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No. The wearing of earrings was an ancient and common habit among sailors . It started as a superstition that wearing a silver ring in ones left ear kept the devil from settling on your shoulder. Sailors found that if they were marooned or deserted ship in foreign lands with nothing they could swap their earring for money. So they began to wear two earrings and then they switched to more valuable gold when they could afford it. The larger your earrings the more money they could be exchanged for. sailors in a cash rich trade like piracy are very likely to have worn large gold earrings.

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