A navel fetishist can besexually aroused by a variety of stimuli, including keywords, thoughts, or specific forms of physical interaction with the navel.[1][2][12][13][14][15]
Some navel fetishists find physical acts involving the navel to be sexually arousing.[1][12][26][27] These physical acts can include licking the navel; applying body lotion orsuntan oil; and pouring substances likechampagne,honey,chocolate sauce orwhipped cream into and around the navel and licking or sucking it up.[28][29] Similarly, licking or rolling the tongue into the navel while underwater can produce erotic sensations,[14][23][24][30] as can an ice cube when rubbed over or rested over the navel.[14]
Some prefer to perform navel torture, a series of pain-inflicting acts such as sucking or pulling the navel out (often with a syringe), dripping hot oil orwax into the navel, poking pins into the navel,[31] andstabbing the navel.[1][2][7][32][33]
This attention is usually directed at a partner's navel,[31][5] but may include a fixation on the fetishist's own navel.[34][35][36][37]
Some navel fetishists can be aroused by viewing a navel.[38] In the case of a heterosexual man, a woman inbikini orlow-rise clothing likejeans,shorts, etc., that reveals the navel is also considered sexually arousing.[39]
Videos featuring above said physical acts are very common and are viewed worldwide. Their popularity has become more compared to regular porn videos.[40][41]
Belly dancers often havenavel piercings or insertsequins into their navels to make it look attractive when they perform.[42][43] Not only them, many young everyday women also have them to add a charm to their navels.[44] Such decorations also arouse when seen.[21]
Sometimes, literary works focusing on navels or that sexually symbolize navels can also act as stimuli to navel fetishists. One such work isNavel Revue by author Jay Hahn-Lonne which is an autobiographical study of a man's obsession with navels.[46] In theSong of Songs, a book in theHebrew Bible, there are allusions to exotic things in nature, with frequent interweaving of nature with erotic imagery. InSolomon's lavish praise of his love – the country girl, Sulaimi – the navel is mentioned as follows: "thynavel is like a roundgoblet, whichwanteth not liquor: thybelly is like a heap ofwheat set about withlilies." (7:2).[47][48][49]
American poetMay Swenson in her poem "Little Lion Face" wrote, "Now I'm bold to touch your swollen neck, put careful lips to slick petals, snuff up gold pollen in your navel cup."[50] and poem "August Night" wrote, "Your navel a little pool in pulsing tide an aura round your knees".[51]
Czech-born writerMilan Kundera in his 2015 bookThe Festival of Insignificance conveys about the eroticism of exposed female navels.[52][53][54] Alain, one of the characters in the book, observes to his friend how most of the young women in Paris wear T-shirts or blouses that expose theirmidriffs, displaying their navels for all to see. The navel has become, in effect, the new locus of desire.[55][56][57]
Robert W. Service in his short poem "Navels" wrote, "Men have navels more or less;....Woman's is a pearly ring,....So dear ladies, recognise The dimpling of your waist Has approval in my eyes, Favour in my taste......How a rosebud navel would Be sweet to kiss!"[58][59][60] In Ancient IndianSanskrit literature, writers likeAdi Shankara,Kālidāsa, etc., have symbolized and referred to the navel while describing the beauty ofHindu goddesses.[61]
In 1970, the short-livedBelly Button Magazine, of which only two issues were recovered byThe Kinsey Institute, featured descriptions of penetrative navel intercourse and images of sexual acts directed at navels.[62][63]
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