# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/41 "2008-12-03T17:09:59Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > 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. Thank you! From a 41 year old woman who’s still pretty confident in that area and is pretty sure there are lots of women my age and older who would say that that comment is staggeringly ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/42 "2008-12-03T17:37:35Z")
I think I’d prefer “free ranging vagina”. You know, not all cooped up and restrained. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/43 "2008-12-03T18:07:10Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > From a 41 year old woman who’s still pretty confident in that area and is pretty sure there are lots of women my age and older who would say that that comment is staggeringly ignorant. Seconded. Men and women over forty can be very hot. > [@Mindfield](#): > > doesn’t really matter as it’s all hot dogs and hallways anyway. Can we please retire this lame expression already? It’s unnecessarily insulting. ---
**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, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/44 "2008-12-03T18:16:43Z")
Can I buy a vowel on the hotdog/hallway business? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/45 "2008-12-03T18:38:00Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > I think I’d prefer “free ranging vagina”. You know, not all cooped up and restrained. Don’t they have a special section in the supermarket for them now? ---
**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, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/46 "2008-12-03T18:45:51Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Don’t they have a special section in the supermarket for them now? I usually find them grazing in the produce section myself. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/47 "2008-12-03T19:01:20Z")
Hi - nice weather we’ve been having. So, uh, what was the name of that bar again? ---
**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, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/48 "2008-12-03T19:04:02Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Can I buy a vowel on the hotdog/hallway business? The full expression is “…like throwing a hot dog down a hallway,” which should be fairly self-explanatory when considering what each subject is a euphemism for. > [@NinetyWt](#): > > Can we please retire this lame expression already? It’s unnecessarily insulting. _Now_ I can retire it; just had to offer the explanation first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![History\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b19c9b/32.png) [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/49 "2008-12-03T19:56:51Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > I think I’d prefer “free ranging vagina”. You know, not all cooped up and restrained. I was almost to the end of the thread and had high hopes of actually being the one to make this joke. As for the OP, I don’t think I could have sat idly by for _three hours_. Especially not if I was continuously drinking. I’d have to say something… or at least goad one of my mates into saying something. ---
**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, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/50 "2008-12-03T20:01:26Z")
[Ron White] This one show I did, there’s a lady sitting up front wearing a skirt with her legs spread apart. And it was distracting me, because of that little attention-deficit problem I have. So I said to her, “Ma’am, would you mind closing your skirt, because I can see up your slip.” And she said, “It’s not a slip, it’s a petticoat.” And I said, “Well, I can see the junction. And Uncle Joe needs a shave.” [/Ron White] ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/51 "2008-12-03T20:20:47Z")
Did the curtains match the drapes, and what about the upholstery? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/52 "2008-12-03T20:23:35Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Did the curtains match the drapes, and what about the upholstery? Ah, another xkcd fan? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/53 "2008-12-03T20:38:00Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Ah, another xkcd fan? 😃 (That was fast.) ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/54 "2008-12-03T20:59:53Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > 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. Sure, a willing female of reasonable attractiveness is exciting. A flashed vulva/vagina/whateveryouwantocall it, is not. I mean sure, the latter can be a signal of the former, but I would think there would be better (i.e. more exciting) signals. A chick flashing her nether-regional goods at me, I guess I’d get the message, but I’d be “getting the message” in the same way I’d be “getting the message” if she breathed heavily into my face with breath stinking of alcohol and cheese dip, “Let’s go up to my place.” She may be attractive and willing, and she may be signaling it, but the reaction is still “That’s… kind of gross, lady.”\* > [@](#): > > Or were you implying that a woman in her forties wouldn’t be attractive? Not at all. -FrL- \*All of this should be bracketed with an “I would think that” clause, since I’m a tamely married man who I don’t imagine will ever be in anything like any of the situations being described here. ---
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/55 "2008-12-03T21:01:25Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > From a 41 year old woman who’s still pretty confident in that area and is pretty sure there are lots of women my age and older who would say that that comment is staggeringly ignorant. See above, my comment was not intended to be primarily referring to the lady’s age. I mentioned it just because I was quoting the OP. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/56 "2008-12-03T21:20:23Z")
> [@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.” What a charming description.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/57 "2008-12-03T21:26:34Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > What a charming description.:rolleyes: What’s got a bee in your bonnet? Do you resemble that remark, because that’s how your :rolleyes: came off to me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/58 "2008-12-03T21:39:31Z")
I thought this thread was going to be about concert venues. I have trouble imagining the acoustics though. > [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > From a 41 year old woman who’s still pretty confident in that area… Interesting turn of phrase. Incidentally, the [Aqua Velvets](http://www.aquavelvets.com) are a pretty good surf rock band. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/59 "2008-12-04T00:00:18Z")
The OP did nothing? Had I found the woman unattractive, I would have made this clear. Had I found the woman attractive, I would have approached her and said something like “Thank you for showing me your lovely genitals. May I enter them?” or “Thank you for showing me your naughty bits. Would you care to see mine?” I would emphatically NOT have sat there with my buddies wondering what the whole thing (or possibly the hole thing) meant. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/60 "2008-12-04T00:07:09Z")
I’m not going to read through this whole weird thread, but I just have to ask: If flashing her vag at you for _three hours_ doesn’t do the trick, what, exactly, would this woman have to do to express her interest in you? Suck on your finger for two hours? Serenade you for 45 minutes? Take you up her ass for 20? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=4)