Tattoo Fixation (2006)

For over 100 years in America, the steady buzz from a tattoo needle has grown louder, and louder, and louder. We are a nation with a fixation: tattoos. What is it about skin art that attracts everybody from hardened criminals to the modern aristocracy? The ink may only go skin deep, but the psychological connection goes much deeper. This one hour special will explore the history, the hysteria, and the hilarity behind the nation's full-blown tattoo fixation.