Pierced ears or elsewhere for guys - Yes, No, Why or Not?

[old mark]

Interesting responses to the great moustache question, now let's move on...

I got one ear pierced in 1971, and have not used it in so long it seems to have grown shut. ( I have used the ear, not the hole...)

What is your opinion of guys with pierced ears - or elsewhere, but primarily ears - Remember, I am old and easily shocked.

mark

[BarenakedLady]

1. Whatever floats your boat.

I've never kissed a guy with a pierced lip or tongue. I think it would be interesting. :evilgrin:

[Heidi]

2. Up to the individual.

My husband (43) has a pierced left ear and wears a smallish, chunky, silver hoop earring in it. One of our dearest friends, a 34-year-old guy, has both ears pierced and alternates between diamond studs and chunky silver hoop earrings.

[Rambis]

3. 5 in left one in right

I have not worn any ear rings for years (small silver hoops) as I am in a professional office. I would like to put them back in and wear a kilt to work everyday but I want to make sure I am not fired for doing it.

[old mark]

18. Istopped wearing mine for work reasons as well, but slightly different .

I worked in a mental hospital and saw that on occasion some of the more demonstrative patients would rip pierced earrings out of your ear - through the bottom.

I decided to not wear tham to work, then pretty much stopped wearing them at all.
Thinking about weaing one again.


mark

[Rambis]

19. Prudent move there (nm)

x

[old mark]

24. Pure fear. nt

[Rambis]

25. I used to do

substance abuse research so I know what you are talking about. It was really chicken and egg time- Which came first the mental illness or the substance abuse (self medicating)? I am so glad those days are over! I had every kind of high stress malady imaginable.

[old mark]

30. I did that, too. Started with teenage druggies. Ended up with sociopathic murderers.

It has taken me over 1 1/2 years to relax after I retired form that shit.

"Somebody has to do it", but not me.

mark

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I think guys should pierce anywhere they want to. Ears, eyebrows,

tongue, nose, whatever floats your boat. However, if it's in a place that is normally covered by clothing, I don't necessarily want to hear about it or see it.

[Iggo]

5. I used to wear one or two earings...

...on my left ear, back when I had long hair. Now that I wear my hair close-cropped, it looks really lame, so I don't wear them anymore.

[meegbear]

6. As long as it's not a Prince Albert, I'm fine with it ...

and, yes, it's piercing THAT.

[Rob H.]

7. I used to have both ears double-pierced

Started with one in the left lobe, then another, then two more in the right. Now I'm back down to the original--haven't worn anything in it in a long time and it's never grown closed.

TMI: I thought briefly about having my nipples pierced, along with an ampallang (you can Google it, but it's definitely not safe for work) until I really thought about how they'd probably hurt like a sonofabitch to have done.

[LSdemocrat]

8. I'm not a fan of any piercings for men or women, but that's just me

I just prefer natural, or natural-looking, beauty, which I think most people have. I just tend to view piercings, tattoos, and badly done/significant plastic surgery as mere mutilations that detract from natural beauty.

[SteppingRazor]

9. I used to wear one in the left lobe, and one through the cartilage near the top of the right ear...

but that was a long time ago. Obviously, I'm fine with piercings, but I grew out of it. The hole never grew over in the left lobe, though, which was cool this past Halloween -- I went as a pirate and borrowed a thick gold hoop for that ear. First time I'd worn an earring in at least four years or so.

[redqueen]

10. I don't really have one.

Are people really this picky?

[av8rdave]

11. No...not allowed in my job

[Deep13]

13. Mine either.

I had to shave off not only my beard, but also my military-regulation mustache I tried to get away with.

[av8rdave]

16. Wow...yours is even more restrictive than mine!

I can still have a 'stache, but no beard. I used to wear a mustache, until I had to shave it (trimming mishap - wound up looking like Hitler). The second my daughter saw the new look, she said, "Dad, you look so young!"

I never grew it back.

[Deep13]

20. It's a district attorney's office. nt

[Deep13]

12. I don't like it.

Obviously, everyone has his or her own tastes and I would not dream of imposing my views on others. Still, my own view is that I don't like it.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. I find men with pierced ears very sexy.

