Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos (Gay Interest) by Samuel M. Steward - 1990-06-18

Like new, unmarked.

Paperback / softback. New. Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago's tough State Street. During that time he left his mark on a hundred thousand people, from youthful sailors who flaunted their tattoos as a rite of manhood to executives who had to hide their passion for well-ornamented flesh. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is anything but politically correct. The gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with unflinching honesty and furtive tenderness. His lascivious relish for the young sailors swaggering or staggering in for a new tattoo does not blind him to the sordidness of the world they inhabited. From studly… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Haworth Pr Inc, 1990. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 204 pages. 8.50x6.25x0.50 inches.

Routledge, 1990-06-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!