The Night I Accidentally Bragged About My Belly Button

I don’t know if this fits here, but I had the urge to share.

Back when I was in college, I was naive and unassuming sexually. During high school, I was a bit socially awkward. I didn’t really date until my Senior year and even then, I hadn’t done anything more than fingerbang my GF. Now I’m in college and I have no idea what I’m doing.

I end up in an eclectic group of friends – goth, not goth. Jock, nerds. Potheads, straight-edge. 22 y/o, 18 y/o. All of us having connections to our schools IRC – this was back in the mid to late 90s, so chatrooms and IRC were still a novelty that most people made fun of.

One night, a bunch of us are hanging out, trying to cure our boredom. Someone comes up with the random idea to rent a porn movie from the local video store. They all laugh and agree.

I’m sitting there thinking “we’re just gonna go out and rent a porno… like it’s a normal thing to do”? I’d seen porn before, but usually that came with an agenda. And it certainly wasn’t something I’d consider as a group activity.

But, 20 minutes later, our friends get back to the apartment with some parody porn movie. And we all just sat there, watching it and riffing on it. If it were now and we had a camera, you’d think we were just making a regular Reaction video.

Eventually, a male actor was on screen and a couple of the girls in our group make comments about his size. One of them says, “Look at it! It goes all the way up to his goddamn belly button.”

They laugh, but I’m still processing that statement. And with sincere, oblivious innocence, I turn around to the girls who made the comments.

“Wait, is that what girl’s consider big? Because mine comes up to my belly button and I don’t think it’s really that…”

It was only when I saw their expression change did I realize exactly what I was saying. And suddenly, I was on fire.

After the initial wave of burning embarrassment, all I could do was turn back around towards the screen and say something like “Wow, look at her tits…” and just feel myself melting through my chair.

The rest of the night was uneventful, but I definitely noticed some different glances from the girls in our group after that.

I eventually start dating one of them and things only got more interesting from there.

Thanks for letting me share.