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Navel in popular culture

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The navel in popular culture deals with the concepts, customs, fashions and taboos relating to the female navel over time and at present. Various cultures view the sexual and cultural significance of the navel differently, and these views have changed over time, which has shaped social mores relating to the navel in design of clothing and social traditions and practices.

Contents

1 Western culture

1.1 Film

1.2 Television

1.3 Entertainment

1.3.1 1980s

1.3.2 1990s & 2000s

1.4 Fashion

1.5 Sports

1.5.1 Tennis

1.5.2 Athletics

2 Mediterranean, Hebrew and Middle Eastern cultures

3 Indian culture

3.1 Ancient times

3.2 Recent times

3.3 Indian cinema

3.3.1 Bollywood

3.3.2 South Indian

3.3.3 Contradictions

4 Japanese culture

4.1 Early times

4.2 Modern times

5 Sri Lankan culture

5.1 Ancient times

5.2 Recent times

6 Indonesian culture

7 Korean Culture

7.1 1990s

7.2 2000s

8 Malaysia

9 Views in alternative medicine from antiquity

9.1 Alternative medicine

9.2 Indian medicine

9.3 Sri Lankan medicine

9.4 Russian medicine

9.5 Chinese medicine

10 See also

11 References

Western culture[edit]

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,[1] with some arguing that it simulated an "erogenic orifice". Female navel exposure was banned and not male because, it was argued, the simulation or upward displacement from vagina to navel was commonplace and obvious in women.[2]

Community perceptions have changed and exposure of female midriff and navel is more accepted today and in some societies or contexts it is both fashionable and common, though not without its critics. The exposure of the male navel has not been as controversial nor as common, and is usually in the context of barechestedness. Exposure of the navel is commonly associated with the popularization of the bikini, of the crop top and low-rise clothing.

Film[edit]

In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of female navel in Hollywood films.[3][4][5][6] 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 in Hollywood movies.[7]

Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in publicity photo for the series of Beach Party films, 1963

During the 1950s, Joan Collins was prohibited by the censors from exposing her navel in Land of the Pharaohs (1955). To get around the censors' guidelines, she wore a jewel, a ruby, in her navel.[8][9] This technique of baring the midriff but gluing a jewel on the navel was used in many other Hollywood films featuring belly dance sequences.[10][11] Kim Novak wore a ruby in her navel for the film Jeanne Eagels (1957); saying in an interview, "they had to glue it in every time. I got a terrible infection from it."[12] Marilyn Monroe, for a scene from Some Like It Hot (1959), wore a dress that revealed skin everywhere but had a tiny piece of fabric to hide her navel.[13] (The film was condemned by the National Legion of Decency, but for other reasons.[14][15])

Meanwhile, in Europe, not being bound by the Hays Code, Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952) featured Brigitte Bardot in scanty bikinis. (The film was not released in the USA until 1958.) And God Created Woman (1956) also featured Brigitte Bardot in a bikini. (The film was also condemned by the National Legion of Decency.[15] and not released in the US until 1957 after heavy editing.)

By the 1960s, community standards had changed. Marilyn Monroe was allowed to expose her navel in Something's Got to Give (1962) and later commented, "I guess the censors are willing to recognize that everybody has a navel."[16] Ursula Andress, appearing as Honey Rider in the 1962 James Bond film, Dr. No, wore her iconic white bikini which exposed her midriff and navel. However, when Annette Funicello was cast in her first beach movie, Beach Party (1963), Walt Disney who held her contract, insisted that she only wear modest bathing suits and keep her navel covered, to preserve her wholesome persona, though she was the only one of the ample number of young women in the film not bikini-clad.[17] In 1967 film, Follow That Camel actress Anita Harris wore a jewel on her navel for a belly dance sequence.[18][19]

The Hays Code was abandoned soon after, and with it the prohibition of female navel exposure, as well as other restrictions. The influence of the National Legion of Decency had also waned by the 1960s. With the withdrawal of the Code and the change to a classification regime, the ban on the exposure of parts of the human body which had previously been regarded as immodest or indecent was withdrawn; and with it there was an increasing level of body exposure over time. The exposure of the navel ceased to be controversial in the context of a general increase in nudity.

