# Male equivalent of "vulva"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 10, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386 "2004-07-10T00:41:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386/21 "2004-07-10T14:23:03Z")

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You know that scraggly seam that runs down the middle of the scrotum? That’s what would have been the vulva. But nature decided at the last minute to make you male instead.

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**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386/22 "2004-07-10T14:34:54Z")

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> [@Wikkit](#):
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> Don’t make me kick you in the junk.

So the guy who drives around here in a pick up truck with high sides and the hand painted sign that says, “Let Me Haul Your Junk” is a bit kinky???

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386/23 "2004-07-10T14:51:17Z")

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A loooong time ago I was talking to a coworker about kilts, or about women going commando under their skirts. She said something like “That’s disgusting! Walkin’ aroun’ wit’ your **funk** all hangin’ out!”

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**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386/24 "2004-07-10T14:52:56Z")

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_Doomsday cuts it up like a Shaolin monk  
Pumping the funk in your junk trunk, punk_

MC Hawking seems so much dirtier now…

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**Author:** ![johncole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@johncole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johncole)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-equivalent-of-vulva/254386/25 "2004-07-10T15:47:18Z")

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> [@Krokodil](#):
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> You know that scraggly seam that runs down the middle of the scrotum? That’s what would have been the vulva. But nature decided at the last minute to make you male instead.

\<less than important\>

According to Gray’s that scraggly seam is called the **raphe**.

Other sources offer rhaphe.

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