Hi to you all,

itÂ´s interesting to have a forum about the subject of bellies and bellybuttons. I have an outie navel since I canremember and since I was a little child. Unfortunately, I had often tummy problems earlier and had to stay often at doctors and at the hospital, too, when I was a teenaged boy, and doctors often said I have a kind of navel hernia; it was a more prominent and really knotty conspicuous outie navel in my youth time, so I found it ugly and I was often so ashamed about it and was often asked and sometimes teased about it by others. And I hated all the exams by doctors, when they mostly fingered, pressed hardly, poked, squeezed and pulled on my protruding gnarly outie navel, so I had often navel pain then and afterwards. But that was also the start of my interest in navels and what navels others have and I was happy to see, not to be the only one with such an unusual and conspicuous outie navel. Time by time I learned, that all navels look different and outies are not so uncommon and one kind of the way a navel looks. I learned to accept mine gnarly protruding navel knot time by time and got a lot of experiences of others and their navels. I would be interested to share more experiences with you. All the best

Michael