Dancer Tattoos

Because they are strippers.

Maybe strippers feel like they form a tribe and the one with the most tatoos is the meanest toughest bitch in the tribe. maybe they treat their tatoos like warriors mark kills on their bodies. Makes more sense than any other theory I heard.

Why they're into tattoos when their biggest spending customers aren't into tattoos is what surprises me.

The answer that I have heard most is "Because every one else is doing it".

I have found the higher the tattoo count,the lower the IQ.

To answer your question, bottom line, many don't pay for them with cash.

Clubber's explanation is very common. Barter is a common practice not only with tattoo's but a lot of things.

Also, strippers aren't known for sound/responsible decision making or long term planing. They have a good day, pay off everyone that is bugging them that day/week and if they've got something left spend it on trivial shit. This probably extends beyond strippers and into a lot of people, particularly the under 25 demographic.

@Clubber: "To answer your question, bottom line, many don't pay for them with cash."

Bingo! Even when they do pay cash, they aren't going to the tattoo "artists", the ones charging $200 and using antiseptic standards and equipment. They're paying $20 to the local out of work tattoo guy who got fired because he didn't clean his stuff and somehow managed to tat a minor without parent's permission.

I *have* see lots of strippers with quality tattoos, but as Clubber says, they're often trade commodities. I know one girl who admitted to basically blowing her way to an almost fully tattooed body.

It's like Jimmy Buffet sang, "It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling."

There used to be a girl in my favorite club who danced as Erica. Thickly built, but not fat at all and a really pretty face. She had one really awful tattoo about halfway between her navel and her kitty. On stage at a distance and under the lights it just looked like a giant black tangled blob. Up close, you could see that it was really a very artistically rendered bouquet of red roses. Girls, please think what your tatts will look like at a distance and what they will look like as you get older.

More modest tattoos, especially ones that are emotionally linked, I don't have a problem with, but I still prefer an untouched pallette.

Many strippers have grown up in neighborhoods where tattoos are common and nearly a rite-of-passage

Many customers have grown up in neighborhoods where tattoos are considered low-class markers of uneducated people

For the strippers, the tattoos are an important and beautiful form of self-expression. To the customers, they are unattractive, crass, and get in the way of the fantasy of who the stripper is, instead being a reminder of who she really is

They're young and dumb and don't have anyone to tell them better.

As far as money goes? Almost every dancer I've ever spoken to claims to be broke and not having a great night, they think (perhaps correctly) that it's a poor business decision to claim they're doing well.

In reality I believe that while most of them are poor planners and don't save money well when they are often flush but blow it quickly. If you have a good weekend it would be easy to run to the tattoo parlor on Monday and drop a few hundred.

Like most people who get tattoos young I've met many older ones who wished they hadn't gotten most or all of the ones they had.

GMD-I should've used my fine line calligraphy skills to be a tattoo artist and trade tats for BJ's.

It is because they CAN'T get their priorities right.

How bout this-Don't complain about the dancers tattoos, whether they're artistically rendered well or not and the dancer's won't complain about old, fat, slovenly, ugly, no personality-having, over-opinionated, and no-life-having pl's. It works both ways.

This goes for everybody.

In my area most dancers are tatted up.

Too bad some of those beautiful butterflies are going to turn into faded moths when they get older

Speaking of dancer tattoos, how about "dancing" tattoos? When I was kid, living in Fresno, our neighbor was a grizzled, Navy vet. He had hula girls tatted on the inside biceps. Even as an old man, he was in shape and would flex, making the hula girls dance. Us kids thought it was a hoot. We'd tell him, do it again, do it again. The shit we had to do for entertainment before the Internet came along.

There's always an exception to the rules. Some big spender will come in and enjoy the tattoos, it's all a matter of when [I will go to said clubs]

@tumbling Duo is the counter-example that disproves your theory.

Inability to budget is a very common problem. Many people who got straight As in math still can't follow a budget, for emotional reasons or something related to autism.

Trying to figure out a mind of a stripper is pointless, just as figuring out what customers like is also as pointless. I have seen two different strippers with great bodies, a very sexy attitude on stage and good lap dancers, who got lots of tattoos. One will lose customers, and the other gained customers after.

Strippers are often party girls; free spirits; and bad girls – kind of goes in line often with those that get tattoos.

Also – tattoos are much much more common in this current time – have you watched an NBA game lately?

30 years ago or so – it seemed only excons; street criminals; and those in the armed forces; got tats – but today it’s almost as if it was a fashion statement.

A very bad fashion statement.

Getting a $200 tattoo is a priority for a stripper because she needs to cover up the name of her ex-boyfriend.

One the worst things about tattoos is depending on the placement, as a person ages they can look bad. Case in point is this stripper who I saw on stage recently. She had a tattoo of a butterfly on her chest with the wings spreading out to her breasts. I bet the tattoo looked awesome ten years and 20 lbs ago, but not with her current droopy saggy breasts.

That's part of the problem. I have only met one Dancer who did any sort of planning for the future. [Most seem to live from second to second] Living second to second doesn't take into account how a tattoo will look 10 or 20 or 30 yrs down the road.

Ever look at an 80 year old titty and say to yourself, "Goddamn I wanna suck that 80 year old titty cause she has no tattoos? No! Tattoo or no tattoo, who gives a fuck at 80.

Once again, if tattoos do bother you pathetic losers so much, maybe y'all should get the fuck out of the strip club now cause these new dancers are gonna be tatted up. And guess what? A new crop of patrons with money to spend with no hang ups about tattoos will push you to the side and get all that sweet, juicy, young pussy while most fail to adapt and change and get stuck with Rosey Palmer and Her Five Sisters.

I ain't being a dick. I'm being honest. You can't do shit about a stripper's tattoos but you ca work on your gut, your hygiene, and your wallet.

@Papi_Chulo: "but today it’s almost as if it was a fashion statement."

A very good fashion statement. :)

@SlickSpic: +1 on everything you said.