Chapter 4
by 
MoteDog
Can Jane be recognized as a Hot Wife, too?
No Tat, No Status
Peter knew exactly what the federally sanctioned tattoo looked like. He had seen thousands and thousands of women wearing them in porn site images and videos. Unsurprisingly, it was a woman icon inside a flame. And all of the tattoos were permanent. "Once a Lifestylist always a lifestylist" was the motto.
Anybody caught with a fake lifestyle tattoo is sentenced to being registered as its Lifestylist and having the real tattoo inked on their face. And one large than the common one at that! This had been an essential part of getting the Federal Lifestyles Accommodation and Protection Act passed through Congress. It had been argued that those who were real, true, traditional and already federally recognized American minorities (like, say, whites, women, and transgenders) were always visible to the "voter on the street". What was to prevent somebody from claiming to be a Lifestyle Minority only when it was to their advantage? There were - and should be, it was argued - negative consequences to being part of any minority. Tattoos were the answer.
And tattoos that couldn't be hidden or ignored. The tattoo had to be on the cheek under an eye, as the eyes were where most people looked to (except for a lifestyle that definitively attracted people's attention away from the face, like Nudists, tattoo Canvases, and Body Mortifiers). Needless to say, while crossdressers are a recognized minority, veil-wearers are not. And while there is a federally approved and recognized tattoo design for Narcissists, very, very few have registered.
The Federal Bureau of Lifestyles now has 664 listed on their website. (The Reformed Temple of Chernabog Satanism is searching for recruits for two new, any two, Lifestyles so they can claim the 666th spot.) But the tattoo design for Nudists is among the original 50. It has status. But not one very many living out of the Sun Belt have. (Or those whose DNA test shows them susceptible to melanoma.)
It was fall in this Frost Belt city and Peter had in his restaurant's kitchen an attractive woman covered in nothing but goosebumps. She was definitely not a Hot Wife. Though his dick wanted her to be.