Which pierced ear means your straight

One could say live in a dominantly heterosexual culture, and some men want to identify as such. There is the misconception that only queer men wear earrings and also on a particular ear lobe to show they identify as being such. The hip-hop world and also other genres have come to show us that straight men can also wear earrings on either ear and no own will call them gay.

For example, in America and Australia, when you wore your earring on the left ear, you were considered gay. Across the pond, the reverse is the same. However, that was the case in the earlier times before the s, and things changed. It was considered rather embarrassing if not terrifying for a straight man to get pierced in the wrong ear as it sent the wrong message. However, there is a prevailing consensus in some circles nowadays that if you want to show your straight, you get your left ear pierced.

Those in the rap world, along with bikers and pirates, took on the left ear to show that they are straight. On the other hand, when asked, a lot of gay men will say that ear piercings as a way to identify them is outdated and thus should not be taken seriously. Even so, those who wear their earrings on the right have to put up with the prevailing perception that people know they are gay.

To sum this argument up, the ear you get a piercing on varies from culture to culture. In some, the idea is outdated even though it was the norm about 30 years ago. Therefore, it is best to ask those around you or the general culture to find out what their beliefs are. And why not? Everything feels unbalanced these days; might as well lean in. Maybe the imbalance will help me find some balance myself.

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We accepted it as gospel and never questioned its validity. 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. 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 earrings have indicated wisdom and compassion in the stretched earlobes of the Buddha, while pirates wore them in the belief it would protect them from drowning. In the Elizabethan era, earrings were quite fashionable for men, he writes.