Television[edit]

Barbara Eden in a publicity photo of 1960's TV show I Dream of Jeannie

Cher exposing her navel for a scene from an Egyptian soap opera skit on The Sonny and Cher Show, 1977

In 1951, the United States Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters came into force, which, besides other things, prohibited female navel exposure on US television.[20] During the 1960s, Barbara Eden was not allowed to show her navel on the US TV show I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70).[21][22] To get around the ban, the show's creators adopted a technique previously employed in Hollywood films and used a flesh-colored plug to cover her navel.[23] In 2013, Barbara Eden attended the Life Ball event in Vienna dressed in the same costume of I Dream of Jeannie but flaunting her navel.[24][25][26] In February 1964, Scandinavian Airlines placed an advertisement in newspapers and magazines throughout America. It featured a bikini-clad blonde model exposing her bellybutton posing on a rock above the caption "What to show your wife in Scandinavia." The image that appeared in most publications had the belly button removed.[27][28]

Dawn Wells and Tina Louise were not allowed to expose their navels in Gilligan's Island (1964–67).[29] Wells was required to wear high-waisted shorts that covered her navel.[30][31] Wells stated in an interview ,"Oh my goodness, I designed the shorts. Because it was the first short shorts ever on television and it had to cover my navel."Gilligan's Island" actually gave censors headaches back in the '60's.Ginger's cleavage, and Mary Ann's navel were only allowed 3 seconds an episode".[32] The censors missed Nichelle Nichols showing her navel in the second-season Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" (1967).[33] It is believed that it was due to Bjo Trimble that it went unnoticed.[34] Another episode of Star Trek, called "A Private Little War" (1968), also managed to get past the censors when Nancy Kovak's belly button was clearly visible in some shots and not covered by jewelry as seen when the fringe from her top wasn't covering it. In 1969, Mariette Hartley was not allowed to show her belly button in "All Our Yesterdays" (1969), the penultimate episode of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. Gene had Mariette expose not one but two belly buttons in the sci-fi film Genesis II (1973).[35][36][37][38][39][40]

In The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1971–74) TV personality Cher exposing her navel, a first in television history.[41] Network censors feared her navel exposure would become a cause célèbre at CBS.[42] Cher once commented, "There were so many things that were censored—ideas and words. All I know is I got in trouble for showing my belly button, and every time I turned around after I went off the air, all you saw were Cheryl Ladd's boobs."[43] People Magazine dubbed Cher "Pioneer of the Belly Beautiful".[44]

The code of practice was suspended in 1983.[45][46][47]

Entertainment[edit]

Madonna, 1993

1980s[edit]

Navel exposure became common in the culture of 20th-century music, starting in the 1980s, with many famous female pop stars[48] having appeared on and offstage and in music videos with their midriff exposed, usually wearing a crop top, including Madonna, during 1983, she caused controversy when she wore a mesh crop top in her video for the song Lucky Star. People magazine wrote that Madonna made the bare navel her trademark.[44] Paula Abdul's navel was exposed in a fishnet see-through dress in the 1989 music video for Cold Hearted[49] and she appeared with a tattooed navel in the music video for My Love Is for Real in 1995.[50]

Britney Spears performing in 2003

1990s & 2000s[edit]

