Rachael.  Just because it is on my back so I wouldn't have to see it, though.  It's more a horror that you inflict on others than yourself.

Emily--the premise is quite faulty here.  Because chicken pox at any time in your life may later lead to outbreaks of shingles on the original pox sites, and bc shingles is a relatively benign but rather painful Herpes zoster virus, and can recur forever, I don't think you want chicken-pox in your ya-ya.  No.  For the record, I have neither a ya-ya nor the shingles thingy, so I'm not an authority.  Just fyi.

But that tatoo is bloody ugly.  Who is Rachel Ray again?  A stripper or the designated Vestal celebuwhore of the moment?

Now, did you mean in the vagina or on the vulva.  I don't have either, but I suspect it might influence the answer of someone who does.

Also, in the spirit of over-disclosure, my parents told me that when I had chicken pox at the age of six months, I had a pox in my ass crack (not that they said "ass crack"; they said "bottom"), and that I was VERY unhappy about that.

Yep, your childhood teachings were off, at least about the pox. It's having had it that increases your chances of shingles. Oddly enough, there's a vaccine for shingles, but you have to be 60 and have had chicken pox before you're eligible to get it. (And I say oddly enough because it seems weird to me that you have to already be infected with the virus before they'll give you the vaccine for it.)

In the interest of medical correctness (because I am obsessive like that), shingles IS chickenpox.  It's the virus reactivated, often because the person's immune system has become depressed.  

That said, chickenpox in the vadge doesn't mean that future outbreaks of shingles in the vadge.  Regardless of where the person's chickenpox were, shingles tends to be on the torso.

As a side note, the chickenpox vaccine wasn't introduced until 1995, so pretty much anyone who's old enough to be reading nerve has already been exposed to the virus and is at risk for future outbreaks of shingles.

In other words, there's no reason to concern ourselves with the possible future consequences of chickenpox.

But aside from all this....I'd even take the shingles over the tattoo.  Could you imagine the poor man who tries to do this girl from behind?  

PLEASE people! Chickenpox is singular not plural! You're making me grind my teeths!

Already had chickenpox in the vagina, it's actually not a horrible as you would think.

What's the plural?

Chickenpoxes