I answered for my girly Ruth. But I'd say cunt too, if I was a girl... ahhh I wish I was a girl.. I'd have short hair and wear short skirts... mmmmmm....
Apparently the word "vagina" stems from the latin word for "sheath" (which I can't remember now, curse you poor memory of GCSEs!) and "cunt" is from cunnus meaning simply "triangle", so "cunt" is less offensive, strict-meaning-wise.
Depends who I'm talking to and what exact bit I mean. I use vagina, vulva etc in most neutral or medical contexts but would use cunt in a sexual context.
I use a pregnancy/mothering forum and a number of women there refer to their va-jay-jay.
I say if you call it a va-jay-jay, you don't deserve to have one! This goes doubly for anyone who discusses shaving their va-jay-jay. Give me strength.
va-jay-jay seems to be really catching on in America. Oprah uses it apparently, so it got big quickly - Article on the va-jay-jay trend I don't like it. Can't explain why, just..ick.
That's quite an interesting article. Nick reckons the only people who can say it are gay men!
I really don't like it either.
In the context of this forum, the women most likely to use it all seem to put more effort into thinking about how it will be groomed and styled for their doctors on the big day than about making some grown-up decisions and taking an active responsibility for their body.
Oh, the other reason I don't use vagina is because it's a clinical term that actually doesn't refer to the thing people are using it to refer to (the vulva).
Surely it's context sensitive. When talking about my dick I refer to it differently depending on who I'm talking to or why. I would use 'penis' when talking to my doctor, 'cock' in a sexual context and either 'cock' or 'dick' in a general conversational setting. I imagine if I were female I'd use 'vagina', 'pussy' and 'cunt' as respective equivalents. I'm not one for beating around the bush, as it were; I think hiding your genitals behind euphemistic terms is symptomatic of a sense of shame and stigma about them. There is definitely a heirarchy of euphemism too; 'hoo ha' is ok-ish as it's kinda fun sounding, 'lady flower' makes my skin crawl and 'bajingo' is utterly reprehensible. In terms of male equivalency, 'chopper' and 'junk' have a certain swagger to them, 'schlong' should only ever be employed for comedy purposes (and lets face it, dick jokes are hella funny), and anything called a 'todger' or 'John Thomas' sounds like it belongs at the top of a football terrace wrapped around a sweaty meat pie.
It is, but it's also person sensitive. I rarely use cunt when referring to actual genitals (and it annoys me that I don't) but other girls will happily refer to their cunt. I never use vagina, I'd find it hard to even say that in a medical setting, whereas someone above has said that's exactly what they do. I'm more interested in the person-to-person differences than the context ones.
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I use a pregnancy/mothering forum and a number of women there refer to their va-jay-jay.
I say if you call it a va-jay-jay, you don't deserve to have one! This goes doubly for anyone who discusses shaving their va-jay-jay. Give me strength.
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I don't like it. Can't explain why, just..ick.
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I really don't like it either.
In the context of this forum, the women most likely to use it all seem to put more effort into thinking about how it will be groomed and styled for their doctors on the big day than about making some grown-up decisions and taking an active responsibility for their body.
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I rarely use cunt when referring to actual genitals (and it annoys me that I don't) but other girls will happily refer to their cunt. I never use vagina, I'd find it hard to even say that in a medical setting, whereas someone above has said that's exactly what they do. I'm more interested in the person-to-person differences than the context ones.
And I've never heard 'bajingo' before.
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It ranks up there with 'shirt potatoes' for breasts.
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