Abstract
Bearing in mind the five-thousand-year long tradition, tattooing is considered to be one of the oldest art forms. Due to the gradual development of new techniques, materials, styles and approaches aimed at resolving even the most difficult technical problems, tattooing has became a highly appreciated form of self-expression for tattoo artists and proud owners of tattoos alike. However, there is a number of legal issues associated with tattooing. Copyright restrictions, health and safety concerns, licensing and even discrimination issues (to name just a few) have drawn special attention of legislators and legal experts. From the legal standpoint, the central question or a cluster of questions (to be precise) revolves around the consent to tattooing. Numerous issues related to personal autonomy arise at the moment when autonomy is expressed through consent, and the most important one is certainly the issue of capacity for self-expression. In the Republic of Serbia, there is no adequate or, at least, sufficiently precise normative framework on tattooing practices. In this article, relying on different analytical and normative method techniques, the author presents the dilemmas and discusses the different aspects of capacity to express personal autonomy by consenting to being tattooed.
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