To ask if showing your lady parts is "a thing"

[Polkapjs]

A millennial friend has told me about “you know that thing when you show each other your vaginas?” And on seeing my shocked face didn’t say much more other than to explain she’s been showing a colleague at the work’s party and now is embarrassed
Is the comparison even a thing? Is this normal. It was delivered in a way which suggested it was totally normal like comparing hand size...
So tell me - have I been living under a rock? I’d no sooner display my wares than poke needles in my eyes

millennial friend 😂.....I'm a millennial and no I haven't.

Skinny dipping with friends but no exposure of internals!

Is she very naive or was she completely slaughtered at the party? Sounds like she's been taken the piss out of and it's no wonder she's embarrassed!

What's with all the tetchy clever clogs differentiation between vagina and vulva? Although it's technically incorrect everybody knows it's a common accepted reference to call your fanjo (outside bits and inside) 'vagina'. Sheesh

It's a bit like saying 'I've got a rash on my arm' ermm no dear you have a rash on your 'Ulnar'

And there was me and my lovely colleague thinking her falling over was the most embarrassing thing that could have happened at the works xmas do! I should forward her this and make her feel less mortified

No it’s not a millennial thing. I’m a millennial and other than sexual partners only other persons to see if have been medical professionals (midwife/Gynae/surgeon)

I thought this was going to be a reference to that twitter hoohaa a few months ago when an 'inclusive' feminist was claiming that harrassing of transgender people was widespread, she said that some drunk had harrassed her on a night out somewhere, thinking she looked transgender, but "I showed him my vagina and ran away". 🤣

That was my first thought too!!

It's a bit like saying 'I've got a rash on my arm' ermm no dear you have a rash on your 'Ulnar'

What is? Correcting people who use vagina when they mean vulva?

@mad I just see it as splitting hairs on what we do know is common slang for meaning the whole of a woman's genitals. Perhaps I'm naive but very rarely have I heard someone refer specifically to their outside genitalia as 'vulva' in common conversation. Yes it is indeed correct. But my point Is it is commonly accepted slang that most just refer to the wholr bloody thing as 'vagina' despite the facts it's technically incorrect

It's not a thing as far as I know however I think it used to be in some feminist/women's empowerment circles. I used to have an old book called 'Our Bodies Ourselves' which apparently was one of the first publications to detail the female anatomy (among many other things), written by women for women. It was discussed in that book - women would be in a group, and have a look at their vulvas with mirrors, and use a speculum to see into the vagina and see the cervix. This was published in the days before the internet so there was no other easy way to find out. It was about being empowered, informed and unashamed of female anatomy, rather than being sexual.

A couple of my colleagues have seen mine but only because I work in the maternity unit I gave birth in, otherwise that’s just weird

don’t be such a silly boy, OP

Okay. Since you are all a bunch of strangers I will actually admit that my friendship group will show each other ours. But it’s not normal and I wouldn’t tell anyone this in real life. Feel free to ask questions.

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yeap, she did put gloves on from the 1st aid kit but she was trying to help but as I was coming around a bit and going out again she also didn't know how badly id whacked my head for sure

Sure she did. It's what anyone would do if they found their flatmate semi-conscious on the bathroom floor, isn't it? Put on gloves and root around inside the flatmate's innards...

It's a bit like saying 'I've got a rash on my arm' ermm no dear you have a rash on your 'Ulnar'

It's nothing like saying that.
It's also not commonly accepted to say vagina when you mean vulva, as someone else commented. If you KNOW the difference, just use the correct name so there's no possibility of confusion.

But my point Is it is commonly accepted slang that most just refer to the wholr bloody thing as 'vagina' despite the facts it's technically incorrect

Well, the only places i ever hear it incorrectly named are on here and Naked Attraction!

Back in the real world, women generally understand the difference.

Oh, and you're never going to get a rash on your ulna. It's a bone.

Completely normal and standard Christmas party behaviour. Didn’t know there were so many prudes about on here

Sounds like this was a Police Christmas party.

@limpbizkit

No, the ulna is a bone - you can’t show someone that or have a rash on it.

It’s entirely correct to differentiate between the two because they are two different body parts.

Sure, you might be a pedant and a bit twattish if you said ‘mons pubis or labia majora’ but vagina and vulva ARE different and I don’t refer to my vulva as my vagina.

it is commonly accepted slang that most just refer to the wholr bloody thing as 'vagina' despite the facts it's technically incorrect

It's not slang.

Fanny is slang

Foof is slang

etc

Vagina is a correct anatomical term incorrectly applied. Why not start calling your foot a "leg" if you want to get things wrong? It makes as much sense.

What do you mean it’s not a thing? Of course it’s a bloody thing! We are very open and relaxed at work and everyone looks forward to Friend’s Fannies Friday. To be honest it can get a bit ‘samey’ but everyone gets excited when we get a new ‘gal’ join the team. We did think about having Minge Monday but people just weren’t arsed.