I’m a really big fan of tattoos and piercings but I do not meet many gay guys who actually have tattoos. It seems most guys in CU are blank canvases when it comes to their bodies and I guess I can understand that to some degree. They cannot decide on what they want or they think they’re ugly or sinful or too damn expensive. I really like tattoos because it shows that a guy can really commit to something, and in this case it’s a piece of art. Also impressive is that they can tolerate what is potentially a shitload of pain in order to get this art.
I have two tattoos, one of a compass that I got at Chicago Tattoo. and the other is a replica, so to speak, of painting by my favorite Viennese modernist artist, Egon Schiele. I was weary of getting that one in town but after checking out their shop and some portfolios I felt confident that No Regrets could get the job done. Personally I think my artist did a fantastic job. If you have some artwork that you would like to show off, hit me up with an email at withtongue@gmail.com. I think it’d be pretty sweet to post some pics of what gay guys and gals are tatting on their bodies. Straighties are cool too, but personally I think it’d be interesting if there were some sort of bizarre pattern that can be found in gay CU tattoos. Like unicorns or skulls that are bleeding out of their eye sockets. Also, if you have any tattoo or piercing stories you want to share, you should add them as a comment to the blog.
I’m having trouble with HTML and WordPress right now, but I hope to fix this up soon. The following pic is of my first tat when I got it a year ago, and the second one is my latest tat: Egon Schiele’s Sunflower.
I also have two piercings, a conch piercing in my left ear and an industrial in my right. People always ask if the industrial hurt and barely notice the conch, if they notice it at all. The industrial didn’t hurt as much as the conch, it just took a long time to heal. I really like piercings and they also seem to be a rarity around here, except for helix piercings. Those seem to actually be the piercings on guys that double as a form of gaydar in this town. It’s not that they’re “gay,” it’s that more often than not when a gay guy in CU has a piercing, it’s a helix piercing.
When I was in Vienna I (sort of) dated this really hot guy who had both a tattoo on his forearm and a nipple piercing. Nipple piercings can apparently be very sensitive and if I just barely grazed it he would go into a frenzy. Naturally when we ended things and became great friends I used this as a tool to annoy him. Not having done anything to my body for a month now, I was considering getting a nipple piercing of my own. If it could raise his sexual arousal from nothing to extremely turned on in a matter of seconds, why shouldn’t I get one too? However, when I ask people what their thoughts are they range from anywhere between, “Don’t, it’s slutty,” to “Oh god no. Please no” to “well I think it would be hot if you didn’t wear clothes but if you wear a shirt it will look like a double nipple.”
I will probably end up getting the piercing, just not now. Maybe sometime after New Year’s. I really shouldn’t be spending money on things that will turn me on right now anyway. I should be buying sweaters.
A few months back a friend of mine got a frenum piercing, aka the underside of the shaft of the penis. He’s miles away right now, so conversing with him on AIM I caught up on how his dick was doing these days.
Blake(9:38:21 PM): it is doing well though I think my body might be slowly rejecting it
Blake(9:39:09 PM): people look at it and freak out. think it must have hurt alot
Blake(9:39:22 PM): in truth it was the easiest piercing I have had
Blake(9:39:30 PM): least amount of care or pain
Blake(9:39:33 PM): and healed quickly
Blake(9:39:47 PM): I always wonder what people think if they see it at the gym
Blake(9:40:03 PM): but I don’t go walking around naked so I don’t think many have seen it
Blake(9:41:15 PM): I think eventually I will probably go for the PA but not yet
A PA, of course, is the infamous Prince Albert, a piercing that goes through the frenulum and into the urethra. Apparently they heal rather quickly and have been around for quite some time, but really became popular in the 1970s. Surprise surprise.
Blake being my only source of information when it comes to this topic, I had to ask him as much as possible. Of course what I was most curious about was sex and condom usage.
Blake(10:31:37 PM): I like the way it feels most of the time. sometimes it hurts a little but usually it is the good kind of hurt
Blake(10:31:48 PM): makes a condom very hard to use
With Tongue(10:31:57 PM): the good kind of hurt?
Blake(10:32:15 PM): I can’t really explain it but I think you know what I mean
Blake(10:33:06 PM): I have only had sex as a top once since I got it
Blake(10:33:13 PM): and he liked it
Blake(10:33:41 PM): I think I would have liked it better with a better fit condom and not quite such a tight guy
Blake(10:33:59 PM): he didn’t say to much about it
Blake(10:34:14 PM): people seem to like playing with it with their tongue
And then of course, there was the price tag. While the piercer didn’t have a problem doing the genitalia piercing, it cost our buddy Blake 100 bucks to get the job done in the first place. I asked Blake if he regretted the frenum piercing or if it was worth it, he said while he enjoys the piercing he wishes he would have just gone for the Prince Albert.
Blake(10:43:58 PM): the worst part I think is going in to ask for the thing
Blake(10:44:31 PM): and the idea of doing it twice is kinda unexciting
Blake(10:45:00 PM): other than that I would say go for it
Blake(10:45:07 PM): it is a unique thing
**
I really love piercings and tattoos. Tattoos show commitment, and both piercings and tats show a tolerance for pain in order to attain a greater beauty. And dude, that’s totally hot.
Liam Reed: 1987 model, runs fairly well, few dents, starts in cold weather, no baggage, loves flea markets and canned soup. Send all hate mail, love mail, and sexual advances to withtongue@gmail.com
Comments
Mike (Mike) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 12:53 am)
I have to say I’ll find a different way to show commitment. I do find good tats and piercings attractive… just not on me.
