Yeah the question is as weird as it get’s. but i saw a random reddit comment. tried it. and it works. and my friends can confirm too.
if you press decently hard in the deepest part of your belly button. you can feel a weird touch/tickle on your penis.
how come it works like this? what’s causing this weird disconnection?
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The nerve impulses from your belly button joins the spine at the same place as the nerve impulses from your penis. Your brain just interprets it as “oh, lower abdominal nerves are being triggered” and doesn’t really differentiate which ones specifically
From Wikipedia:
>The urachus is a fibrous remnant of the allantois, a canal that drains the urinary bladder of the fetus that joins and runs within the umbilical cord.
The urachus lies within the median umbilical ligament, a remnant structure left over from fetal development of your bladder and urinary tract. The ligament runs from your navel and attaches to the top of your bladder. When you press on your navel, the force applies tension to your bladder and urethra which you feel in your (wo)manly bits.
I’m sorry, what??? I’m an AMAB dude and neither experience this nor have I ever heard about.
Your friends too? Am I the only one who doesn’t experience this and has no idea what you’re talking about? When I press on my belly button it just feels like I’m pressing my belly button.
It’s due to the area of skin around your belly button and in your belly button have their nerves coming and going from the same level in your spine as the bladder and urethra.
My understanding of it is that skin is well innervated and the brain is set up to be able to tell where at that level you are being touched or some kind of tactile sensation (eg something has touched the right side above the hip versus only a few centimetres to the right of your bellybutton). But the skin deep in your bellybutton doesn’t have as many nerves to be able to distinguish this kind of thing. There’s no reason for it to have so over the millions of years of evolution there was no reason for resources to be spent on highly innervating an area when it’s not needed. But because it’s not as easy for the brain to tell where the area being touched is compared to the rest of the skin in the area, the brain in some people will interpret it as the sensation coming from the bellybutton and the genital area.
I found these two videos that give basic explanations.
Omg I am a female and I can barely clean my belly button without getting the weirdest feeling. It’s awful.
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