gorgik9
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There are two main sources of inspiration for this thread of mine:
On the one hand, I've been fascinated by various kinds of body art ever since childhood, and since I'm 57 years of age now, this means I've been some kind of body art fan for a bit more than half a century. But it doesn't mean I'm full of tattoos or that I'm planning to get a tattoo.
On the other hand, in the context of modern Western society and culture, body art and tattoo in particular has been quite controversial at least since the mid-19th century and this also shows in our beloved GH forum: I've done some research in two of the forum areas - "General Discussion" and "Porn & Sex Discussion" - and looked at threads specifically framing tattoo/ing as one or another kind of problem. If I got it right, the first thread of this sort was posted in "General Discussion" by Silas in 14 February 2010, titled "Tattoo's Unsexy???! C'mon guys!", while the latest to my knowledge was posted in "Porn & Sex Discussions" by package15 on 14 September 2017 and titled "Issue 1: Fed Up With Tattoos But Double Standards".
If I'm correct we've had at least eight "tattoo-as-problem"-threads until today.
My general plan for this thread is to start with some conceptual preliminaries, discussing the generic concept of body art and make a simple taxonomy of the main technical and functional genres. I'll then make posts on the different genres and in particular write a short history of tattoo, looking into the socio-historical reasons for its controversiality.
I'll make a couple of more posts in this thread later tonight, but after that, Saturday and Sunday afternoons will be my ordinary posting days in this thread!
On the one hand, I've been fascinated by various kinds of body art ever since childhood, and since I'm 57 years of age now, this means I've been some kind of body art fan for a bit more than half a century. But it doesn't mean I'm full of tattoos or that I'm planning to get a tattoo.
On the other hand, in the context of modern Western society and culture, body art and tattoo in particular has been quite controversial at least since the mid-19th century and this also shows in our beloved GH forum: I've done some research in two of the forum areas - "General Discussion" and "Porn & Sex Discussion" - and looked at threads specifically framing tattoo/ing as one or another kind of problem. If I got it right, the first thread of this sort was posted in "General Discussion" by Silas in 14 February 2010, titled "Tattoo's Unsexy???! C'mon guys!", while the latest to my knowledge was posted in "Porn & Sex Discussions" by package15 on 14 September 2017 and titled "Issue 1: Fed Up With Tattoos But Double Standards".
If I'm correct we've had at least eight "tattoo-as-problem"-threads until today.
My general plan for this thread is to start with some conceptual preliminaries, discussing the generic concept of body art and make a simple taxonomy of the main technical and functional genres. I'll then make posts on the different genres and in particular write a short history of tattoo, looking into the socio-historical reasons for its controversiality.
I'll make a couple of more posts in this thread later tonight, but after that, Saturday and Sunday afternoons will be my ordinary posting days in this thread!