To Whitehall Township Police Detective Gerald Procanyn, the object hanging from the ear of the young Allentown man he had just arrested was nothing special. Procanyn travels to California just about ...

If you are wondering which side is the gay piercing left or right, then, to make a long story short, getting pierced in your right ear meant you were gay. But there is so much more to this “gay ...

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These days, seldom does a piercing trend stick around for longer than a few weeks before a neologism replaces the one before ...

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Like tattoos and beards, men’s piercings are no longer just for punks or Hackney art school students. As the leading actors from last weekend’s Bafta awards proved, ear piercings for men have gone ...

Dear Doctor: My boyfriend let a friend of his pierce his earlobe and cartilage, and both places got infected. He says things will get better on their own, but I’m worried. What should he be doing?

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. For the past year I’ve been studying computer generated images of ear piercings — by ...