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Once stigmas of low class status, tattoos -- like body piercing -- have gone mainstream. But even as a new reverence for pagan beliefs spreads, facial tattoos remain taboo. Who chooses to mark their faces and why? PNS contributor A. Clay Thompson is a 24-year-old writer and former bike messenger whose tattoos end at his neckline.
Flashing needles and literal crowns of
thorn mark the work — and the body —
of performance artist Ron Athey
"In the future, everybody will be so sexually satisfied,
there'll be an end to violence, rape and war.
We will establish contact with extra-terrestrials
and they will be very sexy." — Annie Sprinkle
