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

Well I've scrolled down and fail to see any suitable contenders. Besides her friends seem to all use the same term.

I actually like 'front bottom' its very tongue-in-cheek I think.

ive used tail when having a bath with my ds, as he asked! then he asked to pull down my trousers so he can see my tail, i will let him have a bath alone from now on! u know you do when you get tired! .. ;)

although he knows his as a willy as that is what is is, if you make them feel uncomfotable about saying the word or using it then they and you will be embarrasssed!

I've said it before, but calling a vulva, a front bottom, is like calling an ear, a side nose

"bits" or "privates"

For some unknown reason my mum called ours a 'wig-wag'. !!!! Only trouble with that was my brother had the same!!!

My OH calls it a mimsy. He says it originally came from Viz, but I think it's a fairly inoffensive word, definitely not clinical or overtly sexual. Not sure how many people would understand it if not in an obvious context, though.

When I was a child, we also called it a looloo ... had never heard of anybody else doing so, until I read themuppetmuggle's post!

At the moment, I only have ds, with whom we use the word willy ... but we always refer to his nooks and crannies when he's in the bath or getting dry (as in, "make sure you wash all your nooks and crannies")

Am about to have the problem of what to call a girl's bits as I'm expecting a girl ... when he sees me nude, he refers to my mammy bits, or my special willy (special because it doesn't stick out, see! ) ... don't know whether I'll revert back to looloo when this lo is born ...

oh, and JV, I'm with you - fanny was always a rude word round by us too ...

ooh yes was going to ask this myself as we have just started potty training dd.

Hate front bottom and all the euphemistic ones (twinkle, flower..) so think we will go for fanjo as I can't quite bring myself to use fanny or vulva although I know they are more anatomically correct.

If we could just all agree on one then we would create a female equivalent of willy and no-one would have to keep posting this question.. imagine what a harmonious world that would be [wistful emotion]

Well DH and I decided to go with transmogrified artichoke but dd1 was having none of it. She calls it her bottom (I tell you 3 years olds just have no vision or imagination).

No seriously we have told her it is called her vulva, but atm she calls it her bottom so thats fine with us.

We tried actual anatomical names and it backfired on us....

DD2, sitting in the car with MIL, turned and said

"I'm not ever having babies, coz it hurts like mad when they pop out of your china"

Lose / lose situation

The word in our house when i was little was 'tuppence' absolutley hated it and still do.
With DS 6.0 yrs we say 'dinksie' he has figured out himself that (through friends at school)this is his willy, i dont think this has harmed him in any way permantly

So when DD was born I used the word 'twinkie' well i dont know why really, probably because it rymed with dinksie

my dd has a mini, ds as a willy, she knows babies come out a vagina (her mini) but not till shes much older (shes 2.10) i never called my vagina a vagina growing up but never had problems coming to terms with the real name!!

I tried dd with vagina from an early age, but she thought I was sayig Georgina for some mad reason. Calls her's Gina. Never had any problems as a result. I rather like it.

I know, I know, it's a vulva. But blame my confusion at the time on sleepless nights. Also, did try with Vulva but she thought I was talking about our car - a volvo. Confusion reigns]

Failing that, fanny is a good one too.

PMSL - keep doing that by mistake. No link, just me being cack-handed!

ha, great thread, have often wondered about this. (Only got a son so far so not had to deal with it in real life!)

I can't deal with the V-words, yeah they're accurate, but honestly, I don't think I want to hear a 3 year old girl saying "Mummy, I fell and hurt my vulva!"

It looks like it's going to be "privates" in the boho house...

Sorry peacy, but my dd has a tuppence and ds has a tinkle.

When I was a child nothing below the waist was ever referred to, there was simply nothing there!! and yet I still somehow knew what everything was called (biologically speaking).

I personally see no harm in having non-biological names for your vulva/penis etc

Go with gina! It always makes me smile, doesn't feel as twee as some of the others. Not keen on privates myself - not sure why but doesn't seem suitably positive a word.

And ds has a willy. Again, sounds right to me.

Boys have willies and girls have little willies in our house.

Ahh, poor girls. Bet they have willy envy and feel shortchanged in the willy lottery.