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"Lingis claims that the processes by which the primitive body is marked or scarred seems to us, in the West, to be painful and barbaric. Like the tattooing of the Western body, there is something facile and superficial about the permanent etching on the body's surface. It offends Western sensibility ... that a subject would voluntarily undertake the permanent inscription of a verbal or visual message on its skin. Its superficiality offends us; its permanence alarms us."

..Those who are in pain will tell you that they have the right to be in pain...

..Get rid of the judgement, get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself...

Twenty-eight year old quidnunc and neophile. I graduated with a Master's degree with distinction in the Body and Representation from the University of Reading and am currently researching for a PhD in the Department of Art History researching the visual and ontological consequences of invasive corporeal modification.

I completed a 20,000 word dissertation entitled The Post-Modified Body: Invasive Corporeal Transformation and its Effects on Subjective Identity, which is available for download. I'd love to hear any comments.

My first degree was in French & German from the University of Bradford. That means I have even more letters after my name and am trilingual.

I'm a pragmatic, non-dogmatic vegan; a humanist; an existentialist (more de Beauvoir than Sartre); an atheist; a sceptic; a wide-eyed, excited and excitable human being.

I DJ music from the 1880s - early 1960s: country, bluegrass, blues, gospel, rockabilly, rock and roll, jazz, swing, jive, doo-wop and garage, with a smattering of dark and dirty European exploitation movie soundtracks. Available for burlesque gigs, weddings, christenings and bah mitzvahs.

Suspensions:6+2 8-point crucifix, 2-hook chest, three 6-point knee suspensions, 2-point suicide.