# opposite of phallic **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 13, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232 "2001-09-13T02:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/1 "2001-09-13T02:04:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/2 "2001-09-13T02:08:23Z")
You mean there are things that aren’t related to a penis? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/3 "2001-09-13T02:19:22Z")
“yoni”. Noun. Dunno what the adjective would be. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/4 "2001-09-13T03:00:43Z")
vulvic? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/5 "2001-09-13T03:03:11Z")
Yonic. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/6 "2001-09-13T03:09:05Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/7 "2001-09-13T03:31:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > \*\*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. 😃 \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/8 "2001-09-13T03:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > > \*\*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. 😃 \*\* > > 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!](http://www.geocities.com/area51/nebula/2338/sf.html) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/9 "2001-09-13T03:52:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\*rl=“[http://www.geocities.com/area51/nebula/2338/sf.html](http://www.geocities.com/area51/nebula/2338/sf.html)”]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). ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/10 "2001-09-13T04:11:49Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/11 "2001-09-13T04:41:58Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/12 "2001-09-13T04:55:55Z")
An earlier thread on this subject: [Word for female form of ‘phallic’…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=24100) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/13 "2001-09-13T18:42:53Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > \*\*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. \*\* I read somewhere that the artistist symbol for the vulva is a triangle. I can’t recall ever seeing this in a painting though. 🙂 Maybe the paintings are stuck in the museum basement along with the neolithic “spear straighteners”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/14 "2001-09-13T20:00:22Z")
What’s wrong with thinking of a bagel as yonic? 😉 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. ---
**Author:** ![MinkMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minkman/32/19170_2.png) [@MinkMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinkMan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/15 "2001-09-13T20:18:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*What’s wrong with thinking of a bagel as yonic? 😉 > > 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](http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon) ): vulva = “aidoion” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/16 "2001-09-15T01:09:14Z")
Cuniform. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/17 "2001-09-15T02:52:00Z")
_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_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0892815620/qid=1000522041/sr=2-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/002-9556875-3786443). Check out the cover picture to begin with. There’s also Camphausen’s [Planet Yoni](http://www.planet-yoni.com/), to further immerse yourself in Yoniology. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/18 "2001-09-15T03:10:35Z")
Now we know why Homer likes doughnuts so much… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/19 "2001-09-15T05:35:47Z")
Opposite of 'phallic? How about **tubular**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opposite-of-phallic/81232/20 "2001-09-15T06:01:42Z")
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