Time for a WTF? moment.
Apparently some nutjob plastic surgeon has come up with the fantastic idea that pointed ears are more sensitive to soundwaves, and by shaping your ears you can obtain a more enjoyable “musical experience”. He has even coined the term “Music Faun” in order to market the procedure.

Here’s a snippet from the site:

“Do rounded ears mean an evolutionary impasse?

It is a well-known fact that predators, and a lot of other mammals for which a keen sense of hearing is indispensable for staying alive, have pointed ears.

The ears of the primates, however, have „retrograded” during the course of evolution, and have become rounded. This is not, of course, the only factor facilitating the gradual blunting of our sense of hearing, although, according to certain researches, it surely has contributed to the process.

The memory of our once pointed ears can still be traced in our genes. A proof of this is, for example, the so-called Darwin-tubercle (Darwin’s Ear Point) discernible on the pinnae of a lot of people, which is the remainder of the point of the once beastlike ears.” …read more