I know this will not be popular with some of you but tattoos are not attractive. One or two are OK but when someone's whole arm or upper body is covered, it is a turn-off. Why ruin a work of art??!!!
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YES! Another misbegotten gay "trend" that should have never got off the ground, let alone lasted this long. News flash, fellas: it isn't "edgy" and you aren't displaying your "individuality" if every other twink, bear and queen in the world (not to mention brain-dead straight woman) HAS THE EXACT SAME TATTOOS AS YOU DO!
A tattoo occasionally looks passable on a very butch, broadly built, rugged-faced guy, if its just one or two tats on the bicep where they belong. Even 20 years ago, it was boring when gays en masse became lemmings with the generic "braided barbed wire" bicep tat suddenly appearing everywhere at once. Have some imagination, bitches!
Today? Its gotten abjectly stupid and pointless. If I see one more muscle queen porn star (who sounds like Quentin Crisp sans personality) with a huge generic lightning bolt covering his torso, or some trite paragraph from the I Ching running from his armpit to his feet, or his porn name tatted across his chest like a demented necklace, or tatted pubes over his shaved pubes (WTF?!?!) I'm gonna send Jamie Lee Curtis to punch them.
I find it tragic when truly breathtaking, traditionally handsome performers like Hector De Silva suddenly go from zero tats to random distracting tats halfway thru their careers. Are you insane? You are blessed with a face so symmetrical and beautiful, plus a nice body and cock, then you vandalize that rare gift from nature with meaningless tats? So foolish and misguided. You look like the second coming of young Cary Grant, yet you think its a good idea to get some astrological signs poorly tatted on your pecs? Ugh.
Worst of all are the anorexic little twinks who get random scrawls from a three year old wielding a hot paperclip. Are you out of your effing minds? I'm not into skinny twinks myself, but know many who are, and guys into such twinks HATE those ugly scratch-tats: it completely kills the twink fantasy for them. Plus, you're gonna look like a complete moron in ten years when random tats do inevitably become very outdated.
I'm not against truly artistic tats done with real talent and forethought. Years before the trend, one of my boyfriends had his entire back tatted by a noted Japanese artist, and it was quite intricate, beautiful and unique- like miniature stained glass. It meant something specific to my lover: he admired the artist and wished to be a canvas for his creativity. While it didn't turn me on, it didn't turn me off because it was done well and he did not cover the front of his beautiful torso (his best physical feature). But the ugly, generic, me-too, distracting tats everyone sports today are horrible. Targets on your nipples? Cartoon arrows pointing to your cock or asshole? Go fuck yourself, because I won't be doing it.