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?

How do you talk to a young girl about tampons if she thinks the vagina is everything between the labia!?
I don’t actually ever talk about my vagina in social chit chat but it is important to be able to identify it specifically.

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

"I LOOOOOOOVE saying vulva. It horrifies my daughter"

It's really sad that there's no way of licensing parenthood. It means any kind of immature moron can be a birth parent.

Zaza It's the gluteals. Your mum would have smacked you on the gluteals, not the rectum.

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

Surely you mean the glans, corpus cavernosum and scrotum, MeMyselfAnd?
How will anyone know what you're talking about if you don't use the correct words?

@DiabolicalPuppetmaster

Shhhhhh. You'll make @BertrandRussel depressed if you can't correctly name the hairy trunk, ball bag and purple mushroom.

I have never used the word vulva. It sounds like a cross between Volvo and vulgar.
I have never asked my DC if they have wiped their anus or need to urinate.
‘Bikini line’ makes me laugh - it’s a bit like calling your head your ‘hat area’ or your feet your ‘shoe region’.

Just call it a cunt and move along with your day

Seriously though I call it a vag, I know it’s called a vulva, but that sounds fucking stupid tbh. I’m not thick but I can also use my head to work out what I prefer saying. You could call it anything in context and everyone knows you’re talking about ya minge.

If you do not know the EXACT latin names for every single minor part of your genital anatomy, then your child WILL get abused and it will be your fault because they were not able to name the exact part.

Or something

I don’t understand why people think it’s intellectually superior to call something by its actual name.

My 5yo knows the correct words as they’re just words.

Sure, I refer to my vag and muff if I need to in company (rare) but if I went to the doctor or was describing something where accuracy mattered, I’d use the correct word. Because it’s correct and avoids ambiguity.

Also, ‘barse’ will be forevermore part of my vernacular. I’m about to text my husband to tell him of this new wonderful word.

We always called it a tilly, until everyone started naming their bloody dd that

I call the whole thing fanny, vagina sounds too medical. The only time I've ever heard anyone say vulva, apart from on mumsnet, is
in a medical setting. Most people refer to the whole thing by one name, be it fanny, vagina, noonie or whatever. I have literally never heard anyone use different terminology
for the inside and the outside in RL.

Nobody would talk about vulva when your having a smear or giving birth,why would they since the focus of both if these is your vagina.Amazing that a lot of women know what their perineum is though!
Last lime this discussion was on mnI asked my 15 yr dd,she she gets fed up at school of it being referred to as a vag.She knows the difference,doesn't have any problems with the word vulva and with the arrogance if youth says that nothing other than tampons are ever going up her vag.

It used to always be a fanjo on Mumsnet, I'm not sure when that changed.

I don't think I've ever had to refer to it out loud! In my head though, "pudenda" covers the whole lot. And yes, I know the meaning isn't particularly nice.

I do like the "mound of Venus" with its links to the goddess of love and sexual pleasure, but it's a bit flowery for everyday use!

It's really sad that there's no way of licensing parenthood. It means any kind of immature moron can be a birth parent.

That's the least of it, Missus. I accept your "immature moron" badge and raise you - I also accidentally let her brother eat a poo when he was a toddler.

Do I get a prize?

Vulva and vagina are just horrible sounding words thuugh, arent they? Men get "penis" we get "vagina" Wtf?

I agree with BertrandRussel. Not knowing your own genitals is a nice issue imo. (Aka not knowing the difference between vagina and vulva for example)

I also think that in everyday like we use other words (family, food etc). That’s absolutely fine (lots of reasons for that too).

What I dint get is that attitude that says that you are because you sometimes want to use the proper words or actually know what they mean.

With my husband I say 'vagina' because I'm not sure he'd be that bothered about the difference between Vulva and vagina.

But if I were talking to other women, I'd say 'Vulva' because I want to refer to my body parts by their proper name.

Vulva and vagina are just horrible sounding words thuugh, arent they? Men get "penis" we get "vagina" Wtf?

Agreed. And I think women, younger women particularly, would be more inclined to go for a cervical screening every 3 years if it didn't have the ugly colloquial name "smear". It sounds as unpleasant as it feels.

It’s funny though how vagina, a proper medica, term, is ok to use and not clinical (even though it’s used to describe something else).
But vulva is seen as too medical, too close to vulgar etc... even though it’s still a medical word, exactly in the same way than vagina is.....

Normally I'd refer to the whole area as my vagina, in a lazy way. Lately I've started getting very antsy and correct because of the 'front hole' debacle (evidently transwomen have vaginas, women have front holes )

Interesting discussion here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3356137-The-Guardian-All-women-have-a-DIY-vagina-vulva-wash-of-mucus on the subject of vulvas and vaginas.

It's usually referred to as a vulva by those who think they are intellectually superior and feel the need to show off their superiority hmm
What is this, a race to the bottom? 😀
It’s normal to call a vulva a vulva. Same as calling a breast a breast ( not a nipple) penis, cranium, intestine etc all normal names surely?

I normally use "Lady Garden". I may start to use Vulgar Volvo now.

Rebecca36 it's relevant to talk about your genitals during sex and there's no way in hell I'm going to start saying vulva. It's hardly a turn on is it using the correct term, the same way I don't say penis