Stretched earlobes
 

Anyone here into stretched earlobes? opinions?
I'm a 2g (:

i haven't done mine yet but i want to start soon. it seems like a spiritual experience of self-modification that i'd like to experience.

i want these, eventually:
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and these:
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I used to have half inch.
I think they look cool, but I"m not obsessed or anything.

I love those guys. I saw these plugs that are moodstones that I want so bad, but I refuse to spend that much money on a plug when I'm only at a 0g.

I have to be honest; they bother me. They weird me out.

I'm not going to tell anyone to -not- have them; I just don't think that they are attractive at -all-. *shrug*

yeah i'm probably going to buy the jellyfish ones as incentive to keep up with mine once i get to like a 10. also so i can giggle and look at them.

my DJ partner bill wants to trip on shrooms and stare at them. so i wanna go up to a pretty big size. trippylobes!

Its a very satisfying experience. If you take your time and do it right, its very rewarding as you watch your ears gradually stretch. I'm a 2g which is still very small, but I'm so proud.

^ LOL


mssg2shrt

xD I agree that's its a surprisingly satisfying experience, but I'll stay at a baby 10 or 8. I just need to find the right ones. :3

Eh, doesn't seem like there's a point to stretching if you're just going to stay at 10 or 8. It's small enough so that nobody notices they're bigger than usual and big enough so that regular earrings don't fit. Kind of annoying, really.

I enjoy the styles of earrings that you get. I'm only at a 12, atm. I"ll probably en up going bigger later on.

For those of you who are awesome, how long did it take you to go from roughly 14g to about 3/4?

I think the larger ones are disgusting. Nothing personal, just doesn't appeal to me, with one exception, Maria Brink.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/.a/6a00d83...8ffb970b-800wi

Spiritual? How is damaging your body cosmically or spiritually relevant?


I can see how it's psychologically relevant. I have a tattoo in my dead friend's honor.

Maria Brink has a funny face.

And 4 men following her, apparently.

I was under the impression that at least half of them were female. My powers of observation fail. Either that or they need to cut their hair.
Damn hippies.

You apparently have not studied religion...

Check out this link, pretty interesting. http://melissa.osiriscomm.com/pain.html

Unless you're a Jew or a youth night Christian it's safe to say that the odds of having studied any religion are very low. Also, studying "religion" seems to be a very, very broad topic.
Merlot makes me cranky.

I'm at a 0g currently. It's addicting! I'm not sure how large I'll stretch my lobes. I think 5/8" is pretty decent.

~B.L.

She is almost certainly not part of any religion which inflicts pain as a spiritual ritual.

Therefore it's bullshit that she would claim stretching her god damned earlobes is fucking spiritual.

Physical pain qua physical pain is not spiritual. That's just stupid. That some cultures attribute spiritual significance to a sacrifice like that is entirely different, and has more to do with that: sacrifice.
I doubt stretching her earlobes is that much sacrifice if it's so cool for her. She's just a white kid glorifying a dumb retrograde ritual most cultures are actually ignoring today, just because it looks old, obscure, and almost animalistic, therefore it must be more naturalistic and mystical. It's nothing but a patronizing glorification of the barbaric because of the already assumed superiority of her civilization over the others.
It's not a subversive interest in other cultures; it's an appropriation of their rituals after carving out their intended values and commodified to your own.

I think you're the one that doesn't know jack about religion, and most certainly even less on anthropology, but it's so easy to condemn and so hard to actually argue.
Apologize to Kontan now.

I'm almost embarrassed FOR Kali.

It took me about three years, but that's only because I stopped a whole bunch of times thinking that I was satisfied with the size of my lobes at the time. It won't take nearly as long if you keep at it, though.

Excellent. I'm at 00g at the moment but when I started I didn't have earlobes so it still just looks like a regular earring and I've got no patience.
Gracias.

I know my question doesn't pertain to earlobes...but who here has their septum pierced and what is best to use as a cleaner besides sea salt or dial?