# Women have a groin. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607 "2012-02-03T02:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/1 "2012-02-03T02:04:09Z")
At work I once said that the upper bar on a bicycle could hurt a woman’s groin, and two women and three men quickly corrected me with “only men have groins”. Yeah, right! Where do people get these ideas? So I just looked it up on m-w; “: the fold or depression marking the juncture of the lower abdomen and the inner part of the thigh; also : the region of this line” Nyah nyah. BTW; the original purpose of the lowered bar on older style women’s bikes was intended to protect her modesty while riding and wearing a skirt, not to prevent injury. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/2 "2012-02-03T02:09:28Z")
Did you know that earthen dams have groins? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/3 "2012-02-03T02:10:40Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Where do people get these ideas? Liechtenstein. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/4 "2012-02-03T02:15:09Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > At work I once said that the upper bar on a bicycle could hurt a woman’s groin, \ Yeah, it can. Oh boy, can it. Hey, don’t arched roofs have groins too? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/5 "2012-02-03T02:20:49Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Where do people get these ideas? Well, there’s the Idea Hut; that’s on third. There’s Ideas-R-Us, that’s on third too. There’s Put-Your-Brainpan-There. That’s on third. Swing Low, Sweet Idiot… Matter of fact, there all in the same complex; it’s the idea complex on third. You know, the idea district. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/6 "2012-02-03T04:25:18Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > Did you know that earthen dams have groins? I do now. It was mentioned @ m-w when I looked for back-up. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/7 "2012-02-03T04:38:21Z")
a groinacologist is a doctor that deals with female reproduction. there also were skirt guards on female bikes to keep a skirt from getting caught in the spokes of the rear wheel. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/8 "2012-02-03T04:38:38Z")
Of course women have groins. That’s why they go to groinocologists. ETA: Rats! johnpost slipped that in ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/9 "2012-02-03T08:18:43Z")
Trees have them, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/10 "2012-02-03T08:29:28Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Where do people get these ideas? Sports reporting in the media - ‘Groin injury’ is a reporting/conversational euphemism encompassing injury to the male genitalia - along with actual groin injuries such as torn ligaments and hernias etc. It’s not particularly precise, but I guess news people don’t want to say “kicked in the nuts” - and so it’s easy for people to pick the wrong meaning for the term. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/11 "2012-02-03T08:32:36Z")
… ---
**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:** [February 3, 2012, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/12 "2012-02-03T09:05:56Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Sports reporting in the media - ‘Groin injury’ is a reporting/conversational euphemism encompassing injury to the male genitalia - along with actual groin injuries such as torn ligaments and hernias etc. It’s not particularly precise, but I guess news people don’t want to say “kicked in the nuts” - and so it’s easy for people to pick the wrong meaning for the term. I don’t know - one of the Mariners’ pitchers a few years ago missed several months of action because of “testicular trauma” [shudder] ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/13 "2012-02-03T10:01:10Z")
Huh, I guess you learn something new every day. I thought I was groin up without one all along! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/14 "2012-02-03T10:04:04Z")
A lot of sandy beaches have groynes. And Sandy’s a girls name. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/15 "2012-02-03T10:24:35Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I don’t know - one of the Mariners’ pitchers a few years ago missed several months of action because of “testicular trauma” [shudder] Homosexual panic when he glimpsed another player’s tackle in the showers, I expect. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/16 "2012-02-03T12:33:54Z")
Gimlet was the son of Groin. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/17 "2012-02-03T14:18:25Z")
Women have a groin, but they have to take turns using it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/18 "2012-02-03T14:34:09Z")
This all makes me wonder if “growing pains” might have originally been “groin pains.” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/19 "2012-02-03T16:02:59Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > Trees have them, too. I thought it was called the crotch. Is groin also usable? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/20 "2012-02-03T16:21:55Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Where do people get these ideas? From the same place that they learn that women have only two holes, pineapples grow on trees, and all rivers flow south. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607.md?page=2)