Regular piercings, not the tribal piercings with the stretched lobes (ick). I also like some facial piercing, but a little goes a long way with me -- the pin cushion look just becomes painful to look at for me.

[InvisibleTouch]

15. Ear (or ears) are fine.

Elsewhere, I'm not so big on. Same for women, btw.

[Deja Q]

17. Ears, if it looks good on the guy...

Nose, no thanks - to either gender. Looks gross.
Elsewhere, no thanks - I can fathom many places and have seen pictures too. No no no no no!!

:hurts:


Yes, it's up to the individual.

Yes, people are allowed to say if they like it or not.

[insanity]

21. I have a stud on the left lobe and a small bar inside my right ear

[fizzgig]

22. depends on the guy, the piercing and the jewelry

my guy used to have a number of piercings in his ears but has let all but one in each lobe close up. he wears backwards labet studs as earrings and i think it's just the damn sexiest thing ever. but some guys just look sleazy with pierced ears.

i'm not a fan of lip rings, but i don't mind most other types of piercings as long as it's not a ton of them.

[tjwmason]

23. Really depends on the guy

I've seen which look great and some which look horrid. Have to say that I'm not keen on lip piercings, but I've seen examples of most others which look good.

[DarkTirade]

26. I am personally not a big fan of piercings...

however I think most of that is just because the only 'piercing' I've ever had involved swarm of angry bees when I was young.

[Redstone]

27. It's not for me to judge what other people want to do, but I will say this:

The rings in the eyebrow area give me the willies. (Though conversely, the idea of women having rings in much-less-public body parts makes me absolutely, babblingly, hopelessly insane with desire.)

But hey, I'm old too, so everyone take that into consideration.

Redstone

[pitohui]

28. well it's a big turn-off for me, *shrug*

the young men who wear such probably don't much care that i'm not interested in them, tho, so it's all good -- they send a signal that they only want to attract their "kind" and i am happy to be let alone by same -- the old men who wear such, well, it isn't a look that wears well on older men, so i avert my eyes w. a quiet shudder (not that we older women are any more beautiful, it's cruel what time does to us, isn't it?)

but, since you DID ask, ho-kay...here's my gut level feeling...

i have noticed that when i look at younger men these days, when the guy i notice as cute opens his mouth to speak, they always turn out to be from serbia or some other place where a young man can just be a man without trying to be a peacock, it's sad but i just don't find young american men attractive any more with all their "bling" and "tats," to me "trying too hard" is unmasculine -- i'm talking about VISCERAL feelings now, i'm not making a judgment about whether or not you should re-pierce your ear -- i'm just describing how i happen to respond -- keeping in mind that we don't get to choose what we find sexually attractive or how we truly respond on a deep level -- and keeping in mind that i'm undoubtedly in the minority, for most people it seems that "more is more"

if it works for you, fine, but please don't be offended that it doesn't work for me and that i automatically find you un-attractive (in the sexual sense) if you're a dude w. an earring, there is never any reason why any healthy person should wish to be attractive in the sexual sense to EVERYone

by the same token, if you are a guy who resists society's pressure to pierce and tattoo, good for you, at least there are a few of the classics still around


there should be room for everyone, it's sad that we seem to get these fads where every young man of a certain generation and class seems to feel obligated to look like a clone of everyone else

[old mark]

32. Tattoos - now THERE's another thread....I hate them. nt

[RoadRage]

29. My Fundie Right Wing 73 Year old Father-in-Law has his ear pierced..

He did it 6 years ago.. i kid you not. My nephew (his grandson) pierced his ear when he turned 21, and he's Grandpa's favorite grandson (he works for campus crusade for Christ, was college homecoming king.. etc - great kid).

So, my father in law went out and pierced his ear too - I think he was 67 when he got it done. I think he got a lot of comments at Bible Study the next week.. but now everyone seems to like it.

I guess you can't always tell a 73 year old Christian Conservative McCain voter book by its cover. ;)

[LeftyMom]

31. Not really concerned either way.

:shrug: