# Unsolved: The Purpose of Earlobes **URL:** \ **Category:** Intergalactic Summit\ **Created:** [November 23, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438 "2020-11-23T22:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Valerie\_Valate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/valerie_valate/32/386231_2.png) [@Valerie\_Valate](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Valerie_Valate)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/1 "2020-11-23T22:00:53Z")
Earlobes ! What in the blazes are they _for_ ? Some people, many of them Gallentean, say that the earlobe is erogenous. Other people, many of them Caldari, say that the earlobe’s numerous blood vessels are to keep the ears warm in cold weather. Some more people, many of them Minmatar, say the earlobe is mostly just for hanging your earrings from. These explanations are mostly cultural, and are not conclusive proof of the true purpose of the earlobe. Truly, an enduring mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Arsia\_Elkin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arsia_elkin/32/388703_2.png) [@Arsia\_Elkin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arsia_Elkin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/2 "2020-11-23T22:18:36Z")
I’m sort of surprised you didn’t go into some nonsense about connected earlobes versus free earlobes. ---
**Author:** ![Malcolm\_Khross](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malcolm_khross/32/243031_2.png) [@Malcolm\_Khross](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malcolm_Khross)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/3 "2020-11-24T03:15:26Z")
Why not ‘all of the above?’ ---
**Author:** ![Valerie\_Valate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/valerie_valate/32/386231_2.png) [@Valerie\_Valate](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Valerie_Valate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/4 "2020-11-24T06:09:01Z")
Are you suggesting things can be for more than one thing ? I’m not sure the IGS is ready for such radical thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Wanda\_Fayne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wanda_fayne/32/377654_2.png) [@Wanda\_Fayne](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wanda_Fayne)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/5 "2020-11-24T07:11:17Z")
My Grandma would say they are there for elders to pull incorrigible young hooligans back into line. ---
**Author:** ![Diana\_Kim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/diana_kim/32/382972_2.png) [@Diana\_Kim](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Diana_Kim)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/6 "2020-11-24T07:34:30Z")
> [@Valerie\_Valate](#): > > Some people, many of them Gallentean, say that the earlobe is erogenous. What in the Maker’s name that would mean?! If my dictionary gave correct explanation of the word… is this for real?!! Gallente do with their ears WHAT?!!! Disgusting shameful perverts. I don’t want to hear this filth anymore!!! This is not for public discussion!!! This is not for duscission at all!! This is not a freaking amoral Gallente Federation here with their inhuman freedom of speech!!! Civilized people live here and read these forums!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bravo\_Atruin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bravo_atruin/32/256799_2.png) [@Bravo\_Atruin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Bravo_Atruin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/7 "2020-11-24T09:57:15Z")
You’re free to be civilized o’er yonder. Or stay and participate in the latest entertainment. I’m starting to understand why baseliners watch us on holos. My two cents? Hair is a lot more effective at keeping ears warm, just gotta have enough of it. And @Wanda_Fayne makes an excellent point too, yank a little brat over to the time-out chair. All told, I think it’s just an extraneous bit of DNA evolution couldn’t be arsed to select against. Also we’d all end up looking like, eh waddayacallem, elves? Like, the occasional bodymodder lookin like that is fine, but all of us with pointy ears? That inspires vague feelings of panic. ---
**Author:** ![Valerie\_Valate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/valerie_valate/32/386231_2.png) [@Valerie\_Valate](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Valerie_Valate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/8 "2020-11-24T11:50:01Z")
Well that’s ears in general, not specific to the earlobe, but the umm… other bit. ---
**Author:** ![Mizhir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mizhir/32/379234_2.png) [@Mizhir](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mizhir)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/9 "2020-11-24T12:08:58Z")
> [@Valerie\_Valate](#): > > Some more people, many of them Minmatar, say the earlobe is mostly just for hanging your earrings from. I came to the thread to say this. I guess other people beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arrendis/32/432594_2.png) [@Arrendis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arrendis)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/10 "2020-11-24T12:10:04Z")
