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182:, published in 1989. The book consists of a collection of twenty two interviews and two essays with individuals and key figures involved the field of body modification in the late 1980s. It was one of the first documents to attempt to comprehensively cover the re-emergence and increasing popularity of 403: 27: 226:
is primarily due to the widespread popularity of this book. of the images in the book would have been familiar to persons involved in the movement, but the book exposed several "underground" practices to a vastly greater public, including graphic images of
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from London store The Book Inn, owned by bookseller Richard Waller. Magistrate Ian Baker ruled in 1991 that the book was not obscene. This was part of a pattern of prosecution at the time, coming shortly after
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was the first text to attempt to comprehensively address the issues, aesthetics and meaning involved in the subject of body modification. The public knowledge of the term
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regarding the history and origin of body piercing, which remain widespread to this day, most notably Doug Malloy (
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The book was the subject of an obscenity trial in England. In November 1989, police seized a copy of
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McKenna, Neil (1991-04-23). "London Bookseller Cleared In Sensational Obscenity Trial".
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V. Vale
Andrea Juno
Body modification
Cultural studies
Social Anthropology
RE/Search
ISBN
978-0-940642-14-0
OCLC
20973712
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
V. Vale
Andrea Juno
RE/Search
body modification
tattooing
piercing
scarification
corsetry
sideshow
ritual
western society
Modern Primitive
genital piercing
scarification
urban legends
Richard Simonton
Operation Spanner

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