Vulvas

[MeMyselfand]

What's all this vulva chat about, lately when I've seen any front bottom chat on here it's all vulva this and vulva that. Surely people don't call it their vulva in real life when talking to someone about it.

What do you call yours?

[MeMyselfand]

Branleuse fanny is a great word. Are you Scottish?

[BertrandRussell]

It’s deeply depressing that women do not know what their own genitals are called.

[WipsGlitter]

But why is it so important @FurryDice? I can pretty much guarantee a HCP would still be able to work out where / what you were talking about. Outside of mumsnet I have never heard anyone use the word vulva.

[Faster]

It’s all collok cricket known as my fanny to me.
I’ll call the separate parts the correct names when needed, like at the doctors. But other wise it’s my fanny. Or muff.

[stellabird]

I call the whole area my cookie. Obviously if talking about each part I use the correct term, but "cookie" covers the fun parts.

[Faster]

I’m not sure what a collok cricket it mind you 😐

[MeMyselfand]

BertrandRussell don't be depressed over some people not knowing the correct term for each part, there's better things in the world to be depressed about

[MeMyselfand]

Faster 😂😂 I hope that's not another part I don't know about

[Faster]

I’ll ask my practice nurse at my next smear 😂

[ShowOfHands]

I say vulva. Very, very rarely though as I almost never need to talk about it in rl. I'm not a cunt or superior though. I just use a word to describe a thing. Cheers for.the early morning name calling though.

[glintandglide]

Fanny is grim. It makes me shudder

[LongSummerDays]

Tbh if someone referred to their vulva I would possibly think they were mispronouncing their car make...

[lepotato]

I agree that everyone should know what their fucking organs are called but it's a bit hard to just introduce a word that hardly anyone has ever used! Who's to blame for telling everyone it was a vagina in the first place then?

[WeirdAndPissedOff]

It's always been colloquially known as a vagp, vagina etc to anyone I know - similar to people using "testicles" to describe the scrotum, I suppose?
But I understand people wanting the terms to be anatomically correct, perhaps more so as incorrect usage has become the norm?

However it's the disingenuous inability to understand what a poster means when they refer to vagina but mean vulva that bothers me, usually in cases where it's really obvious what the poster is trying to say! And in some cases on posts where an OP is in a serious situation and trying to ask for advice.
"OP, how could they have touched your vagina in that situation? I really don't understand? Oh, did you mean your vulva?"

[FurryDice]

But why is it so important @FurryDice?

Are you a woman? If so it should be very important to you that the correct terms are used for our actual bodily parts; and that ‘vagina’ as used to denote a woman’s private area is totally erroneous when people are talking about the vulva.

Do you really want a generation of boys who in the 60s barely knew where to find the clit, now thinking the whole area outside the body is the vag?

Ffs! Seriously. That women are questioning why this is important blows my mind

[RhiWrites]

^This. What @weirdandpissedoff said. It’s classic mumsnet and it’s annoying. Our generation was taught to use the word vagina for the whole “undercarriage”. It’s nasty and showboating to pretend you don’t know what someone means when they use the word.

In real life I say “vaj jay jay”. Thanks to a Greys Anatomy episode.

[GollyGoshGreat]

It’s like making up a name for your nose or calling your nose your armpit.

It’s weird and makes people sound thick as fuck!

[Shaboohshoobah1]

Fanny. I love the word Fanny That’s the one we use in our house.

[BertrandRussell]

And it says so much about our attitude to women's sexuality that we have a million words for a penis- you can choose the right word for the right circumstances and people will always know what you mean, but women's genitals are shrouded in so much mystery and guilt and shame that we can't even name our own! Can you imagine a man ever saying "down there" about his penis? Except, possibly in a lame sir com to indicate that he was incredibly repressed and "old womanish"........(old womanish used intentionally just in case of hard of irony readers)

[MeMyselfand]

Yip I know all a man's bits, bellend, shaft, bawsack

[MozzieMagnet]

bajingo...Scrubs fan

[minisoksmakehardwork]

I noticed the change to correct terminology coming in at the same time as my children were learning the 'pants' rule.

I feel it is important to know the correct terminology in order to be able to accurately report sexual assaults, however clunky it may feel. But nicknames in day to day are acceptable.

[BertrandRussell]

And "bits" is truly awful. So diminishing and dismissive.

[WhatsYourFuckingProblem]

I use the internationally recognised ‘minge’ in all contexts, Doctors, HCPs, people at the bus stop.....