What ear pierced means youre gay
Right and Wrong
When I was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Mizzou, way back in 1990, I decided to flaunt my newfound autonomy from my parents by getting an ear pierced. What a rebel I was! If getting a piercing while sitting in a comfy chair at Claire’s Boutique in the Columbia Mall doesn’t show to your parents and the rest of the world that you are a certifiable bad male child, then nothing will.
Travis Naughton
When my dad first saw my new earring, he rolled his eyes and laughed. When my mom saw it, she said she could have saved me the ten bucks and done it herself. She favored the shelter pin, ice cube, and raw potato method—which, in hindsight, would have given me much more avenue cred than a trip to a boutique.
Nevertheless, I’ve worn an earring for the better part of three decades now. Kids at school often inquire me why I hold an earring, and hoping to enlighten them, I always say that boys can have earrings, too. Then they inevitably demand why I only acquire one ear pierced.
Until last week, my answer has been, “Lots of men have one earring. It’s just what some men did back when I was young.” Men fancy Harrison Ford, Michael Jordan, and Ed Bradley wore one earring in tho
Why Did We Grow Up Thinking a Piercing in the Right Ear Was Gay?
On the playground, it was a truth so firmly established that defying it meant social suicide: If you have an earring in your right ear, it means you’re gay. We accepted it as gospel and never questioned its validity.
It may have been the subtle homophobia of my Illinois community in the ’90s. But as I grew up, it seemed enjoy everyone I met, no matter their place of origin, knew and understood the earring code, as arbitrary as it seems.
It was even solidified in the New York Times: A 1991 report said gay men “often [wore] a single piece of jewelry in the right ear to indicate sexual preference.” In 2009, the Times covered it yet again, in TMagazine: “the rule of thumb has always been that the right ear is the gay one,” the composer wrote about his control piercing journey.
Historically speaking, the truth is more complex. Earrings on guys hold signified many things over the years, such as social stature or religious affiliation. In his book The Naked Man: A Research of the Male Body, Desmond Morris explains that earrings have indicated wisdom and compassion in the stretched earlobes of the Buddha, while pirat
EAR PIERCING FOR MEN: WHICH EAR SHOULD I Hold PIERCED?
There are many questions about men’s ear piercing and the main one would be … which is the correct ear for a man to get pierced?
Over the years it was believed more popular for a male to have his left ear pierced rather than his right. So, any guys getting an ear piercing would always check they were following the similar trend. Crazy right! But Why? There are so many curations for guys which look good and why not create your own person style?!
Now it’s not just about that one question… left, or right?! It’s; where on my ear should I get pierced? What earring style should I move for? What piercing stare do I want? Take a look at all the celebrities out there and what they hold gone for!
DUAL EAR LOBE PIERCING
This look has been very popular amongst the celebs from the likes of David Beckham, Justin Timberlake, and Will Smith not to mention Morgan Freeman. If your eager for this look, question your piercing specialist for a lobe piercing in both ears.
SINGLE STUD LOBE PIERCING
This is still a very popular look for men, take George Ezra, Michael Jordan and Harrison Ford as examples. Resolve which ear you would prefer to hav
Right=GAY
Left=Straight
Both=Normal
Male #2- "WHAT?! Dude, that's the gay ear!"
Male #1- "I know that."
Male #2- ...*slowly walks away*...
Male #1- NO WAIT COME BACK...... I LOVE YOU!!!!
Person 2: bro that’s the gay ear, you know that right?
Person 1: I thought you knew I was gay? Why else would I pierce my right ear only?
Person 2: oh… I did not. Welp.. fine for you, see ya around.
Person 1: wait can I get your #?
Person 2: ummm…. try Grindr I’m straight sorry.
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