To think that "fanny" is not an offensive name for female genitalia ?

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My ex was taken aside by our 3.5 yr old daughter's nursery key worker today, and told that they didn't like her using the word fanny, and that she should use the word noony instead?!

Is there a difference in offensiveness levels between these 2 names? Always thought that fanny was just a harmless kids name for vagina/vulva whatever, am I wrong?

I find "front bottom" highly offensive!
And really, why are "cock" and "dick" so offensive? Or "prick" for that matter.
I find prick less offensive than "foo-foo" "front bottom" or "tuppence"
Why the effing Jeff do names for girls genitals have to be so twee?!

NOT yoni, PLEASE. It came into English originally via bad translations of the Kamasutra, and it's waaaay too 70s Joy of Sex. It is not a word that one should use of a child's genitals.

Why can't she just say "my genitals"?

But for all those so offended by fanny there is also a name Fanny. I don't know anyone christened Cunt or Cock. Why does everyone get so uncomfortable. And a two year old saying vulva is just plain odd, rather like anus indeed^. A friend of mine (rather MC) won't let her daughter say bum, it's bottom all the way in their house. Which i thought terribly affected^.

I think this is a feminist issue.

How about bringing back cunny? We all know what it means, but doesn't sound as harsh as cunt. Proper history to it, no confusion with proper names, no secondary usage as insult...?

Fanny is quite rude where I live.

I certainly wouldn't use it in front of my gran.

The word not my actually fanny obviously

SoSoMaman-I am going to the baby name threads to suggest Cunt and Cock. Apparently they are Old Norse names...

Cunta and Cocko.

My kids call it a moo moo, fanny is an offensie word imo but i think it is much better than a child calling it a 'vagina'.

I've heard it called:

Mini
Fanny
Foof
foo foo
Mary
Flower
privates
girls bits
lala
lu lu
front bottom.

Can you tell I work with children

I would never dictate to a parent what their child should call their genitalia. As long as it's not offensive who cares?

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Cuntiva and Cockothy perhaps?

I do think fanny sounds a bit grown up for a little one, but it's miles better than noonie! At least fanny is a real word.

I quite like the American 'VJ', I suppose you could adapt it to VV, at least it's alluding to the proper terms.

OK, 'fanny' but be thought of as sexual slang, but there's no way I'd adopt their ludicrous 'noony' which just makes me cringe.

I'd have to go with vulva and hope it would give them another attack of the vapours.

Better than cunt or twat surely

Just because it's better doesn't mean it's right though

Compos - that's an urban myth surely?
I live in Glasgow and the phrase "gies a swatch a' yer fanny" comes from a Chewing' The Fat sketch where two neds go to the ice cream van!
I hate all words for female bits, but here is my summation :-). :
Fanny - never. Just NO. Used throughout school by horrible wee twats to insult girls.
Twat - no.
Quim - nonononono!
Front bottom - no, but I find I am struggling to come up with a name for my daughter's bits, so ATM it's bot-bot. And her "actual" bottom is her bum-bum.
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We use "winkle" for my son but that seems apt - toddler-ish, easy to say, inoffensive.
I would find it odd for my daughter to say "vulva", it seems too explicit/descriptive to me, but vagina would be fine with me.
Maybe I have ishoos too!!

Mine say front bottom/back bottom/vagina. Sometimes you need to refer to the whole front bottom area - vagina is specific.

There's a very sad article in the Sunday Times today espousing the rise of the word 'vagina'. It repeatedly mentions waxing your vagina and doesn't seem to be aware that a woman's vagina is internal and not hairy.
It's blardy ridiculous that a national newspaper, specifically talking about what women call their genitalia, seems to be clueless about basic female anatomy.

I like 'mini'. But at what point does it become a maxi?

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Fanny is definitely offensive round here.

I'm pretty sure that the Irn Bru ad is only shown after the watershed.

Ouch at waxing your vagina.

How the bloody hell would you get the strips to stick?

mind boggles

I hate hate all the cutesie names, but do want a slang word to use along with willy.

I've been planning to say fanny/willy AND vulva/penis, either or. DS only just 3 and only interested in his bits so far so we have said both penis and willy since he was born and he's happy using both terms. He hasn't asked about names for mine yet.

But so many people say that, regionally, fanny is rude and I just didn't realise that.

What about muff?! No-one has mentioned that at all, and I remember knowing it as a name for it when I was a kid. Although I can't remember if it was particularly 'rude' or not. We didn't use it at home. Muff, anyone? Or is that offensive?

Otherwise maybe VJ, like Bestb4 said. That's inoffensive. Quite like it actually.

DS also calls his, his twig and giggleberries

Muff for me has the same connotaions as fanny, pussy and beaver. All names boys used to shout at you in a crude, insulting way. If I heard a little girl say it, I might think she came from a family that uses rude and swear words all the time. Again everyone sees it differently whether it's your upbringing or if it's regional.