Is It Morally Right For Men To Wear Earrings?

Why would wearing earrings be a question of morals? Are earrings actually considered a "garment", anyway? I've seen both men and women wear a crucifix on a chain around their neck. Does this qualify as an abomination?

What about shoes? Both sexes wear shoes, should it be considered "male" or "female" apparel and thus an abomination? Or socks?

In my opinion, it is not morally wrong for men to wear earrings.

Ngureco, the world has changed so much. If men want to bling themselves with Earrings - it's their call. (but the fashion should be - just one ear).

That verse was referring only to the people who were being spoken to at that particular time, in the Bible.

There are tribes in Certain Countries where the men don't wear trousers. They wear a wrapper (which is normally used by women or a flowing gown. It's their tradition). Have they sinned? I am a Christian and in the Winter, you will never catch me in a skirt. I feel warmer with Trousers. That Biblical verse does not refer to our times now.

Lets not quote out of Context. :)

Rabbinic teaching on Deuteronomy 22:5 is diverse and not without controversy. You can easily find dozens of different interpretations of this particular verse by simply going to Google. To your point of morality women wearing pants and men wearing wraps or robes, which is their custom, is not a sin. If a women dresses in men's clothing in order to pass herself off as a man that is a sin as it would also be for a man who dresses in women's clothing as a deception. It is not the clothing it is the deception that is wrong. As for your earrings men wearing earrings goes back several thousand years. Men were adorned with jewelery

as a show of position and wealth. It was not strictly a men or woman thing. What would be immoral, for example, would be if you went out and purchased a $5000 1 carat diamond stud earring while, at the same time, your children didn't have enough food to eat or proper clothes to wear. It's not wearing the earring that convicts you it would be your motive that would be your undoing

Women wear pants, some men wear makeup. I personally think that morals don't come into play here.

It is not a crime. Any body can wear.

In India in those days male were allowed to wear the ear rings. That too, they had all quality stone studs. But Off late they found that it was in convenient to clean and to wear. And poor were not able to buy and wear.The Britishers were ruling then and during then they did not wear.

But, infact wearing an ear ring is very good to anyone's health. It stimulates the Brain cells. Nervous system will be normal due to this accupuncture.

Good looking also.Equality with the women is maintained.

no, i thing its not right because everyone be good at his/her position as men cant develop a pure and feeling full heart like women, so everyone need each other, you cant express your self as woman by earring, i think all one should be in limit told in their personal religion..thats solve..

Earrings are NOT soley a woman's jewelry; they certainly weren't during the period in which the bible was written. If you're not aware of this, then perhaps you should look at the images, art, jewlery from the time period. A quick search of the internet, a trip to the art museum and even to the natural history museum will show you that earrings have been for men and women both, in fact, more men than women wore earrings historically.

So perhaps it;s the women who are sinning here - consider that.

I appreciate your reference to the Bible verse and just have to say that it can be interpreted in any way the reader of it wants to interpret it. I suspect of course that you have interpreted it as if an ear ring pertains to a woman and is somewhat of a woman's garment.

A piercing of an earlobe in long ago times was sometimes a sign of ownership of a servant. A ring was placed in the ear so that the servant could be "branded" in a way and then others would know he or she was the servant of the one who put the ring in there with the mark of the household. So, anyone could have been a servant either a man or a woman.

In the United States culture for quite a while it was considered that women wore earrings and men did not so at first when it became apparent that men were piercing their ears it was unusual and strange to most people and it was a "change" and most people react negatively to change and prefer to keep things the way it has always been.

I personally, like traditional viewpoints and am very conservative but I have to say that it doesn't occur to me when I see a man with earrings that he has greatly morally declined- I generally make a judgement call on a person's morals when other things are in question not earrings.

Wearing earrings as a man, in my opinion, does not equal them having no morals. I think morals and earrings have nothing to do with one another.

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What do morals have to do with earrings? Who's to say one item is affiliated with one sex and one with the other? In history, men have paraded around in skirts,what we would consider to be 'womanly' currently...Romans, Greeks, Scottish etc. Women currently wear pants, once thought to be a manly item. Earrings are for decoration or character and are widely accepted to be apart of men's attire. Does this mean women shouldn't wear A-shirts (wife-beaters), blazers, pant suits or jeans? If this is the case, women shouldn't have anything to do with home finances, working out of the house, or any major decision. Give me a break, women insist on equality on their terms. Give me all access, but I don't want to have to put up the same numbers, or pick up as much weight, or hit a ball as far (golf) etc. I can go on and on...By the way I am a woman.

yes it is morally right for men to wear earrings where i am in puerto rico most men have large dimond earrings in both ears this is a strong christian country and no one thinks it incorect for a man to wear them.

what has clothes to do with morals? in some countrys it is said to be morally wrong for a woman to have her skin showing and should hide is that right?

everone should be able to make up there own mind as to what is morally right or wrong not depend on what others tell them.

of course they do in other parts of the world more so then here