They’re for idiots to make threads about, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Lily\_Inkura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lily_inkura/32/174143_2.png) [@Lily\_Inkura](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lily_Inkura)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/11 "2020-11-24T12:26:36Z")
> [@Valerie\_Valate](#): > > Earlobes ! > > What in the blazes are they _for_ ? Puncture repair kit. As genetically supplied to all capsuleers by Eugenics Corp. When some inconsiderate bandit punches a hole in you (which is less conducive to stitching than a tear), have your local med tech excise the patch, then plug the gap. Where extensive plugging is required, both patches can be excised then used as basal templates for regenerative constructs. ---
**Author:** ![Miranda\_Farron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/miranda_farron/32/250852_2.png) [@Miranda\_Farron](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Miranda_Farron)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/12 "2020-11-24T12:31:05Z")
My glasses would fall off without them. ---
**Author:** ![Nauplius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nauplius/32/403015_2.png) [@Nauplius](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nauplius)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/13 "2020-11-24T16:14:25Z")
In my now closed “Purpose of the Minmatar” thread, Miss Morgana declared that my post read like the bad fanfic of a certain semi-obscure series of books of unknown origin. I obtained one of these books and found that it depicts a world filled with extremely degrading forms of slavery. As it happens, in this world the piercing of a slave’s ears is thought to be especially humiliating, a highly erotic and visible indicator of a slave’s status. While too much credit should not be given to this one source, it is at least possible these books evidence a now-lost cultural tradition in which the ears of slaves were pierced to mark their status in some way. The greater prevalence of ear piercing among the Minmatar — the slave people — is also evidence for this point. Most speculatively of all, God may have specifically designed the earlobe for the purpose of slave-marking. ---
**Author:** ![Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jonah_gravenstein/32/386819_2.png) [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jonah_Gravenstein)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/14 "2020-11-24T18:55:55Z")
> [@Miranda\_Farron](#): > > My glasses would fall off without them. Your glasses are strange, the ear lobes being the dangly bits at the bottom of the ear not the bit that the arms of your glasses rest on. ---
**Author:** ![Auriga\_Menkalinan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/auriga_menkalinan/32/351666_2.png) [@Auriga\_Menkalinan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Auriga_Menkalinan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/15 "2020-11-24T19:16:27Z")
The ones with arms that hook all the way around are quite useful in Zero-G (bars). ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/16 "2020-11-24T21:53:20Z")
I like mine, they complete the shape of ear from the bottom, They are there to be liked by me I think. ---
**Author:** ![Solstice\_Projekt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solstice_projekt/32/503293_2.png) [@Solstice\_Projekt](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solstice_Projekt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/17 "2020-11-25T09:50:25Z")
> [@Diana\_Kim](#): > > What in the Maker’s name that would mean?! Excuse me, there’s a “Maker” in caldari philosophy? Anyhow … I think that, based on studies of gallente females … … that the earlobe is meant for being licked and sucked on … … because it turns them on for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Malcolm\_Khross](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malcolm_khross/32/243031_2.png) [@Malcolm\_Khross](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malcolm_Khross)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/18 "2020-11-25T12:44:20Z")
> [@Solstice\_Projekt](#): > > Excuse me, there’s a “Maker” in caldari philosophy? Yes, there is. The Maker forged the world [universe] and all in it, drafted in a chaotic state and imbued the spirits into the natural forces of the universe and into the beings that fill it so they could tame the chaos and create order. Chief among these forces are the Winds which helped shape the Caldari into the people we are today. ---
**Author:** ![Diana\_Kim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/diana_kim/32/382972_2.png) [@Diana\_Kim](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Diana_Kim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/19 "2020-11-25T13:58:52Z")
> [@Solstice\_Projekt](#): > > I think that, based on studies of gallente females … > … that the earlobe is meant for being licked and sucked on … Cannibalism is against the law. > [@Solstice\_Projekt](#): > > … because it turns them on for some reason. So it just means you have licked a robot. Maybe a rogue drone posing as human? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Solstice\_Projekt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solstice_projekt/32/503293_2.png) [@Solstice\_Projekt](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solstice_Projekt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/unsolved-the-purpose-of-earlobes/281438/20 "2020-11-25T14:24:21Z")
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