So I'm flipping through “Tattoos” by Henk Schiffmacher, and among a myriad of photos of oldschool tattoo guys from the past hundred years or so is this image. It wasn't the focus of the shot — it's a fullbody photo… But what do I see, but a split glans, with the foreskin pierced and each half of the glans flipped through. A similar photo appears in the ModCon books. I think everyone knows that tattooing goes quite far back, even in the West… But I love seeing non-anecdotal evidence of piercing and other mods dating way back as well… I've even seen permanent tongue piercing, using barbells, in books of photos from the 1920s. This stuff is not new, and it's not a fad.
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