The custom of sailors having their ears pierced probably arose from superstition —and no men are more superstitious than sailors —that wearing ear-rings was a remedy for weak eyes. Montfaucon suggests that ear-rings were worn by men as amulets.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 4
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