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>In 1951, the United States Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters came into force, which, besides other things, prohibited female navel exposure on American television
>During the 1960s, Barbara Eden was not allowed to show her navel on the NBC TV show I Dream of Jeannie
> Dawn Wells and Tina Louise were not allowed to expose their navels in Gilligan's Island (1964–67).[30] Wells was required to wear high-waisted shorts that covered her navel.[31][32]
I doubt any of those requirements would have happened if there weren't prudish reasons for it. And for a more modern example of it being outright stated:
>In 1994, Art Cooper, editor-in-chief of GQ magazine said that his big seller in 1994 was the February issue with Geena Davis on the cover, on which she wore an Armani suit opened at the hips to reveal her navel,[61] It sold about 400,000 copies. He stated, "Part of the success is the navel factor. I think the belly button is really an erogenous zone."
It's not really a big deal at all now because of how common it is, but the point is that navels have indeed been seen as sexual on a large scale for quite some time and I never understood why that was until recently. Actually I still don't really understand, but I feel it.
Now I'm done, because this really is retarded and was never supposed to be an argument in the first place. I was just making a musing about how both societal and personal sexual tastes change over time, really.
