Probably not the right target audience for this question, but thoughts on tramp stamps in hindsight? Do young adults still get these?

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TheConsoleGeek@reddit

Was never a fan of them.

But as a high school-aged male, I was a huge fan of girls wearing thongs.

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Why? As a teenager, I preferred the broken.

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deowolf@reddit

It’s fine, she’ll just get broken again when her dad forgets her birthday

Yeah, the T-Bone is just straps that form a T above the crack.

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Stang1776@reddit

It's when you take your steak bone and shove it down somebody's asscrack if I'm not mistaken.

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TheGrapeSlushies@reddit

That’s why I thought/think the mom-jeans look girls sport is so stupid. You’re only young and hot once, don’t waste that time with dorky pants. Nobody wants to see a 30+ year old mom’s whale-tail.

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VonBrewskie@reddit

Oh lord, right? With the low-rise jeans? I was also a fan of the bodysuit things they wore back then, too. Puberty was a mf haha

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1_art_please@reddit

I work at a college and saw a girl just yesterday with the thong body suit and low-rise jeans. But she looked good! If ya got it, flaunt it!

Other 90s stuff i see Gen Z wearing today at the college:

Sun and moon jewelry ( arcana stuff is back!)

Docs

90s Cosby style polyester sweaters

90s goth shit - big ass boots, chains, chokers and fishnets on arms ( i don't think this ever disappeared really but it still brings me back)

Corsets as tops a la Madonna

Vests!

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It's crazy right???? My girl is only about a month younger than me. Both 44. When we walk around and see young people, I swear I'm back in 1994 these days! They're wearing all the same style as then!!! It's such a trip.

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cinnamonsugarcookie2@reddit

I forget I have one and then when I see it in the mirror, I sigh and wish I didn’t get it back then. Roommate told me she wished she would have gotten a bigger one and convinced me to get one. Ugggggggg

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BEniceBAGECKA@reddit

I made it through the 2000s with my eyebrows in tact, but I didn’t escape the tramp stamp.

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crow96358@reddit

Love that about your dad! I wish someone had told me to stop. One bad wax about 15 years ago finally did it but it was too late. My left eyebrow has a barren streak through the middle where the follicles were killed.

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Life-Finding5331@reddit

Wait... Girls were washing their eyebrows off???

When tf was this a thing?

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photogypsy@reddit

I have a friend’s bad experience at a JcPenny salon to thank. They burned her so bad she was bleeding and she had to go to the ER for the burns. After that I never got my brows waxed again unless it was at my dermatologists office (they had an aesthetician that waxed, did electrolysis, tattoo removal, etc).

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shawsome12@reddit

My eyebrows are not intact.

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AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit

Same. And i have a tramp stamp. I have been branded as a gen y.

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The mullet is back among kids in full force.

I have a 7 year old who is currently growing his.

Ask anyone you know who has kids that play baseball. The baseball mullet is a very real thing. They shave the sides down short so it’s almost like a Mohawk into a mullet.

It transcends race. I’m not exaggerating. When I’m down at the fields with my boys, I see kids of all different ethnicities with that fucking haircut.

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sharielane@reddit

Yeah it's real strong amongst the footy crowd in Australia. That and the stache. And yeah the mohawk thing, that too was really big here first (and still is somewhat). I reckon that's what kicked it off to be honest. First were Mohawks, which diversified and then slowly morphed into all the various mullet styles.

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elMurpherino@reddit

One of my best friends sons has a glorious mullet lol. Not my style, but I can’t deny that the kid pulls it off.

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DaphneNS@reddit

Our nephew is currently growing mullet, haha. I didn’t expect that one to come back!

My eyebrows were sacrificed in the wars of the 2000s. Looked like they lived in a POW camp, starving.

"Oh that's badass, I saw one of those on a cow"

My questions have always been. Do I like this enough to have it the rest of my life? Is it gonna look cool (at least to me) the rest of my life? And am I going to stay in shape so it looks good the rest of my life?

It's almost always a resounding no for all 3, with the very rare yes no no. Right now the little Caesars logo is waiting to get 2 more yeses

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KerissaKenro@reddit

I have the fourth question of “is this worth getting poked with a high speed needle a thousand times?”

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I_make_switch_a_roos@reddit

never got one, nor any piercings

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neveryoumindok@reddit

Yep

Best tattoos I’ve ever seen were the bat signal and the gather baby. Other than those two, I’ve never liked or had any desire to get a tattoo. And mind you, I wouldn’t get either of those tattoos, I just saw them on someone else and found them amusing.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

the gather baby.

cwm13@reddit

Didn't get my first one till I was... 42.

