I’m so glad I’m not the only one who feels this way! Something about the word just icks me out!
Yeah I won’t say it unless I have to. Maybe it’s too close to “smegma”… vulva…smegma… they sound similar and just eww.
Vulva and smegma, with only one letter in common, sound similar? Now that is weird.
For the popular use of “vagina” I blamed that play, The Vagina Monologues. Should have been The Vulva Monologues.
Now here’s one for those across the pond: What do you call a fanny pack?
Either a ‘waist pack’ or more commonly a ‘bum bag’. Although this is largely academic since they haven’t been seen here since the late 80s/early 90s.
They are both words that have the basic sound pattern “uh, uh” with similar inflection.
All my life I have heard the word pronounced clit- OR- us to rhyme, more or less, with Dolores. This emphasis on clit is new to me, having only heard this pronounciation in the last couple years.
I stand by the old usage.
Oh, and for OpalCat:
Vagina Vagina Vagina Vagina Vagina Vagina Vagina
I’m not a fan of the word but it doesn’t bother me. It’s “vulva” that I think is oogy.
Oops, I misread your post. Sorry.
Vulva Vul… ah, fuck it.
Yes, I’m aware. Also aware that from some of the comments I read, the actual plot-line and/or dialogue was misrepresented.
:rolleyes:
I blame the fact that I call it vagina on my health teachers in elementary and high school. Every one of them (so…three…) told me that vagina referred to the whole package, ie ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vulva (which itself consits of inner and outer labia, clitoris, clitoral hood, etc…) The actual vagina itself was only referred to as the birth canal…which I guess is still technically true, in the sense that the uterus is also the womb, but you generally only refer to it as such during pregnancy.
For some reason this thread reminds me of the following exchange on the subject of romance from the unparalleled horror epic, Garth Merengi’s Darkplace:
So, what would be the “correct” slang term then?
Rather than va jay jay something more like va voo voo?
My boys use the word “goolies” and when playing ball they wear a jock and a cup to protect those goolies.
But they do know the proper words for all their goolie-bits.
As a kid, I was never given the proper terms. I think I first heard the word Vaginia when I was 8 or so and saw Kindergarten Cop.
And, for the record, I’m in San Antonio Tx, and I pretty much only hear it called a cli-TOR-is around here. That includes from the PhDs and Masters degree level professors in my nursing school.
The correct term is cloaca.
No, no, no. The correct term is “poontang.” The small erectile bit is a “luvbutton,” the outer folds are “frontcheeks,” the inner folds are “swollbits,” & the canal to the womb is a “twat.”
(OK, I just made up “swollbits.”)
Hey now, that’s not going to work anymore! I’ll have you know I’ve endured hours and hours of anatomy classes, and now know that it’s called a furburger.
Today I found myself using the phrase “junk” to discribe the penis and scrotum. Odd, since I don’t usually say that, but appropriate to this thread. Maybe we could adapt it for women. Her “junk”. Though I think I like “bits” better, as in, “I got a look at her bits.”
I have to agree. I can’t really explain it, the word “vulva” just sounds squicky to me. I just call it a taco. :dubious:
Hey, butt was a bad word in my house when I was a child, too. And I don’t even remember how old I was before I heard the word fart, but it sure wasn’t at home. We let stinkers. We had bottoms. And when we had to go poo we did squeezehard. (I think that was courtesy of my grandmother.) I certainly didn’t learn any other words for anything in that area. But I don’t remember needing any, either.
I taught my daughters to say vulva, but nobody really ever used that word.
Also, the orifice out which you urinate is a “pee pee”. Cite.