# Does a tattoo on the small of a girl's back mean she (Adult content) . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2002, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516 "2002-08-12T13:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/21 "2002-08-13T00:51:30Z")
> [@](#): > > It reminds me of that old “males with piercings in the left (or mayber right?) ear are gay” thing. It’s the right ear that means you’re gay. But as far as I can tell, over 99% of men with one ear pierced choose the left one, and at least a few of them I know are gay. I almost never see just right ear piercings. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/22 "2002-08-13T01:01:11Z")
> [@](#): > > It reminds me of that old “males with piercings in the left (or mayber right?) ear are gay” thing. It’s the right ear that means you’re gay. But as far as I can tell, over 99% of men with one ear pierced choose the left one, and at least a few of them I know are gay. I almost never see just right ear piercings. ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/23 "2002-08-13T01:50:47Z")
FWIW, 100 percent of the men I personally know or have known with only their right ear pierced (that would be four) have been openly gay. I always assumed that that particular rumor was true. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/24 "2002-08-13T02:32:16Z")
I thought women originally started getting tattoos in that particular spot as that was a spot which could be easily covered up with a thong when sunbathing. Way back before people wore lowriding clothes. Although it seems that spot now has a momentum no longer connected to the original reason it was started. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/25 "2002-08-13T02:52:35Z")
I just assumed it was an aid, when doing it doggy style. Kind of a schizophrenic version of thinking about Willie Mays. Gives you something to focus on. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/26 "2002-08-13T03:38:27Z")
Nothing like watching that butterfly flap . . . ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/27 "2002-08-13T04:21:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wolfian \* > \*\* It reminds me of that old “males with piercings in the left (or mayber right?) ear are gay” thing. \*\* When I got my left ear lobe pierced, the gal told me that for men, left is right and right is wrong. Let us not forget the Ken (Barbie’s boyfriend) doll that was released a while ago. Mattel gave Ken an earring in the right earlobe. Of course, Ken was considered coming out of the closet. I remember a store display at the time, 2 rows of GI Joe dolls, a row of the Ken dolls, then 2 more rows of GI Joe dolls. Someone then wrote on a price display card “Ken dumped the bitch and is happy now.” ---
**Author:** ![brandiwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@brandiwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brandiwine)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/28 "2002-08-13T04:58:05Z")
Alright then… i’ll never get that lower spine tattoo now. I’ve gotten enough shit over my tongue piercing, and it supposedly meaning im a blowjob fiend. So what’s it supposed to mean if you have a tat on the back of your neck? That you like to be donkey punched? Cock smacked in the back of the head? Im sure you’ll come up with something colourful for that one. Hell, I’ll even come back & admit anything that you nail accurately. And I’d also like the info to add to my “Stereotype Yourself” list. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brandiwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@brandiwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brandiwine)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/29 "2002-08-13T05:04:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by H8\_2\_W8 \* > \*\*I suppose you’re gonna tell me that women who wear ankle bracelets are not really advertising that they are swingers. \*\* ::removes slavebell anklet quickly:: And to think … ive been making & selling these for years, promoting Swingggin, without any knowledge. DARN! ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/30 "2002-08-13T06:27:50Z")
First I need to get one of those slavebell anklets! As for the tatt I prefer to call it my porn star tattoo.😃 I’m not a rear entry kind of girl, but I’ve been told it looks nice looking down on it in that position. The tatts I got didn’t hurt. Even the one on the small of my back that I got while having a gallbladder attack. But then again getting my nipples peirced didn’t hurt either. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/31 "2002-08-13T08:05:25Z")
My darling Marcie wears an ankle bracelet—are you guys telling me that she isn’t really working late three and four nights a week? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/32 "2002-08-13T08:15:30Z")
A clear giveaway is a tattoo in the form of concenctric circles of alternating colors about the anus. With numbers so you can score how close you get. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/33 "2002-08-13T09:28:08Z")
_dies laughing_ ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/34 "2002-08-13T17:12:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quonk \* > \*\*FWIW, 100 percent of the men I personally know or have known with only their right ear pierced (that would be four) have been openly gay. I always assumed that that particular rumor was true. \*\* Hi! Nice to meet you! I have a right one, and I’m 100 percent hetero. One day while working at my friends magic shop a Grandma and grandson came in and were looking around. I guess they thought that we couldn’t hear them, but the G.S. asked “Why does that guy have an earring?” and G.Ma said “Because he is either gay or smokes pot.” And y’know…I couldn’t come up with one darned example where either one or the other wasn’t true. Funny that. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/35 "2002-08-13T17:39:24Z")
Well, i gots both ears pierced, (tragii, actually) and am neither gay nor a pot smoker. Although, now that you mention it, most of my friends seem to be one or the other… To the “likes it in the pooper” tattoo myth…an unequivocal no. I used to work in a tattoo shop, and I never heard this justification or symbolic meaning once. Rather, as has been said, most girls like it because it looks good when the midriff is exposed. Just for the record, tattoos around the navel don’t signify a craving for bellybutton sex, either. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/36 "2002-08-13T17:57:44Z")
Does wearing a toe ring with an ankle bracelt mean that you are a swinger who wants to stick their foot up someone’s ass? Or does having pierced nipples mean you want _it_ there? Not necessarily, it probably just means you like jewelry and have found yet another body part to adorn. Same thing with tats I imagine. ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/37 "2002-08-13T18:05:48Z")
A roommate in college swore up and down that girls who wore big hoop earrings were total slut doggies. It might have had something to do with the fact that the night he hooked up with a girl (for his only hookup in four years), she was wearing big hoop earrings. (and unfortunately, even today, I can’t look at girls wearing big hoop earrings without thinking that!!) ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/38 "2002-08-13T19:37:24Z")
Just to give a flip-side point of view, my GF has absolutely no tattoos whatsoever, but she had been known to allow me to “go in thru the out-door” when she’s feeling particularly friendly. I guess I need to notify her that she’s not in compliance with proper labeling requirements. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/39 "2002-08-13T19:59:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brandiwine \* > \*\*I’ve gotten enough shit over my tongue piercing, and it supposedly meaning im a blowjob fiend. > \*\* Umm, if you got shit all over your tongue piercing, then what you are giving is not a blow job 😃 d&r ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516/40 "2002-08-13T21:11:02Z")
xizor– > [@](#): > > Umm, if you got shit all over your tongue piercing, then what you are giving is not a blow job :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-tattoo-on-the-small-of-a-girls-back-mean-she-adult-content/123516.md?page=3)