A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Sex is Brill!

We all love sex, right? But judging by the following tattoos we all express that love in different ways..

Fuck Slut – Manuel Huizar, Sadofilia, La Paz – If that rings a bell it’s because it what once the home of BMEzine, and Manuel was behind Phil’s toes (1, 2, 3).

Blow Jobs – Sjard, Kartell Tattoo Studio, Hessen, Frankfurt.

As for the last tattoo..

“I got this tattoo because I wanted something that would always make me smile. I’ve never had anyone say they were offended by it, mostly people just giggle and say how awesome it is [because it is] the only thing I regret is not getting a few curly lines to really tramp it up properly. But at least this way it’s kind of subtle.”

No offence to the owner of the tattoo above (yes, that one), but I’m not sure I understand the message “behind” the tattoo or the text submitted along with it – If I’m missing the humour please let me know!

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Comments

113 responses to “Sex is Brill!”

  1. oppositronic Avatar
    oppositronic

    obviously rape is wrong. but i think freud said that everyone has a latent rape fantasy. lots of girls (in my experience) like to be dominated and “forced” to do things… . and lots of guys (including to some degree myself) enjoy the other side of this seeming paradox. perhaps this is due to the guilt often associated with sex, or just laziness, but as i said rape is wrong and sex should only occur between consenting adults (or teenagers).

  2. T Avatar
    T

    The last one is not funny. Not in an ironic way, or post-feminist way, or any way. Before I read the explanation I thought she was a severely wounded survivor who needs therapy more than a tattoo. But after reading it I can tell she’s never been raped.
    I sincerely hope she never does. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. I wonder if she’ll still think it’s funny then?

    Actually, I think it looks too serious to be funny. To make it *actually* funny, it needs hearts, stars, ponies, and rainbows.

  3. OmniScent Avatar
    OmniScent

    MKultra(or any specific person) – Please present the credentials that state that you somehow represent the amassed experience and knowledge of the ModBlog community and are therefore qualified to make definitive statements about how this tattoo will affect this woman’s life or about why this tattoo is in poor taste.

    Sammi – Anyone on here who has judged this tattoo based on how they “feel” is not being analytical. In reality, anyone on here who is making a judgment based on anything other than hard facts is not really contributing an accurate analysis.

    p.s. Since when is all analysis positive or useful? Sara Palin makes useless analyses all the time…

  4. cere Avatar

    When a woman dresses provocatively she essentially IS asking to be raped. “Blaming the victim” as you guys like to put it is spot on accurate when the victim is antagonizing the predator.

    If you slather yourself in meat and walk into a lions dn expect to be bitten,

    ANd if you walk around dressed like a whore, can you really blame the guy when he takes the hint and puts himself upon you?

  5. Hah Avatar
    Hah

    cere, you may think she’s asking to be raped. Fine. That’s your mistake. And when you grab her, she may think you’re asking to be shot or maced or knifed. You don’t poke a lion and expect not to lose your head, hmmm?

  6. Arj Avatar
    Arj

    Not sure that I agree with your reasoning 100% there Cere, I see your point and it is valid to a degree, but surely the predator is ultimately the one at fault?

    Personally, I don’t mind the rape tatt, but I agree that it may not seem quite so ironically humorous in 30 years.

  7. old man on hill Avatar
    old man on hill

    Even though cere is trolling; does raping women come as naturally to you as eating meat does to a lion? Then I don’t think the girl with the tattoo is the one with a problem. Also, do you rape whores? I tend to leave a coupla dimes on the bedside table and maybe, just maybe slap them around a bit, but full-on rape not so much.

    Aside from that: as soon as people start pulling the “in 30 years…”/”in 40 years…” card, the silly rape joke tattoo just got fifty times better. Big props to the muffin top girl for some good silly shit.

  8. Dimruthien Avatar
    Dimruthien

    Another awesome comment from Cere. *rolls eyes*

  9. ..... Avatar
    …..

    What if everyone stopped over analyzing the ‘Tramp Stamp’ ?
    Just think of it as a tattoo?

    Yes rape is bad, and I agree with both sides to an extent.
    But seriously, if she want’s it there then who are you to say that it’s ‘wrong’ and that shes ‘inconsiderate’.

    I think if you met the girl and she explained the tattoo to you and her reasons for getting it, you would change at least half your opinion of the tattoo.

  10. Serenity Avatar

    Bah, ever the conservative I have to say the begging for rape tattoo just isn’t cool or funny in my eyes. But whatever floats your boat I guess.

  11. Sherbetdips Avatar
    Sherbetdips

    i love the fuck slut one! the others not so much but each to there own. Im not offended by either of them i just dont really understand them well especially the rape one, i would like to know the thought process behind all of them

  12. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    mdsfgd

  13. Marla Avatar

    I agree with 5 and 10 about the rape tattoo.
    Clever girl she is.

