FInd a well qualified artist that has experience working with stretch marks and other scarring. Ask them to see healed tattoos over scars and see how you like them.

It’s harder for scar tissue to hold ink, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The artist will likely charge you more than normal (not much more, but still more) because they have to spend more time going over the scar tissue.

But yeah, it’s possible.

Well, I don’t think he’s conservative, but it’s definitely worth mentioning:
http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20070627.html

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Erl_Van_Aken

celebrities would be a good thing to add in to your paper.

You might want to try to get ahold of a copy of “Modify” the movie. It has a lot of practitioners in the body modification field and it’s a fascinating documentary on modification of all kinds. As long as you can stand a little bit of blood, anyway.

You should probably research Fakir Musafar. He worked in the very first piercing parlor in the US, and now is very famous in the modification community. He talks about the religious/spiritual nature of body modification. It’s very interesting and informative as for why body modification should be more accepted in American Society.

That should give you a few ideas anyway, good luck!