'Fact'?: Which ear you wear earring denotes...

[lextcavalier]

Orientation?

I remember my freinds would bring this up whenever one of us or someone got an earring. Whatever side you get says what you're int osexually? Well, I have a few questions on this...

1. Is this a widespread belief? And is it still "in"?

2. From the first-person perspective (i.e. if you were to put the earring in your own ear), which ear is the "straight" ear and which is the "gay" one?

3. If you are the opposite orientation of what your earring denotes (say you're gay and you just feel like putting it in the other ear) will other guys not hit on you if they notice it?

4. What do bisexuals do if they want an earring? XD

Okay, let's hear it. =D

 

[stiletto]

IMO, no. That's a thing of the past, if that (I wasn't there, so I can't say.)

 

[ronnie_h]

No, I don't think it matters nowadays. The high time of earrings, when virtually everyone had at least one, is over anyway. It's the same like tattoos, fashions change and most people just do what everybody else does.

I remember very well the old days, ancients ago, when only gays and gypsies had earrings. Each group had it's side. Think it was left for gays, and right for gypsies. Back then I had earrings in both ears and neither was a gypsy nor as gay as I'm now.

 

[dadbear69]

I am a really old one, when I got my ear pierced Right was the gay side.

 

[quasar]

^ LOL. It was the right ear when I had mine done - in fact it was the first step to my 'coming out'. However, I then met a guy from South Africa when I was 19 and he said that in SA it was common for straight guys to have the right ear pierced.

But yeah, nowadays I don't think it matters too much - but I still get the ocassional comment when I wear my earring!

 

[Ramindra]

No straight guy in Australia wanting to wear just one ear ring would ever wear it in his right ear.

 

[G-Lexington]

^ Yeah, it means you cheer for a British team.

In my day and age, left meant straight, right meant gay. But that was the 1980s. Nowadays, where people have piercings from head to toe, such "codes" are totally meaningless.

Lex

 

[JOHN B]

It doesn't mean anything anymore . It only means "your gay" if you wear your earring through your penis....

 

[Swellegant]

When I first got my ear pierced, in 1986, I got the right one done because that was the "gay" side. But even by then, right/left was a thing of the past... the previous year, George Michael had popularized both-ear piercings for men.

Nowadays you have to have both your ears and your nipples pierced with great rhinestone letters reading "Fuck me in the ass NOW" to have a truly gay piercing.

If you're going to get one ear pierced, do the ear that you don't use to answer the phone. Trust me, that can be a painful experience.

 

[lextcavalier]

Hmmm...so from my perspective *touches right ear* this is the "gay" ear?

 

[Rex]

Right ear means you're gay. Left ear or both ears is more common and doesn't represent orientation.

I don't see many gay guys who do this anymore and I never understood the ones that would. More power to them if they want to but it seems like such an attention whorish thing to do.

 

[HOT4MEN]

Left is Right and Right is wrong. That's what I heard growing up. So, Right is Gay.

 

[Royal Heart]

I heard that when I was 11 years old and thought it was bullshit. I have three rings in my left ear and two in my right - does that mean I'm 60% straight and 40% gay? Please.