What do you call your daughter's private parts? pom pom, fanny, frou frou?

[e11ie5]

serious question ... I've been pondering it for a while only to find that the Telegraph has a piece on the very matter as well ... so far people have suggested pom pom, frou frou, bits, Mary ... and fronthind ... any thoughts!! I've written about the matter here
crazypregnantperson.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/by-any-other-name/

[Spero]

It wasn't until about this time last year that I, a highly educated professional in her forties, realised the distinction between 'vagina' and 'vulva', thanks to Jezebel.com. I think I am part of this horrific legacy of tweetastic fluffy avoidance nomenclature.

Ps we 'did' only frogs and flowers in school biology.

[BeatTheClock]

Blimey quietly are you a doctor? I'd be scared to go and see you, you sound like you might hand out lines.

Ok it's not 100% right but it gets the convo round to the right area and at least it is a real medically understood word.

It's like saying my arm hurts, instead of more specifically my elbow or wrist.

[3b1g]

Not comparable, as your elbow and wrist are part of your arm. It's more like saying that your rectum hurts when you mean your anus.

[3b1g]

Although I do get the point that 'vagina' is better than 'tuppence', especially if your DD then has a girl called Tuppence in her class.

[ByTheWay1]

We just call them girl bits and boy bits - I don't expect a full anatomical breakdown on whether they feel sore on their labia/vulva/perineum or vagina - girl bits will do just fine...

And it also is fine for school too - If Joe - say (I don't know a Joe....)- was kicking about in the playground - Joe hurt my flower sounds daft- Joe hurt my girl bits sounds accurate - Joe hurt my vagina sounds pervy...

[ByTheWay1]

p.s. I'm a dinner lady and some of the names the kids come out with are cutesy or incomprehensible or downright shocking - the C word coming from a 4 year old - anybody.....

[addictedismoving]

OK, I need to ask a question. As a grown up 25yo woman with 2young girls, I need to ask, its not a vagina? Really? I mean really? Whats a vulva? I think I know what a clitoris is, but really thought it was a vagina.

I was the daughter of a mum with 7 brothers, my grandma wouldn't even say the word bra as it was too rude! My mum was better but got embarrissed and thought I was wrong when I said the word crotch (girls don't have a crotch apparently!). I always said I would be better and use correct names and now I find out my vagina isn't actually a vagina?! Wtf is it?

[ByTheWay1]

A simple - and non embarrassing diagram with explanation

www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/f/female-pelvis/

[addictedismoving]

Thank-you bytheway

[digerd]

My sil's auntie, who had 5 daughters, called it their fairy - on similar lines to the venus butterfly. The wings are the lips and clitoris the body . Vagina is the conception/ birth canal and can't be seen when looking down or from the front as is underneath, below the urethra.
I didn't know anything about a vigina till I was 10 years old and learned where babies come from.

[digerd]

ps.
That's a strange diagram, with a very short drooping vulva ??

[BikeRunSki]

Wilma
It's female Willy.