Yea this is pretty mainstream for my generation, almost all the guys got one or both ear piercings. I don't have any though. When I was a kid I asked my dad what he thought about guys getting an ear piercing/s and he pretty much said in much cruder terms everything Willie said here. Lol for that matter he implied the guy with the ear piercing is probably the (female dog) of the gay equation. So I pretty much never bothered with it.