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Body Piercing

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Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic

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24 images from works
  • Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (early 19th century?) about Dock, the Wild Indian Venus, a Brazilian of the Butucudos tribe with a lower lip plate and ear tips resting on her shoulders, to be seen "at the Crown Hotel". ].
  • Piercing, tatouage : risques d'infections : mesures élémentaires de prévention / Ministère de la Santé et des Solidarités, L'INPES.
  • A woman and a girl having an ear and a nose pierced, a boy receiving stitches on his arm and a man having his hair cut, another a shave; a warning about the dangers of using unsterilized equipment and contracting the HIV virus by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.
  • A bare-chested man against a brick wall wearing sadomasochism gear including leather trousers, a studded arm strap, a cap and a pierced nipple, pierces his thumb with the sharp end of a knife; with the front cover of a brochure with the title 'Safer Sex Hard'; an advertisement for safer hard sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph by Hans Winer and Loge 70.
  • A face with nose and ear ring and flower tattoo with block of text explaining risks of body piercing; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Agency. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Piercing, tatouage : risques d'infections : mesures élémentaires de prévention / Ministère de la Santé et des Solidarités, L'INPES.

Works from the collections

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Tattooing
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Safe Sex
Gay men
Sadomasochism
Condoms
Borneo
HIV infections - Prevention
Penis
Prostitutes