CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION. "Tattooing is an art form.I mean the sailor's tattoo is gone" Margo DeMello During my seven years service in H.M armed forces I thought that tattoos were an extended part of the uniform and a display of male machoism.Tattoo's like "death before dishonour,these colours never run" and the obligitory nude women were common place.However having left the armed forces and coming to University I was amazed at …showed first 75 words of 3315 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3315 total…a Subculture. Body & Society .Volume 5 No 2-3.Sage Publication Pitts(1998).Reclaiming The Female Body. .Body & Society .Volume 4,No 3.Sage Publication. Sweetman,P.(1999) Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity.Body & Society .Volume 5 No 2-3.Sage Publication NEWSPAPERS. Hamilton,A.(March 22nd,2002).Body of Evidence Shows Tattooing Mark On History.Times Newspaper. Hirst,C.(March 23rd,2002).Theres Nothing Like A Tattoo In An Extremely Nautical Place.The Independant