Original Skin

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Maryrose Cuskelly. Original Skin

Skin: the body’s envelope

Touch Me

Melting Pot: the colour of skin

O, No! It is an Ever-fix’d Mark: scars, moles, and other blemishes

Peculiar to Humanity: blushing and tickling

Unclean, Unclean: skin and disease

She’s Got Perfect Skin

The Lure of the Tattoo

Alison Whyte’s Boots: skinning and the human pelt

Bound in Human Skin: anthropodermic bibliopegy

You’re Nicked: the romance of fingerprints

Peering into the Abyss: burns injuries

Leaves on the Tree of Life: the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria

Second Skins: semi-living sculpture

The Skin We’re In

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Dedication

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According to our predilections, it may be the smoothness of the underside of our lover’s upper arm, the hairiness of other parts, or the contrast between the two that intoxicates us. In our desire to get even closer, we attempt to penetrate the barrier of the skin through deep kissing and sexual intercourse so that, literally and figuratively, our bodies are joined.

And it’s not simply the feel, but also the smell of another’s skin that can transport us. I can recall vividly the sweet sweatiness, completely devoid of staleness, exuded by a young man whom I studied with decades ago. On hot Brisbane mornings, he would arrive at college, having ridden his bicycle up the myriad hills of the western suburbs, and arrive in time for our first class of the day, wet and glistening, and smelling divine.

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