  14. anon. Avatar
    anon.

    As a survivor of rape I saw the subtle irony of the tattoo, and just thought she has a rape fantasy fetish which is basically consensual sex with rape play involved.
    The difference is with real rape: the victim is not begging for it or deserving of it, and is never consenting to it. Most rape happens with people we already know, as it was with me he got to know me for a few months before we had sex, I didn’t drink, he spiked mine, I wanted love, he wanted to inflict hate.
    20 years on and I’m still unable to trust anyone fully and have had years of therapy, I’m better now, but think anyone talking on a subject they have no real experience of is a foolish thing to do.

  15. MissMeg Avatar

    Oh, *sigh*

    Get over the rape issue already.
    So she got a tattoo that she thinks is funny. Big fucking deal.

    What we need to talk about is the FUCK SLUT piece.
    That’s my signature calling card, my “fuck” and “slut” hand tattoos are one thing that people always remember. haha.. and I demand to meet this person walking about with it on their knucks!.
    We should start a club, but only if I get to the be the leader. 🙂

    hmph.

  16. dean Avatar
    dean

    i hate`all of u and who cares

  17. dean Avatar
    dean

    mods,tattoos,rape and U are all stupid…..

  18. Jacques Avatar

    Sigh, I’d have laughed about the rape tattoo a few months ago, but now, I find it in extremely poor taste.
    One can only hope she either gets raped (horrible, I know) or knows someone very close to her that does get raped (the preferable solution) for her to fully understand quite how disgusting the tattoo really is.

  19. Casey Avatar
    Casey

    OmniScent and MissMeg – couldn’t agree with you guys more.

    It’s great how everyone here pre-judges, assumes regret and reads way too far into everything.

  20. dean Avatar
    dean

    the moderators at this site are gay fags

  21. dean Avatar
    dean

    lol fuckin gay fag loser modertor i will make ur life and this site come crashing down I did it to Shannon and ill do it to u 2

  22. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar

    dean – Bradly, is that you?

  23. Catsey Avatar
    Catsey

    54-I agree, completely.
    And wow, dean. Way to look foolish on the net. rofl!copter down.

  24. starless_dark Avatar

    Nice to know there’s people on here who hope someone will get raped :/.

    Meh.

  25. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar

    Oh and for those interested Dean is in fact Bradly. Their IP addresses are one and the same.

  26. starless_dark Avatar

    Figured as much Roo <3.

  27. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    ur checking my ip is an invasion of my privacy…every1 else here should be wear since they checked my ip I have recived numerous unsolicted things…so my suggestion would be to use a fireball to conceal ur ip …

  28. hah Avatar
    hah

    a fireball, that’s priceless

  29. Marysia Avatar
    Marysia

    I am a rape survivor and I find that last one incredibly offensive.

  30. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar

    Bradly/Dean – WordPress stores your IP address when you post comments as you well know, it’s standard practice and nothing at all to do with ModBlog or BMEzine.com.

  31. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar

    Oh and there’s no possible way (as you also know) that you could have received anything unsolicited from BMEzine or any other party. Your IP address is not your email address, and besides, I didn’t post either, we don’t share any confidential information and BMEzine doesn’t spam.

    Unlike you.

  32. cere Avatar

    So to send a fireball through the interwebz do I still do a semi-circle forward followed by a strong punch?

  33. Sammi Avatar
    Sammi

    Omniscent- Hard facts=her statement. Therefore by looking into (otherwise known as analyzing) that text people can start to understand her reason for getting that tattoo. Text is the best, and only sufficient way into someones mind.

    I don’t think Sarah Palin was a good example (ps, that does not imply I am pro-Sarah Palin), but no one can be certain an analysis is correct, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful. Just look at a great philospher. Most of their ideas we later found out were incorrect, yet their still useful to people today.

  34. OmniScent Avatar
    OmniScent

    Sammi – I’m sorry dear, but you are sadly mistaken.

    Her statement contains absolutely no factual evidence as to what the deeper meaning of the tattoo is or even that there is actually a deeper meaning to it… Lots of people just took the one word “tramp – adj.” and ran with it. On top of that people just totally ignored what she said about how it hasn’t caused her any problems and went off about how she was fucking up her life by getting that tat and that it should be removed. Logical analysis by the haters? I think not.

    My god, did you just imply that that text is better at letting you “get into her mind” than by meeting her, talking with her, learning about her life’s history, etc.???? Please reevaluate your statement and get back to me.

    This issue transcends whether or not any of these analyses are correct. These analyses are all useless because they are based on emotion and arguments showing the sad toll modern society taken on your thought processes. But it’s cool… whatever floats your boat (it’s obviously not logic)

    P.s. Sara Palin hates this tattoo and all of you.
    *Especially all you gay’s… you’re like a threat to national Christianity- umm, I mean security.

