The hair's scales act like a kind of barbed hooks," he said. "Abdominal hair often seems to grow in concentric circles around the navel.
We hope we have been able to provide information for doctors when they are next confronted with the simple question of 'why some belly buttons collect so much lint and others do not.
An earlier, Australian study of samples from 5,000 people concluded the typical carrier of navel fluff to be 'a slightly overweight middle-aged male with a hairy abdomen.source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4883791/Revealed-The-secrets-of-belly-button-fluff.html

Je dois être une espèce rare puisque mon cas rejoint celui du " slightly overweight middle-aged male with a hairy abdomen'.
ça doit être la part masculine qui se cache en moi - mais pourtant qui se montre discrètement :-D
mais le piercing ne me tente pas trop pour régler ce "problème" - tant pis, je vais faire ma propre collection de laine - lol