Did your mother think pierced ears were "barbaric"? Mine did.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

She and her mom wore ugly button earrings.

I got mine pierced at the dept. store when I was 18. This was in the 70s after the hippies had started getting their ears pierced.

She said, "Well that's barbaric. Why doncha go ahead and get your nose pierced?"

She didn't know that now, kids get all sorts of places pierced.

She wanted some real pearl earrings, and dad told her he would not buy her any until she got her ears pierced, so she wouldn't lose them. She had a very nice real cultured pearl necklace.

She never got her ears pierced. She wore some ugly button earrings with several pearls in them she got from her mother.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Same when I was a kid - Mom said only "fast" girls got their ears pierced.

That would have been back in the early '60s. She changed her mind a few years later and she let me get mine pierced when I was a teenager. Later she got her own done - I think she got tired of the big button ones pinching and falling off.

[vard28]

2. I wasn't allowed to get mine done

My dad told me that if it was meant for me to have holes in my ears, God would have made me with them that way. Ugh...

He finally gave in and let my mom take me to a dept store and get them done when I was 12. He wouldn't "LET" my mom do hers. When my sister and I were over 18, we told her that she was an adult and if she wanted to get her ears pierced, she should just DO it. Told her dad wasn't the boss of her! She finally got brave and got them done for her 40th birthday. My dad lived to tell the tale. Now I have a second piercing in each ear and my sis has multiple holes and three tattoos! Dad about stroked out about the tats. There's one my mom begged my sister to "let your father go to his grave without knowing about".

Bet you wouldn't guess he's a rethug, would ya? :eyes:

[bigwillq]

3. No (nt)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. kick for the night owls.

[murielm99]

5. My mother wore those things, too. Still does.

I was not allowed to get my ears pierced. I did it when I went to college, and she let her disapproval be known.

She said that only cheap girls had pierced ears.

[tblue]

6. Mine said it's not right to put a hole in your body.

She's Japanese and they didn't do piercing then. I did it anyway.

[EFerrari]

7. Nope. She had mine done before I was two.

I loved my earrings, still do.

[sakabatou]

8. Mine thinks they're sinful because it's in the Bible to not do it

[seabeyond]

9. wanted some real pearl earrings.....dad told her he would not buy her any

difference between then and now.

she wants... he says no, wont buy you any???? lol lol

ya

that isnt gonna fly today. but so accepting of this

[distantearlywarning]

10. My dad did in fact use the exact word "barbaric"

He didn't get it. This was in the early 80s and everyone I knew had their ears pierced by the time they were 12. But my dad was stuck in the dark ages.

My mom was a little more in touch with modern culture, though, and she finally convinced him to let me get them done before I got to junior high. Later I had multiple piercings in each ear and I also had my navel pierced when I was 19. I kept that last one in until I lost my taut early 20's tummy to middle age, and then I let it heal over. :)

[LeftinOH]

11. Mom got her ears pierced when she was in her 40s. Sis wanted pierced

ears, and mom finally relented -but would only allow it if they went together to get them pierced.

[MorningGlow]

12. I had to beg and plead for a good long time before my mom let me

get my ears pierced when I was 11. I do believe I even used the tried-and-true "But moooommmmm everybody else is doing it." She resisted, but our cousin (bless her) convinced her it wasn't such a big deal. Everyone survived the incident, as did my ears.

However, the real chaos ensued when I got my ears double pierced when I was 19 (hey, it was the '80s). OMG I have never seen my mother in such a rage! She nearly murdered my aunt (her sister) because she had been at the mall with me and didn't stop me. Yeah, that didn't make sense to my aunt either.

My mom didn't talk to either of us (except to scream at us) for days. I still don't know why two extra holes made her that furious.

Funny how after a few years I didn't put earrings in those extra holes anyway. Such a fuss for nothing.

On edit: Oops nope I wasn't 10, I was 11.

[PassingFair]

13. "Whores and Italians"

...get their ears pierced.

That's what my grandmother told me.
My mother wouldn't let me pierce my ears until I was 12, when
she took me because SHE wanted HER ears pierced.

Later, in Jr. High, a friend told me that
ear piercing was dangerous, because she knew
a girl that got into a fight and had her
earring ripped out.

[MountainLaurel]

27. My mother was Italian

And her grandfather pierced her ears, with a needle and a cork.

[PassingFair]

30. Ack!

How old was she?

