I usually check for wedding rings on guys, but that was usually while adding data to my “Is he gay or not?” mental spreadsheet. More and more now a wedding ring isn’t a good “tell” for heterosexuality…
Yeah, that’s what I used to think.
Ooch…
Do we get any details?
I look for wedding rings, just out of curiosity though. I look at both men and women, and I’m engaged myself. I don’t recall ever basing my decision to flirt on a ring.
I look. But I’m just being nosy.
I used to wear my ring to the gym, but take it off when I did something like lat pulldowns that have a knurled bar, so I wouldn’t scratch it. I would put in my sock and not think about it until I got to the locker room. I was on friendly terms with a I believe good looking, gay guy that came in for the latter half of my workouts. Presumably, he figured out I was straight w/o the ring, because came in one day before I had taken my ring off, walked up to introduce me to a pretty, girl (deliberate spaces here) friend of his, and exclaimed, “I never knew you were married!” It was a very awkward moment for all three of us, but I took it as flattering, because I clearly passed his shit screen and she was really, really pretty, in an athletic-build-with-large-natural-boobs-made-for-kissing-lips-and-dimples kind of way.
You could have just added to the tattoo with some flames shooting up your finger. That would have been really cool. Or maybe do all your fingers in rings. Yeah, baby.
Oh yeah, the OP - I’m a happily married woman who doesn’t even know how to flirt, and I always look for rings on both sexes, just as data points in my files on people I know. Sorry, jtgain. Hey, if you want to post a picture, I can tell you how hot you look. 
I would love to see pictures of this! I think it’s ultra-cool; & I’ve been thinking of starting a tattoo-pics thread anyway. nd_n8, how about it?
Hah! I did this today, and just now realized it. I was talking to this guy and checked. I don’t know why – just curiosity, I think. I don’t think I was flirting with him (we were discussing the election, and, really, if that’s not a downer what is?).
Wedding rings are paradoxical. They mean different things to different people.
To a young woman wearing a ring, it usually means, “I’m taken, so I will flirt outrageously with you and you’re supposed to know that I will never have sex with you. And if you’re a creepy guy, you’re supposed to realize you’re a creepy guy and I won’t even talk to you.” Really, she thinks it says all that. What she doesn’t know is that the mini-dress she’s wearing and the absence of her husband speaks much, much louder.
To a man wearing a wedding ring, well, frankly, I don’t know what it means. But to his wife it means, “This guy is taken, look elsewhere, God damnit! Please please please look elsewhere.”
When I was young I never looked for a ring on a man because I naively assumed that a man wouldn’t flirt with me if he was married. Now I know better.
My husband’s wedding ring means, to me, “Hah! Foolish women! He was single for 31 years, and you didn’t bother to snap him up, and now he’s mine! Losers!” 