An earring in a man’s ear: meaning

Quite often you can meet a man with a pierced ear­lobe. If even a dozen years ago such a deci­sion was per­ceived as some­thing extra­or­di­nary, now it is in the order of things. But the truth is that men have been wear­ing jew­el­ry since ancient times. For exam­ple, in Ancient Egypt, an ear­ring in a man’s ear sym­bol­ized his high posi­tion in soci­ety. By the way, it is worth not­ing that this type of jew­el­ry was ini­tial­ly intend­ed exclu­sive­ly for men, and women began to wear ear­rings much lat­er.

Earrings in ancient times

In Ancient Rus­sia, such jew­el­ry was a sym­bol of pros­per­i­ty and well-being. Rich peo­ple in those days chose jew­el­ry made of gold and sil­ver. Ordi­nary peo­ple who did not have mon­ey to buy pre­cious met­als were sat­is­fied with ear­rings made of wood or cop­per.

Pirates also liked the ear­rings. Such an orna­ment was a sym­bol­ic con­fir­ma­tion that he had tak­en pos­ses­sion of the ship. Gyp­sies had a slight­ly dif­fer­ent tra­di­tion: they put an ear­ring on boys born after the death of pre­vi­ous sons. Sailors also wore an ear­ring in their ear after cross­ing the cen­ter of the Earth.

The orna­ment in the Cos­sack­’s left lobe indi­cat­ed that the war­rior was the only son. If both lobes were pierced, it indi­cat­ed that the man was the sole bread­win­ner in the fam­i­ly. That is why the chief­tains tried not to let such peo­ple into too bloody bat­tles.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the strong half of human­i­ty in East­ern coun­tries also loved such dec­o­ra­tions. They were a sym­bol of a man’s high posi­tion in soci­ety. Ear­rings became an indis­pens­able acces­so­ry for men dur­ing the hey­day of the hip­pie cul­ture. The dec­o­ra­tion sym­bol­ized a cre­ative per­son­al­i­ty.

Men’s earrings and modernity

In the mod­ern world, a man’s ear­ring is no less rel­e­vant and elo­quent than in ancient times. For exam­ple, an orna­ment in the right ear indi­cates that the man is gay. Hip­pies wear ear­rings in both ear­lobes to show their uncon­ven­tion­al views on life.

A man’s ear­ring is part of a styl­ish image. Now you won’t be sur­prised by the fact that a suc­cess­ful busi­ness­man or a movie star is the own­er of such an orna­ment. The fol­low­ing ear­rings are the most pop­u­lar among men:

• Con­go — lacon­ic round jew­el­ry made of pre­cious met­als and dec­o­rat­ed with col­or­less stones;
• ear­rings in the form of emoti­cons or com­ic / car­toon char­ac­ters;
• car­na­tions — dec­o­ra­tions of lacon­ic design with min­i­mal decor.

Rock­ers also like to prick their ears. Such action is a sym­bol of self-expres­sion and orig­i­nal­i­ty. More­over, not just small jew­el­ry is pop­u­lar, but mas­sive rings or even tun­nels in the ears.

Bik­ers choose mas­sive jew­el­ry with sym­bols char­ac­ter­is­tic of their cul­ture. Goths pre­fer mod­els of geo­met­ric shapes. For rap­pers, the best option is ear­rings with a large stone. It is also typ­i­cal for musi­cians and artists to wear such jew­el­ry. They can be of dif­fer­ent designs and shapes.