[MountainLaurel]

34. Probably about 7 or 8

Guessing from photos

[Skittles]

29. I guess Italian whores got double piercings

:rofl:

[yankeepants]

14. My mother used the exact word "barbaric"

I was in 10th grade in 1973 and my friend pierced my ears with ice, a potato, and a big ol' needle. I knew I would catch hell from Polly so I tried to hide them but they became infected and well, she noticed. She told me it was barbaric and gave me the option of letting the holes close or be grounded for 2 weeks.

I took the 2 weeks out of spite.

About 5 years later my mother got her ears pierced.

[Raven]

15. My father was disgusted and asked me when I was going to get

my nose pierced...this was in 1964. A few months later, at Christmas, he gave me a beautiful pair of pearl studs which I have worn pretty constantly for the last 40+ years. :-)

[LibertyLover]

16. My mom and I had our ears pierced at the same time

She had no particular problem with pierced ears, just wanted me to be old enough to care for them by myself. She was not too good with blood or pus, either her own or anyone else's. Dad was the one who didn't want me to have my ears pierced. He claimed it was a mortal sin. Mom finally told him to shut the hell up about the mortal sin crap. She wanted her ears pierced so that she could get a pair of diamond earrings and not loose them. So, a few years later we are on a safari in Africa and for some reason she wore her diamond earrings and one got lost. She was so mad. But she went out and got another pair of diamond earrings. I should mention that both pairs of the diamond earrings were very small because that was all she would wear - small earrings.

[LibDemAlways]

17. It's somewhat a generational thing. My mom (now 88) still doesn't

understand why anyone would want to put holes in their ears (or anyplace else). I'm 58 and never got around to doing it, either - though I have no problem with it. My own daughter waited until she turned 17. She's just squeamish, but I told her to let me know when she was ready. I think tattoos - which were considered the province of sailors when I was growing up - are where ear piercing was a couple of generations ago - becoming widely accepted (and no big deal) by the masses.

[REP]

26. Victorians pierced ears and nipples - it's very, very old fashioned

Your mother may have associated it with unfashionable old ladies, as my mother does.

[surrealAmerican]

18. When I was in junior high, and really wanted to ...

... get my ears pierced, my mother said I would have to wait until I was 16. By the time I was 16, I didn't want to wear jewelry, and my hair was long enough that earrings would not have been visible anyway. I am one of the only adult women I know who doesn't have pierced ears, and that's fine by me.

I let my daughter get hers pierced when she was 13. I did try to talk her out of it (not by denigrating people with pierced ears, just as a practical matter), but she was insistent.

[Major Nikon]

20. My daughter was 13 before I let her get them pierced

A year later she was no longer wearing earrings and her holes grew over. Sometimes just the thought of doing something you can't is more enticing that the actual satisfaction of doing it.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Yup, mine did.

I wanted to get mine done when I was about 14, but she wouldn't hear of it. She kept saying that the next thing I'd want was a "bone through my nose." :eyes:

But when I was 16, I went away to school and my roommate did it for me. She'd done it before and I never had a bit of trouble. But when my mother first saw me, she noticed immediately... :scared:

However, my mother did eventually have her own ears pierced. For some reason, she had all kinds of trouble. But she has some very nice earrings, some from my father and others from me. :)

And neither of us has ever pierced anything else... :rofl:

[RebelOne]

21. I have never had my ears pierced because

I figured I had enough holes in my body. And I do not wear earrings.

[frogmarch]

22. Mom said girls with pierced ears

were floozies. This was in the 50s and early 60s.

I could hardly wait to be a floozy!

[Odin2005]

23. Opposite for me, My mom thinks I'm stuck up because I hate piercings!

:rofl:

[applegrove]

24. Mine was strict about things like that. I was allowed to pierce my ears when I was 16. I was allowed

to have long hair when I was about 12.

[REP]

25. She thought it was something only very old women had; her grandmother had pierced ears

Her grandmother was born in 1868; her mother in 1895; she was born in 1934. Pierced ears and nipples was just so Victorian and old-fashioned to her.

I pierced my ears myself when I was in my 20s; any excuse to wear more shiny things. I have 7 ear piercings, but haven't gone full Victorian.

[Skittles]

28. I have never had pierced ears

I don't understand why people want to decorate themselves like Christmas trees. I have no jewelry at all.

[ThomThom]

31. I say pierce what ever you want but don't pierce your child's ears

It is not right, let them decide when they are old enough.

[Shagbark Hickory]

32. "Barbaric" wasn't the word she used.

The word she used sound like "baggy" but starts with a different letter.

[JuniperLea]

33. No, but after having mine pierced for about 20 years...

I did.