During the early 1990s, Canadian country singer Shania Twain appeared in low jeans baring her midriff and navel in her music videos and performances.[51][52][53] It became both the most widely discussed body part in country music and her trademark.[54][55] Shania once commented, "Someone said to me once ,'Well, if I had your belly-button I'd sell 8 million albums too.'But it takes a lot more than a belly-button to sell more than 8 million albums".[56] Jennifer Lopez is believed to have started the trend of exposing the navel on stage and red carpets.[57] It has been said Christina Aguilera has the most recognizable belly button in history.[58] People magazine stated that, "The 19-year-old hotshot chanteuse behind "What a Girl Wants," once a Mouseketeer alongside Britney Spears, can't quite pull off pop star flash without belly-flopping".[59] In 2001, the editors of Britannica commissioned an article on Britney Spears that deconstructs her bare midriff. The article describes Miss Spears's navel as "a heated boundary between baby and babe".[60] Spin magazine chose Madonna's navel as its "most incredible" rock star body part for a September 2005 feature.[61][62][63] Gregorio Luke, former director of the Museum of Latin American Art who conducted lectures about belly buttons, said, "The belly button has been a sign of beauty in goddesses as different as Astarte, Venus or Aphrodite. We ask which is more beautiful, the perfectly round belly button of Jane Fonda or Raquel Welch's grain of coffee navel? Every star from Madonna to Shakira proudly displays their belly button."[64][65]

On the contrary, American columnist Kathleen Parker in an article about Katharine Hepburn once commented, "Young movie-going girls today don't have access to many in the mold of Katharine Hepburn. Instead by mall observations most are Britney wannabes—hip-hugged, tattooed, pierced and out there. The female navel has become the refrigerator man's continental divide. I hate to break it to you, oh future daughters-in-law, but everybody's got a belly button. Your inney- or outey-ness is not the stuff either of revelation or revolution."[66]

Fashion[edit]

See also: History of the bikini

Cheerleading outfits of Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders

Displays of the navel commenced with the introduction of the bikini in 1946, designed by Louis Réard,[67] though two-piece swimsuits that exposed the midriff but covered the navel appeared in the 1930s. Réard could not find a model who would dare wear his brief design, so he hired Micheline Bernardini, a 19-year old nude dancer from the Casino de Paris, as his model.[68][69] The uptake of the new-style swimsuit was very slow, and even then the bikini was not regarded as suitable clothing beyond the beach or pool. During the 1960s, Mary Quant's designs featured exposed navels and bare midriffs.[70]

The fashion later became increasingly popular through sporting styles tops comprising modified sports bras without additional outer garments, sports bikinis, and cheerleading style fashions developing largely from the styles originating with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in the early 1970s.[71] The navel fashion returned in the 1980s, when a ban on exposing the navel in public was lifted.[1] Actress Cher sported an Indian princess outfit with feathers and beads around her navel for the Academy Awards ceremony in 1986. California designer Christine Albers commented, "the look is good for anyone who has a great body but especially for women who do a lot of stomach exercises".[72] The modern trend of clothing exposing the navel has usually been confined to women, apart from a 1980s fashion male belly-button shirt fad.

A woman wearing a cropped top and low-rise pants that expose the midriff and navel

Low-rise fashion started in the early 1990s, when the British magazine The Face featured Kate Moss in low-rise jeans on its March 1993 issue cover.[73] Models such as Gisele Bündchen frequently flash their midriffs.[74] The display of the navel in women's fashion has partly grown out of the sportswear and swimwear styles that became popular during the twentieth century, themselves linked to successes of the feminist movement and developments in clothing technology. 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,[75] 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."[76] The importance of the navel is such that for Czech model Karolína Kurková, who does not have a navel, the magazine and catalogue art directors routinely airbrush one in for her during post-production. They keep a collection of belly button shots in different positions, and Photoshop them on to her whenever she's doing a bikini picture.[77] Kelly Ripa has also appeared in magazine covers of Shape with morphed navels.[78]

Exposed midriff is associated with the crop top, often in association with low-rise clothing. Another way that the navel may be exposed is via a deep plunging neckline dress or top which drops below the natural waist line.

