What are those tatoo stars meant to mean?

[philagain]

I have only just got into American porn, after years of downloading only the Euro stuff!
I'm English, and apart from the new adventure of seeing cut cocks, i have noticed that many of the American models have these star tattoos!
What is all that all about? Is it some kind of branding for a particular studio?
I do love this site, the owner is perhaps a little pervy in his commentary, but he cracks me up!......You should have been in comedy mate!
My partner and i love Tyler, Tyler reminds my partner of a boy that he was at boarding school with!....His face lights up when one of your videos comes on!
I much prefer Justin...You remind me of my best mate!....The bisexual one that would always come around after a row with his girlfriend, watch straight porn together, and sometimes he would let me give him a nosh, but only after we had snorted a bit of coke together!
This site is great in its quality, has been keeping me here!
Perhaps i should brush up on the other names too, because there are indeed, others that deserve a mention!
Keep up the good works!

 

[philagain]

Austin

Can we see more of him please!

 

[philagain]

.....And Mike!
Austin is Justin and Mike is Mike!

 

[MissDeidra]

I found this on the internet...personally I think its a load of bollocks...but you might like it. I have several star tattoos on my body and mostly I liked the aesthetics of them and that is why I chose to get them. Everybody has their own reason for making a symbol permanent. I have 66 tattoos and counting and their meaning would be completely different on someone else....


"The history, meaning and symbolism of nautical star tattoos is
a hotly debated topic. Today many different groups have
adopted the Nautical star tattoo as a symbol for their own
movement and they have all ascribed their own meaning and
history to the symbol. Thus has lead to a wide
disagreement as the the meaning of the tattoo.Historically
most everyone agrees that Sailors were the first people to get
nautical star tattoos. In fact the very word nautical
relates back to sailing. So this connection has been
pretty firmly established. Most people would agree the
sailors were a pretty superstitious group historically and
sailor lore abounds with superstitious and fantastical stories
of life and death and being lost at sea. Early on
sailors navigated by the stars at night and the north star
became the symbol for finding ones way home. Once you
know where the north star is you can point your ship in the
right direction to get home. So the star became a symbol
for finding ones way home or more symbolically even finding
ones path in life. Therefore many sailors would tattoo
nautical stars on their forearms as a good luck symbol in
hopes of returning home.

However their modern day meaning is a more debated topic.
Many believe that groups including gay and lesbians, punk
rockers and those in the military have adopted the nautical
star tattoo as a very important symbol. The diversity of
these three groups has lead many to argue the meaning of their
tattoos.

For the military the connection is pretty obviously point
back to the early sailors and the symbolism and meaning is the
same as the early sailors. Many military people get a
nautical star tattoo as a symbol for finding ones path home
safely. Of course this can also include more
symbolically just finding ones way in life.

Here is a quote we found from a member of the armed
services and his interpretation of the tattoo:

"I am in the United States Army, an MP who searched towns
and villages for Al Quida and insurgents. I was in Iraq for 1
year. I have a red and black nautical star on my wrist. The
reason I got it was because when I was out there, I felt it
was a guide to guide me home to my family safely. I got it so
that it would remind me that I am going to make it to see my
son grow up. I am not gay, it doesn't matter what you believe
it represents, it means something different for everyone. Out
in the desert, I would look up at the stars and think about
home. So anyone can think what they want to, that is what it
means to me. "

Punk rockers have also adopted this as a popular symbol to
have tattooed. The punk movement traces its history and
use of the nautical star tattoo back to Sailor Jerry.
Sailor Jerry is historically one one of the most famous tattoo
artists ever. He was well known for his innovative and
"cool" designs. Punks have taken this symbol and it has
very much the same meaning of finding one way in life.
Being the rugged individualists type Punks are drawing to the
symbolism of true north and finding one own unique way in
life. So the Nautical star has become a symbol for this.
You see many punk bands that have full sleeve tattoos
typically incorporate nautical star tattoos either on their
elbows or elsewhere.

The lesbian and gay connection is the one that does not
seem so obvious at first. Historically back in the
1940's and 50's when alternative lifestyles were not the norm
and often women had to hide their alternative choices they
would sport a hidden nautical star. Often they would get
the star tattoo done on the inside of their wrist where it
could easily be hidden by a watch during the day but shown off
in the evening when out on the town. Today many lesbians
where the nautical star tattoo to show their connection with
their early pioneering sisters. Here is a little
evidence to support my points.

"Here's the passage (with some pieces dropped) from "Boots
of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian
Community" by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeilne D. Davis
copyright 1993 p. 189.

