Ear piercing: for sons as well as for daughters: is it appropriate? (plus poll)

[Pearl]

Now in families it's almost the expected thing to do, isn't it?

I don't think it's 'expected' just that most women want it done so they can wear nice earring. The clips on ones are very uncomfortable. And not many men have pierced ears so that isn't 'expected' at all.

 

[farouk]

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[farouk]

I don't think it's 'expected' just that most women want it done so they can wear nice earring. The clips on ones are very uncomfortable.

Maybe they 'expect' to do it would be a better way to put it. Yes, I was thinking of women particularly.

 

[farouk]

There were some Christian brothers at church who wore a single earing as a sign of being a slave to Christ, but that practice is less popular now.

Men who do want ear piercing tend to do both ears now, don't they?

It can be good.

 

[Pearl]

Men who do want ear piercing tend to do both ears now, don't they?

It can be good.

I don't think ear piercing is popular among ordinary guys, at least I don't see many, but grommets in each ear lobe seem to be fashionable among a certain group.

 

[farouk]

I don't think ear piercing is popular among ordinary guys, at least I don't see many, but grommets in each ear lobe seem to be fashionable among a certain group.

Quite a few young women like to enlarge their holes as well, don't they. The trick seems to be gradually to taper them to a size that is less than the point of no return, when they won't shrink back to normal holes, once the plugs are removed.

 

[Pearl]

Quite a few young women like to enlarge their holes as well, don't they. The trick seems to be gradually to taper them to a size that is less than the point of no return, when they won't shrink back to normal holes, once the plugs are removed.

Never seen a woman with grommets.

 

[farouk]

Never seen a woman with grommets.

You mean, like plugs?

 

[Pearl]

You mean, like plugs?

Big rubber rings.

 

[farouk]

Come to think of it, my male cousin already wore an earring 25 years ago; and already then it was such a widespread custom that in the family it never even caused a single comment that I recall.

 

[farouk]

@SovereignGrace FYI....

 

[SovereignGrace]

@SovereignGrace FYI....

There’s quite a stigma with guys having earrings that I think it’s prudent for them to not have them. That doesn’t mean I consider them lost or sub-Christian, but the world could use that against them. It doesn’t bother me to see guys with earrings like it used to.

 

[farouk]

There’s quite a stigma with guys having earrings that I think it’s prudent for them to not have them. That doesn’t mean I consider them lost or sub-Christian, but the world could use that against them. It doesn’t bother me to see guys with earrings like it used to.

Thanks for your comment. I'm honestly not sure about the first part of your statement. Even 20 years ago I think it would be probably true to say that all the boys who played ball in the street where I lived happened to wear rings in both ears. It was already even then a hugely widespread custom for young men. In fact for years it would probably be more unusual if well-known basketball team members didn't wear studs/jewels in their ears.

(A bit like tattoos for women, I guess, really. While it used to be a man thing years ago, yet now in North America 55%-70% or more of parlor clients are female.) Maybe probably like you, it honestly doesn't "bother" me if men and boys happen to have studs in their ears or if women happen to wish to ink themselves.

(If this makes sense?)

 

[SovereignGrace]

Thanks for your comment. I'm honestly not sure about the first part of your statement. Even 20 years ago I think it would be probably true to say that all the boys who played ball in the street where I lived happened to wear rings in both ears. It was already even then a hugely widespread custom for young men. In fact for years it would probably be more unusual if well-known basketball team members didn't wear studs/jewels in their ears.

(A bit like tattoos for women, I guess, really. While it used to be a man thing years ago, yet now in North America 55%-70% or more of parlor clients are female.) Maybe like you, it honestly doesn't "bother" me if men and boys happen to have studs in their ears or if women happen to wish to ink themselves.

(If this makes sense?)

I am speaking about believing men having pierced ears. Many will think it odd they have them. Especially within the community of believers. And I think many in the world would think so, too.

 

[farouk]

I am speaking about believing men having pierced ears. Many will think it odd they have them. Especially within the community of believers. And I think many in the world would think so, too.

Did you vote in the poll, BTW?

 

[SovereignGrace]

Did you vote in the poll, BTW?

No.

 

[SovereignGrace]

Just did. Last option.

 

[farouk]

Just did. Last option.

Thanks for your vote! (I was going to say, there is also a 'not sure /rather not say' option in the poll.)

My male cousin has worn his earring for at least 25 years, and already years ago he used to take his stepson to a local Sunday School where he would hear the Gospel. (Imagine if someone had arbitrarily busybodied about my cousin's earring...the result might have been driving the family away from a Gospel environment.) My cousin is now almost an old man and the proud father of a joyful bride. My 2c is that for hyper-conservative people in churches somehow to expect to set back the clock decades on matters of merely subjective preference would be highly unrealistic.

(Of course, no one needs subjectively to 'like' earrings for men. They merely exist very widely.)

 

[farouk]

It doesn’t bother me to see guys with earrings like it used to.

The fact is that customs develop and the decades hurtle past. For example, decades back some Christians might have been deliberately indignant about two piece swimsuits for young women; the fact is now that they are widely worn among Christian young women and indeed some stringy one piece suits actually show more than some of the bigger two pieces; I guess my point is that it's hard to take an absolutist view of cultural preferences which are somewhat subjective and which change over the decades.

 

[farouk]

I think it is strange to see a man with more then one ear pierced. And Id rather not see an earring at all in a man.

...but if he is innocently thrilled by it, whether in one ear or both, you wouldn't really want to deny it to him, would you?