# Significance of an open air vagina. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482 "2008-12-03T08:16:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Cation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cation)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/1 "2008-12-03T08:16:43Z")
I am not familiar with the average swinger, but I may have encountered some this evening. I was wondering if I may have missed some hidden codes from the couple in question. I was at a bar with my brother and two male friends. A woman who appeared to be in her forties flashed her vagina at us for about 3 hours. It began as if we happened to spy her glorious hole accidentally, but after the first half hour it was clear that she was clearly aiming her naked crotch in our direction. My group of friends went out to smoke and her male companion followed us. He joked around that we could obviously beat him up and offered to “go rounds.” My brother started throwing pennies at my buddy’s crotch saying, “I just want to pay her for the show.” Her companion meandered by, picked up the pennies, and went for a smoke. We went out for a smoke and he made small talk about hunting. The woman clearly got off on showing us her vagina. She would spread her legs, look up, smile, and leave her legs spread wide. After about 3 hours of this my buddy’s wife and a female friend met us at the bar. Immediately shop was closed, no more pussy show. Did we just get a really strange free show or was this a swinging couple combing for a third? ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/2 "2008-12-03T08:22:07Z")
Three full hours and none of you even talked to her? “Hidden” codes? Are you kidding? ---
**Author:** ![Cation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Cation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cation)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/3 "2008-12-03T08:35:22Z")
to clarify: it was obvious to us that she intended for us to see the goods. what i was wondering was whether there were specific swinger codes embedded in her companion’s actions and also whether she was without a doubt inviting action or simply an exhibitionist or possibly a prostitute. bear in mind, no one present was particularly ready to jump at any theoretically implied offer. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/4 "2008-12-03T11:45:23Z")
Open Air Vagina? Oh , yes, they were a great band. I used to love their music. Especially the HPV song and the AIDS blues. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/5 "2008-12-03T12:19:45Z")
> [@Cation](#): > > A woman who appeared to be in her forties flashed her vagina at us for about 3 hours. Is anyone but me thinking this would be just about as exciting as encountering a forty year old _male_ flasher? > [@](#): > > My brother started throwing pennies at my buddy’s crotch W. TF. 😕 -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/6 "2008-12-03T12:29:48Z")
> [@Cation](#): > > The woman clearly got off on showing us her vagina. I am no expert in these matters but isn’t the vagina the _inside_ part? That you would need a periscope to see? I think the outer parts are called something else like “promissory notes” or “labia” or something or other. ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/7 "2008-12-03T12:49:04Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I am no expert in these matters but isn’t the vagina the _inside_ part? That you would need a periscope to see? I think the outer parts are called something else like “promissory notes” or “labia” or something or other. Everyone calls it a vagina, regardless of whether they’re referring to the inner parts or not. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/8 "2008-12-03T13:38:41Z")
Are you competing for the “Strangest thread” position? This sounds more like an odd dream than like something that would happen to me in real life. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/9 "2008-12-03T13:39:44Z")
> [@BrandonR](#): > > Everyone calls it a vagina, regardless of whether they’re referring to the inner parts or not. I don’t think so. Unless you are talking about people who are quite ignorant. > [@](#): > > Commonly referred as the birth canal, the vagina is a muscular and elastic tube that connects the uterus to the outside of the body. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/10 "2008-12-03T13:41:34Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I don’t think so. Unless you are talking about people who are quite ignorant. aka “el coño”, I have seen people use “vagina” to refer to the whole of female anatomy, not just the hole of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/11 "2008-12-03T13:45:29Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I don’t think so. Unless you are talking about people who are quite ignorant. If someone says “this girl flashed me her vagina,” I don’t think every non-ignorant person in the world would leap to the assumption that this involved a speculum and an exam table. And yes, as the male half of this dynamic duo went outside to talk to you, I would assume that they were there to either pick up a third or pick a fight. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/12 "2008-12-03T14:31:59Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I don’t think so. Unless you are talking about people who are quite ignorant. Or people who aren’t being pedantic. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/13 "2008-12-03T14:33:11Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Or people who aren’t being pedantic. I find this meatloaf shallow and pedantic. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/14 "2008-12-03T14:35:59Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > If someone says “this girl flashed me her vagina,” I don’t think every non-ignorant person in the world would leap to the assumption that this involved a speculum and an exam table. No, but every non-ignorant person would know the talker was someone quite ignorant of the meaning of the word “vagina”. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/15 "2008-12-03T14:42:53Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > No, but every non-ignorant person would know the talker was someone quite ignorant of the meaning of the word “vagina”. …but conversant with the common use of the word. I did like the “promisory notes” bit, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/16 "2008-12-03T14:45:28Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > No, but every non-ignorant person would know the talker was someone quite ignorant of the meaning of the word “vagina”. C’mon **sailor** , are you trying to pick a fight? Watch a few comedies. It is clear that “vagina” in common usage has come to mean the collective female genitalia to the average person. Saying that’s not so is just dumb. re: the OP The lady and her gentleman friend may have been angling for a partner (or four… gangbangs do happen, after all). Or she may have just been someone getting off on her exhibitionism. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/17 "2008-12-03T14:46:11Z")
I think we can dispense with this whole “whatsa vagina” discussion by using the term “pussy” which generally refers to the whole kit & kaboodle. Now we return you to the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/18 "2008-12-03T14:46:14Z")
Vulva. The word is [vulva](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vulva). I have no idea about any swinger codes, but vulva is a perfectly lovely word that doesn’t get enough usage. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/19 "2008-12-03T14:49:02Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Vulva. The word is [vulva](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vulva). > > I have no idea about any swinger codes, but vulva is a perfectly lovely word that doesn’t get enough usage. Good cars and very safe. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/20 "2008-12-03T14:54:15Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > Good cars and very safe. Or a brand of after-shave. re: the OP. Apparently some people do need to get whacked with the clue stick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=2)