A safety earring for pierced ears which comprises
- a cylindrical post adapted to extend through the pierced hole in an ear lobe, and
- including at one end of said post
- a stop having an ear lobe facing side and said ear lobe facing side of said stop has a substantially flat and smooth surface surrounding said post with said post extending perpendicularly from the center of said ear lobe facing side of said stop and wherein said ear lobe facing side of said stop is laterally dimensioned larger than said post and larger than the pierced hole to prevent said stop from entering the pierced hole and is adapted to be positioned flat against one surface of the ear lobe, and
- a first connector portion for couplingly mating with an ornament, and
- including at the opposite end of said post a second connector portion for couplingly mating with a back;
- a back for detachable connection with said second connector portion, wherein said back includes a third connector portion for couplingly mating with said second connector portion to hold said back to said post, said back being laterally dimensioned larger than said post and larger than the pierced hole to prevent said back from entering the pierced hole and is adapted to be positioned against the other surface of the ear lobe to retain said post in the pierced hole;
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- an ornament for easy detachable connection with said first connector portion, wherein said ornament includes a fourth connector portion for couplingly mating with said first connector portion to hold said ornament to said post during normal activity, and wherein said fourth and first connector portions are automatically operable to release said fourth connector portion from said first connector portion whenever there is excessive tension between said fourth and first connector portions from a force acting on said fourth connector portion in a direction relatively away from said cylindrical post and relatively away from the ear lobe, whereby said ornament is freely released from said post and said tension between said fourth and first connector portions is eliminated to protect the ear lobe from injury, and whereby said ornament may be easily connected to and disconnected from said post by the wearer without removing said post from the pierced hole and without looking in a mirror;
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- wherein said stop and said first connector portion together are laterally dimensioned no larger than approximately 6 millimeters and are longitudinally dimensioned no larger than approximately 3.5 millimeters, and wherein the perimetrical surface of said stop and of said first connector portion is at least somewhat smooth and is solid in the sense that said perimetrical surface of said stop and of said first connector portion has no hole or opening;
- thereby protecting against said ornament staying undesirably caught in said first connector portion whenever said fourth connector portion is pulled, and thereby protecting against anything else being accidentally caught in said first connector portion, thus the ear lobe is protected from injury and thus said back and said post are protected from needless accidental detachment and consequential loss.