(talking about the 1940's and 1950's):

"...During this same time period, the cultural push to be
identified as lesbians- or at least different- all the time
was so powerful that it generated a new form of identification
among the tough bar lesbians: a star tattoo on the top of the
wrist, which was usually covered by a watch. This was the
first symbol of community identity that did not rely on
butch-fem imagery. We can trace this phenomenon back to an
evening of revelry in the late 1950's, when a few butches
trooped over to "Dirty Dick's" tattoo parlor on Chippewa
Street and had the tiny blue five-pointed star put on their
wrists. Later, some of the fems of this group also go the idea
one night and did it...The community views the tattoo as a
definite mark of identification..."the Buffalo police knew
[that] the people that had the stars on their wrist were
lesbians and they had their names and so forth. That it was an
identity thing with the gay community, with the lesbian
community". The fact that the star tattoo was created by those
who were firmly into roles, in fact by the group that was
considered the butchy butches and their fems, suggest that the
force to assert lesbian identity was strong enough to break
through the existing traditions of boldness based in butch-fem
roles. The stars presage the methods of identity created by
gay liberation. In fact, the mark has become something of a
tradition in local circles and has seen a revival since the
1970s."

This meaning of the symbol has of course created a lot of
problems and arguments among the other two groups of bearers
of nautical stars. Most puck and military people do not
want to have a nautical star that points back to anything from
the lesbian movement so many will say that there is no
connection there and this is false.

Here is a quote from another armed forces member about the
symbolism of the nautical star among the gay community:

"This "gay symbol" is a load of hooey that someone made up
VERY recently. The nautical star tattoo has been around nearly
as long as tattooing itself. The late Celts (or early Irish,
depending on your view of World History) were said to have
been the first to have the tattoos, although evidence of it
being used on ships in Spain has been found pre-dating the
Irish claim.

As a Marine, it's a very commonplace symbol amongst us if
we have been part of a Boat Raid company, red for port, green
for starboard on varying parts of the body. On ship, I saw
about a million different variations on the Sailors I was was
serving with, obviously harking back to the sailor roots."

Here is a quote from a punk rocker and his feelings about
the symbolism of the tattoo:

"what idiots..even the military boys dont know what it
really means....JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW!!!!!it was used by OLD
sailors.. and the symbol represents North on a Map ...and it
is the North Star the sailors would use it as a baring to get
home....you can find it on Really really old maps and old navy
vessels... Punk Rock.. well we use it because we can and
because Sailor Jerry made the coolest tattoos who started
putting them on everyone.. my grandfather even had one thus
being used as a traditional icon"

It just goes to show that when the same powerful symbol is
used over and over again over decades of time it can taken on
very different meanings for different groups. So all of
those that you see sporting a nautical star tattoo might not
all have the same interpretation of its symbolism.

So do you have a nautical star tattoo or think about
getting one in the future? Which meaning of the symbol
will you get the nautical star for? As long as you know
what the symbolism behind the star is for and you have gotten
it for the right reason to either support the lesbian movement
or as a symbol to finding your way!"

 

[MissDeidra]

Ask MikeR, he has one...

 

[philagain]

Ask MikeR, he has one...

I don't have any tattoos, so i really didn't have any idea as to what they mean!
The stars are very sexy, just that a lot of models seem to have them in the same place!
Thank you for the link!

 

[mikeyank]

I have only just got into American porn, after years of downloading only the Euro stuff!
I'm English, and apart from the new adventure of seeing cut cocks, i have noticed that many of the American models have these star tattoos!
What is all that all about? Is it some kind of branding for a particular studio?
I do love this site, the owner is perhaps a little pervy in his commentary, but he cracks me up!......You should have been in comedy mate!
My partner and i love Tyler, Tyler reminds my partner of a boy that he was at boarding school with!....His face lights up when one of your videos comes on!
I much prefer Justin...You remind me of my best mate!....The bisexual one that would always come around after a row with his girlfriend, watch straight porn together, and sometimes he would let me give him a nosh, but only after we had snorted a bit of coke together!
This site is great in its quality, has been keeping me here!
Perhaps i should brush up on the other names too, because there are indeed, others that deserve a mention!
Keep up the good works!

Welcome to the forum, philagain. I can't really comment on the tattoos, as I'm an older guy, and that could only be answered by a young guy. But I love reading your commentary, as a new member of this site. It is interesting to hear the perspective of a newbie, as many of the posters here are veterans of the site and the board.

I hope that David takes it in good spirit reading your saying, " the owner is perhaps a little pervy in his commentary, but he cracks me up!......You should have been in comedy mate!"

David is not actually the owner, but the director, and he is a treasure to regular followers of the site. You call him "pervy", Slim calls him "klutzy", but I consider him the star and the glue that holds the site together.

And the fact that some of the models remind you and your partner of guy's that you have known in your lives rings very true with me, as some of my favorite models remind me of guys that I have known too. In some cases, I enjoy the one's who remind me of guy's that I never had sexual relations with, more than the one's that I did, because seeing Shane, for example, naked and hard, and getting his cock sucked by a dude, makes me think of guys that I've known who look like him, that I've fantasized about many many times. Now I can actually see their naked bodies and their hard cocks, and their expressions of passion while being sucked off, and watching their faces, as well as their bodies and their cock as they shoot their blasts of cum, in moments of intimate ecstasy.

