Hi bloggers, today I'm going to share a very interesting new I have found in www.elle.com.
What do you think? Can an ear piercing imporve your sex life? Let's see it!
Let me back up. In the acupuncture world, ears are speckled with many potentially therapeutic points. The genitalia are found on the antihelix, an often-ignored nook near the temple, and the prettiest spot for a tiny gold ring. “There are hundreds of acupuncture points in the ear that address a variety of problems,” says herbalist and acupuncturist Jill Blakeway, founder of The YinOva Center in New York City.
While a piercing itself won’t disrupt or over-stimulate the acupuncture zone, jewelry can act as a reminder of where a specific point is located. So perhaps it’s no coincidence that piercing the tragus—the hunger point—is popular among runway regulars. According to Blakeway, rubbing the external-ear nub can work as an appetite suppressant. Similarly, “If you play with the EG ring, you should feel a little frisky,” Blakeway says.
The ear as an aesthetic (and erotic) focal point is nothing new. In Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, the unnamed protagonist's love interest is an ear model, and when she pulls her hair up, the world basically stops: "I swallowed my breath and gazed at her, transfixed. My mouth went dry. From no part of me could I summon a voice. For an instant, the white plaster wall seemed to ripple. The voices of the other diners and the clinking of their dinnerware grew faint, then once again returned to normal. I heard the sound of waves, recalled the scent of a long-forgotten evening. Yet all this was but a mere fragment of the sensations passing through me in those few hundredths of a second."
So what does a take-your-breath-away kind of ear look like? In a word: adorned, according to Diana Vreeland, who wore big earrings and blush to enhance her ears.
Intrigued and inspired, the ELLE beauty team enlisted Blakeway to help us find our most therapeutic—and prettiest—ear piercings. On a recent Friday afternoon, we headed to New York Adorned to visit piercer and friend, J. Colby Smith. The needle artist takes a customized approach to hole placement, studying each subject’s ear to find the prettiest points for jewelry, the perfect complement to Blakeway’s expertise.