Navel piercing[79] and navel tattoos[80] has become more common among young women. The trend of piercing or tattooing the navel became popular in the 1990s.[81] It is popular among middle-aged women.[82][83] Actress Drew Barrymore has a butterfly tattoo beneath her navel.[84][85] German actress Franka Potente has a tribal design tattoo around her navel.[86] The growing popularity of belly dancing, where navel exposure is typical, has also added to the navel exposure trend.[87] During the late 1980s, Disney's heroines began exposing more skin as well. In the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid, the animated lead protagonist, Ariel, flashed her navel while wearing only fins & seashells, a first in Disney's history.[88]

Contrarily, advice columnist Ann Landers commented, "Navels are neither sexy nor obscene. I do not believe any female of good taste would wear an outfit where her navel shows. This does not include women in costumes or those on beaches in bikinis. The same goes for males. An adult male who wears hip-huggers so low rates zero minus 10 on the scale of taste—it's my opinion but it's one I feel strongly about".[89] Fashion historian James Laver told that he hasn't quite caught up with the idea of exposing the navel, saying, "I have never regarded that as a particularly attractive part of the human anatomy".[90][91] After 2010, the crop top fashion had a changeover by which women started wearing it with a high-rise skirts, jeans, or shorts that are high enough to cover the belly button.[92][93][94]

Sports[edit]

Tennis[edit]

Bulgarian sprinter Ivet Lalova with her unique navel tattoo

Tennis players are known for exposing their navels or navel piercings on court.[95][96][97][98] American tennis player Serena Williams was noted by the media for exposing her navel piercing during her matches.[99][100][101] Similarly, retired Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova was known for frequent navel exposure during her matches.[102][103][104] In 2009, for an interview to the german magazine Der Spiegel when asked about her belly button showing during serves, she commented, "These are men's ravings.Why you should hide it, when it isn't necessary? Female Beachvolleyball-players play in bikinis - does it bother anyone?"[105] American female golfer Laura Diaz commenting to LPGA for Sports Illustrated ,"The LPGA needs to acknowledge that a lot of people watch women's sports more for the women than for the sports. Why else would Anna Kournikova, who has never won a singles title, be the most popular player in women's tennis? We have quite a few attractive women, and we should use our looks to our advantage. After all, what's so wrong with seeing an occasional belly button?"[106][107]

Athletics[edit]

Bikinis have become a major component of marketing various women's sports.[108] By which, most female athletes often wear sports bikinis that exposes the navel as the professional attire. Bulgarian athlete Ivet Lalova is known for her unique "tribal sun"[109] tattoo around her navel.[110][111][112][113]

Mediterranean, Hebrew and Middle Eastern cultures[edit]

A belly dancer in Marrakech in Morocco

The navel is mentioned as an important element of a woman's beauty in the Song of Songs of the Hebrew Bible.[114][115] It contains imagery similar to that in the love songs of ancient Egyptian literature.[114] Song of Songs 7:2 states, "Your navel is a rounded bowl".[116] The verse preceding the line mentioning the navel (Song of Songs 7:1) states, "your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand",[116] ) and the verse following states, "Your belly is a heap of wheat".[116] Thus, the description of the navel is placed textually in between the description of the curves of a woman through thigh and the stomach or midriff.[115] "Belly" also suggests the womb, and the combination of the imagery of the womb with that of wheat suggests the link between eroticism and fertility through the imagery of the navel and curvaceous thighs.[115] These passages also celebrate a curvaceous stomach and midriff and plumpness as aspects of female physical attractiveness.[115]

In the ancient Mediterranean, Hebrew, Israelite and Middle Eastern worldview, it was a common belief that shrines, important places like cities or capitals, or other such places of prominence had a position of centrality to the world and hence equated to the child-bearing, life-giving navel of a mother.[117] These domains constituted what could be regarded as important bond that linked the universe.[117] Thus Nippur, the ancient city of the Mesopotamian people, was often described as the "navel".[117] This suggested to the prominence of the location and the way it was seen to function as a place of centrality and as a link between earth and the heavens and the Universe.[117] The Greeks thought that the conical stone Omphalos ("navel") located at Delphi was the center of the earth.[117]

