To ask where this awful word came from?

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Fanjo.
Even my auto-correct doesn't like it. Fan jo.

Maybe your DH is here

Vaginé

Surely?

Fanjo is good as most other words are too medical or are slurs.

Fanjo anything is possible I guess!

Anyway not sure what else I could be called.

I'd much rather be a fanjo than a twat. Or a cunt :)

Vulva in this house. I have never liked "fanjo" - agree with people who think it is twee.

It just makes me laugh! I wouldn't use it during sec (the word I mean, I defo use my lady bits) or teach it to kids but between friends of about the same age we seem to find it amusing. Probably because very immature. I wouldn't say I'm particularly twee. Could do with being a lot more twee actually.

I guess it's like front bottom or lady garden. I assumed it was obvious I was using them ironically but as with all this "ironic" stuff you can just end up sounding like a twat.

Vulva is sooo MN. It makes me laugh when some clever dick comes on a thread and says 'don't you mean vulva'

I don't mind fanjo,it's inoffensive.

Don't you mean "clever penis"?

Am actually quite taken by vagine (also vagine with the accent on the e).

Quite like 'fanjeen' too as a variation...

Also a fan of the velvet pouch mentioned earlier in thread, or 'm'lady' (uttered in slightly posh, hushed tone with hand covering mouth to spare blushes).

Excellent post, fastday!

And then, of course, there was yoni...

Velvet pouch! Now I've heard it all!

Bolleaux, bollock-Sorry Soup, it was very very early.

I always like seeing your name fanjoforthemammaries. Hopefully other people aren't fainting at the sight!

I love 'fanjo" , it makes me giggle.

It's now known as an Ashley in our house - Ashley Banjo/Fanjo !

It's been used on MN for years. I remembers someone - and yes Enid seems likely - say it was a family word. years ago - easily 10. I have only ever seen it used on MN - but MN has a wide reach these days.

Norks - another word I have only heard on MN - but that seems to have fallen by the wayside.

I hate norks though - sounds spong-y like fork. I don't really like any words for boobs/tits/breasts (breasts sounds creepy to me - like its being said by a slack mouthed pervy vicar). I quite like 'bosom' said in regal fashion, but that's about it.

The vulva brigade really piss me off. People use slang for all sorts of stuff, it's really no big deal.

Everyone, pretty much without exception knows what "bellybutton" refers to, or "poo". They are universally recognised and fine for young children to use.

What is the slang word for " vulva" that is universally recognised, and fine for young children to use?i

I think fanjo is a great word. I can use it, DH can use it and small DD can all use it. None of feel it is rude or embarrassing or crude. In fact it brings a little smile to our faces. It would be a term I could use with my Granny, a neighbour or work colleague in the unlikely situation of needing to use a word for that part of the body with them.
I don't personally have any need for an anatomically correct name apart from when going to the Doctors, but not in every day conversation. As for questions about exactly which 'bit' it refs to, tbh I'm not totally clued up on the different bits myself, so use it as a generic term for the front bits 'down there'. Realise some people on here are more precise and more accurate, but I really don't feel any need to be.

Don't mind fanjo but don't use it, prefer fanny.
I dislike the word vulva, its just one of those words I just don't like the sound of.
Dislike front bottom most, don't know why but I find it mildly offensive.

Some MNers love to be purposefully obtuse and pretend that they wouldn't know what a person means when they say; "my vagina is itchy/sore/painful/whatever".

I have not come across the 'Vulva brigade'. What do they do?