I think maybe you can tell a bit about a tattoo artist by the type of pinup they tattoo. Kelly Gormley for example, who did the three tattoos below at Addictive Ink in Albequerque… I have a pretty good idea as to what kind of boobs they like!

That said, most of the time I think pinups are probably based on existing artwork; here’s a few examples care of The Comedian Tattoo in Scotland:

You’ll swim in the sweat of a million orgies
You’ll live in a fire as sweet as hell
When you give your soul to the rays of the mortal sun
Or give your lips to the kiss of the scorpion

On Toast, by Neil at Damaged Ink

Continuing in the requested theme of tattoos of girls with big boobs and guns, here are two more for the pile. On the left is a photo of Bazooka Jules by DTM, and on the right an explicit backpiece by Larry Brogan of Tattoo City. Got one? Send it in!

So I recently asked what people wanted to see on ModBlog, and the above title is what I was told. Let’s get started on that with this tattoo by JR at HellCat Tattoo in West Palm Beach, FL, done on Turps211. You’ll also notice that there are some ads on ModBlog right now. Sorry to have to add them, but it’s become a financial reality — and big thanks to our sponsor (check them out and sign up for a free membership), and a big old “get the hell out of the conservative dark ages” to Google and all the other online ad agencies that refuse to deal with BME.

For now the ad is just on the front page, but assuming it goes OK I’ll put it on subpages as well, but I’ll keep it as discrete as possible. Oh, and if anyone from an advertising agency is reading this, feel free to contact us with a proposal ([email protected] is who you’d write).

It’s probably evidence that I’m a bad person at my core, but I really like seeing devils have sex with angels… preferably doggy style. I’m not sure what underlying psychosis that implies about me?Tattoo by Than Wilson at Skibo’s Tattoo in Cheyenne, WY.

Thanks to my friend Damir in Belgrade, Serbia (I love that BME has members all over the planet) for sending me these matching “bondage mermaid” tattoos (not quite what I’d normally except a brotherhood tattoo to be, but to each his own) that he did at his shop:

I love this zebra girl pinup tattoo by Jay at Lotus Tattoo in Sayville, NY… It’s so 1982! If I ever get a van, this is high on my list of what’s getting airbrushed on the side.

Have I mentioned here before how much I like bad girls? Phil knows this, so he put aside this tattoo for me today, by Matthew Ellis at Way Cool Uptown in Toronto (who if I recall correctly, I went to art school at York with over a decade ago).

Four bad girls from the most recent set of BME submissions. Oh, and since it took me forever to figure out what the text at the bottom of the fourth image is, I’ll tell you that I’m 99% sure that it says “Innocence Lost, Never Recaptured.”

From left to right: Gangster Virgin Mary by Bob Lackner at Lark Tattoo, Megan’s Ruin by Sonju at Bloodlines Tattoo in San Rafael CA, Concealed Weapon by Matt Lapping at Inkwerx Tattoo in Hull, and Innocence Lost by Jerry Jaco in Cape Girardeau MO.

Also photographed by Lane at the Berlin Tattoo Convention 2005 is this extremely explicit tattoo. Now, I love it, and have a similar (well, Tom of Finland-style) piece planned for my leg, but I’ll ask him the same question that I ask myself when considering this motif: how the hell do you explain this tattoo to your kids (if you have any) — let alone someone else’s kids… I’d hate to be added to the sex offender registries just for walking down the street!

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