Not long ago, Stone went to the Ink Monkey tattoo shop in Venice Beach and had a portrait of Nixon’s face applied to his back, right below the neck. “Women love it,” Stone said.

Stone has a portrait of a smiling Richard Nixon tattooed on his upper back, below his neck. Stone got the tattoo at a shop in Venice Beach in California and told The New Yorker that “women love it." ...

WOMEN have a long, little known history in the tattoo industry. Before 1960, women who were covered in ink were paraded in freak shows. But then Raelene Robinson came along and changed all that.