NEW YORK, Feb. 21 -- With tattoos now commonplace, regrets are by no means unusual. In the United States, as in Europe, tattoo removal is enjoying growing success, driven by as much by celebrities as by normal people who've had a change of heart about their body art. More broadly, this societal trend questions our relationship with the body.

At the age of 31, Pete Davidson had had enough - enough of the countless tattoos covering his body. For years, the American comedian sported designs of all shapes and sizes on his torso and arms, including Winnie the Pooh, a shark and a portrait of the late US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

But all that is now a thing of the past. Since 2020, Pete Davidson has been undergoing a long and c...