Thanks to Stinkerbelle over at WanderingGoblin for this one. A Hungarian plastic surgeon, Dr Lajos Nagy, is carrying out a procedure that gives people pointy ears, as seen below.

Apparently, this benefits music lovers and the newly-shaped appendages are All The Rage in New York:

A newfangled extravagance is spreading amongst the music-lover youngsters of New York, which, after invading America, is sure to conquer the whole world. Ears becoming pointed as a result of plastic surgery not only enhance the attractiveness of the face, but also improve the experience of listening to music.

A sign of the popularity of this operation is that in big cities so-called Faun-Clubs are founded one after another, where entrance is only allowed with pointed ears. The reverberating success of this new look is supported by more and more celebrities with pointed ears, amongst whom we can find not only musicians, but, for example, models, as well.

You can peruse the scientific reasoning behind this on his site...

Pointed ears resonate with sounds at the frequency of around 8 kHz, thus they amplify sharp sounds instead of the intermediate frequencies.

... and read up on the cultural history of pointy ears...

The remark ¡®even the ancient Greeks...¡¯ is often made, and, indeed, certain researchers do not find the idea impossible that the Greeks, indeed, discovered the acoustical advantages of pointed ears.

Despite the benefit to your hearing, it also makes you look like an Elf. Are you tempted? Want to look a bit more like your favourite character, and, as an added bonus, be able to hear more frequencies?

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