  35. OmniScent Avatar
    OmniScent

    p.p.s. No, those “ideas we later found out (to be) incorrect” are not considered useful. Unless somehow your genes do happen to follow the laws of Lamarckian Acquisition.

  36. ephemera Avatar
    ephemera

    yeh having known someone who was recently raped and wat hell shes going thru with fuck-tards saying shes a skank who deserved it

    the point is it’s satirical, she’s making fun of people who say women who get raped are ‘asking for it’

    she probably dresses somewhat provocatively, or she’s promiscuous, either way some form or in charge of and owning of her own sexuallity. i’d assume she gets told she looks like she’s asking for it, by parents or something, who knows. i get the joke. its not about rape at all, its entirely about our culture’s negative associations about sexual women.

  37. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    #68 hopin 4 sum1 in her chain to have bad things happen to them for sumthin they had nuthin to do is well hummm aNY1 readin this can make up there own mind onthat one and I blame the modertor for posting my hateful cooments haere not me sumtimes I tests them because i am a undercover shopper the only reason i even stopped by here was cause there was all those die,i hate u comments for the that fricken misfit fan and i was like wow i think i found my ho,me but it was a lie poeple reallyu judge people here while i just judge crappy work done by sum crappy skilled or lazy people …..but its not all bad because sumtimes i pretend to be me…

  38. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    can u smoke viagra?

  39. Kent Avatar
    Kent

    Bradly iz my boi for realz

  40. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    No bescuse u think ur important and ur not wood and books could burn down like whatever…nd the moderator thinks he’s smarter tyhan me and I was like whatever..because im sumbody…one day they will read my woirds like clifford thats one big fuckin (RED)Underdog///i am going to go for the worklds record of longest playin comp gamer in a plexi glass box in downtown Tokyo ….it will air 4:27,19:69(9:16)-

  41. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    Along with a how to tie ur shoe video for kids the first dvd we will concentrate on the velcro strap it i suseful as serves it’s person along with it can have a fashion statement if brought out into the public like glow in the dark in the day light so no one knows it but u that would be nice there are no moderators in deep space ….SAVE pANDORA

  42. Kent Avatar
    Kent

    yeah boi

    you tell those Chinese sons of a bitches

  43. ane Avatar
    ane

    no matter how girls get dressed, it’s not an excuse for them to be raped. it’s all about the psycho’s mind.
    and yeah, i get what you mean — i’ve read most of the replies here — and i still find this tattoo pretty offensive.
    i’ve always condemned rape, and now, since my pregnant sister got raped, i feel even more disgusted about it.

    i don’t think the owner of this tattoo is looking forward to it, but if it does happen, this tattoo might be used against her when the doctors who will care for her see it and when she gets psychological help.
    i never thought i’d ever say that, but i won’t feel sorry for this person.

  44. Michelle Avatar

    You babies. How dare you pass judgement on her. This is her body, her choice and her reasoning (which we haven’t even heard).

  45. Ara Avatar
    Ara

    As a rape survivor, I’m not in the least offended by the tattoo.

  46. dean Avatar

    great, bradly, could you stop using my name please? because that is in fact my name. and i am awesome.

    quite frankly — i’m not a fan of the tattoo, as i said: i wouldn’t want it on my body. but it’s her body and her tattoo and some of the comments i’ve seen on here are just disgusting. one can only hope that she or someone close to her gets raped? excuse me? you’re kidding, right? that’s not even a remotely funny joke, but please, please tell me it was your attempt at one.

  47. hmmm Avatar
    hmmm

    so what if she does get raped? how would that hold up in court?

  48. bradly Avatar
    bradly

    #97 in the court of opion here sum people here would think she deserved it but me what I think is if that happens then she should call 1-800-Matlocks he still alive ?yes?

  49. Melf Avatar
    Melf

    What MonkeyKing and T said.

  50. Sammi Avatar
    Sammi

    Text=language=meaning.
    So I guess the transitive property would allow you to assume that through ones text, or language, you could get an idea of someones thoughts or ideas. I think her clever diction shows that the tattoo is more than literal, and many people took a shot at that meaning (which didnt involve taking the word “rape” and “running with it”). Of course there are people that are going to jump at her thoat, and im not condoning those people. I’m just saying that I think that analyzing her words is a sufficient way to get an idea of who she is, or her reason for the tattoo. Many people didn’t take an emotional approach to it, either (while on the other hand, many people did). Again, no one is saying that they are correct on their analysis. My main point: if people were afraid to take a chance and analyze things, the world would never move forward.

    We’re obviously not going to agree on this, which is completely fine. I’m not trying to convince you of anything, just to state my point of view.

    oh..Sarah Palin. hah

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