Body writing describes any text, numbers or symbols written or drawn onto a character's body. This commonly includes tally marks, hearts, directional arrows, and emoticons, among other simple drawings.

Common Body Writing Contexts...

• A way to celebrate a holiday, new year, or an artist hitting a milestone of views or followers - with a character having numbers or messages associated with the event painted/drawn onto their body
• A prank, usually involving drawing "silly" or "crude" images onto someone's face while they are sleeping, unconscious or otherwise unaware to the nature of the drawing on their face or other body part.
• Suggestive messages encouraging the viewer or other characters to engage in some sort of sexual contact with the character who has been written on, text describing the body part the writing is on
• public use, group sex or humiliation, where body writing can include tally marks counting how many times the character has had sex, derrogatory messages about their promiscuity, their "ownership" by or submission to a particular character; or willingness to be used.

Not to be confused with...

These tags describe similar concepts that are not body writing, body writing should be temporarily written or painted text/images on the body:

• branding - this would involve the text burnt into the skin
• text_tattoo - permanent tattoos that feature text
• text_markings - characters with naturally occurring or printed markings featuring text, which are patterns on their skin, fur, scales, etc.

Major themes

Some of these concepts may need to be populated.

• free_use/public_use
• grade
• graded_belly
• graded_penis
• instruction_message
• instruction_on_body
• owner_mark
• tally_marks

Body Writing Locations

Specific parts of the body that are written on

• writing on balls
• writing on belly
• graded belly
• writing on breasts
• writing on butt
• writing on chest
• writing on crotch
• writing on face
• writing on foot
• writing on penis
• graded penis
• writing on tail
• writing on thigh

Related Tags:

• writing on self - a character actively writing on themselves, or having just written on themselves (e.g. holding a pen, marker, or brush)
• cum writing - body writing using cum
• tally marks - an extremely common symbol in body writing

See Also:

• bodypaint - designs painted onto the body, may or may not also feature body writing
• text on body - umbrella tag for any text appearing on a character's body