To dislike flesh tunnels aka gaping cats' arseholes

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They look ok when the jewellery is in, but remove the jewellery and they are one of the most ugly things out there.

Am I unreasonable?

My dp has 10mm ones in each ear so fairly small, more like earrings. He's had them years and I think they really suit him. He has no others, they are just part of him.

I knew someone who wasn’t allowed to wear his at work and they were huge, I used to spend most of his shift wondering if I could shoot a pea from a straw through them

I have a question: if you have stretched ears will they always shrink back? How do you do that?

^ looks like I had two questions :)

Depends on how large they are - I think up to around 6-8mm (2 to 0 gauge, which is ten times the diameter of a standard 0.8mm ear piercing) will shrink back for the vast majority of people but, like the older ladies who wore heavy dangly earrings throughout their youth and middle age, once they get to a certain point that varies with skin elasticity/firmness, they don't get any smaller.

Oh, and if they go straight to a high gauge through using various techniques such as punching out a piece of lobe or cutting, that will never shrink back. Piercers will tell somebody if they're suitable to stretch any further/ready to go up a size - but that means the person has to be prepared to ask a professional and to accept it if they say no.

Shrinking back is more likely to be successful if the person has always waited for each new stretch to fully heal before increasing - so no cat arses - and has followed proper instructions for care of the healing wound.

It all sounds far too much like hard work for me. I'll stick to normal piercings, ta very much.

20mm stretched ears here ! Used to be 26mm.

Have had them 13 years. I love them.
They are part of my look and I wear pretty jewellery in them. Think tribal / mandala style.

I also am covered in tattoos, have 6 facial piercings . (Septum pierced TWICE)
Shock. Horror.
Each to their own. What looks horrible to you may be beautiful to somebody else.

It all sounds like you would recoil in horror at me 😂 given some of the responses on here.

I personally can't get worked up about how people look. Leave them to it.

I really don’t mean to be judge, but when I see them in real life ( not often) they do physically make me retch. I’m really not squeamish, i’d Seen photos of them, so was totally unprepared for my reaction.

Mine was done years before they were fashionable and I did them over a long time waiting for healing before sizing up so the result is when they jewellery is out it is a perfect circle.

No cats arse for me.

I rather like them, too lazy to get any myself though. You sound as if you look gorgeous Alpen. (Being genuine).

Sorry but I just clicked because of "flesh tunnels"

I have a friend who smells absolutely wonderful. Hair, clothes, skin the lot - divine.

Told him so he said smell the hole in my ear it smells like death, wasn’t wrong.

He ended up paying for the scar tissue to be cut out and his ear to be sewed back together

This reminds me of a tv programme I saw once, a. It like Tattoo Fixers, and a woman had one where it had got so large it separated and she just had 2 large skin things dangling down. That made me feel pretty ill, but she got it fixed with surgery.

I don't have the teeth for one of those cheek ones.

A man I dealt with as part of my job wore a shotgun cartridge in one of his ear flesh tunnels,and a cigarette lighting the other, I kid you not.

Or even a cigarette lighter...

Thanks @MitziK :)

Glad I'm not the only one disappointed by the content of this thread

Those ear things are gross, but in no way resemble your average feline's backside.

You just have met some strangely deformed cats, OP.

There's a delightful picture here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/19/cosmetic-surgeons-repair-stretched-earlobes

Why did I Google.

Same @Bumblebee39 put a tiny gauge in when I was 15. When mum saw it she ripped it out and threw it from my bedroom window 😂😂 thank you mum!

Obvious question but does it hurt when you start stretching them?

At least the cheek ones would make dental work more interesting?

It has to be treated as a new piercing every time, as the act of stretching creates tiny tears that have to heal over, so it should be less uncomfortable than a shitty gun piercing (especially if all care instructions are followed) but will probably be a little tender.

If somebody tries to force it, then it'll hurt.

I have a nostril piercing and wore a tiny stud for years until I was kicked in the face by a crowd surfer. I hoyed the fucking twat and spun him into a heap the other side of the barrier as his idea of the process was leaping onto the heads of people from behind them up a flight of stairs and then kicking around because people weren't conveying him like a King . I went to a piercing shop to get them to remove it and check whether any damage had been done and, in the process, they said the hole needed to be widened slightly to enable a titanium captive bar ring to be used (the best choice for an angry piercing, apparently). That wasn't going up by much as a standard gauge, but it did sting/feel tender for quite a long time afterwards.

Why do they smell??