Bob Houle at Sailor Sid's, 1980s (Patreon)

There's only so much that Youtube will allow. While I continue to clean up footage from this early 1980s VHS, it's a reminder that the majority of it won't be able to be posted on most of the social media sites without cropping out 50+ minutes of its 58 minute run time. 

As always- that's both an indictment of the delicate sensibilities of social media sites that allow real world harm via political and social disinformation yet need a fainting couch to lean on should someone post a few cheerful older fellas flaunting their tattooed and pierced penises for each other's amusement, and the kind of fun a few cheerful older fellas flaunting their tattooed and pierced penises had back in the 1980s. 

What are the options for video hosting sites that allow (non-pornographic*) nudity? Anyone have any suggestions? I can host these videos on my Dropbox but that makes streaming for you folks a pain in the butt. I've heard Vimeo is an option, but that comes with a yearly fee that may make the juice not worth the squeeze. 

Anyone have some webspace/bandwidth they'd like to donate to host streaming body mod history to be hosted here? HMU at sacreddebris@gmail.com and lets see if we can work something out. 

With all that out of the way-

Bob Houle was a friend of Sailor Sid Diller's who had beautiful "black graphic" tattooing (more commonly called tribal) from Sid and Cliff Raven. Sid joined him for a tattoo session at Cliff's in 1982, with Bob working on the spirals on his chest and Sid getting a large black piece on his abdomen so this video would have been a few years later - I'd date it somewhere around 1984.

The full video features a lazy afternoon at Sid's, with Bob, Ed Fenster (owner of Silver Anchor Enterprises Exotic Body Jewelry) and a small group of early piercing devotees enjoying each other's company, stretching (and getting) piercings, and cracking terrible dad jokes. As soon as I finish cleaning it up, I'll find a way to get it online for you folks. 

*(As soon as I typed the words non-pornographic, this warning from Patreon popped up: "We have detected language in this post that may be outside of our community guidelines (pornographic content). If you believe that this is not the case, you can continue to post it. This post may be reviewed by our Trust & Safety team")