When Daniel Bocchino was 16, he started stretching his ear lobes, expanding them until he had an inch-wide hole in each lobe. But by the time he was 19, he was so over the piercing trend known as ear ...

Model and body-art enthusiast Nero Daikokudo has set an official world record for the largest conch flesh tunnel, stretching the cartilage piercing in the middle of each ear to 3.8 cm (1.5 in). Unlike ...

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Ear stretching goes back a long way. But you don't have to visit a museum or travel to a remote-ish part of the world to see it because the practice has been adopted in many Western countries. However ...

The 28-year-old has stretched earlobes from past earring gauges, a style choice he says he's "regretting" now This patient is consulting doctors to recreate George Clooney's handsome ear lobes. In a ...