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crypto64@reddit

Same age and I'm right there with you. I think I was taught that tattoos were trashy to begin with, but as an adult I can appreciate the artistry, talent and personal preference. Well done tattoos can look spectacular.

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PsychologicalGur4040@reddit

I don't have one either. I don't hate them on other people, but I have far too much ADD for this amount of permanence

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drofnature@reddit

Ditto. I’m actually jealous of people who have cool tattoos. I just can’t trust myself enough to commit lol.

Going to sound like my dad a bit but it did take some getting used to seeing people in certain professions with tattoos.

My daughter’s elementary school art teacher has a sleeve. I was surprised by it initially but had to remind myself tattoos are the norm now.

I’m not big on tattoos either. I’m 44. Honestly, the idea is pretty silly anyway. People will say things like, “but it’s art!” Like sure, but it’s not even something you drew. I don’t know, I guess they’re just not for me.

Some people definitely look cool with tattoos but in general real I prefer none.

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Sabres00@reddit

Give it 20 years. The next generation could be anti-tattoo. I can see people over-correcting and bringing back suit and ties in retaliation to crocs and pajama pants. Still amazes me when I see pictures of people at baseball games in August wearing suits and hats.

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Searchlights@reddit

i think i am the last vestige of a generation that's anti tattoo

I'm with you.

I go to the beach and I feel like shouting, "Come and see the amazing untatooed man!"

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neanderthalman@reddit

It isn’t that I don’t like them.

It’s that I just don’t identify enough with anything to have it indelibly inked into my skin.

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Aquatichive@reddit

Same I never got any or even had a thought about it

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Roller_ball@reddit

I thought about it, but I'm now at the age where getting a tattoo screams midlife crisis.

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PinkBoxDestroyer@reddit

Too many people looking like Cenobite carnie sailors these days.

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TragicHedgehog@reddit

I took a slightly different path in life lol

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DontBuyAHorse@reddit

I feel like I walk a line. I'm a professional in my workplace but I don't want or have to cover them up so I split the diff. (Side note this was for an event, I don't dress like a hipster bartender often)

Me either. I mean, if it’s your thing, great. But there’s nothing that I believe in enough to get it drawn on my skin for the rest of my life

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Connect_Hospital_270@reddit

Na. I am with you. Some small classy tats are completely fine. People can ultimately do what they want to do, and I can ultimately have an opinion about it.

I have come around to lower key tats, that being said.

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maybe-an-ai@reddit

Yeah, I know this feeling

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

Same.

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Pedrovotes4u@reddit

Septum rings are the new trend craze for hoes.

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AhfackPoE@reddit

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mechanical_marten@reddit

I like snakes and sparklers.

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Minute-Tale7444@reddit

This 🤡🤡👍😂😂😂

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International_Link35@reddit

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!

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ZedRDuce76@reddit

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Ass antlers.

Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/vBmvfW7WOUc

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IComposeEFlats@reddit

"Mike has Big Bird on his butt!"

"It's not Big Bird... it's Tweety Bird!"

"Trust me, Mike... that's a biiiiig bird!"

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

I hate that I know what this is from.

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mattchewy43@reddit

Life finds a way.

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EurekasCashel@reddit

Best comment I've seen on Reddit this week.

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Newgeta@reddit

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The older I get, the more I sympathize with Gmork. He's just tired and sick of this shit and wants everything to disappear.

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Unruly_Evil@reddit

My very point, but I sympathize with him since I was like 14... :-D

"It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it." <3

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AotKT@reddit

Honestly, same. I was tired and cynical in my teens through mid-30s. Got into endurance sports and the huge endorphin rush carried me through a decade of gung ho optimism. Still super active, but there's only so much dopamine that can be released to combat... *gestures around*

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Unruly_Evil@reddit

I have been training Muay Thai last 20 years for the same reason...
You should see my old teen pictures, my hair down to the waist, dressed all in black... xD

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AotKT@reddit

15 year old me would have had a crush on you!

I hated the judgemental name for one. A lower back tattoo can be nice and is a relatively easy one to hide. It just seemed like people wanting another excuse to slut shame women, even if the tattoo had nothing to do with that.

Some people still get them. And I still think they're fine and none of our business.

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icepickmethod@reddit

The female equivalent of a tribal bicep tattoo?

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imascoobie@reddit

I joke my tribal tattoo may as well just say "I got this in the 90s"

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Mel_bear@reddit

My sis and I have matching tribal dragon tramstamps from 1998 😆

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superschaap81@reddit

What tribe are you from?

MSotallyTober@reddit

The watermark of promiscuity.

