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I like to draw. I like to draw on people, sometimes, with felt pens or ballpoint pens or with that nice herby-smelling henna stuff in a tube. Now I find that I have a friend who has a friend who has tattooing equipment and would be happy to let me use it. This is almost tempting even though when you draw on your friends and you make a mistake you can't throw them away like with paper. It would almost be interesting to try.

BUT I believe that tattooing involves needles and maybe even blood, not quick needles at the doctor's and all over with but protracted needles for as long as it takes to finish the drawing. There's just no way. I don't have any sort of needle or blood phobia, it's just that I don't like hurting people. Not even if they would quite like me to. This is where the golden rule falls down, isn't it? Even if they say they don't mind, even if it's what they really wanted, I would never be able to bring myself to stick needles in people.

Related to this, ( I am going to rant a bit. )