# Why is it that the penis is funny and the vagina is not?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 12, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686 "2011-05-12T18:24:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/1 "2011-05-12T18:24:11Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608029), the following post caught my -ahem- eye.
> [@Ladies, virginity question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-virginity-question/581465/16):
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> By the time I had sex for the first time I was well versed in the male anatomy (which, by the way, I did and do find to be hilarious. Thank GOD I don’t have one of those!)
What’s WITH this? I mean yes, yes, making love / fucking / whatevering should have some laughter as a component. It’s fun. It feels very nice. ( hopefully ). It does appear to me after 33 years of sexual activity with a reasonable variety of partners that my penis and the penis of others is amusing to women. The idea of penis is amusing. The handling of penis is cause for mirth. The conversations held between women and the penis are frequently highly hilarious.
And yet…not so much with the vagina. The vagina is not a source of mirth. It could be. It’s as interesting looking in its own way as a penis. Like the penis, it does things when happy that it does not do when napping. And yet… very few mirthful moments in bed regarding vagina. Not anger. Just… a lack of the same dynamic.
Why ?
( Anatomy and Physiology 101 Disclaimer: Yes, I am well aware that the vagina is not the only part of the genitalia relevant to this O.P. I’m using it as a generic identifier for the internal and external female genial parts typically associated with the word “vagina”. )
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/2 "2011-05-12T18:27:19Z")
So you’re saying that laughter will ensue?
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### Author:  [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/3 "2011-05-12T18:29:33Z")
Because any sticky-outy-bits are more funny than sticky-inny-bits. Don’t ask me why, it is just true.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/4 "2011-05-12T18:30:21Z")
It’s funny because it’s all dangly and shit. The hoohoo is all neatly tucked up most of the time (unless we are talking about a hoohoo that age has turned into a leathery-winged lovebat).
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/5 "2011-05-12T18:31:55Z")
Dude, look at it!
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/6 "2011-05-12T18:34:47Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#):
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> Because any sticky-outy-bits are more funny than sticky-inny-bits. Don’t ask me why, it is just true.
Exactly. This is why, in classic comedy, a wart on the nose is funny but an open sore isn’t.
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### Author:  [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/7 "2011-05-12T18:47:16Z")
Because the penis is always changing and doing something interesting.
First time Penis viewer: “That little thing looks like a frightened turtle, does it always look like that when you are cold?” “Can I touch it?” OMG! What the hell, look what it’s doing now!" “When is it going to stop?!?” “How the hell can you walk with that thing?”
First time Vagina viewer: “So, show me what it does.” “It doesn’t do anything? All the action is on the inside?” "Ok, I’ll take your word for it but I’m going in to find out for myself and this had better be good. "
🙂
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### Author:  [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/8 "2011-05-12T18:52:47Z")
> [@Scumpup](#):
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> It’s funny because it’s all dangly and shit. The hoohoo is all neatly tucked up most of the time (unless we are talking about a hoohoo that age has turned into a leathery-winged lovebat).
Leathery-winged lovebat would be a great username.
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### Author:  [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/9 "2011-05-12T19:05:26Z")
It’s conspicuous, dangle-y, weird looking and it acts like an animal, all unpredictable and jumpy and awkwardly poking where it doesn’t belong.
‘Vaginas’ (vulvas) just look like some folds of skin. Not even that really if there’s lots of hair.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/10 "2011-05-12T19:05:40Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#):
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> Because the penis is always changing and doing something interesting.
The penis is the [Crab Nebula](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13362958) of sex bits?
:eek:
😃
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/11 "2011-05-12T19:08:02Z")
A superhero. Leathery Folds of Power.
" I’m FLAPMAN. "
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/12 "2011-05-12T22:37:40Z")
Or, “Scrotie McBoogerballs.”
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/13 "2011-05-13T00:39:50Z")
I saw a TV show once where men’s pants were made to fall down in front of women (on the street, in a restaurant, etc.) and the reaction of women nearby was hilarity. Then, women were filmed in situations where their skirts or dresses flew up (standing over a grate, bent over trying to get something out of their trunk, etc.).
The result (as stated on the program): “When men’s pants fall down, women laugh. When women’s skirts fly up, men…don’t laugh.”
😃
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/14 "2011-05-13T00:52:42Z")
Boys find that kind of humor funny and girls don’t.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/15 "2011-05-13T01:00:23Z")
Vaginas can be funny,
“Hello” “Hello”
“Echo” “Echo”
“Now pitching for Pedro Borbòn…Manny Mota.”
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/16 "2011-05-13T01:19:22Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> Boys find that kind of humor funny and girls don’t.
Did you read the thread? Women find penises hilarious.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/17 "2011-05-13T01:21:40Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Did you read the thread? Women find penises hilarious.
Maybe that’s why I’m gay. 😃
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/18 "2011-05-13T01:24:03Z")
I guess what I don’t get is the “ugly” connotation. I don’t find either of them any uglier that any other part of the body
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/19 "2011-05-13T01:26:48Z")
Ever buy a whole chicken? And you take out the little packet with the liver and the heart and the gizzard? And the neck is kind of stuck in there and you have to try from the other end? That neck is kind of what the human penis looks like. Sorry, guys.
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### Author:  [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-the-penis-is-funny-and-the-vagina-is-not/581686/20 "2011-05-13T01:39:21Z")
> [@Scumpup](#):
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> It’s funny because it’s all dangly and shit.
That’s precisely what I was coming in here to say.
As an aside, ladies and gay boys, have you ever watched the post-coital ball-crawl? That’s fucking HILARIOUS 😃
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