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In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...
A 1948 photo of Italian women in midriff-baring bikinis. In some cultures, exposure of the midriff is socially discouraged or even banned, and Western culture has historically been hesitant in the use of midriff-baring styles. Bill Blass commented: It is too difficult. Women will much more readily wear bare-back or plunging-neckline styles. [3]
The navel and midriff are often also displayed in bikinis, or when low-rise pants are worn. While the West was relatively resistant to navel-baring clothing until the 1980s, it has long been a fashion with Indian women, [22] often displayed with saris or lehengas. The Japanese have long had a special regard for
A comeback of the navel piercing was also signaled by Kim Kardashian who re-pierced her navel in 2024. [17] [18] A 2022 study found that women are primarily motivated to pierce their navels due to a desire to enhance body image and that a navel piercing can, in turn, significantly improve bodily self-perception. [19]
Ice on the navel region can produce erotic sensations. The navel region is an erogenous zone with heightened sensitivity [2] [16] [17] that when touched by the finger or the tip of the tongue can produce erotic sensations.
Initially, hair grows in a vertical line from the pubic area up to the navel and from the thorax down to the navel. The development of abdominal hair normally begins in the final stages of puberty. With some men, the abdominal hair will stay within a clearly defined vertical line, but in others, terminal hair will appear laterally as well as ...
Navel-gazing is the contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation. [1] The word omphaloskepsis derives from the Ancient Greek words ὀμφᾰλός ( omphalós , lit. ' navel ' ) and σκέψῐς ( sképsis , lit.