Then I guess a Maxi Pad would be a Manhole cover.
How come “vulva” never caught on in general usage? It’s got the right sound quality (sounds like velvet), not too clinical, not too coarse … but you just don’t hear it much. At least I don’t.
trose, you beat me to it . . . vulva is the right word. Calling the whole thing “vagina” is a misnomer, because the vagina is only the inside part, which you can’t even see from the outside unless you get gynecological. What you can see is the vulva.
My favorite word for it is yoni. I’m into Tantric yoga. Yoni expresses not only its feminine beauty, softness, and allure, but also its eternal spiritual mystery of the Divine Feminine.
Joy
Treasure
Beauty
It has the right sound, but it is too tough to say, IMO. It also sounds a lot like Volvo, and somehow that seems wrong to me.
Getting a little historical here:
I’ve often found the term “Ground Zero” funny. Just remember that I have “Fat Man” and the other guy has “Little Boy”. 
But that’s just me. . .
Tripler
I’ve got your kilotonnage in my pants.
You could always get literary and use the medieval slang belle chose (literally “beautiful thing”)…
I have a friend who objects to the word “vagina” on the terms that it’s Latin for “sheath” and thus implicitly requires the female genitalia to be defined by the male. We once tried to come up with a better term but couldn’t think of one (and this discussion took place in public, so we got some strange looks). “Pussy” is kinda icky-sounding, IMHO.
Jomo, I know a guy named Yoni (well, it’s really Jonathan, but still). I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to look at him the same way again… :eek: 
I love mega the roo’s name for it; twicker. I think it’s brilliant.
Home.
As in “Honey, I’m…”
I agree with the OP. Men have long had the luxury of naming their member a variety of cute, inoffensive, or humourous sounding names: Willy, John Thomas, Johnson, Dick, One-eyed Trouser Snake, etc.
But all the names for the female organ (probably thought up by men) have tended to be ugly, harsh and dirty sounding: c**t, twat, gash, etc.
Pussy is a breath of fresh air (uh oh, please quote me mercifully ). I think most women don’t object to it, and guys like using it (oops. Done it again). It’s fun, not really obscene, and universally understood.
Pussy gets my vote.
I really dislike “pussy”…
but I also dislike cutesy or descriptive terms for it, too. Probably more because I hate the type of writing that has to involve them… it just sounds beyond stupid to me.
A guy I knew in high school liked to call it “furburger.” He liked to say “furburger” over and over at lunch, in fact. He was a weird dude.
Flower.
Thank you.
Mnementh:
And thank you, too. But I just want to mention that people seem to be bringing up exactly the same terms we used in the earlier discussion. (Including “belle chose”, which I brought up earlier). I’m all in favor of clever circumlocutions and obscurities over the vulgar:
Belle Chose
Quondam
Quim
Twichet
Inn of Abu Mansour
Sesame Seed
Merryland
Jade Gate
Rosebud
I’m gonna go along with what someone had referred to their genitals in another thread as their “pretty pink parts” because that’s a good description of the female reproductive area.
DJ at The Edge calls it “sugarplum”
I’m rather enjoying ‘belle chose’ at the moment. Hey, I could even use that one in public.
As for the rest of it, I’m beginning to doubt that I’m going to get any words for parts. Oh well; I’ll have to make due.
Continue discussing, though.
I pretty much stick with pussy, though I’ll sometimes call it “the velvet vice”.
And no one’s mentioned “cooter” ?yet?
It is my “cookie”
I’m another who can’t stand ‘pussy’ as it sounds too trite and trashy to me. Yet I like the Swedish word “kisse” (pronounced KEY-seh) although it literally means…pussy. It must be the sound of the words I like or dislike, not the meaning. Go figure. Well, that and the use of “pussy” as an insult by some to males who are percieved as acting less than full-on macho. To me, that just takes what little sexiness the word had right outta there.