Gazing at belly buttons can land you your ideal love mate

It has often been cited as a textbook example of a useless body part, but if a scientist is to be believed, belly button beauty may play a vital role in finding potential mates

It has often been cited as a textbook example of a useless body part, but if a scientist is to be believed, belly button beauty may play a vital role in finding potential mates.
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Aki Sinkkonen of the University of Helsinki, Finland says: "I was younger than nowadays, and some of my friends were discussing how some women have a beautiful umbilicus or navel.
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"I was thinking, ''How is this possible? If this is scar tissue, how is it possible that it can be beautiful?"
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Sinkkonen, who published his idea recently in the FASEB Journal, told Discovery News there is plenty of evidence that there is more to the "useless" body part than that.
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For instance, in many mammals, the navel forms a tiny, asymmetrical scar.
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However, in humans, it is a visible and significant mark. Many cultures draw attention to it in art, Sinkkonen noted, and some wealthy people pay plenty to have their navel''s appearance enhanced.
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To reach his conclusion, Sinkkonen pointed out a research by Charles Puckett and colleagues of the University of Misouri, which quizzed people to choose from a number of navels the one that was most attractive.
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The subjects agreed: the best-looking navels were vertically oriented with a T-shape.
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Those with particularly large belly buttons, or with any sort of protrusions -- sorry, outies -- or distortions, received lower scores.