This study is based on the Psychosociology and analyzes subjectivity's processes about the body in our days, taking the use of tattooing as a analyzer. The increased demands of this practice is interesting, because the tattoo refers to the permanence, and the current value today appreciate is the ephemerality. On the other hand, the image and the immediate time are also valued, as well as the visibility. In this way, the tattoo fits well with the movements of body's worship that is so exacerbated today. These are distinct movements that reveal divergences and convergences of the same phenomenon, and make the themes "body" and "tattoos" paradigmatic in our days. To conduct these discussions, some interviews with tattooed adults are used. They pointed the importance of visibility and tactile experience in the process of choosing and making the tattoo.
body; tattoo; subjective processes; psychosociology