deeper unconscious level? (After all, there are tattoos that make you go "Eh, big deal" and then there are some that make you stop in your tracks!)
Secondly, tattoos have traditionally been a mark of bravery, strength, and the willingness to persevere, since getting them necessarily involves the ordeal of voluntarily pain. The larger and more intricate the tattoo, the more painful you know it was to get. Again, the fact that the wearer actually went through with getting it says something about them. Maybe they did it to test their own endurance. Maybe to prove to someone else that they were strong enough. Maybe because they enjoyed the pain...
And therein lies the real reason why I personally get turned on by tattoos...the pain. When I see a great tattoo I can't help but imagine what that person was like while in the process of acquiring it. If it's a man, I love that he was able to do it, stone-faced, determined, focused. After all, if he could withstand hours of being jabbed repeatedly with a needle all for the sake of attaining a goal, he should be a fairly stable and ambitious guy. (Yes, I can hear the chorus of readers singing their disagreement now.)
And finally, a tattoo just makes a man look daring, bad-ass, and tough-as-hell. All qualities that make me tingle in just the right places...
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They say there is a very fine line between pleasure and pain... are you willing to blur it?
Oh Kristofer, I blur that line so often it's more of a shadow.
Who was it that said something like "Sex without pain is like food without taste?" I have a feeling you know just who I'm talking about...and he was very, very right. ;)
What about you? What are your rules?
Hey Rose.
Nice post! I had this topic too, it was entitled "Taboo or Sexual Magnetism?" I find smaller tattoos sexier than those big ones. As I said in my post, a tattoo is not just a decoration for me, it’s me, it’s the symbol that would tell a short story of my personality.
There is something appealing when a woman wears a cute small tatty enticing her lover to cum on. I want a tatty, but, frankly speaking, I don't want to feel that kind of pain...
As to the "sex without pain is like food without taste"... I agree. Pain and pleasure, they go together. Let me say that even the pleasure is pain, sweet pain.
Looking forward to read what you'll write next. And now I'm going to Blogging Awards to leave a comment. Hope it will help.
Pain.. I once knew a girl who liked to have her back cut, and scratched while having sex, doggy-style of course...and sometimes this was done with a razor blade, very intersting and somewhat messy and sticky but it was fun I have to admit that... as for myself, it depends the mood I'm in, and of course the partner has to know what they are doing..... it also requires quite a bit of trust, as with bondage as well...
Thanks Nellioness. It's always a pleasure to hear from you and for taking the time to vote. :) It's true that when pleasure becomes really intense it is often pushed into pain. But at that point, there really isn't a difference anyway. Have you ever experienced it the other way around though? When what starts off as pain transforms into pleasure...?
Kristofer, you ummm, took that one further than I thought. I love that you keep surprising me with new bits of past experiences. Who knew you were so kinky? ;)
Even most self-proclaimed "kinksters" draw the line at edge/knife/blood play. I've thought about this many times myself but have never actually done it. I think the idea of being deliberately and carefully cut by a lover is intriguing, mostly because of the trust and intimacy involved, like you said.
If you haven't already, you might be interested in reading a post I did a while back about Angelina Jolie called "For Her I'd Become A Lesbian" because she talks about the excitement of cutting and how she's been into it since she was young.
I wonder what it is about the "darker" side of people that connects so well with sexuality. I have a theory about power, hunting, instinct, and rape that is not so politically correct...
I guess I have to watch what I say.. can't let to much out about me, won't have any of the 'mystique' left then...
It's all Primal instincts we have, hunting, power, 'blood lust'... I think the reason people like blood is because it relates to a more purer form of us as creatures or beasts. The blood is raw, it's pure, it's essentially life itself, it is about as close as two can come to one another. Blood symbolizes life itself, and in that power as well.
Pain is essentially the same, at least for the giver of it, with the pain given is also the power over the subject, which is a true aphrodisiac in itself as we all know.
Rape, well, I don't go there... My ex-always said 'you can't rape the willing' Rape is a truly twisted form of a power, that usually only leads to things much worse but the person doing the raping. Rapeplay requires a true trust or bond between the participatants and then cannot be considered rape at all, so honestly I don't consider rape a form of sex at all, or even sexual play...
Kristofer, I couldn't agree with you more about the blood-primal connection. Crazy wild man! =P
But I feel the need to explain the rape thing. All I meant was that rape is a large part of regular mating for a lot of species and we probably still have those instincts in us somewhere. I know a lot of organizations have tried to take this aspect out of our idea of rape because it does not help the cause against it, which I understand. But if you're going to really fight a problem, and rape IS a problem, then you should tackle all aspects of it, not just bury the ones you don't like and feel you can't change (such as instincts). They've tried to make rape "all about power, not sex" which I don't think is 100% true. I think rape is still motivated in part by a sexual urge - perhaps via control and power sure. But to say rape ISN'T about sex doesn't ring true to me.
Also one could argue that there really aren't that many examples of rape in nature, especially if you go with your ex's argument that you can't rape the wiling. (I agree). But how do we determine "willing"?
For example, I grew up with a ton of wild cats outside and used to see them mate all the time. The male would just chase around the female until she seemed to exhausted to fight back. Then he'd bite her so she couldn't run away, jump on her, pin her down, and "mate." Was this rape? Was she "willing"? Just how far removed are humans from this sort of behavior? How much of our instincts are controlled and dictated by culture/society? What the hell is 'natural' human mating behavior anyway...?
That's more what I was thinking about. :)
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