# Belly button and penis

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-button-and-penis/592005>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-button-and-penis/592005 "2011-08-08T23:16:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-button-and-penis/592005/21 "2011-08-11T00:45:05Z")

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As a tangent, what causes the “tickling” sensation in my wee-wee (and has since I was a child, and apparently it affects my sons as well) when you are in a car and suddenly go over and down an incline at speed? We all call them the “whee bumps”. I used to get that same feeling when I would use a swing as a child, but no longer.

But the whee bumps still get me there.

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**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-button-and-penis/592005/22 "2011-08-11T01:27:17Z")

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> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> But the whee bumps still get me there.

…and this little piggy went whee-whee-whee all the way home. 🙂

(couldn’t help myself)

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**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belly-button-and-penis/592005/23 "2011-08-11T02:21:28Z")

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> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> As a tangent, what causes the “tickling” sensation in my wee-wee (and has since I was a child, and apparently it affects my sons as well) when you are in a car and suddenly go over and down an incline at speed? We all call them the “whee bumps”. I used to get that same feeling when I would use a swing as a child, but no longer.
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> But the whee bumps still get me there.

I get a similar sensation going over bumps, but more in my bladder and lower abdomen, kind of like a brief feeling of weightlessnes. The bump has to be a certain size for it to happen. Too small, and it’s just a “bump;” too big and you really feel the car climbing and then descending.

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