Ear piercing before "the Gun" was invented

[Guest]

Have yours bf / hub ask you to get yours ears to be pierced again?

My ex. ask me and for that reasion did I leave him but my new bf have ask me to and I don't want to get my ears pierced again.
He ask me 2 to 5 times a week, he can't understand that I only want a single earring i boths ears.
What shal I tell him.

[uri]

Well, I guess it's simple: it's your ears, not his, so it's up to you to decide what you do with them. If he wants it that bad, he may just have his own ears pierced as many times as he likes.

Well maybe if he's not very open-minded you can drop the last part, but I guess he's got to understand, that being with a woman doesn't mean owning her. personally I don't understand this habit of guys who design their gfs/wives to fit their taste, as if they were a piece of furniture or something.

[Guest]

My ears were pierced befoe the gun was invented. My mother pierced them with a hat-pin and cork.
I pierced my daughters ears the same way and my grand daughters and great grand daughters have also had their ears pierced at home similarly.
The only difference is that while I and my daughters have a single piercing in each ear the grandchildren and great grand children have several piercings. Some of them also have nostril piercings which were also done at home

[Cathy58]

My grandmother pierced my ears 50 years ago with a device that looked like a large needle with a wooden handle. She numbed my ear with ice, put a cork behind my ear and pushed the nedle through. Then she did the same thing to my other ear.

Back then all the earrings had backs that screwed on the posts like a bolt on a nut. The only way my sister and I ever changed our earrings was to change each others. We though that if we ever went without earrings for any longer than it took to change them our holes would instantly close up and we would never be able to wear earrings again.