I hear you can get yourself very hurt with a belly button piercing and a knit blanket.. or nipple, or genital piercings, same blanket, sleeping naked... edit: I also imagine said piercings would make swimming suit decisions harder under certain circumstances....
why? if you get your tits or other bits pierced, generally you're the kinda person who wants people looking at them. or maybe i'm misunderstanding what you're imagining about difficulty in suimsuit decisions...
i had my belly done for like a week before a dog jumped on me and tore it a little bit and i started developing keloids. it was gross. so it seemed like a good choice not to do it again.
never been a big fan of bellybutton piercings, but i do have my nose pierced and i love how it looks on me. a little sparkle, without being huge or anything. but i think my nose is mighty cute sooooo, yeah.
Nipple piercings and drunken topless air guitar solos can also be excruciatingly painful. I speak from experience.
On the contrary, everybody who is considering getting a piercing should have some sort of virtual reality simulation of the pain/blood.
I love my belly button piercing. I think I have a rather odd shaped piece of skin that goes over my freakishly large belly button though,and it fits rather well-plus it hides the scar from me trying to do it myself at 13 with a safety pin . 'I don't quite think that is typical- for it to look better pierced. If that makes any sense... of coarse it doesn't I am half in the bottle of rum tonight.