# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/21 "2008-12-03T15:00:33Z")
There are plenty of alternatives if “vagina” doesn’t cut it. [Take your pick](http://www.starma.com/penis/muffy/muffy.html). Also, wouldn’t “Aqua Vulva” technically be a douche? Personally, I vote for “lonely fourtysomething staring down the road to menopause who doesn’t get any from hubby wants it from you – any of you, all of you, doesn’t really matter as it’s all hot dogs and hallways anyway.” ---
**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, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/22 "2008-12-03T15:18:23Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > There are plenty of alternatives if “vagina” doesn’t cut it. [Take your pick](http://www.starma.com/penis/muffy/muffy.html). There is no way you can call it the Hairy Manilow and still get laid. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/23 "2008-12-03T15:25:32Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > [Take your pick](http://www.starma.com/penis/muffy/muffy.html). I’ll take the snatch with a side of coochie, please. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/24 "2008-12-03T15:26:51Z")
Talk about snatching victory. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/25 "2008-12-03T15:27:49Z")
> [@Cation](#): > > …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** … I’m very confused by this sequence of events, especially the parts that I bolded. Also, was she hot? Was she “groomed”? The devil, as they say, is in the details. ---
**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, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/26 "2008-12-03T15:37:38Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > There is no way you can call it the Hairy Manilow and still get laid. Hee. I can’t even open said link, my ISP blocks it (I’m at work). ---
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/27 "2008-12-03T15:43:09Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Hee. > > I can’t even open said link, my ISP blocks it (I’m at work). Your life is better because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/28 "2008-12-03T15:52:09Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > There is no way you can call it the Hairy Manilow and still get laid. _I’m randy, So I came and I left without breakfast Then I sent you away…_ > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I’ll take the snatch with a side of coochie, please. Order up, one Big Muff and a shake! > [@Anaamika](#): > > Hee. > > I can’t even open said link, my ISP blocks it (I’m at work). It might have something to do with the word “penis” in the URL, which is buried under “muffy.” The whole site is one big euphemism… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/29 "2008-12-03T16:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=Cation] Did we just get a really strange free show or was this a swinging couple combing for a third? [/QUOTE] Yes and yes. > [@](#): > > I was wondering if I may have missed some hidden codes from the couple in question. There doesn’t appear to be much left hidden. The woman was showing off. That might have just been exhibitionism, but if she’s smiling and clearly exposing, then it’s also a reasonable assumption it’s a request for attention. At a minimum, that warrants a hello (if there’s any interest). Add to it that the male companion spoke to you guys and offered “to go rounds”, that sounds like an explicit request to me. And I thought _I_ needed a clue stick. [QUOTE=Frylock] Is anyone but me thinking this would be just about as exciting as encountering a forty year old male flasher? [/QUOTE] Nope. I’ve met some hot 40 yr olds, and besides, men are pigs (oink). [QUOTE=Mindfield] Personally, I vote for “lonely fourtysomething staring down the road to menopause who doesn’t get any from hubby wants it from you – any of you, all of you, doesn’t really matter as it’s all hot dogs and hallways anyway.” [/QUOTE] Well, if the male companion is her hubby, then there’s something off in that equation. I vote for swinging couple who like tag-teams and gangbangs. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/30 "2008-12-03T16:06:54Z")
> [@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. Vulva. Vuuuuuulva. Vuuuuuuulvaaaaaaaaaah! Yes! It’s got a good woody sound. Stout and steady. Not like vagina. Va-jIIII-nah. Not at all. Too tinny a sound there! Anyone wanna guess what I watched the other day? ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/31 "2008-12-03T16:15:07Z")
> [@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. Well, he did say it was an “open air vagina” so maybe it was cavernous and you could see all the way in. My impression from just the thread title was that it was going to be about some body-modification weirdness in which the vagina was kept open somehow. I’m also one of those people, that if I heard someone say that he saw a woman’s vagina, would think it must have involved some kind of speculum. I never hear “vagina” used to refer to the whole genitalia package, but then again, I’m old. I would think most people would choose a nice slang word, like “snatch.” If you want to be clinical, use “genitalia.” But saying “vagina” gave several of us the completely wrong idea. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/32 "2008-12-03T16:15:50Z")
> [@Cation](#): > > My brother started throwing pennies at my buddy’s crotch saying, “I just want to pay her for the show.” I would have to say “yes” your brother is one strange dude whose behavior I can not explain. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/33 "2008-12-03T16:22:17Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is anyone but me thinking this would be just about as exciting as encountering a forty year old _male_ flasher? Why? Would seeing a 25 year old woman flashing be equivalent to a 25 year old man flasher to most men? To most men, a male flasher is not exciting, a willing female of reasonable attractiveness is. Or were you implying that a woman in her forties wouldn’t be attractive? My 47 year old wife is pretty hot IMHO - she looks pretty much the same nude as she did when she was 25. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/34 "2008-12-03T16:24:53Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I would have to say “yes” your brother is one strange dude whose behavior I can not explain. And a cheapskate. Pennies? Jebus, couldn’t he stretch to at least a dollar or two? ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/35 "2008-12-03T16:25:53Z")
Moved from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion. **Gfactor** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/36 "2008-12-03T16:26:40Z")
[QUOTE=Cation;10523630 The woman clearly got off on showing us her vagina. She would spread her legs, look up, smile, and leave her legs spread wide. [/QUOTE] Did it occur to you she may have wanted you to throw coins in, or beer bottles or bar stools or… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/37 "2008-12-03T16:34:17Z")
Three hours? Are you exaggerating? Even if flashing your genitals was some sort of secret subtle swingers code (in which case, let it be known that swingers love taking public transportation and often try to recruit school girls), if she did it for more than a few minutes I can’t help but feel that she was not all there. As in, mentally unstable and very, very creepy, no matter what her age. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/38 "2008-12-03T16:41:49Z")
I keep getting this [visual](http://windowsillbakeshop.com/sitebuilder/images/ApplePieWindow-256x163.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/39 "2008-12-03T17:04:00Z")
My guess is that she’s just an exhibitionist. If they wanted your company I’m sure they could have asked straight out or at least done a better job of hinting at it. If it was me talking with her partner I would have said something along the lines of “Aren’t you worried that all of the air is going to leak out?” ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/40 "2008-12-03T17:04:04Z")
So her male companion was cool with you AND she was flashing you for hours? Nothing “hidden codes” about that situation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=3)