Cultural views on the navel 1960s, community standards had changed. Marilyn Monroe was allowed to expose her navel in "Something's Got to Give" (1962) and later commented, "I guess the censors are willing to recognize that everybody has a navel." Ursula Andress, appearing as Honey Rider in the 1962 James Bond film, "Dr. No", wore her iconic white bikini, which exposed her midriff and navel. However, when Annette Funicello was cast in her first beach movie "Beach Party" (1963), Walt Disney, who held her contract, insisted that she only wear modest bathing suits and keep her navel covered, to preserve her wholesome persona, though she
The Girl Who Was Plugged In in order to move up in society. Social status within this society is so dependent on what body one has in that people with “bad” bodies want to move into “better” bodies. Hicks says that this is precisely what gender disembodiment really means within the context of this short story. In relationship to human embodiment and this story, Scientists at MIT have created a device called sensory fiction that allows a reader to physically feel with his or her body what is happening in the story These scientists decided to use The Girl Who Was Plugged In as a prototype