# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/21 "2012-02-03T19:06:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Homosexual panic when he glimpsed another player’s tackle in the showers, I expect. Line drive to the gonads. ---
**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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/22 "2012-02-03T21:33:12Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I thought it was called the crotch. Is groin also usable? I’ve heard and read it used, though I don’t know how common it is. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/23 "2012-02-03T22:42:55Z")
Well, this is what happens when groin is so often used as a euphemism for penis. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/24 "2012-02-03T23:56:03Z")
Groin and loin rhyme, and seem to refer to the same general area. Coincidence, or conspiracy??? ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/25 "2012-02-04T00:58:52Z")
These bad puns are groin tiresome. 😃 ---
**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 4, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/26 "2012-02-04T18:59:14Z")
They’re so bad, they’re making me groin. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/27 "2012-02-04T19:31:04Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > 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 As someone who bounced off a curb and came off the saddle onto the top tube 4 months ago and is STILL sore: Yes, women have groins. And groin injuries. ---
**Author:** ![Kataskopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aca169/32.png) [@Kataskopo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kataskopo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/28 "2012-02-06T09:57:57Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 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. My friend jokes sometimes when he says something funny but untrue, he says he found it on totallyuntruestatements dot com xD In an unrelated note, his e-mail account is false\_account at hotmail xD (not in the original language, so i think I’m ok) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/29 "2012-02-08T00:58:36Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > “testicular trauma” Band name! ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607/30 "2012-02-08T15:54:43Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Where do people get these ideas? Who knows? When my sister was a teenager, she and some other teens were moving some heavy boxes and such and she remarked tongue-in-cheek that it was about to give her a hernia. Two teen boys gave each other those rolly-eyed pitying looks and ridiculed her for thinking that _ **girls** _ could actually get a hernia. It pleased her to later inform them that my MIL had one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-have-a-groin/611607.md?page=1)