Again, welcome and please post often. You seem like an honest forthright "bloke", and I always appreciate people who "call them as they see them".

 

[tampa24]

I have only just got into American porn, after years of downloading only the Euro stuff!
I'm English, and apart from the new adventure of seeing cut cocks, i have noticed that many of the American models have these star tattoos!

I much prefer Justin...You remind me of my best mate!....The bisexual one that would always come around after a row with his girlfriend, watch straight porn together, and sometimes he would let me give him a nosh...

LOL So what do you think of the cut dicks? Does it turn you off, turn you on, or just look weird?

I know what snogging means. But nosh I'm not familiar with. What does that mean in British English? A blowjob?

 

[vicekid]

LOL So what do you think of the cut dicks? Does it turn you off, turn you on, or just look weird?

I know what snogging means. But nosh I'm not familiar with. What does that mean in British English? A blowjob?

Tampa,

Nosh is Yiddish meaning a light meal or snack. In between meals you might nosh on something before the next one. I guess you could, if you really stretch it equate it to a blow job!

Hope this helps.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid

 

[lpdude86]

Ok guys my friend has a star tattoo on his left bicep.
I asked him what the meaning of it was and here is his answer. A direct quote right from my friends mouth.
"I wanted a tattoo on my arm and I chose the star because I thought it looked cool".
Hope that helps you out.
A lot of the "jock" guys around here have a tattoo band around their biceps, it just draws attention to their muscles and really has no other significance. It is a fad.

 

[mikeyank]

Tampa,

Nosh is Yiddish meaning a light meal or snack. In between meals you might nosh on something before the next one. I guess you could, if you really stretch it equate it to a blow job!

Hope this helps.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid

If I recall the last time I was in Fort Lauderdale, there was a bagel store called Bagel Nosh. And there were plenty of guys on the strip of A1A that I would have liked to nosh on too, if that is an alternate meaning of nosh.

 

[vicekid]

If I recall the last time I was in Fort Lauderdale, there was a bagel store called Bagel Nosh. And there were plenty of guys on the strip of A1A that I would have liked to nosh on too, if that is an alternate meaning of nosh.

Mike,

I just recently flew into and out of Fort Lauderdale as I took a cruise vacation last week. I don't remember that store, then I wasn't looking for it either.

If you consider a "snack" as something your nibble on or take little bits of, then I guess in theory you could nosh on a variety of items and I belief you could say something like, "I'd love to nosh on MikeR for awhile."

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid

P.S. Is my place of birth still under a ton of snow?

 

[joninliverton]

I don't have any tattoos, so i really didn't have any idea as to what they mean!
The stars are very sexy, just that a lot of models seem to have them in the same place!
Thank you for the link!

Welcome to the forum Phil and to the site. There are a few UK members on this site and quite a few who comment in the forum. Check out the bonus sites if you have time, there are some classic films there too. Cheers from Yorkshire x

 

[joeychuck2]

The only thing about a tattoo is that after a while you might not want it anymore or if you had something that meant a particular thing you didn't want to subscribe to it's difficult to remove. Too many of them also turns me off. Ive seen guys completely covered in them and any beauty is distracted.

 

[mikeyank]

Mike,

I just recently flew into and out of Fort Lauderdale as I took a cruise vacation last week. I don't remember that store, then I wasn't looking for it either.

If you consider a "snack" as something your nibble on or take little bits of, then I guess in theory you could nosh on a variety of items and I belief you could say something like, "I'd love to nosh on MikeR for awhile."

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid

P.S. Is my place of birth still under a ton of snow?

Hi Vicekid. I just noticed your response. It was a few years ago, but Bagel Nosh was on Federal Highway and Broward Blvd, and I'd sure like to nosh on MikeR too, but Mike is a lot more than a "nosh". Mike is more like a gourmet meal. Come with a big appetite and leave very full.

And as of today, March 8, your birth place, (Brooklyn) is completely devoid of snow. Spring has sprung and it's sunny and supposed to go up to 60 degrees today. (Sorry for sharing the local weather here on the forum).

 

[SayWhat]

I actually wouldn't waste much time researching the origin of the star tattoo. I think for most people it's just because it looks cool.

It's kind of like the whole "left ear pierced is okay, but right ear pierced means you're gay" thing that went around for a while in the 90's. Unless it's a special situation, I can honestly say that most things like that are just for fun/decoration and lack any deep meaning.

i.e. I got a shark tattoo for no reason other than the fact that I like sharks. I had my tongue pierced for a couple years, too. It wasn't so I could give better head, it was because I thought it would be fun to look at.