Marks that last

There was a time when tattoos were associated chiefly with merchant mariners, but only those below the rank of officer. Now there’s hardly a town without a tattoo parlour.

Moving from sub-culture to pop culture, tattoos are becoming ubiquitous among the young and probably compulsory for celebrities wanting to either display a normally hidden zone of their fascinating spiritual universe or to just have something new for their next record or film promotion.