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This is a well documented myth. It depends on the size of the tattoo and the ink used.

Don't worry, you can still endure the most painful and brutal thing ever with a tramp stamp.

Posted by Richard | December 6, 2007 12:31 PM
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Back in the day one of my girlfriends got a tattoo on the small of her back (maybe 15 years ago?). I bet she can't stand it now that it is the mark of sorority sisters everywhere.

Hah.

Posted by Rotten666 | December 6, 2007 12:32 PM
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The only tattoo one should place on the small of one's back is a simple command: HARDER, PLEASE.

In Olde English lettering, of course.

Posted by kerri harrop | December 6, 2007 12:36 PM
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That said, that lady's curves are hott. Two t's.

Posted by Katelyn | December 6, 2007 12:36 PM
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The linked article completely contradicts its headline. Fear-mongering much?

Posted by STJA | December 6, 2007 12:41 PM
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It's the new cleavage!

Posted by Ziggity | December 6, 2007 12:47 PM
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Just a matter of time until we find out that tatoos anywhere will lead to cancer of some sort.

Posted by Just Me | December 6, 2007 12:54 PM
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It's called a target.

Posted by NaFun | December 6, 2007 12:55 PM
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@3 - i need to meet someone with that tattoo.

Posted by infrequent | December 6, 2007 1:07 PM
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I hate that the news is so focused on what could happen, especially when their angle is shown to have no supporting evidence. It's silly and one of the many reasons local news sucks.

Jean Enersen sucks too.

Posted by PA Native | December 6, 2007 1:15 PM
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Them's look like ass antlers to me.

Posted by thoughtcriminal | December 6, 2007 1:17 PM
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"Tramp stamp"? What year is this, 1953? Give me a break! (And no, I don't have one.)

Posted by Irena | December 6, 2007 1:45 PM
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It depends on the exact location of the tattoo and whether or not it is in the area where the needle is inserted.

My sister has a tattoo like that - and now she's older she's not as excited as she once was about it.

In most cases, I wouldn't worry.

Posted by Will in Seattle | December 6, 2007 1:46 PM
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Women who get that tattoo are saying to EVERYONE that:

"I like it in the ass"

Ain't nothing more trampy than that.

Posted by ecce homo | December 6, 2007 1:57 PM
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How is "I like it in the ass" trampy from a woman but unproblematic from a gay man? This is a stupid double standard.

Posted by Katelyn | December 6, 2007 2:02 PM
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@14: Or, they're saying they like it doggy style. And there's nothing trampy about that.

Also, it's called a Panama City License Plate.

Posted by uh | December 6, 2007 2:07 PM
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The men are tramps, too, they're just celebrated for that fact, mostly.

Posted by NaFun | December 6, 2007 2:08 PM
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I don't think it says "I like it in the ass" so much as "I like it doggystyle." But either way, it's hot.

Posted by Matthew | December 6, 2007 2:09 PM
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"Tramp stamp" is an attractively rhyming and unfortunately judgmental nickname for a morally neutral tattoo. It carries no legal weight.

But I didn't regret using it until Ecce Homo weighed in.

Posted by David Schmader | December 6, 2007 2:18 PM
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Am I missing something? In what way would a tattoo prevent an epidural? Is this some new force-field tattoo ink that prevents the penetration of needles? Or are they just trying to avoid messing up the picture?

Posted by wench | December 6, 2007 2:20 PM
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Jesus David, did you actually read the article? I'm not bothering to because I saw the live report, but if the information is the same, the result is that women have nothing to worry about. And thanks for the days-old news.

Posted by Emily | December 6, 2007 2:28 PM
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Tramp stamp or not, I'd hit that.

Posted by Greg | December 6, 2007 2:41 PM
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Emily, yes, I read the article. That's why I left it at "Jean Enersen said so"--because her headline is the only place that claims "back tattoo may cause problems for women." As you know, every source cited in the piece shoots the theory down flat.

And you're very welcome for the "old news." Such bait-and-switch reporting is timeless.

Posted by David Schmader | December 6, 2007 2:49 PM
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I hate tattoos and I must be one of the 20 people left in the world who doesn't have one. They're are so not edgy anymore and haven't been for a long time.

I'm looking forward to the day when they go the way of the charm bracelet, go-go boots, and leg warmers.

Posted by Bauhaus | December 6, 2007 2:50 PM
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bullshit.
the actual translation is this "don't sexualize yourself, even remotely, for you will regret it WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH. You're gonna be a mother someday, tramp, so you shouldn't do stupid, sex related things"
god forbid you'll need an epidural say for a knee operation. No, it has to threaten you with the delivery room.
I am an ob/gyn resident and god knows I've seen enough epidurals to know they can be done practically in any condition.
And besides... YOU CAN GIVE BIRHT WITHOUT AN EPIDURAL, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. I know it. It happens. 20 times every 24 hours in the hospital I work in.

(the fact that when I got my degeee I got the chinese ideogram for "doctor" tatooed in my lower back doesn't have anything to do with my opinion. And yes, I like it doggystyle.)

Posted by tinydoc | December 6, 2007 3:08 PM
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the only thing worse than lower back tattoos is people referring to them as "tramp stamps." just because 2 words rhyme and there is a certain - albeit extremely judgemental and horribly flawed - logic behind their pairing is no excuse.

anyone who uses the term "tramp stamp" is trash. there, i said it.

