Dear People,

Please stop using the term "Tramp Stamp". I beg of you, please do not use this term, or my brain cells will simultaneously die and force me to shoot you. If you must be crude about it, "She's got a tattoo on her ass" works just as well. Yes, it may have more words than the previous phrase, but then you won't get your head blown off.

Why on earth "Tramp Stamp"? It does not make any sense when you sit down to think about it. So a woman who has her tits covered in tattoos, while most likely still considered a tramp, does not have a "tramp stamp" if the area above her ass crack is tattoo-free? Is it any less "advertising" as the "tramp stamp"? What about women completely covered in tattoos? Or women who have arm tattoos? Why is the woman who sports an embedded design above her ass crack automatically designated a "tramp"? I mean, I have absolutely no tattoos, yet I could be a tramp. Does that make me a stealth tramp? If it truly is that she's advertising her wares, would not just a simple arrow work? Or even "This End Up"? And if I were to have a "tramp stamp", but always kept it completely covered so that you wouldn't know I had one, would I still be a tramp? There just seems to be too much assuming going on in that phrase - even if you see a person with one, how could you automatically assume that they are a tramp? You don't know them. After all, a tattoo is something that is meant to be seen, but if you place it on a part of your body that allows you a degree of control over how it's displayed, I don't see that as inherently wrong or immoral. You don't have to stare at someone's ass. You have the choice to look away. And if you don't, that's your problem.

I'm just confused as to why anyone would really use that term. It's a freakin' tattoo, just like any other tattoo. What the fuck does it matter?