Navel Piercing: Body Piercing, Urban Legend, Peritoneum, Liver, Christy Turlington, Music Video, Aerosmith, Cryin', Alicia Silverstone

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A navel piercing (also referred to as a belly button piercing) is a type of body piercing. It may heal very quickly and with no problems, like an ear piercing, or may heal more like a surface piercing with the associated extended healing time. Healing usually takes less than six months, and as long as it is cleaned, it will heal nicely. Unlike most body piercings, this is one of the few that do not normally reject, although the rejection rate is higher than other piercings, such as ear piercings. The actual navel is not pierced when a navel piercing is performed. The most common form of navel piercing is through the upper rim of the navel. A true navel piercing requires the person being pierced to have an outie" navel to some degree, and is extremely rare. Although there is an urban legend that an infection in a true navel piercing can travel inward to the liver or peritoneum, there are no known cases of this occurring. This kind of piercing is popular with, but not exclusive to females."