a simple survey about ear piercing

Female, I was 2 weeks old. My mom had them done for me. I still have them and so I have no idea of the pain. Altho Im taking my 10 year old son to get his pierced here next week. From my understanding its not  that bad at all.

1) Female

2)5, 12,17

3)Never even winced.

4)Wanted it done sooo bad!

Edited by The Last Starfighter

Good for him DakotaDiva.
There are quite a few men who wear long hair and even more who wear earrings nowadays. It's common.

I'm a middle aged man, married, and have four daughters.

I wear long hair (straight blonde hair, mid-back length) and I have each ear lobe pierced twice.

I am getting my ear lobes pierced again for a third time each, next Friday, Feb. 18th.
My wife, for a Valentine's day present, bought me an afternoon at a full service beauty salon.
At the salon, I'm getting my hair trimmed (just a small trim to get rid of the split ends and even out my tresses in a blunt cut, I'm keeping my hair long), a massage, my hair highlighted, my nails done, and my ears pierced again.

I wear all types of earrings; studs, hoops, long dangle earrings, etc.. I like to wear 14 ct. gold earrings.

I first got my ears pierced in my early 20s (I'm now in my mid- 40s).

I got my ears pierced because I wanted to, (although a woman I was dating at the time encouraged me to get my ears pierced and was wild about pierced ears and earrings and jewelry on men).

The main reason I got my ears pierced is because I believed I would look good with long hair, a beard, and earrings.
I believe it is a look that suits me.
I have worn long hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and earrings ever since.

1) your gender ------Male, most of the time :)

2) how old were you when you got it done?---16

3) did it hurt and if so, exactly how much?

---my best freind did it with a sewing needle, it hurt like a *****.

4) did you decide to do it voluntarily or were you under some kind of compulsion (family member getting it done for you without your consent, friends coaxing you into it, feeling the need to do it because of fashion etc)?----I started doing drag shows at 16, and I decided it would help if I could wear womens earrings.

I have my ears pierced and my septum pierced in my nose.
It doesn't hurt that much and it doesn't hurt to wear earrings or noserings.
I wear fine jewelry only, usually gold.

Aloha! I am female and had my first set of ear piercings at age 12. A friend's sister did it, using a needle, thread, a cut potato and ice cubes..once the ice numbed my earlobe, I didn't feel a thing and healing was pretty fast and I've never had problems with the holes closing up.
The second set of piercings was done when I was 42, in a jewelry store, with a piercing gun-which really HURT for about 2 minutes. The recovery time for this set was much longer than the first set, and the holes tend to close up in a few days if I don't wear earrings in them.
Why? I got earrings as a gift when I was 12 and I wanted to wear them - the second set because I liked the look on other people :)
Mahalo and have a gorgeous day!

Ummm...if you were a newborn then, do you ACTUALLY REMEMBER that it didn't hurt?

You weren't given a choice, Ginger, it was just done, so AFAIK, it was forced on you.

i had mine done 1 day out of my mothers woom... my mother is thai and laso and it is a tradition, my grandparents said if i dont have my ears pierced as soon as possible i have bad luck for the rest of my life, so they did it that day... they did it all the way up, i currently have 9 on each ear since i was a baby and i use all nine holes, i am proud of it. besides what teenager doesnt want as many holes? i mean everyone thinks it is sooo cool... i have big hoops on the bottom medium in the second small in the third ruby in the fourth diamond on my fifth hole and blue on the sixth hole and cuff looking thing on the ninth hole and green in the eighth and pink in the seventh no none of them hurt...i didnt even cry well im not sure whther i did them willingly do u think i even had to think about it and make a choice o f my own??? i didnt think so either....