males with earring(s)

All I know is that females wear earrings.Yet I have come across tourists wearing earrings.One of them had suggested me to wear them,but I did not like it.Earrings are female ornaments.I am a male.Why should I wear them?And yes,one of the tourists I had met had asked me if I liked to wear bangles.I laughed and told him that only females wear bangles.

It is a cultural thing. Here in the States, for a long time it was taboo for a guy to wear an earring but in the 70's and 80's thing changed. To wear an earring was cool. All the cool guys wore earrings. Nowadays it is up to the guy. some do and some don't.

Thanks for this discussion, i was in your country, while in Davao i attended a festival where tribals took part, they wore ear rings, here in india you can see guys wearing in one ring, kind of fashion.

There are a lot of males now, specially teeners who wear an earring. Though, it's only on 1 ear. My father a strict discipllnarian, when he was still strong and younger, reprimanded a friend of my nephew who went to the house since it's fiesta, because he is wearing an earring. He doesn't like guys who wears an earring.

Ancient Israel left Egypt with earrings. They gave them up to make the ill-fated golden calf, and the fashion doesn't seem to have taken root again. In later biblical times it was associated with Arabs (Judges 8:24), but I don't think I've seen too many Arab men with earrings in this day and age. I don't think mutilation of the body for merely cosmetic purposes is really a good idea.

My husband has several holes in his ears for earrings but stopped wearing them as we grew older. I have even stopped wearing earrings.

Its true that they do have that in tribes. I am just not sure though why right now men do not do it anymore. Perhaps since we have got many influences and the norm has already been different for many cultures i think so men have not been using earrings anymore. Personally i think it just is better that men do not use accessories. I feel it doesn't look good on men and earrings are just better on women than in men.

When I was young, it was shameful for a male to wear earrings. It indicated that they were effeminate. I am still pretty much of the same mindset.

In my country many men don't wear earrings because they are afraid that other people will interpret it the wrong way. Many people still think that an earring in the right ear is a sign that the man is gay. If he has earrings in both ears it is sign that he is very feminine (according to those old beliefs) Some men in my country avoid earrings because they don't want other people to get the wrong impression of them. Other men don't care about other people's impression and wear earrings if they want to do and some men pick an earring in the left ear because that is the "safe" choice (it doesn't mean that you are gay or feminine)

I think there's a purpose to those who live in the tribes or those who are not in the modern times anymore. But to us, who live in the city in the present generation, I think there are places that is not appropriate to wear earrings (for the males) like in the offices or churches.

Each person has their own personal reasons why they wear certain piercings, wheather they are male or female. Could be cultural, fashion, form of artistic expression, ext. For me I have many piercings I just love how they look and the different jewelry.

Male with earrings are related to a former savage people meaning a symbol of their bravery. The male that are wearing earrings want to emphasize that he is brave.

Here in my place, I can't really get any sensible reason why men should wear earrings. Yeah its true that, eons ago, it shows or mean something to a particular culture, but we are now in computer age. Most of the people I see who wear earrings are the teens, it is their fashion statement but for me it is far better minus the earrings. But anyway, if people who wear said thing,are comfortable with it, its up to them, at the end of the day, it is still them who are responsible of how they look or what they wear.