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Does anyone like/ would anyone try ear stretching?

farouk

farouk

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Does anyone like/ would anyone try ear stretching?

Or what would you think if your kid wanted to do it?

(I guess it's a topical question...:study)

Source: wikimedia

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I think it would be smart for a young man to learn how to erase tatoos and repair stretches and piercings.

Come the 20s there will be a fortune it it.
 
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farouk said:
Alabaster:

I see what you mean.

What do you think of the way that some young people enlarge the gauge of their earrings, though keep them much smaller than those of the young lady in the picture?
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I don't think there is a good reason for it. This stuff has a slippery slope to it. I think the enemy may be behind it, calling out to people to add one more thing, one more thing, one more thing---until eventually one has fallen into a mindset and behaviour of bondage. A person isn't free if he is being plagued by thoughts for an ever-increasing round of self-mutilation, no matter how minuscule each change is.

It's a whirlpool that drags a person down, down, down.
 
Alabaster said:
I don't think there is a good reason for it. This stuff has a slippery slope to it. I think the enemy may be behind it, calling out to people to add one more thing, one more thing, one more thing---until eventually one has fallen into a mindset and behaviour of bondage. A person isn't free if he is being plagued by thoughts for an ever-increasing round of self-mutilation, no matter how minuscule each change is.

It's a whirlpool that drags a person down, down, down.
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Alabaster:

Yes, I can follow your reasoning.

I don't think it's something I would encourage young ppl to do. You may be right.

On the other hand, (as opposed to those enlargements of single piercings) the multipiercing of earlobes seems a much nicer thing to want to do, I guess. :)
 
Ya walk a tough line. Being an old fart I can remember when the single tiny hole in the lobe was considered sinful mutilation.
 
Um yeah. Gages are weird. lol But if your going to pull the self mutilation card, well, i think cartilage piercing should fall under that category too. While gages cause obvious physical damage, cartilage piercing can cause a lot of digestive problems. Dont know why, but it has something to do with reflexology.
 
My daughter has her ear gauged and I do not approve of it and she is well aware of where I stand on it. It is small enough that if she took it out, it would shrink back to normal. Any bigger and she's in for a life of trouble.

Many companies will not hire you if your ears are gauged. I have a friend that has to glue his ears back together because his work won't allow for the big holes in his ears and honestly, without the hoops in them, they look like an old ladies bosom and nobody finds that attractive.
 
StoveBolts said:
My daughter has her ear gauged and I do not approve of it and she is well aware of where I stand on it. It is small enough that if she took it out, it would shrink back to normal. Any bigger and she's in for a life of trouble.

Many companies will not hire you if your ears are gauged. I have a friend that has to glue his ears back together because his work won't allow for the big holes in his ears and honestly, without the hoops in them, they look like an old ladies bosom and nobody finds that attractive.
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S:

I think if they want to do it, it's good to have them only as big as when they will shrink to normal size again, if removed.

This would be a kind of safeguard, I reckon.

(But, then, maybe best not done at all...Like if they really want to do something more with their earlobes, maybe have extra holes put in instead, or something.)

The old lady's b.. analogy is one that I hadn't thought of, to be honest... :study.
 
Caroline H:

If I could ask, did you guys sell plugs for ear stretching in the place that you used to work? (A lot of parlors do stock them, I think.)
 
I feel the need to comment on here.
I have my ears gauged to a size zero, but I wear gauges that people confuse with earings all the time. They're not big, or obnoxious, if you saw me, you wouldn't even know if I didn't say anything.
God is not going to judge me by how large my ear lobes are, incase your early sunday school days escaped you, God looks on the inside.
 
Awesomechuk said:
I feel the need to comment on here.
I have my ears gauged to a size zero, but I wear gauges that people confuse with earings all the time. They're not big, or obnoxious, if you saw me, you wouldn't even know if I didn't say anything.
God is not going to judge me by how large my ear lobes are, incase your early sunday school days escaped you, God looks on the inside.
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Awe.:

Hi; well, they're quite popular, aren't they? especially with young ppl.

Great to see you here on these forums. God bless His Word to you.
 
It's not as much of it being "popular," as much as people see it as a statement.
Something to be a little different than everybody else. An attention getter, conversation starter, that type of thing.
It's great to have found a thread like this :).
 
Hitch said:
....the single tiny hole in the lobe was considered sinful mutilation.
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H:

(This thread has been a bit quiet since last month.)

Well, these days, nice, little old ladies, pastors' wives, etc have ear piercings, and sometimes more than one set of holes ...

So I guess when young ppl stretch their holes slightly, it wouldn't be considered really way out, and off beam ...
 
PS: Fact is, a lot of young people don't see why they should have to stick to 18- or 20-gauge holes that are done with initial ear piercing.
 
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