The crave for having a lower back tattoo was just as swiftly followed by branding called tattoos “tramp stamps”. While having a tattoo definitely doesn’t make you a tramp, it could actually be affecting men’s interpretations of your sexual intentions.
A psychologist in France recently conducted a two-part experiment to see how men react to women with tattoos.
First, women were asked to lie on their stomachs at the beach for one-hour periods. In some of the trials, they wore a temporary tattoo of a butterfly on their lower back, and in others they didn’t. When the women wore tattoos, they were solicited by men 24 percent of the time, but without the tattoos they were approached only 10 percent of the time.
Men also made faster contact with the women with a tattoo, taking an average of just about 24 minutes to approach a woman with a tattoo versus nearly 35 minutes for women without.
The second part of the experiment asked men to answer questions about the woman on the beach, including having the men evalute the probability of getting a date with the woman and the probability of having sex with her on the first date. Men thought their chances of both were significantly higher with women who had a tattoo.
What’s interesting is that some previous studies have shown that men view women with tattoos as less attractive overall, yet here, they were approaching tattooed women more often, leading the researches to believe that men think women with tattoos are more promiscuous.
Anybody with a lower back tattoo feel like people take the nickname “tramp stamp” a little too seriously? Do you believe you got more or less attention from guys post-tattoo? Do you think people make assumptions about you based on your ink? Positive or negative?