In a similar vein, in the Jewish Midrashim it is stated, "God created the world like an embryo. Just as the embryo begins at the navel and continues to grow from that point, so too the world. The Holy One, blessed be he, began the world from its navel. From there it was stretched hither and yon. Where is its navel? Jerusalem. And its (Jerusalem's) navel itself? The altar".[117][118] This passage describes how the centrality of the ancient city of Jerusalem and of the altar of the ancient temple of Jerusalem within cosmic framework was equated to the navel of a mother and the source of life.[117] This is also seen in the Book of Jubilees 8:19 and Book of Enoch 26:1 where it is describes Mount Zion as "The center of the navel of the earth".[117] In Samaritan tradition Mount Gerizim is described as the navel of the earth, the only place which was not submerged in the deluge of the story of Noah's ark.[117] The phrase "navel of the earth" is used in (Ezek 38:12; Judg 9:37) Aramaic tibbur ("navel") and is also mentioned in Ezek 16:4.[117] According to Samaritan tradition, Adam was made from the dust of Mount Gerizim.[119] The navel is also celebrated in the belly dancing tradition of Mediterranean, and middle eastern cultures.[120]

Indian culture[edit]

Ancient times[edit]

An 1820 painting by Frederic Shoberl of Indian women in navel exposing saris.

Didarganj Yakshi, a sculpture of a woman in navel-exposing attire.

While the West was relatively resistant to midriff-baring clothing until the 1980s, it has long been a fashion with Indian women.[121] These women, especially those from Southern India, have traditionally worn saris that bare the midriff.[122][123] Women from Rajasthan leave the midriff exposed while wearing Ghagra Cholis.[124] These women often cover their heads with dupattas,[125] and may cover their faces in front of strangers with ghoonghats. There is a belief in India that navel-baring has a symbolic, almost mystical, association with birth and life, and that the display is meant to emphasize the centrality of nature in the nurture role.[126] In ancient Indian tradition, the navel of the god Vishnu is considered to be the center of the universe and the source of life.[127] From his navel a new world emerges. This has been depicted in many ancient Indian sculptures as a lotus emerging from the navel on which god Brahma is seated.[128][129]

Although women in ancient India wore saris that bared the midriff, the Dharmasastra writers stated that women should be dressed such that the navel was never visible,[130][131] and navel exposure became taboo.[132] The trend of exposing the navel was started by women who were dancers, acrobats, or entertainers, and who developed a technique of wearing the sari like a pair of trousers well below the navel to assist in the free movement of the legs.[133] This trend slowly spread to become common among unmarried young women. Women in this type of attire are very common in many ancient Indian sculptures,[134][135] and paintings.[136] Indian sculpture emphasised the centrality and sexuality which emanated from the depiction of the woman's navel. One of the most stunning examples would be Didarganj Yakshi, a statue of a woman made during the Mauryan period. Carved out of sandstone which gives it a natural shine where the navel is deeply embedded within the centre of the torso, drawing the focus of the viewer.[137] Before sculpting, the sculptors created an image and indicated the six structural centers, of which the navel is one, as defined by Yoga principles.[138] Technically, the typical female representation in ancient Indian art includes an hourglass figure with large hips, breasts, and buttocks, and a deep navel.[139] According to Indian physiognomy, if a woman's navel is deep, she is popular and loved by her husband. A broad, fleshy, shallow navel indicates a lucky woman. A woman with deep navel with a whirl to the right side is considered auspicious and is expected to lead a comfortable life.[140][141] Famous Indian painter M. F. Husain once commented, "The belly button has always been in. It has been an intrinsic part of the Indian woman. It has been part of Indian sculptures that go back so many centuries. That is why so many years ago, even in the 50s, all my works had women show their belly buttons.

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