Club Dynasty (CD) you have posed a most intriguing question about tattoo's and poling. I have been poling for almost two years with a short five month lapse when I had spinal surgery (not related to pole dancing or fitness training). CD, the tat on your back is incredibly beautiful. What interests me about the question is my background and age. I'm not young, but really love to pole. The short answer to your question is, yes! After a few months of poling I began thinking about a tat? My first instructor had a beautiful tat with stars that cascaded from her shoulder down her back.
A little personal background will help you understand the transition in my thinking. As a young man in the military in the late 1960's we got paid once a month. We went out got drunk, did stupid guy shit, and around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning wound up in a tattoo parlor. A lot of guys got tat's. I never did and frankly wasn't interested. There was a lot of peer pressure. Once the hangovers wore off most of the guys thought their tattoo looked like crap. They were not happy with them. However, the next month when we all got paid, we went out got drunk - well, you get it, repeat above process!
Placement of the tattoo's and quality were severely lacking in my time. As such there was no desire on my part. Through my working career it never entered my mind. Tattooing seemed to actually drop out of favor for a number of years. Then in the late 1990's and early 2000 seemed to start a revival where you saw more women with good quality small tattoo's on the arm, shoulder, lower leg, or ankle.
The concept of tattooing has transitioned from being an individual male macho thing to group identification, memorial to someone of remembrance, to the outright creative artistic concepts of the wearer. The quality of the tattoo artists themselves has improved vastly when you see some of their work and the depth of color and vividness it shows.
To this writer there is still a vast difference between what you see in tat's on guys versus tat's on the ladies. In general, from my observations, guys seem to do a cluster of tattoo's on the arms, and/or neck are to show. Often, whatever has been tattooed is jumbled together and poorly recognizable. Ladies on the other hand seem to treat tattooing as if decorating a room. They tend to put a tat where they want it to show when they want it to show. They don't generally clutter. Their tat's are well thought out drawing the viewers eye to the tattoo and it's significance, creativity, and coloring. The tattoo often has meaning to them.
The beautiful long tattoo's of CD, MeganJoan, Lula Geddes, PoleKat, and tacha666 would all display well when pole dancing. The danger of having a beautiful tattoo is the desire for another. I think that if you have a large creative tattoo you must be very careful not to do another tat that draws the viewers eye away from a creative piece of body art. It sort of goes back to the minimalist thinking about how to decorate a room.
I have given serious thought to a tattoo; maybe a snake on a vine from my shoulder winding down the back. MeganJoan's thigh tat gave me a new idea about location.
You asked a very interesting question, Club Dynasty. I think you ladies are incredibly creative. And, look, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you for letting me reply to your interesting question.
