Title: What’s So Sexy About Belly Buttons? | Psychology Today
Headings: What’s So Sexy About Belly Buttons?
Leon F Seltzer Ph.D.
What’s So Sexy About Belly Buttons?
Might navels be the most tantalizing—but least publicized—erogenous zone?
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Content: This quote from Wikipedia should be suggestive: The public exposure of the male and female midriff and bare navel has been taboo at times in Western cultures, being considered immodest or indecent. It was banned in some jurisdictions; however, the community perceptions have changed and exposure of female midriff and navel is more accepted today...In some societies or contexts, it is both fashionable and common, though not without its critics. While the West was relatively resistant to midriff-baring clothing until the 1980s, it has long been a fashion with Indian women [witness the low-rise sari exposing the navel]. The Japanese [too] have long had a special [and favorable] regard for the navel. There’s certainly no question that the navel has become increasingly prominent in showcasing our most alluring celebrities. As reported in Wikipedia, the most popular bellybuttons on BellyInc are those belonging to Emily Ratajkowski, Paris Hilton, and Vanessa Hudgens. If you know anything about Madonna, you probably know that she seems almost obsessed with displaying her navel, which can be identified as her performance trademark. Her own unashamed erotic attraction to it is best revealed in a 1985 interview in Spin , in which she confessed: “