The golden cycle


I came across this old [copyright expired] photo of “Serpentina” (Delmarie Melford) and couldn't help thinking of Erik (I'm sure he knows all about her). Anyway, as well as her claim at the time of being the most completely tattooed woman, she was also a tattoo artist herself and later helped create even more tattooed women such as Carlotta Hines.

I point this out every six months or so, but if you go through even the publicly available archives from tattoo museums, Ripley's, and so on, you'll find plenty of pictures of piercings (including things we assume are modern like tongue piercings with barbells), heavy mods, and so on… People assume too quickly that this is a youth-thing… It's not. It's a human-thing.

PS. Have you got your Lizardman shirt yet?

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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