# Tattoo... there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 23, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756 "2001-08-23T18:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/21 "2001-08-23T20:27:53Z")
I concur I have a tattoo of little wooden boy (of The Tick fame) on the right side of my lower back. I know its there and the only people who see it are the ones I want to see it. ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/22 "2001-08-24T01:52:21Z")
**Ethilrist, EJsGirl, Tequila Mockingbird, plnnr, bio-brat, frock75, JeffB, Ich Bin’s, and Miss Creant** , thanks for the insights. I guess I never thought about why people have tattoos before. What really puzzled me is that one of the tattoos I saw was on the lower back of a girl I know to be single and much too young to be having other people see her without clothes on. (Ooops… is my Puritan streak showing through?) So, I didn’t understand why in the world she would want to have a tattoo that she couldn’t see and no one else would see. Now, my eyes have been opened. And thanks also to **Jodi** for making me giggle, not once but twice! (“Ouchie Ouchie Ouchie” indeed! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/23 "2001-08-24T02:28:21Z")
There are people out there with tattoos of every imaginable kind on every imaginable part of their body. Part of some tattoo competitions (yes, there are such things) is a “tattooed penis” round. I have also seen pictures of women with tats right over their genitalia. There’s one woman with a rather famous one. She’s a photographer in San Fran, I believe. Her tattoo is a devil’s face, approx. life size, with her vagina as the face’s open mouth. I’ve also seen pictures of a guy who tattooed his face to look like lizard skin (i.e. green) had horns implanted into his skull, and had his tongue cut in two down the middle. Now THAT’S weird. ---
**Author:** ![urban1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d07c76/32.png) [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/24 "2001-08-24T02:29:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sdimbert \* > \*\* > I mean, right at the base of their spine, so the only way you can see it (under normal circumstances) is if they are facing away from you, bent over, so their shirt rides up away from their belt-line. > > \*\* This is ‘gay code’. A tatto on the back means the guy is a bottom. If it were just above the penis, he would be a top. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/25 "2001-08-24T02:57:45Z")
I find the small-of-the-back tattoo very sexy on a girl. Especially when we are doing it in such a way that it is visible. Major turn-on! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/26 "2001-08-24T14:32:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by frock75 \* > \*\* > I also have my nipples pierced. I can see them. Through my shirt it looks like I have four nipples. \*\* Yike! Somebody could chip a tooth! –Nott ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756/27 "2001-08-24T14:37:27Z")
Grok, I guess you would have like the girl I saw this summer. She had a stylized arrow, pointing down, made up of 70’s like psychedelic lettering in the small of her back. What did it say? “Deliveries At Rear” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-there/77756.md?page=1)