# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/81 "2008-12-04T17:19:56Z")
I think I can safely say I speak for all women when I say this sort of thing definitely does not happen on accident… ---
**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 4, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/82 "2008-12-04T18:44:08Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > Thanks, sugah. > > Now, is this the part where I signal you with the Gratuitous Hoo-Ha Flash of Gratitude? > 😛 Look! The Hoo-Ha Signal! To the Batpole! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/83 "2008-12-04T18:59:25Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > No, but every non-ignorant person would know the talker was someone quite ignorant of the meaning of the word “vagina”. Actually the only person I think is ignorant is the one who is being pedantic about the use of the word vagina rather than just accepting the common use. The assumption that people using it that way don’t know that the interior is the actual vagina is not really a logical one. I know both usages and could use it both ways given context. So watching this conversation, there is only one person whose usage of vagina that seems silly and it’s not those arguing for the colloquial usage. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/84 "2008-12-04T19:10:02Z")
Sounds like she was just getting off on the exhibitionism. The guy is what makes the story creepy. ---
**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 4, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/85 "2008-12-04T19:19:40Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Sounds like she was just getting off on the exhibitionism. The guy is what makes the story creepy. Yeah, the follow up clarified a bit. Sounds like some form of cuckolding fantasy, or like the husband/partner wanted to start a fight to get her off. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/86 "2008-12-04T19:27:06Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Apparently not. Google tells me she is some flavor of Miss Manners (about whom I just got educated in a different thread). Googling “not to put metal on pussies” gives some very interesting results about nu-metal, but nothing that could be seen as relevant, btw. > > I can see the wisdom of it, of course. Especially for very Catholic moms warning about the sinful nature of IUDs. It was a joke. 50’s etiquette guru talking about pussy. Not a very good joke, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/87 "2008-12-04T19:36:58Z")
Maybe she just wanted some DVDA. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/88 "2008-12-04T19:46:15Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Maybe she just wanted some DVDA. Orgazmo! I just saw this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/89 "2008-12-04T20:16:05Z")
My vote goes to exhibitionism. Swingers with any amount of self-respect don’t do that kind of thing unless they’re in a venue run by and for swingers. (Which are very fun.) This is more of a private sex game for the arousal of the couple in question and the bemusement/embarrassment/mortification of the bystanders. ---
**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 4, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/90 "2008-12-04T20:29:40Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > Well, I hadn’t actually thought about it, but since it’s out in the open… It was out in the open? And I missed it?! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/91 "2008-12-04T20:35:41Z")
The re-explanation of events (post #68) sounds like a David Lynch movie. “I want” _throws penny_ “to pay her” _throws penny_ “for the _show_” _throws penny_ Cue conversation about deer hunting. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/92 "2008-12-04T20:51:53Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > It was out in the open? And I missed it?! :mad: You must be _quick_, grasshopper. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/93 "2008-12-04T21:14:10Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Actually the only person I think is ignorant is the one who is being pedantic about the use of the word vagina rather than just accepting the common use. Consider the [Lincoln Tunnel](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22lincoln+tunnel%22&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2). Google Image Searching it brings up 7 pictures of the entrances and 5 of the inside on page one. But if I showed a New Yorker the entrance pictures they’d say immediately, “That’s the Lincoln Tunnel,” whereas they’d have a hard time identifying it from the inside pictures. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/94 "2008-12-04T22:15:49Z")
I think the male companion would have gotten off on being “beaten up” but not really; there are people like that in this world. And if the male companion were all “beaten up” she would then be defenseless and could be gang raped at leisure while her “beaten up” companion was forced to watch. There are people like that in this world. Or they could have been trying to lure you guys up to a room filled with guys who like raping men while wearing sandpaper condoms. Who knows? ---
**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 4, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/95 "2008-12-04T22:23:24Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Consider the [Lincoln Tunnel](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22lincoln+tunnel%22&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2). Google Image Searching it brings up 7 pictures of the entrances and 5 of the inside on page one. Is there anybody holding a hot dog? ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/96 "2008-12-04T23:45:04Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Or they could have been trying to lure you guys up to a room filled with guys who like raping men while wearing sandpaper condoms. Who knows? Sandpaper condoms? Damn, they must be the romantic type. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/97 "2008-12-05T00:43:46Z")
Look up the cuckold/hotwife scene… I bet that’s what was going on after reading the bit about the husband and the beating up stuff. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/98 "2008-12-05T01:36:02Z")
I thought this was going to be about a yeast infection and airing the goods. ---
**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 5, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/99 "2008-12-05T22:21:13Z")
> [@Cation](#): > > Perhaps she didn’t want to risk upsetting our friends with her blatant genitals. :rolleyes: Clearly. And what if one of your male friends had been gay? Really, I’m bi but I don’t find either type of genitalia aesthetically appealing, and would be disgusted by such a prolonged display by anyone of any gender. They call it “bumping uglies” for a _reason_, people. > [@Olentzero](#): > > My vote goes to exhibitionism. Swingers with any amount of self-respect don’t do that kind of thing unless they’re in a venue run by and for swingers. (Which are very fun.) This is more of a private sex game for the arousal of the couple in question and the bemusement/embarrassment/mortification of the bystanders. I know that being indignant only gets them off more, but if this is true, the fact that they’re just using innocent bystanders for their sexual gratification is disgusting. It’s akin to rubbing up against people on a bus. ---
**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 6, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482/100 "2008-12-06T00:36:25Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Consider the [Lincoln Tunnel](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22lincoln+tunnel%22&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2). Google Image Searching it brings up 7 pictures of the entrances and 5 of the inside on page one. > > But if I showed a New Yorker the entrance pictures they’d say immediately, “That’s the Lincoln Tunnel,” whereas they’d have a hard time identifying it from the inside pictures. They’d likely say, "Oh, that’s the vagina to New Jersey. " [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/significance-of-an-open-air-vagina/475482.md?page=6)