Vale, a legendary San Francisco hipster, anthropologist of the weird and obscure (San Francisco magazine), investigates the world of tattooing, piercing, and scarification in this seminal work. Fakir Musafar - an ex-Silicon Valley executive who is a practitioner of every known body modification - women's piercer Raelyn Gallina, artist Genesis P-Orridge, Anton LaVey, Lyle Tuttle and others discuss body practices that develop identity, philosophical awareness, and sexual sensitivity. The Bible of the underground tattooing/body piercing movement. - New York Times.