# WARNING: NSFW Is this tattoo real? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 1, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549 "2009-09-01T21:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/1 "2009-09-01T21:50:44Z")
http:/ /people.tribe.net/f8c15364-805f-4cb2-8be9-1220d9ebbe96/photos Can this possibly be real? I checked Snopes and there’s a message board discussion but no confirmation if it’s a real tat or Sharpie markers. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/2 "2009-09-01T21:55:06Z")
Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/3 "2009-09-01T21:55:31Z")
It’s real. Google “vagina tattoo” for some opposite-gender examples. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/4 "2009-09-01T22:03:50Z")
Huh. Maybe not a popular opinion, but I think that’s really neat. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/5 "2009-09-01T22:25:04Z")
“Daddy, this is Carl, the boy I’m going to marry!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/6 "2009-09-01T22:26:44Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > Huh. Maybe not a popular opinion, but I think that’s really neat. Very cool. Yeah, I like it, and I don’t see any reason to think it’s fake. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/7 "2009-09-01T22:28:36Z")
I’m sorry, I know what curiosity did to the cat, but I found yet another one. Not as colorful but it actually make me \. http:/ /www.capohedz.com/typebrighter/2007/06/really-bad-tattoos-part-7.html Check out the last one on this page. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/8 "2009-09-01T22:36:41Z")
I wouldn’t doubt that it’s real. I’ve seen plenty like it that were (not in person, in trade magazines in the tattoo shop I used to work in post-college). Many artists will decline requests for work of this nature, primarily due to butthole proximity. A little googling on the artist’s name turns up a blog with a post by the tattoo’s owner, John Bevan of Wales. Scroll down a little for his post explaining how he came by it (link broken, contains same pics as op, NSFW): http:/ /comejoinin.blogspot.com/2006/06/puff-magic-dragon-xxx-rated-beware.html ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/9 "2009-09-01T23:48:20Z")
I feel a bit sorry for the tattoo artist. Had I been he, I would have insisted on the strategic placement of a cork for at least one of those jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/10 "2009-09-02T00:35:48Z")
_“We’re sorry, the party you are attempting to reach is **Certifiably Insane**. Please run away as fast as you can.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/11 "2009-09-02T01:16:43Z")
It’s real. It’s been one of my favourite internet oddities for years now. Edited to add–this is the first time I’ve ever seen Puff the Magic Dragon’s owner! (I’ve always only seen groin area photographs.) It’s really quite amazing, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/12 "2009-09-02T02:20:43Z")
Amazing? Let me think…nope, that’s not the word I was thinking. I guess I’ve lived a very sheltered life never having come across (no pun intended) this before. I would have bet money that no human could stand to have that dense of a tattoo…um…_there_. Thanks all. I’m certainly more enlightened today than I was yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/13 "2009-09-02T02:24:32Z")
John Bevan needs to learn how to spell “Copyright.” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/14 "2009-09-02T02:37:53Z")
“Welcome to Jamaica, mon. Have a nice day.” ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/15 "2009-09-02T02:45:12Z")
Yes it’s real. Artistically speaking, it’s actually quite well done. This is the first time I’ve seen more than just the one pic of that guy. I’ve seen a few crazier pieces before, like the anal starfish tattoo (Google that one if you like. It’s exactly as described.) ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/16 "2009-09-02T03:02:35Z")
My mother got a glimpse (she was talking to me when I was looking) and asked what it was, so I said she probably wouldn’t want to know and the next thing she asks me if it was an anal tattoo. :eek: I told her yes and no and explained and she said she had seen one before. So I asked where… a British sailor she knew dropped his drawers to show her (and her friends, and a few other sailors who were all showing off their tattoos) and she told me she even has a picture of it somewhere. :eek: Mom constantly surprises me. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/17 "2009-09-02T03:04:33Z")
\ It’s funny to realize that your mom was actually a woman before she was your mom. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/18 "2009-09-02T03:15:21Z")
I knew she was, and she’s told me things before so I knew she was a bit wild in her younger days when she used to sneak out of the nunnery to go to the Fleet club (no, she wasn’t a nun… the nuns ran a boarding house for young ladies). Just… really not the sort of thing you might expect to hear come from your mother’s lips. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/19 "2009-09-02T03:18:20Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Amazing? Let me think…nope, that’s not the word I was thinking. I guess I’ve lived a very sheltered life never having come across (no pun intended) this before. I would have bet money that no human could stand to have that dense of a tattoo…um…_there_. Thanks all. I’m certainly more enlightened today than I was yesterday. In **pravnik** ’s link, the Tattooed One says that his skin was numbed while the tattoo artist was at work. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549/20 "2009-09-02T03:18:35Z")
Holy gold-plated shit on a silver salver. That is the most interested I have ever been, or indeed ever hope to be, in dick and man-ass. (And not in a good way, though YMM most definitely V.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-nsfw-is-this-tattoo-real/508549.md?page=2)