Tattoo as Therapy

I am writing a research essay as an exploration of how tattooing is useful and beautiful.

I mean therapy in a light sense of the word - people getting tattoos for fun, to enjoy their body in a different way, as well as in more serious and intimate senses of the word therapy.

This paper will be asserting a legitimization of tattooing as a form of play/ agency / therapy and expression. It will endeavor to provide language for this which feels poetic and non-tangible.

The most beautiful aspect of tattooists perspective as there truly is no right or wrong - this is a never-ending realm of experience and perspective.