Poll: "ear piercings are fully accepted for both genders"

[Helen]

@Helen FYI, did you see/ vote in the poll, above, yet?

No, I had not, but I have now. :)

 

[farouk]

No, I had not, but I have now. :)

@Helen Thanks for your vote!

I see you, too, think that, if men and boys do it also, it can be positive and pleasing.

 

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

NB: If you have not voted yet in the poll, please vote now! :)

 

[farouk]

... really I don't think it has anything to do with ones spiritual state.

@Renniks Whether everyone wants it is another matter. But it is what such a lot of young men do now (both ears, too, usually), whatever their beliefs might be.

 

[farouk]

@Nancy FYI, did you see/ vote in the poll above? (The option 'indifferent' is included... :) )

 

[farouk]

Yepper, both.

Yes, and the OP quote guy says he went back to have the other side done to even things out.

Making sure of doing both can be good.

 

[farouk]

@Sabertooth FYI, did you see/ vote in the poll, above?

 

[Sabertooth]

@Sabertooth FYI, did you see/ vote in the poll, above?

1. Are ear piercings fully acceptable for both genders? Biblically speaking, yes.
2. Are ear piercings fully accepted for both genders? It depends on the community.

Just in our small town, a woman wearing hoop earrings is thought to signify availability as a whore.

 

[farouk]

1. Are ear piercings fully acceptable for both genders? Biblically speaking, yes.
2. Are ear piercings fully accepted for both genders? It depends on the community.

@Sabertooth I guess I'm thinking particularly urban North America with many families from minorities and among those who have immigrated, among whom it is extremely widespread. I guess I hadn't even thought of the nuance between 'acceptable' and 'accepted'...

I do agree with you that in strict Biblical terms there is no bar to men and boys, as well as women and girls, doing it.

 

[farouk]

PS:
Just in our small town, a woman wearing hoop earrings is thought to signify availability as a whore.

All I can say is that I've never heard that...and up here such a person may be from a preacher's daughter to a venerable matron in a conservative church.

 

[farouk]

@Taken FYI....Did you see/ vote in the poll, above?

 

[farouk]

@Avalon1 Thanks for your poll vote; feel free to comment also...

 

[Taken]

@Taken FYI....Did you see/ vote in the poll, above?

Voted .

 

[farouk]

Voted .

Thanks for your vote. It may be a regional thing. But for example at the small conservative local church where my wife and I have been for a while, a majority of the young men and boys would typically happen to have earrings.

 

[farouk]

Just in our small town, a woman wearing hoop earrings is thought to signify availability as a whore.

@Sabertooth I'm intrigued; did anyone really say this to you?

 

[Sabertooth]

@Sabertooth I'm intrigued; did anyone really say this to you?

A local counselor explained it to my wife. She knew that we weren't born in this area (so she wasn't calling my wife a whore). But among the locals, they were known as "whore hoops."

 

[farouk]

A local counselor explained it to my wife. She knew that we weren't born in this area (so she wasn't calling my wife a whore). But among the locals, they were known as "whore hoops."

Oh.

And did your wife really enjoy that explanation?

 

[Sabertooth]

Oh.

And did your wife really enjoy that explanation?

She was shocked by it (but it was good to know).

 

[farouk]

She was shocked by it (but it was good to know).

So did her understandable shock mean she really thought that ppl widely and sincerely believed her hoops to be indicative of this?

...or did she surmise that maybe someone was trying to make cheap and snide remarks about someone from out of town?

 

[Sabertooth]

So did her understandable shock mean she really thought that ppl widely and sincerely believed her hoops to be indicative of this?

...or did she surmise that maybe someone was trying to make cheap and snide remarks about someone from out of town?

We considered this person to be a friend, so we had no reason to presume the latter.