@article{ref1,
title="Tatoos, piercing: body art? Body damage? Debasement of the body or return to a primitive way of life?",
journal="Gynécologie, obstétrique et fertilité",
year="2006",
author="Grognard, C.",
volume="34",
number="1",
pages="41-43",
abstract="Tatoos and piercing, though they might appear as something like a trend, if not a craze, remain for a majority minority and even fringe practices. For the adolescent, questing for his identity (no more a child, not yet an adult), the tegmental sign is a way of engraving in the flesh dramatic events of his existence. The body mark is a search for independence, a symbolic attainment of self-reliance, a way of severing the umbilical cord and of asserting oneself. In face of a life no longer under control, the body is an object at hand, on which self-will is almost unbridled... These body modifications testify to change.<p /> <p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="1297-9589",
doi="10.1016/j.gyobfe.2005.11.006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gyobfe.2005.11.006"
}