those stretched ear lobes actually make me feel physically sick!

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I just find them repulsive to look at! seriously. Considering not going back to my opticians because their receptionist has them and I just find them a bit haunting iykwim.

They are even worse than those rings through the nose, which also just make me want to go ewwwwww!

What AppleSets said, YY. I disliked them anyway (they just look so odd) but the idea that they actually smell^ really has turned my stomach. I'm sorry not sorry if that makes me a delicate wallflower, that's just how I am.

I googled "do stretched earlobes smell" and the answer from the internet is an absolutely resounding yes.

YANBU. Theres a phobia called trypophoba which is well known; I think this is an unnamed phobia. The look of stretched skin, which is intensely unpleasant.

I don't think people at judging the people who have them, but simply saying they don't like the look of the stretched piercings. Which is a different thing and hardly judgy, doesn't make anyone on here a nasty person.

I have piercings myself including my nose. I don't mind stretched ears too much, I think the small ones and ones with a spike earring look nice on a lot of people but I'm not keen on big ones with tunnels.

The woman I knew stretched hers beyond 5cms and the lobe skin got too thin which is why it split.
She had to tie the long string of flesh left over up in a knot otherwise it would be hanging down her neck. This was maybe 4 years ago and it's still like it now. It does look utterly repulsive, the and it put me off ever stretching mine!

Kids were doing it eldest dds year at school and they were daft and tried to do it to large to quick and ears split

I agree! It is so repulsive and sickening. We had a server giving us our food at one place and it literally made me feel sick to look at him. I couldn't go back there. Had nothing to do with judging his "looks". His looks were fine until he disfigured his ears. That was his choice to do that, and it is painful to look at.

Why in the world are people doing this to themselves? Any trend, no matter how foolish, people will jump in on to feel "cool" whatever they think that means. People who want to look or feel different end up looking like all the others following a very ridiculous trend that they will likely regret. Like those huge tattoos that cover so much of the body. Cheesy and ugly, why ruin your skin. Sorry, but I feel strongly about this. It is disfiguring to the point of making people who have to look at them literally ill! They think they're being "cool" or "different" or a "rebel."

No, they're not. They look foolish and trying way too hard to look "cool" which has lost its meaning. Triple ick.

I hate these ear stretchings too. Make me want to heave. Certain types of busy tatoos are trypophobic for me and make my skin shudder. I make no judgement of the person. I have seen some tattoos of wings on peoples' backs and I could actually scream with horror! Have had trypophobia wind childhood but never knew other people shared it.

I love eyebrow piercings and certain lip ones but the ear things nooooooooo!

since childhood

I think words like repulsive etc are judgy actually. It's like when people go on about how they hate tattoos.

I have no problem with them.

People do far, far worse to they're bodies than tattoos and piercings and receive far fewer judgements.

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No, it really is not judgey.

Are you saying people are not allowed to dislike tattoos and ear tunnels? Why not?

Don't think I've used any words like 'repulsive' and I've clarified I wouldn't judge anyone who has them. But I do react physically.

I have pierced ears, nose & eyebrow. I'm fairly relaxed about ear stretching, but can't say I find it attractive.

Can't stand pearl clutching though, that's a body modification too far...

I do find the sight of an ear that's partially fallen apart through over stretching repulsive, yes. Most people would cringe at the sight of it I imagine. It's not being judgy it's just not a pleasant thing to look at.

The tunnels themselves don't make me feel ill but the thought of them getting damaged does and personally they're just not for me.

I really like the implants. Horns and so forth.

I'd also love to have pointy elf ears but I'm scared of the pain.

No judgement from me, they just turn my stomach, in the same way that those frame things that you have on a broken leg do (the ones with screws going into the bone) ... I would never be rude to either the dude with the smelly flappy ear holes or the poor fucker with the broken leg!

Channel 4 right now - Bodyshockers...A lass whose stretched ear thing came apart (and now has a 5 inch blob of ear dangling).