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Aggressive_Cellist_9@reddit

Might as well be a bullseye

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changleosingha@reddit

I don’t get why they are hated. It’s a valid place to put a tattoo… just like most places

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Ill-Description8517@reddit

Because as a society we love to hate on things young women do/like

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DavidDraimansLipRing@reddit

*Young people...tribal and barbed wire tattoos get just as much hate.

digitaljestin@reddit

It's not the tattoos, it's the trend they puts people off. Trends are trashy by their very nature. They scream of peer pressure and a lack of individualism. This is more obvious in hindsight, of course, which means the permanence of a tattoo will forever be a mark of one's youthful gullibility. As soon as a style of tattoo is identified as a trend, it immediately becomes low class.

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I don't think it's go as far as to say that all tattoos are trashy, but trendy ones for sure.

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Indubitalist@reddit

I think it comes down to being displayed in a way that basically requires more revealing clothing, hence the nickname. Fully expecting to get buried for pointing out basically a dictionary definition.

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OverZookeepergame698@reddit

Agreed. I have no tattoos, and am a straight female. I think the placement of the “tramp stamp” is sexy as hell.

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JMan82784@reddit (OP)

I don't either. I generally look at most things as "to each their own." If you don't like it, you don't need to look at it or insult that person for their decision to get one.

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bloodpriestt@reddit

10+ years ago a friend of mine lost a bet and was forced to get the Foo Fighters logo tramp stamp. We were trying to think of the lamest possible logo that wouldn’t be mistaken for ironic.

Originally it was going to be the band Lit, but we thought FF were just over that line where people would think it was possibly serious.

He never got it covered up and I just saw him a week ago.

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SGTBrigand@reddit

The woman I'm seeing has one, and you're damned straight that shit gets me fired up. Start sliding her pants down, and it's like a target for kisses until her ass gets up in the air and I can put my tongue somewhere more interesting.

I got the good old Butterfly Tramp Stamp. Done in a shady place that only took cash and was out the back behind a laundromat. My BF at the time loved it. Just had it covered up last year with a big Mandela. Never regretted it even for how terrible it was. Life's too short, and it's who I was at the time.

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Scary-Ad9646@reddit

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Let’s just say I’m so glad I grew out of my Creed phase by the time I was 18….i was dead set on getting there logo across my lower back.

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JeffTheAndroid@reddit

My wife has one and I don't need to say a thing because my kids constantly make fun of it.

“So are you calling mommy a whore now?”

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Sometimes but now it's more on the chest or back of the legs

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sarcasticundertones@reddit

👋 i have one.. was my first tattoo… definitely something i laugh about with other tattooed friends.. but it has never bummed me out.. was just a thing i did once

the design is a bit lackluster though, and have been wanting to incorporate it into a larger piece that goes up my spine.. one day..

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PostTurtle84@reddit

Thought about it, realized that I have hella stretch marks there, and knew I wanted a kid so I'd probably get even more stretch marks there (yup, sure did) and decided that that was a bad place to invest in body art and modifications for this particular meat suit.

My tiger stripe bestowing spawn isn't even in middle school yet much less high school, and I've got no business on our local college campus, so I can only guess on genZ's acceptance of ink and piercings in general that yeah, lower back ink is still probably a thing.

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EuphoricMud@reddit

Is that a Kingdom Hearts inspired tramp stamp?

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Still_Apartment5024@reddit

I think it's really unfortunate that they became as overdone as they were.

It's an objectively sexy place to put a tattoo, and a lot of them looked great. The problem was that people started to get judgmental about them the more popular they got. As soon as people started making assumptions about the "kind of girls" who got them, it ruined it.

I covered mine up. It was tribal and everything. I now have a suspiciously large lower back tattoo because it had to be the width of the tramp stamp but I didn’t want it to look like a tramp stamp. It’s a huge improvement but it also isn’t what I would’ve chose if it wasn’t a coverup. It’s full color which I’m not as into, even though it’s well done.

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klaimjmpr@reddit

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I covered mine in 2018 with a big back piece. I think Charli XCX has one, though, and with low rise jeans coming back I bet they will, too.

That Tramp Stamp/Whale Tail combo brings back memories

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johngalt504@reddit

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18randomcharacters@reddit

Unpopular opinion: I've never seen a tattoo I liked. Not one. 100% of the time they make the person look worse/trashier.

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johngalt504@reddit

I graduated high school in 2000 and I'm pretty sure every girl was required to get one of these before going on to college.

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schoolisuncool@reddit

I always thought they were hot, and hate that the name ruined them

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ZyberZeon@reddit

In LA it was absolutely a fad. I could tell what generation a lady was from based on her tramp stamp. Then in the late aughts they seemingly died.

