When was tramp stamp coined

Select "Accept essential cookies" to set cookies necessary to display content, core site features, and allow us to measure the effectiveness of our service only. Select "Accept all cookies" to also personalize your experience on the site with ads and partner content tailored to your interests. Yes, there is a dragonfly on my lower back.

Yes, I got it in the year Let's all move on. Racked is no longer publishing. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox. I didn't become a whore in high school. It happened my first year of college, in a tattoo parlor a few blocks off campus.

That's where I got my tramp stamp. It was a permanent scarlet letter, attached to my lumbar region. This wasn't because dragonflies held any deep meaning for me. It just looked good in one of the books of tattoo ideas the jaded guy with the needle pointed me towards. After a short, painful process, I was on my way. The top of the dragonfly's wings peeked out of low-slung jeans, while its whole body emerged at the beach. At the time, I wasn't aware that getting a lower back tattoo or LBT, as I'll call them would someday brand me a slut according to popular culture.

It was , a confusing time. But now, 15 years later, I'm a member of a small and aging tribe of women in their mid-thirties. We're a secret society. We walk among you, work in your offices, sit next to you at lunch, bound together by the ink secreted just below our waistlines. It's a moon and star surrounded by pointy squiggles or flames. It signifies nothing. I probably started disliking it a year after I got it.

It's not just that it's this unoriginal, very 'I'm an 18 year-old girl' place to get a tattoo. It's that it became sexualized, implied some sort of promiscuousness. If removing it was painless or cheap, I would have done it by now. Now then, back to the tattoo to the back, while Google books shows some false hits, it does show some credible examples predating There is one book published in that I can preview:. Wiki sends it back to Discussion Forum Archived. Please consider registering guest.

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Minimum search word length is 3 characters — maximum search word length is 84 characters. This is one of the most fantastic lower back tattoos.

With elegant linework and very sensual placement, this tattoo is a true success. A cute butterfly and tribal tattoo on the lower back. This was a common theme, but still quite lovely. A small heart tribal right on the smalls of the lower back. This is a very common type of tramp stamp tattoo, but does accentuate the female form.

Using that as inspiration for a tramp stamp, still humorous, but not very attractive to look at.