Nick (Nick) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 2:20 am)
I’ve never really thought of this, but now that you bring up the subject, I guess I don’t know many gay guys with tattoos or piercings, either. Personally, I have a floorplan of the Bauhaus on my left forearm — which, unfortunately, a lot of people confuse for a swastika at first glance — and a circle inside of a square behind my right ear — it’s a representation of Da VInci’s Vitruvian Man, or, the blending of art and science. I also have 9 piercings — just ears and tongue, at the moment.
Zachary (Zachary) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 10:40 am)
I’ve had quite a few piercings; I’ve had my nose pierced four different times, my left eye brow, my ear lobes, my bottom lip, my nipples, my naval, and of even my dick (P.A). People always ask which hurt the most and I honestly say the nipples and dick piercings are about the same, they both stung like hell. However, with the P.A I bled off and on for three days, if I got an erection either when awake asleep it would bleed. Taking my first piss felt as though I was going to discharge fire or something. It heeled about its first week, but it was always in the way and one cannot take a piss without either sitting or taking the risk of it going all over the place. Yeah… not pleasant. After three weeks I took the damn thing out, I plan to never violate my body like that ever again.
Now, when it comes to tattoos. I have a double male symbol on my lower left torso, a cross on my left pectoral, and angel wings on my back. I plan to get more and to cover up the cross because it wasn’t done well and I no longer want to be branded with that symbol. I got my angel wings on my 20th birthday (I’m 21 now) and it was a three hour process of numbing pain, but well worth it. Tattoos really must mean something to you, it can’t just be a random act. That’s why my next tattoo will be well thought out. Here is a picture of the only tattoo I have that matters.
Lyndiddy (Lyndiddy) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 1:13 pm)
I recall a time in my youth when I longed to go all out with facial piercings. Yet, as i grew and got a better understanding of my own personal style I learned that my face just wasn’t the piercing type. I have too many anxieties about the other pierceworthy places of my body to ever let a needle come near them even if I thought it would look good, which i don’t. Short of the ears or the nose I’m never all that attracted to piercings myself. When I’ve encountered tongue piercings I haven’t really known what to do with them and it kind of took away from the moment.
As far as tattoos go, a few well placed ones I think are really sexy on a guy. Just at the top of the back in between the shoulder blades is a really good place, or something small near the waist. Those can be real turn ons!
This is all to say that I agree, this kind of body work requires a good deal of commitment and the resolve to stand behind your choice. I know I don’t have that, but I’m glad others do, despite how freaky some of the things peeps want to do are.
Nate (Nate) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm)
Okay, you heathens. I’m gonna lay down the Law…
…the Law of God: http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/fashion/lv19_28b.html
Okay. The Law doesn’t approve of tattoos, but, while I suppose one could say gay Christians (yes, I’ve heard such creatures do exist) can get them because they’ve been set free from the Law, one could take a more interesting approach to the question and say he can get tattoos because Jesus had them.
Many ancient Jewish sources assert that Jesus, while learning magic in Egypt, was tattooed with magic names of divine power–especially the highest name of God which was seldom spoken at that time (Iao in Greek, YHWH in Hebrew, Jehovah in English). The idea that Jesus used the Name is supported by a body of evidence, some of which Jehovah’s Witnesses appeal to–although they would certainly not agree with the conclusion that Jesus was a magician. Some Jewish sources claim that it was by the magic power of the ineffable Name that he performed his magic. Christian magicians continued to use magic names in their spells, and Paul speaks of himself as being protected by the tattoo (or scar, or brand-mark–tattoos were often shoddy things in ancient times, made by cutting the skin and rubbing color in the wound) of Christ (Gal. 6:17). If one were to accept Morton Smith’s suggestion that Jesus was gay, then he might serve as a provocative example of a tattooed gay man.
A more interesting story about Jesus’ tattoo can be found in an early Hebrew parody of a gospel. The work may be a parody of a Hebrew Christian gospel, and it’s content is thus interesting because no Jewish-Christian gospels survived. Anyway, in the parody, Jesus enters the Temple to acquire the pronunciation of the secret Name. The Name is guarded by the Cherubim (cf. the apotropaic karabu/kuribu of Near Eastern mythology; these figures guarded the garden-dwelling of the gods–Gen. 3:24), who make anyone who passes by them forget the Name. Thus, one may enter and learn the Name, but one cannot take it out of the Temple. Jesus’ solution is to tattoo the name onto his body.
(The name of a thing was thought, in many ancient circles, to be the thing or to give one power over it–hence exorcists’ tactic of demanding the demon’s name. Jesus’ power was explained in various ways by his followers and his opponents. The tattoo is just one of them. Others thought he was possessed by (or possessed) a spirit (either holy or demonic, depending on who was talking), which perhaps came on him in the form of a bird after he participated in a baptism ritual. Still others thought he raised the spirit of John the Baptist for his purposes. Jesus’ Eucharistic ritual (and the ritual involving being naked and wearing a linen shroud–probably a baptism ritual symbolizing death and rebirth) made him one with his followers and made them, in turn, one with the divine. Later Christians, like Paul, thought themselves to be possessed by the spirit of Jesus, and his name generally replaced the name of the Jewish God as a term of power.)
Jon (Jon) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 7:16 pm)
Down here in Wichita there are a lot of people with piercings. Maybe it is the product of being in a manufacturing town. IDK but none of my managers have ever even looked twice at my ears. Many people have them as I walk around the factory floor.
I am totally ready for another tattoo, just as soon as I find one I like.
Billie Rivers (Billie Rivers) says:
(Posted January 9th, 2009 at 10:33 am)
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Rogue (Rogue) says:
(Posted December 9th, 2008 at 12:23 am)
when i get time (next week most likely) i will send you some pics both of my own work as well as pitures from the photography project i did about people with tattoos and piercings, which….as you know…includes you