Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965 (Hardcover)

Contents Foreword Introduction From Academia to Skidrow A Cut-Throat World Dr. Kinsey (Prometheus) and the Shop Sex and the Tattoo: Motivations The Folklore of Tattooing The Clientele Barnacles and Leeches Excuses--Mine and Theirs, Before and After Masters, Methods, and Maladies Art and the Tattoo The Tattooist and His World The Vanishing Art . . . ? Appendix A: A Brief Historical Sketch of Tattooing Appendix B: A Note on the Literature of Tattooing Index