opposite of phallic

does anyone know what the vaginal version of a phallic symbol is called? I think it’s something like “yannick”, but I’m not finding it anywhere, no matter how I spell. And god help you if you try finding antonyms online.

You mean there are things that aren’t related to a penis? :stuck_out_tongue:

“yoni”.

Noun. Dunno what the adjective would be.

vulvic?

Yonic.

Well, a new favorite word for erl. I’m using that puppy everywhere… there is nothing I would wish to be more ubiquitous than references to the female genitalia. :smiley:

Unfortunately, it’s hard to find good yonic symbols. I guess anything with a hole in the middle qualifies, but I wouldn’t really want to describe the bagel I had for breakfast that way.

The Jesus Fish!

And I’ve got FireUnderpantsBoobs telling me all about symbolic representations of the female genitalia. That’s really cool (both the tract and the fact I noted).

On a side note, the artist who inked my first tat used to have a shop called “Yoni Tattoo.” Now, a shop called “Phallus Tattoo” would be forced to change its name immediately if not sooner, but so few people know what a yoni is that nobody raised a fuss. Of course, as Yoni is a male name (Israeli, I think) she kept getting calls “Can I speak to Yoni please?”

What’s wrong with “phallus tattoo”? I kinda like it. And who, really, would “force” them to take it down?

Long live phallus tattoo!!

Gav

An earlier thread on this subject: Word for female form of ‘phallic’…

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I read somewhere that the artistist symbol for the vulva is a triangle. I can’t recall ever seeing this in a painting though. :slight_smile: Maybe the paintings are stuck in the museum basement along with the neolithic “spear straighteners”. :wink:

What’s wrong with thinking of a bagel as yonic? :wink:

The one problem I have with using the word “yonic” in this way is that it’s not really the counterpart to “phallic”, but to “lingamic” (which admittedly means more or less the same thing). “Phallic” is from a Greek root, so what we need is the Greek word for vulva.

According to an online english-greek dictionary ( ΛΕΞΙΚΌ - LEXICON: Greek-English-Greek dictionary ):
vulva = “aidoion”

Cuniform.

Aidoion? Cool. I had been searching for the Greek word for my yoniwords.doc file, but so far all I’d come up with are kolpos and kteis, both of which mean other things besides vulva.

There are plenty of yonic symbols all around, if you just look. Please see Rufus Camphausen’s book The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power. Check out the cover picture to begin with.

There’s also Camphausen’s Planet Yoni, to further immerse yourself in Yoniology.

Now we know why Homer likes doughnuts so much… :wink:

Opposite of 'phallic? How about tubular?

:smiley:

Vestibular