Who cares what other people think? If you want it then go get it done!

i foudn out the other day it also stops you from being able to have an epidural when you give birth.

so if you ever wanna have a kid you might want to think twice about doing lower back first.

i would go with a full back piece starting at shoulders and spreading down around the sides onto your hips.

In my opinion the ‘tramp stamp’ term itself is stupid. The lower back is just another place where ink can be seen while wearing clothing because the shirt sometimes moves up a bit, hip huggers are popular, and some shirts dont even come close to covering the spot. I dont think that it is trampy or slutty, because that is assuming the placement of a tattoo is indicative of how often a woman has sex (and who cares how often she does?). The term tramp or slut is based off of morality which is subjective..and so both of those terms are inherently sexist imo. Possibly reading too much into it but meh..Get whatever tattoo you want to get, in whatever place you want it.

This is something I am covering in my research on culture and tattoos.

Interestingly the main areas of contention seem to be face/neck hands and the lower back.

Oddly in my interviewing of a sample of 30 (15 male and 15 female) most women (12) were subjectively against women having a lower back tattoo as the culture idea was that it was ‘slutty’.

However most of the males (14) stated that they had no issue with a woman having a tattoo on their lower back and either stated it made no difference to their appearance or actually enhanced their appearance.

Whilst face/neck and hand tattooing was mostly subjected to negative views – it was considered even worse for a female to have them on these areas than a male.

But when I spoke with several african groups who’s older culture involved facial and hand tattooing they actively promoted the idea that it enhanced feminine beauty. Even if it is now a dying art.

Obviously these are small sample groups and I am just tossing the ideas out there but I find it fascinating how we react to tattoo placement – even if we have tattoos ourselves but still find it offensive/appealing to have them on particular parts of our body.

Matthew

it doesnt matter who wears what. let them wear what they want. wearing revealing clothing does come with consequences, though. As for ink on your lower back, I believe thats different. If people want to assume youre a ‘slut’ because you chose to have ink on your lower back, who cares? It is their stupidity. Clothing is a touchy subject because there are many reasons people wear revealing clothes, just as there are many reasons people get tattoos. But to assume every woman who gets ink in that spot will have sex with anything basically yes, it is sexist.

Its more a mindless fad, all of a sudden every female on the street was getting these tatts, and for no other reason than a freind had one or every one else had one. When something like that hits the tattoo community it can be a bit touchy or sore for some tattooed people who maybe began with tattooing to gain some individuality. It sort of goes against everything some of us want tattooing to stand for. I don’t think it represents a slut or whore at all, I do find with some I can see instantly they don’t have a creative bone in thier body and choose to follow rather than stand out or be alone.
I’ve been feeling a bit like that lately with people wanting stars.

One thing I can’t do is judge a person for the tattoo, yes call them tramp stamps or whatever but it isn’t a judgement of the person, just an opinion on what they person may be wearing, I’ve done it myslelf we all have, and in reality none of us have the right to do that.

Hmmmm, anyway my 2pnce on it.