Earring in right ear male
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 like 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 gay 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 rule of thumb has always been that the right ear is the gay one,” the author wrote about his own piercing journey.
Historically speaking, the truth 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
Position of One Earring on Men
Jinx1
Was there ever/Is there now…any significance between wearing an earring in the left ear vs. the right ear? At one time, it was said it indicated your sexual preference, but was/is this ever true? If so, which ear meant which preference???
AWB2
It was left for straight, right for gay.
My friends and I got our left ears pierced on Spring Break in Daytona Beach. We looked around and asked before getting it done.
What ticked me off years later: I bought a Bajoran earring (being a Trekkie and all), but couldn’t wear it because it’s designed to only fit on the right ear.
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manhattan3
Hmmph. I think it would be less damaging to my psyche falsely to be identified as gay than correctly to be identified as a trekker.
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oggler4
In the '80s, in Novel Jersey (well, we’ve just got ourselves a great working definition of hell there, don’t we?), left was also st
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If you're a TRUE bloke you'd put one earring on your RIGHT ear.
(For those not in the know or are unlike me, an earring in the right ear signifies you're a gay bottom -- I still depend on to get one myself but my mom says no x_x)
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A true man is comfortable with his sexuality and doesn't give a shit what other people think of him.Originally Posted by GarnethIf you're a TRUE man you'd put one earring on your RIGHT ear.
(For those not in the know or are unlike me, an earring in the right ear signifies you're a same-sex attracted bottom -- I still need to get one myself but my mom says no x_x)
And you think you know what a real man is?
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I generally consider earrings on men look stupid, so I would not get my ears pierced or wear anything of the sort.
What others do however, is entirely up to tRight and Wrong
When I was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Mizzou, way back in , I decided to flaunt my newfound self-rule 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 young man, 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 protection pin, ice cube, and raw potato method—which, in hindsight, would have given me much more highway 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 request me why I contain an earring, and hoping to enlighten them, I always say that boys can have earrings, too. Then they inevitably inquire why I only contain one ear pierced.
Until last week, my answer has been, “Lots of men have one earring. It’s just what some men did back w