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Pre-gun Ear piercing accounts?
geschrieben von FemboyWithoutEarrings am 16.08.2014 um 10:25:12
Hello everybody and excuse me for not writing in German. As much as I admire and (reasonably well at least) understand your beautiful language, I am unable to write more than very simple sentences with flawed grammar. But to wrap up my introduction I will mention that I’m a Dane (Danish person) of forty-two years age and I have been wildly attracted by earrings and the concept of having holes in the earlobes for wearing them, for as long back as I can remember.
What I wanted to ask you people about just now, concerns professionally used instruments for piercing ears, which dates back before the first ear-piercing guns appeared in the 1970’s (possibly late 1960’s). I would very much like if anyone here has tried having your ears pierced, or heard descriptions of the experience of having it done with any of the old instruments from older relatives or friends?
I know from searching the web and posting questions in several other forums, that there has been several instruments in use, which falls in-between the modern day piercing gun and the most basic old method of piercing, using a needle to pierce the earlobe. These instruments almost all used the squeezing motion of the hand from the operator to pierce the earlobe. Some of the tools would look like a syringe with basically a plunger being pushed with thumb, to force a needle at the opposite end through the earlobe. The needle would detach from the tool and remain in the earlobe and the operator would then insert the jewelry into the back of the needle and insert it by pushing the needle the rest of the way back out from the earlobe. In some more modern versions of these instruments, the needle and earring would be assembled in the instrument, which would then push both needle and earring through the earlobe, while other versions would simply drive a pointed stud earring through the earlobe directly.
Other pre-gun instruments that I have learned of looks and works like pliers. These tools would have a hole or piece of cork at one part of the plier’s jaws and a pointed pin at the opposite part of the jaw. A thin metal sleeve or hollow needle would fit over this pin, so that when the handles were pressed together, the earlobe would be pierced and when opening the pliers, the sleeve or hollow needle would remain in the earlobe to keep the hole open. The jewelry would then be inserted into the back of the sleeve/needle to push it back out of the earlobe and leave only the jewelry in the earlobe.
I will be honest with you people about how I feel about these types of instruments and admit that I am very excited about them because I imagine that it must have been more painful to have ears pierced with them than with the modern-day piercing gun. When I was a young child, I was way too afraid of the pain to consider asking for having holes put in my ears with any kind of instrument (and also being a boy meant that I was not supposed to wear earrings). However I find the idea of having ears pierced in a completely painless way to be… -Well… -Anti-climactic and disappointing. No matter how painful ear piecing could have been, it would still have been over in a matter of minutes and I would very much prefer if having ears pierced was something to feel excited or nervous about before having it done and just as importantly, something that I would at least remember after having it done. I guess I really believe that some of the excitement about ear piercing is lost if the process of piercing is not at least a little scary and painful, so that it makes sense to think of it as an “ordeal” to get through and “make a sacrifice on the altar of beauty”. I know for sure that when I was a little kid and gazed in envy and wonder at the pierced ears of the few Danish women who had them in the 1970’s, a big part of my attraction came from imagining that these women would actually have decided to sit and go through some painful ordeal in order to adorn their earlobes with shiny earrings. In some very few cases (mostly foreigners) parents would have made the decision for them at a young age and the ordeal might have felt even more painful due to the lower pain-thresholds of children generally and it made me feel just as envious. I guess that when I was a young boy I felt very envious at the girls who were “lucky enough” to have been taken against their will to have holes put in their ears for wearing earrings…
But to end this I will return to my question: Has any of you tried having ears pierced or been told what it felt like with those old professionally used instruments from the times before the ear piercing gun was in use? Has any of you asked an mother, aunt, grandmother or neighbor what it felt like and listened to a description of how it was to have the holes put in their ears with these old instruments?
I’m looking forward to hearing something from you people in your beautiful German language.
Best regards… -FemBoy without earrings (yet)
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