# How should men wear earings? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 18, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048 "2005-07-18T21:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048/41 "2005-07-22T20:19:44Z")
George Carlin on earrings: > [@](#): > > Another tip for the men. The thing with the earring? It’s over. It’s been over for a long time. It doesn’t mean anything anymore. It was supposed to piss off the squares. The squares are wearing them now! It doesn’t mean anything. It’s just fucking jewelry. Unless you have an earring with a live baby hanging from it, it’s just jewelry. And I want you to know that I’m in favor of self mutilation and personal disfigurment. I’ve always said there’s nothing like puncturing and perforating your skin in a dozen or so places in order to demonstrate your high self esteem. When I see a young man decorating his scalp with a sotoring iron, I say, “There’s a happy guy! Thinks highly of himself!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048/42 "2005-07-22T20:40:52Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Those are cool too. But I have to say I only know girls with pierced nipples. And I’m tired of them asking if I want to look. 😃 I’ve seen one guy with nipple piercings. He did it himself, at home, after boiling a diaper-style safety pin. _shudder_ Then he insisted on coming to work and showing our group of friends, daily, demonstrating the healing process. This guy was a gorgeous, handsome blonde in the beginning of the semester. By the end of it, he’d dyed his hair so many times you could no longer see the color, and it was dry and scratchy, he’d pierced both ears, both nipples, possibly his cock, (he never showed that to me) and for me, at least, lost a lot of his good looks. But you know what? He was happy & healthy and so I still loved him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tower\_Dweller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tower\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tower_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048/43 "2005-07-22T22:37:56Z")
I can’t believe this thread is still rolling - this might be my longest lived thread to date. Some responses: TokyoPlayer > [@](#): > > Sure, you can take into consideration their opinions, but the final say? I don’t think that’s right or good in a relationship. I completely agree. If it really, really bothered somebody in a relationship, I might see taking them as a consession. But I can’t really see myself being with somebody that would get hung up over a couple of tiny hoops in one ear. So there ya go. shodan > [@](#): > > About two minutes before we had my daughter’s ears pierced, as a matter of fact. I wanted to reassure myself that it really wouldn’t hurt her. And it looks cool, IMO. That was a really, really sweet thing to do. I’m sure you do look cool with your piercings. To general sentiments that ear piercings on guys aren’t really a big deal anymore, I agree. I kind of miss having a lit bit of an “edge” so I’m kind of ready to do something else. You’d think I’d be over it at 27, but I guess not. Quarter-life crises, anyone? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Dark\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Angel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048/44 "2015-10-06T22:54:21Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > George Carlin on earrings: But i have an important question, who were “the squares”? Please help me understand this. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048/45 "2015-10-06T23:36:21Z")
You should wear it the way you like and not worry about what people say. I do know the right ear only mean you’re gay. I like one earing on a guy not 2. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048/46 "2015-10-06T23:55:27Z")
This thread is 10 years old, and back in the day no one could agree on which ear was the gay ear. You’l hope we’ve moved beyond that just a bit in the intervening years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-men-wear-earings/313048.md?page=2)