How Did We Get From Pussy (cat) to Pussy (vag)? How Did Beaver Enter The Mix?

[md-2000]

@Exapno_Mapcase

Pick out any random single syllable word and the odds are surprisingly good that it has a secondary sexual usage in slang. Human minds are a cesspool. That’s why aliens don’t visit.

When the Chuck Berry song My Ding-a-Ling was banned on British radio as being too rude, Punch published a cartoon of record executives sitting around a table, and one is saying “Can’t we find a euphemism for ‘Ding-a-Ling’?”

[silenus]

@Exapno_Mapcase

But the absence of pussy in Grose and other early slang works argues against the vaginal sense being generally known before late 19c.,

Well, it was very well known by that time, since the word shows up a lot in Victorian-era porn.

[Moriarty]

@Exapno_Mapcase

Pussy-whipped “hen-pecked” is attested by 1956 (Middle English had cunt-beaten “impotent,” in reference to a man, mid-15c.).

I’m reminded of something a friend once told me:

“You ever been whipped by a pussy? It’s not so bad.”