Byard Roger W
Adelaide School of Biomedicine, The University of Adelaide and Forensic Science SA, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Adelaide School of Medicine, Helen Mayo North, The University of Adelaide, Level 2, Room N237, Frome Road, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2025 Jan 16. doi: 10.1007/s12024-025-00941-9.
Tattooing refers to the process of creating indelible designs and texts in the human skin by introducing a variety of dyes. It has found for millennia in a range of societies. The purpose of tattooing has ranged from marking individuals of significant social standing such as chieftains in Polynesia, to those who are regarded as outcasts such as prostitutes and criminals in Europe. In recent years tattooing has gained considerable popularity in the West including tattoos that have merely had a humorous content, either as an image or text. These types of tattoos often utilize natural body features such as the umbilicus, natal cleft, genitalia, breasts or scars, and may contain simple but explicit messages or suggest possible underlying mental disturbance. While the significance of these types of tattoos and the profile of individuals who have them is at present unknown further study could identify sociological and forensic features specific to this subgroup.
纹身是指通过引入各种染料在人体皮肤上创造不可磨灭的图案和文字的过程。数千年来，它在一系列社会中都有发现。纹身的目的多种多样，从标记具有重要社会地位的个人，如波利尼西亚的酋长，到被视为社会弃儿的人，如欧洲的妓女和罪犯。近年来，纹身在西方变得相当流行，包括那些仅仅具有幽默内容的纹身，无论是图像还是文字。这些类型的纹身通常利用自然身体特征，如肚脐、臀沟、生殖器、乳房或疤痕，可能包含简单但明确的信息，或暗示潜在的精神障碍。虽然目前尚不清楚这些类型纹身的意义以及拥有它们的个人情况，但进一步的研究可能会识别出这个亚群体特有的社会学和法医学特征。
