The Girl With A Skull Tattoo On Her (Bleep!)

      Few weeks ago, I saw a viral Facebook post of a Filipino woman (in her early twenties) showing  her tattoo on her genitalia. It was a tattoo of a skull which covered her private parts and which size was just a bit smaller than a regular skull, with her vulva as its mouth. (I never thought I'd be writing a sentence like the previous one.)  She  seemed proud (her reaction is one you see on someone who  just learned that she will be her school’s summa cum laude) and was smiling as she sat with her legs wide open on a chair, sitting in front of her was the equally proud tattoo artist (who was taking the very unusual selfie). The tattoo artist’s reaction is similar to a professor of a student who is going to be her school’s  summa cum laude.

      To each his own, yeah. Maybe, she wants to  surprise her future husband on their first night.

      Wife: Honey, look, I’ve got a surprise for you!

      Husband: Oh, I love surprises! (looks down) (then, a ghastly scream,) EEAAAARRRRGGHHH!

      But that’s actually one of the purposes of having a tattoo: for showing off. You don’t acquire one so you could cover it with clothes and hide it. Although I doubt if she’s going to walk around without any underwear. I know someone who's stopped wearing shirts with sleeves after getting a tattoo on his biceps.

      So it boggles the mind when a tough-looking man ( a prominent politician, a vice-mayor from a city in Mindanao) vehemently and adamantly refuses to show his back tattoo after admitting he has one.  Until now, after weeks of public clamor for him to display his tattoo, he scowls and rejects it.  His more prominent father  and his sister and friends have gleefully displayed their tattoos. See, it's not a difficult thing to do. Is he hiding something? What is on his back? A Tinky-Winky tattoo? Or something a bit more sinister that will drag his whole family down to damnation?

      So we have a girl who gets a tattoo on the most delicate part of her body and who has no qualms showing it and a man who has a tattoo on his back who violently refuses to show it although displaying it will definitely clear his and family’s faltering reputation. It's clear who's more astig between the two.