Ear stretching (also called ear gauging) is when you gradually stretch out pierced holes in your earlobes. Given enough time, the size of these holes could be anywhere from the diameter of a pencil to ...

"There is actually a lot more people with really large stretched ears, but they're scattered all over the place. "It's a very personal decision as to why they do it because it's a much more aggressive ...

MINNEAPOLIS -Nathan Janke, 28, said he believes he got his first ear piercing at about age 10. The then Fairmont youngster began ear "stretching" shortly thereafter. Now, his lobes hold decorative ...

When he opened his shop for piercing and tattooing across from the Ohio State University campus 13 years ago, Nick Wolak envisioned a market as wide-open as his earlobes. He had begun getting his ears ...