Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
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.