I used to believe that men had sex through a woman’s belly button and somehow that’s how she got pregnant. As such I believed that it was part of a female’s private parts.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann