Dr. Seuss’ philosophical 1961 children’s story The Sneetches is about tattoos and tattoo removal as much as it is about status and discrimination. Yellow creatures with a green star on their bellies ...

At 19, Phoenix resident Ryan O’Sullivan got a tattoo of a black and red star . . . on his lower back. “I got a tramp stamp, believe it or not, back before there was such a thing as tramp stamps,” says ...