Please note that this is an old interview. Meow had some problems at her forum and asked us to take it down for a time. Hopefully the article is here to stay now that she has allowed us to put it back.

This week we took the opportunity to sit down and talk with a well-known community member, Meow. Meow is best known for her role as an administrator at Navelicious. We have had a relationship with Meow since we first revamped out site and we’re glad to have a chance to add her interview to our series.

OBF: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, how you got into bellybuttons, and what you do in the bellybutton community?

Meow: My place in the community is next to everyone else in the community. I don’t consider myself as different to the “others”. I got into the whole bellybutton theme about 5 years ago when I joined a bellybutton beauty competition. At the moment, I’m one of the admins of http://navelicious1.userboard.org.

OBF: I remember hearing before on a forum or something that you had been in a bellybutton beauty competition. Can you tell us more about that? Was it a large competition? Did a lot of people attend? How did you find out about it and why did you decide to enter?

Meow: It was on an Internet page where you could send in pictures or videos of your bellybutton. There was a competition for the males and one for the females. I don’t remember exactly but I would guess each group had about 150-200 participants. So not very large I guess. I found out about it randomly looking around google and stuff and stumbled across the page. I thought it was interesting and sent some photos in.

OBF: That’s really cool. I was hoping it was a real life competition in a shopping mall or something though. Did you win or get a place in the competition? Were you looking for bellybutton stuff when you stumbled on the competition?

Meow: I was 1st place and got 25€ and a winner certificate. I was searching google for piercing shops.

OBF: That’s awesome. Congratulations – even if it is 5 years too late.

What’s your actual interest level in bellybuttons? Would you classify it as a full-blown bellybutton fetish, a passing interest, or somewhere in between. I’ve seen your posts on a few forums now and I’ve never really gotten the feeling that you have a bellybutton fetish. Obviously something keeps you coming back and contributing though. What is it about bellybuttons that interests you?

Meow: What determines a fetish? And what is a “full blown bellybutton fetish”?

The best answer I can give you is: Would I run a board if I would only be a “bit” interested? If I only would be interested to show off pictures of my own belly, I could do that on the other boards out there or youtube or somewhere else.

Others who are “into” it – sharing their experiences, how they stimulate themself for example – I’m just not the kind of person who likes to share her private life with the Internet that much. I am interested, I am into it and I guess I have some sorts of activities with my bellybutton from time to time, too.

OBF: Fair enough.

I would probably say that a fetish is to the point where bellybuttons, bellybutton play, etc. are the primary way that a person is sexually stimulated. Full blown would be like you spend your whole day or a large part of your day looking to experience things involving bellybuttons, searching for pictures, playing with your own, playing with others, etc.

I think your answer makes sense.

What made you want to become a forum administrator? Do you enjoy being an admin?

Meow: I never liked the idea of a forum where people who don’t want to take part can see the whole content. As I didn’t know any bellybutton forum where only active members can see the content of other users, we decided to make our own board. The people who want to take part of it, get full access. The people who only want to look around can do that, too. But they dont have access to the pictures, videos, stories and stuff. If they decide to take part someday, they can start posting on the “Discussion” sections of the board, to get full access later. I think we have found a good compromise for the members.

OBF: So you think your system works well then? It doesn’t seem like anybody is unhappy on your forum, which is always a good thing. Do you think you have gotten more people to contribute than other forums have in the past?

Meow: I think the system works. The active members are giving feedback to us and we only get positive feedback about it. For the non-posters I don’t know what they think about it. We never get feedback from them. But I guess they dont like the fact that the concept is “give and receive”.

We have a few users that stated they were on various other boards before, where they never posted. On our board they deciced to take an active part in it. I can’t tell if its because of the fact they can’t see everything if they’re not active or if they just, well, decided to have fun with people that share the same interest. But overall I don’t think we “got” more users to contribute with our method than on other boards. But we have a bit, only a bit, more privacy for people that want to post pictures of their own bellybutton or other content like private stories. Maybe it results in more happy active users but more sad non-active users. But there is never a way to make everyone happy, nowhere in life.

OBF: You’re totally right. It is very hard to satisfy everyone. The people who appreciate you make it worth doing though.

I have to ask. You probably can’t answer but I still have to ask. What is the new project with the Android character who has a bellybutton? Are we going to see a bellybutton game app from you guys? I’ve been dying to know.

Meow: Sorry, but I don’t want to tell much about it right now. I can only tell that nobody has done that before and I think the fellow bellybutton fetishists will appreciate it. It will help the user of that app, it will help the community and it will even help the people who dont have an android phone.

As Georg Broussard said: “When it’s done.”

OBF: That’s okay. I didn’t expect you to be able to talk about it.

Do you have any kind of idea about when we might get to see what it is? Will the release be much longer?

Meow: I would like to tell you a time but I don’t know it for myself. The other admin of Navelicious (Matrixcrash02) is a software programmer who is making the app beside his full time job. So it depends on his spare time he is willing to spend on making it. And I’m not going to hurry him or anything like that. But as some people don’t understand, we haven’t unlimited spare time. We both have full time jobs and other private things we have to take care of first. The board is just the second banana. We do our best but private life goes first.

OBF: No problem. Can’t hurt to ask. Real life is definitely more important. We are all excited to see what is coming. We’ll definitely post about it when it finally does come.

How long do you think you will continue to be an admin. Some forums have gone on for 5 or more years. Do you think you will do this that long, or longer? Will you and Matrixcrash02 keep selecting new administrators to take your place so your forum can continue? Do you have any other interesting future plans that you can talk about?

Meow: At the moment we’re not looking for other administrators. For my person, I’ll run it as long I can. If there’s some point where it’s not possible for me to run it anymore, there’s still Matrixcrash02. If he would quit the board tomorrow, I would run it alone. I wouldn’t look around to quickly find another admin beside me. If someone comes around where I think he/she would be a good admin, I would talk about it with him/her. But at the moment it’s nothing we/I think about.

Sure it could happen that the board gets closed because of copyright protection or something. You can never know what happens tomorrow. But we take good care to remove content that’s copyright protected or anything else thats not fine. We do our best that the board lives as long as possible.

For the future we dont really have plans at the moment.

OBF: We hope your forum lasts a long time. It seems like you have good people.

Is there anything else you’d like to talk about? Do you have any questions for us? We always like to make the discussion a two way street in these interviews.

Meow: I would like to say something to the readers.

Don’t be shy, start talking with people that share the same interests like you. It doesn’t matter if you do it on Navelicious, tummiesandnavels, Nombrilla or anywhere else. Show your bellybutton to the others, there’s nothing to be ashamed off. You expose your bellybutton every single time when you’re on the beach, so 1 or 2 photos will not harm you. Many people will enjoy your work. If everyone would just look at other people’s stuff without contributing something by him/herself there would be nothing to look at. Think about it. Your bellybutton could make 10 other people to show off their bellybuttons, too.

OBF: I couldn’t agree with you more! I especially like what you said about the beach. Nobody here thinks twice about showing his/her stomach at the beach. Share your bellybutton on whatever site or forum you are active on.

Thanks Meow. I enjoyed talking with you. Thanks for giving me some of your time.

Meow: Thanks for the interview. I hope it wasn’t too boring for you

OBF: No, not at all. I enjoyed talking with you.

Meow: Okay thank you.
That wraps up this interview. If you haven’t seen the link in our links section or anywhere else on the site, be sure to visit, join, and contribute at Meow’s forum, Navelicious – http://navelicious1.userboard.org

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