Stretched

People have been decorating and making changes to the appearance of their bodies since recorded history began. This has taken many forms through the ages, such as tattooing, piercing, stretching, scarring, branding, muscle sculpture, hair…

According to archaeological findings, earlobe stretching has been popular for many millennia, so why has it been such an enduring means of ear decoration? Or have earlobes always been stretched just for decoration, or have there been other…