What ear piercing makes you gay
Right and Wrong
When I was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Mizzou, way back in , I decided to flaunt my newfound independence 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 prove to your parents and the rest of the world that you are a certifiable bad boy, then nothing will.
Travis Naughton
When my dad first saw my modern 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 street cred than a trip to a boutique.
Nevertheless, I’ve worn an earring for the excel part of three decades now. Kids at school often ask me why I have an earring, and hoping to enlighten them, I always exclaim that boys can have earrings, too. Then they inevitably ask why I only have one ear pierced.
Until last week, my retort has been, “Lots of men own one earring. It’s just what some men did support w
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 favor 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 report said same-sex attracted men “often [wore] a single piece of jewelry in the right ear to indicate sexual preference.” In , the Times covered it yet again, in TMagazine: “the principle of thumb has always been that the right ear is the queer one,” the author wrote about his own piercing journey.
Historically speaking, the fact is more complex. Earrings on guys have signified many things over the years, such as social stature or religious affiliation. In his book The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, Desmond Morris explains that earring
One-stop Guide on Ear Piercing for Gay Men Definition, History, and Look Book
Can you base someone&#;s sexual orientation on which ear he pins his earring on? Gay men also used the placement of earrings and jewelry to drop hints about their sexuality and attract fellow queer men from the crowd. Read this display to understand the context and meaning behind queer ear piercing and how you may style your own this
Pieces of jewelry are not just a woman&#;s thing&#;men also wear them, as in the case of ear piercings. Earrings generally gained popularity throughout time, and eventually, men also got their ear piercings. From the continuing prevalence of earrings, you may possess heard that ear piercings can also indicate a man&#;s sexual preference.
Sometime in the s, it became common knowledge that same-sex attracted men wore earrings in their right ear. The craze for so-called &#;gay earrings&#; persisted well into the &#;90s. However, the right ear remains the most common location for earrings.
More guys than ever are getting their ears pierced as the exercise gains popularity among both sexes.
Right ear, right queer?
David Babby explores the mystical and idiosyncratic planet of piercing etiquette.
On a particularly grey, drizzly Saturday morning my friend set off to get her ear pierced. The decision had been made the night before amidst several other similarly serious lifestyle alterations.
The money had been counted out. Support had been garnered. After much intense discussion, the prettier nostril was identified and noted.
I was a bit late and arrived just as my companion was being lead in to a back room. The female in charge of her had a good few piercings, which was reassuring, and there was a crumpled bag of Meanies in the bin which showed that this was a amusing place to work.
“So,” I said, leaning against the door, “Which nostril is the queer nostril?” To be honest, I thought I’d been post-gay hilarious, but piercing lady was not much impressed. “There is none,” she said drily and reached for her marker.
What I had not realised at the time was that my friend’s sister had already asked the same question before I’d got there and got a considerably terser response al