I now live in Europe and they’re still a thing!?!

Definitely felt like more of a Genx thing.

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neptunedreaming111@reddit

My sis got hers lasered off a few years ago

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

These pictures make me wish that the “tummy shirts” and low rise jeans someday make a comeback.

Paper-street-garage@reddit

Can look good with the right design and jeans.

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TheCoastalQueen@reddit

I never understood or got why anyone would get one of these. I have also heard that some dudes have gotten them as well.

AdComfortable5486@reddit

They aren’t above the butt anymore.

The new one is the “breast plate” or “chest plate” usually fine line filigree or lace look.

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dw617@reddit

Seriously, for a sec I thought this was another sub I visit, /r/tattooremoval

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PQ1206@reddit

I still find them hot idc. They’re even better as they age too and a woman gets curvier

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graveybrains@reddit

in hindsight.

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I'll probably be getting mine later this year, and I'm a guy. Is it still called a tramp stamp on a guy?

mlvassallo@reddit

Spoilering the most potato quality photo of a tramp stamp is pure Xennial.

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JMan82784@reddit (OP)

Redditors cry about this sort of thing even though I don't believe there's anything NSFW about it. Go figure

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DontBuyAHorse@reddit

Before I even read the comments, I'm going to predict that they're making a comeback because of course they are.

Me? I'm ambivalent about them. I like tattoos in general and have lots of them, but I don't really concern myself with the significance of the placement on another person.

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andrewclarkson@reddit

I'm not a fan of tattoos in general and those are kinda trashy IMO but it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me either.

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ringobob@reddit

Trashy, in the best way.

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djsynrgy@reddit

What's great about (reasonable) tattoos is that by the time one might start feeling differently about them, one is also typically slipping into the "not giving AF" stage of life.

But I say this as a dude, without a stamp. 😆

Looking back, it occurs to me that I never dated someone with a tramp stamp. Given the ubiquity of it among my circles, that's pretty wild, for being wholly accidental.

I'm not fussed. Even bad tattoos (perhaps especially the bad ones,) come with great stories. They're like yearbooks, or journals. Something to reflect on; something to talk about.

IT MEANS YOU A SLOOZ

Just kidding, they're... fine. I'm indifferent to tattoos. I don't really know why these in particular got such a specific reputation.

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BreakfastBeerz@reddit

My best friend's wife has one. Him and I were roommates and lived together at a pretty wild time in our lives. Lots of partying, lots of women, lots of foggy memories. He had this one girl that he was hooking up with that was equally as wild she had the tramp stamp as was proud of it, she was always wearing clothing that made sure to accentuate it.

He ended up knocking her up, so they got married. Both of them really turned things around the wild days went to the wayward and they have raised a beautiful family, nice house, white picket fence (literally) in the suburbs, both of their boys are now attending Ivy League universities. You'd never guess their past by looking at them.

They have both become very socially conservative and she is mortified of her stamp now and does everything she can do to keep it covered. I don't think I've seen it in 20 years.

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Calm-Ad-4409@reddit

I have one and it’s got a big scar running through it, but it looks ok otherwise. It rarely sees the light of day and that’s a good thing.

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megadethage@reddit

If they're tramps, why wouldn't they want to advertise their 304ness?

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GimmeFalcor@reddit

No. The kids are not doing that. I teach middle and have a question of the day. Kids wanted me to ask -if you won a free tattoo, (are you accepting it) and if so what are you getting. So about half want nothing to do with a free tattoo. (So smart!!) and the other half want a sleeve. Gender non dependent. They all want a sleeve. (Grades 5-8).

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reillan@reddit

I always found them attractive, BUT I was really annoyed by seeing a former friend of mine just walk up to a random woman at the bar and lift the back of her shirt to get a look at her tramp stamp. It felt so icky to me, and I'm relatively certain his behavior was not uncommon.

He is pretty much the worst person in the world, but it took me a long time to uninvest in that relationship.

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omelatk@reddit

I fell for it and have one. A few months after, I heard the term ‘tramp stamp.’

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luxtabula@reddit

gen z fully embraced tats and have tattoos in places that make the Yakuza jealous. never saw tramp stamps disappear, just get more popular.

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beahdawn@reddit

My sister, who’s 45 now got one tattoo when she turned 18. It is Goofy doing a handstand!and it’s a tramp stamp! I’ll still ask to see it every now and again just so I can laugh at her. Or maybe now and days I’m Laughing with her. But when she first got it I was laughing alone. I’m giggling just thinking about it.

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