In the movie "Hook" an English sounding
Dustin Hoffman is shown parting the hair away from an ear of a boy as he tries to perform an ear piercing on him.
Hoffman in the character of the pirate nemesis of Peter Pan tells the boy, who happens to be the son of an older Pan played by Robin Williams, "now laddie, just lie your head like so and don't move. 'Cause this is really going to hurt."
And so it had been hurting for a lot of kids-not necessarily boys-ever since they decided to wear their first earring. But wearing their first earring didn't always come easy.
Those guys (read: men and women) with a distaste for blood may find themselves fainting at the sight of their own-yeah even guys do that despite undergoing the more gruesome rite of circumcision.
In that respect wearing an earring for the first time is like circumcision for the boys: one gets to bleed a little, scream like a girl a little but the pain passes away and the guy is smiling as his friends and even girls notice him.
As if anyone hadn't noticed by now ears are the easiest body part for piercing since well over a thousand years ago. One only has to pay a visit to a local museum to see Egyptian royalty wearing all sorts of ear jewelry.
Thanks to advances in technology now there are now many types of ear-piercing instruments used such as an ear-piercing gun.
However there had been some controversy over its potential health risks in part due to the question of sterilization.
Teens are of course the more vulnerable lot when it comes to possible infection from ear piercing.
Thus professional body piercing artists take at least two weeks of training for ear piercing guns and three years in the use of the needle to avoid any possible health dangers that it can inflict.
Still think ear piercing's that easy? It's not for sissy people that's for sure.