suitable name(s) for female genitals

[julwil]

Does anyone have a suitable name that we can use as a family? So far I'm stumped - vagina (too clinical), front bum (eurgh!), I've seen 'flower' used on mn, but would welcome any other suggestions

Jeez what's wrong wtih privates....there is no issues - she knows that they are special and hers hence the 'private' if uncle touches her 'privates' the teacher (even a dense one) will click on - it is inoffensive, unashamed and very obvisous to what you ar referring

Well yeah, but I guess its only ever the attitude and intent that makes a word a swear word.
Probably, as a kid I would have considered fanny to be on a par with fuck or piss - a profanity definitely.

You can't win with 'slang' though. Fanny is perfectly acceptable with our southern friends but not so good with northern friends - except the very posh ones.

Fanjo is short for family banjo - which takes the fun out of it I think. And I'm told it's offensive in Ireland, amongst other places.

Vulva is OK.

Sotland Mommalove, Lanarkshire.

really?? blimey. def geography that one, i think.
that and my mum is a bit of a , um, bohemian, so the things i grew up thinking were totally normal, were not so to the rest of the world, largely.

for me, saying fanny was totally non sexual and babyish and normal as a child. the equivalent to willy.
it was as a young woman i struggled coz i didnt know what to call it then. felt a right twat (pardon the pun) calling it a fanny as a grown up, but what else? pussy? vagina? lol what would work for talking to doctors or boyfriends??

s'why i like fanwah now! makes me smile

also, i think of it as spelt fanois which is all french and sophisticated, see. but the pronunciation is important so ive spelt it phonetically for the benefit of others [gracious]

er, spelled.

My MIL says fanny . She recently said to dds 'let's wash hands, face, and fanny' . They had no idea what she was talking about!

She also thinks to say 'fart' is OK. Personally, I think it's a bit rude .

We have a friend who uses noo-noo for her daughter. Quite like that one.

I agree that there should be no reason not to call vagina, vagina or penis, penis but I just dont like it for small children.
In the same way, when its time for potty traing i wont be asking DS if he needs to defecate or urinate .
Thnere is absolutely nothing wrong with those words but I personally wouldn't use them for children. If I worried that this might signify some sort stigma on my part I'm sure I would try to work out the root of it, but I dont, so I will just accept that I'm happier using PeePee, dinkle, poo, weewee etc etc.

Lol NG!
Agree cardy, when I was little fart was considered a swear word. Was only as I got older I realised that most people used it freely.

Still cant say it in front of my mum though

oh good grief, 'fart' is rude???

really dont get that.

Dinkle!

My god - haven't heard that for years. That's brought a smile to my face......

I spose thats where you realise the nature of swear/rude/cuss words.
Its not a natural distinction.
A word is only as rude as its believed to be.
There are no inherently rude words, they're just noises.

Apart from gusset. That is inherently offensive!

noo noo??

funny story:

was walking down an endless corridor in vile hateful disney hotel in paris one day with 38week bump, dss age 4, and dp. corridor was like summink out of the shining im telluing you, but i digress.

dss looks to his left into an open door of a room and exclaims 'i can see that lady's noo noo'

says i, and hurries him along, thinking, if im honest, more of the poor womans dignity than dss's delicate innocence... and i dont get why dp has hardly seemed to react at all...
turns out, 'noo noo' is the hoover off teletubbies. he was talking about the cleaner's hoover.

doh.

We used to use twinkle (?), would use proper names now- boys had wee-wee until about 6, now they have penis. Why on earth not?

No way using looloo, planning to get a loola- way too confusing

PMSL at noonoo

usingt hat term for a vulva always smacks of a Thai exotic act to me

Now, if one of us anti-Vulvarians had thought that Peachy, we'd have been accused of all sorts of genital hang-ups

I reckon that if you attach silly names to private parts then you are setting your child up for a right piss-taking at school.

dd calls hers her front bottom. ds has a willy.

You dont think front bottom counts as a silly name?

Well, it's at the front part of her bottom isn't it? Better than "fairy" or "flower" or "noo noo".

Vagina is too clinical. There are no nice middle ground words for femaile genitalia. In my eyes, front bottom is perfectly acceptable so there!

Reminds me of a kid I knew who went up to the new saturday lad in Safeway and said very loudly 'I ahve 2 flannels, one for my face and one for my vaginaaaaaa'

Always fnd front bottom a bit bizarre, tbh. Has slightly asexual overtones whilst simultaneously conjuring up images of 1960's swingers