Posted by brandon | December 6, 2007 3:11 PM
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still looking for the story

Posted by Thrice | December 6, 2007 3:28 PM
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I am saving up to get a tattoo of a giant star over my giant navel.

Posted by Clint | December 6, 2007 3:48 PM
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How does advertising how you like your pussy pounded not trampy? Sorry, just saying it isnt doesn't make it so.

And not every gay man enjoy's or practices anal sex.

And gay men who run around yapping about how much they like it in the ass are tramps as well. Since when have I given any indication of the latter.

Whether my husband and I engage in particular sex acts is only between him and I. Not anyone else. Yapping about our sex lives for some selacious and self absorbed reason is what is so distateful about Dan Savage, Savage Love, and so much of the Stranger.

Posted by ecce homo | December 6, 2007 4:44 PM
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29 comments and not a word about the pot kettle blackism of known department store klepto Jean Enersen trying to tell the locals what they should and shouldn't do?

Posted by Gomez | December 6, 2007 4:48 PM
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Women should have some dignity. I can't believe how this is lost on the current crop of apathetic 20 something liberal arts grads who think they are so edgy with their tribal tattoo above their ass, so that their boyfriend can have something pretty to look at when they are giving them the ole' "in an out" - (While they are more than likely thinking about someone else).

Again, advertising how you like to have sex ain't attractive, it's cheesy and slutty.

Posted by ecce homo | December 6, 2007 4:50 PM
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I think I saw Jean buying a strap on and a bunch of flavored lube at Babes about 3 months ago.

Posted by Barbara Streisand | December 6, 2007 4:53 PM
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alright, ecce - you've made 3 comments saying the exact same thing. clearly you need some attention, so i will indulge you:

how does a tattoo or it's location on the body say *anything* about what kind of sex a person does or does not have? unless it specifically says the words "i like it doggystyle", or "put it in my butt", or "i want you to pull out and spooge all over my back cuz i'm a filthy dirty cumwhore," tattoos say nothing of a person's sexual proclivities.

that should hold you for a while. now why don't you go back to not having sex with your husband.

Posted by brandon | December 6, 2007 5:04 PM
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Tattoos are a form of taking control over your body, defeating nature. Instead of being meekly content with whatever you were born with, you use wit and technology invent yourself. Other forms of body control, like piercing, plastic surgery, bodybuilding, dieting, or even cosmetics, all attract the same kind of moralistic shaming.

There is a natural hierarchy of beauty, and prudes will not be happy with you if you upset that order.

Posted by elenchos | December 6, 2007 5:21 PM
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ecce homo @29:

"Yapping about our sex lives for some selacious and self absorbed reason is what is so distateful about Dan Savage, Savage Love, and so much of the Stranger."

Then WHY DO YOU READ IT???

Posted by Irena | December 6, 2007 5:43 PM
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i got my tat there 11 years ago, thinking only "where can i fit something big (INKWISE) and not have to look at it every day, and i've already done my shoulders?" it wasn't until moving into my current apartment and my new landlord, sitting next to his wife and infant child, saying "huh huh, you know what those are called, right?" that i learned what a naive whore i really am.
it's probably my favorite.

Posted by pretentious | December 6, 2007 5:46 PM
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Irena, give Ecce a break. The Stranger is free, after all, and that's important when you're in the situation he's in. It's the one link he has left with Seattle: He's been banned from both Metro and Sound Transit, and you can't exactly walk to Capitol Hill from Auburn, after all.

I say thank GOD he found a way to get internet access, after the King County Library system got that restraining order. Luckily, his new "husband" (humor him, won't you? It's the holidays, after all, and it has been a week now) is the assistant night manager at Kinko's, and he lets him use the computer when other people aren't needing it. Talk about depending on the kindness of strangers....

Lastly, the whole thing about "tramp stamps" is a touchy topic for him. I'm convinced that that cut-rate tattoo parlor in Lynnwood, where he got his "stamp", is the place he first picked up that weird bacterial infection that makes his toenails so funky. And that whole misunderstanding about the difference between "Exit Only" and "Enter Here" on the final design has made for some real confusion on the part of his "husbands". But as I always tell him, at least they got the arrow pointing in the right direction, LOL!

To his credit, he's learned to live with it. He's a very good sport about some things.

So cut him some slack. After all, but for the grace of God...

Posted by catalina vel-duray | December 6, 2007 11:30 PM
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My husband has gotten steroid epidurals for back pain; and his doctor said they won't do epidurals through tattoos because some tattoo inks have heavy metals that they don't want to risk introducing into the spinal fluid. So at least some doctors believe tattoos can be a problem. I think the easy solution is that if you want a tattoo in that area you design one that has a space down the middle of the spine.

And I see no reason that a tattoo on the lower back means you like sex a particular way, any more than one on the breast would. I'd sure hope that any partner would be paying more attention to the other person than the decorations.

Posted by SpookyCat | December 7, 2007 2:21 PM
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Live and let live, but a tattoo on the lower back looks slutty to me. Call me judgmental, but if you do, aren't you being judgmental? Hypocrites! What a tattoo says to me is that you aren't happy with the body God gave you and/or you're seeking attention. Seeking attention isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is scarring your body to seek attention really a healthy thing?

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