# Poll: What did you call your private parts when you were a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964 "2004-04-20T03:27:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/21 "2004-04-21T00:05:10Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > Come on **Lobs** …is this something you really want to know? What do little boys and girls call their genitals. Sounds kinda :eek: to me. > > heh, I don’t know that it was that big of a thing back then :rolleyes: > but weenie sounds kinda familiar to me. Ha, I assure you there’s nothing :eek:y about my inquiry. 🙂 I am just remenicing, y’know. I probably didn’t know words like d **k or c** t or even ‘penis’, when I was a kid. So I, like most kids, had a more _innocent_ name for those parts who’s use I/we didn’t fully understand. ---
**Author:** ![RindaRinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RindaRinda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RindaRinda)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/22 "2004-04-21T00:17:06Z")
> [@Hokkaido Brit](#): > > My husband was horrified and choked when he heard, because “chon-chon” is the word used for dipping. (My boys like to “chon-chon” bread into their egg yolks!) Eeek! Did the man never think of the imagery?? Heh heh. When I first heard the phrase “chin chin” being used as a toast in some British comedy, I cracked up. For those people who use the word “vagina” for female parts - what about the rest of the parts? I never liked using that word because it leaves so much important stuff out. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/23 "2004-04-21T00:39:13Z")
I agree. The vagina is the inside bit that kids have no idea is there until the talk about the birds and the bees. The labia is the outside bit that they’d be familiar with. One of my elderly neighbors has a Japanese Chin dog. He calls him Chin-Chin. I don’t think I’ll tell him what I just learned in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/24 "2004-04-21T00:44:48Z")
No cute names in my family. All boys, so I have no idea what my parents would have used for female genetalia, but we all used the terms “penis” and “testicles” (a difficult word for children to say). JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/25 "2004-04-21T00:47:09Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > My brother had a go-go (still does, I assume) but I don’t remember that us sisters had a name for our privates. Does he know George Michael? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/26 "2004-04-21T00:50:18Z")
When I really young, I called it a “wee-wee”. Then it became “not-so-wee” and finally “friggin’ huge!” ---
**Author:** ![MonsterOnAStick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@MonsterOnAStick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonsterOnAStick)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/27 "2004-04-21T05:36:01Z")
I was taught to call my girly parts my “lucy”. Don’t know where in the world that one came from. I always snickered when I Love Lucy came on tv… ---
**Author:** ![RindaRinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RindaRinda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RindaRinda)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/28 "2004-04-21T05:39:41Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > One of my elderly neighbors has a Japanese Chin dog. He calls him Chin-Chin. I don’t think I’ll tell him what I just learned in this thread. As long as he doesn’t pronounce it “cheen cheen,” then he’s okay. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/29 "2004-04-21T13:22:24Z")
I don’t recall having a name for my girl parts…For what it’s worth, my two nephews, ages 8 and 6 call their penises “winkies”. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/30 "2004-04-21T13:32:44Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Amazingly, I called it my penis. That’s the word I’ve taught my son, as well. My sister and I used the word “tuma”. It was a form of “petunia”, which is what my mom and dad called it. Her kid (Miss Magic8Ball) called it “tutu” because she couldn’t say “tuma”. Your annoying auntie anecdote for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/31 "2004-04-21T15:30:11Z")
I called it my ‘modesty’ - that’s what my gramma told me it was called. I hadn’t thought about that in years and years, until I got a fortune cookie fortune that read “you have a large heart and deep modesty” and couldn’t stop laughing for about 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Thrashbarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Thrashbarg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrashbarg)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/32 "2004-04-21T15:42:39Z")
I always used the word “Peeper” - for both sets of parts. His peeper, her peeper, your peeper, my peeper. My mom even had a song about peepers (it was a hygiene thing!) ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/33 "2004-04-21T19:37:22Z")
i had a fanny, and boys had a willy. My cousins called their erm… part… ‘china’! (I have no idea why my aunty got them to say that.) ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/34 "2004-04-21T19:57:18Z")
When I was little I had a twinkie. My 4 year old daughter told me the other day she has a “girl weiner”. ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/35 "2004-04-21T20:19:11Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > That’s the word I’ve taught my son, as well. > > My sister and I used the word “tuma”. It was a form of “petunia”, which is what my mom and dad called it. [/kindergarden cop] “IT’S NOT A TUMA” [/kindergarden cop] > [@Gravity](#): > > I called it my ‘modesty’ - that’s what my gramma told me it was called. That’s what my grandmother calls it “that area”, as well. There’s a whole song involving it. I couldn’t say Urethra, and Vagina wasn’t correct, and Anus was not used, so we went with the whole directional thing. “Down there”, pointing vaguely, “where I pee (urethra) /go to the bathroom (for the anus)”. The boys and dad had penises and testicles, we had vaginas. Were given “our bodies” books appropriate to our age around 10 or so, to supplement lectures, etc, on sex and our bodies that expanded the sparse information we got in grade school. On a mother’s board I frequented, this came up as a topic of discussion for raising their daughters and someone pointed out, “You know, that’s not exactly correct. You don’t pee from your vagina.” My response? “Unless that was one hell of a tear.” ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/36 "2004-04-21T20:20:39Z")
er That’s what my grandmother calls “that area”, as well. There’s a whole song involving it. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/37 "2004-04-21T20:35:52Z")
I don’t remember having a name for mine until I was a teenager. As a young child I just referred to it as ‘down there’ and I never made any reference to my brothers junk so I don’t know what they called theirs. My son is 4 and one day when he was peeing he said something about girls having a weiner just like him and I told him that only boys have weiners and girls have something different. He asked me what girls had so I said, (just like the little boy in Kindergarten Cop) “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.” My son just busted out laughing and for the next month, just out of the blue, he would say vagina and start giggling. I think my son calls his privates a weiner and my daughter has calls hers a little butt. lol ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/38 "2004-04-21T20:48:41Z")
Called it my pee-pee or my privates. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/39 "2004-04-21T20:55:02Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > One of my elderly neighbors has a Japanese Chin dog. He calls him Chin-Chin. I don’t think I’ll tell him what I just learned in this thread. When I was a kid, our family dog was Shih-Tzu that my Mom named Chin-Chin. We had no idea until a few years ago, long after the dog died, of the slang connotation. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964/40 "2004-04-21T21:43:12Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > I have girly parts. I was told it was my “bird” but my cousins informed me that only boys have birds, what _I_ had was a “pigeon”. Your cousins agree with my experience. Mostly. What you got I called a ‘cookie’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-did-you-call-your-private-parts-when-you-were-a-kid/240964.md?page=3)