Why don't they know the names of women's body parts?

[theDudesmummy]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/gustave-courbet-vagina-painting-vandalised-metoo-graffiti?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Origin of the World is not a painting of a vagina!

I doubt more than one man in ten could say what a cervix is with any accuracy.

I emailed and complained - I do it all the time 😂I am sure they have a little file on me.

I understand there were numerous complaints regarding the inaccurate terminology (one of which was mine) hence the correction.

You’re not reading the answers, I don’t know why.

There is a difference between using a pet name for your genitalia, and using the wrong scientific name. Words carry meaning in materially real sense, if you use the wrong scientific term, your meaning is not successfully communicated to the audience. Using a pet name isn’t a problem and is not what the thread is about.

The art in question doesn’t use any terms, correct or otherwise, it is a painting.

The point of contention was how it was described by the article.

I don’t have an opinion other that I can’t find a bloody image of the actual painting without someone’s head, red writing or another woman with her legs open at the fore front of the image….i would like to see a good image of the painting after the lovely explanation of why there’s no face

Google search term The Origin of the World painting, click image tab, second and third images have no impediment.

Or just search L'Origine du monde in Wikipedia, it's right there in all it's glory!

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@SummerFeverVenice Your explanation of the painting is very interesting. But it was private, for a particular man to look at, painted at a time when attitudes to all sorts of things were different. (Including luxuriant pubic hair!)

@Gagagardener
Thank you. Yes, it was a private painting she had agreed to do for her lover and with her identity protected. The two men (lover and artist) did take the secret to their graves and beyond.

@SummerFeverVenice So it is appropriate for me to feel I shdn't be seeing this. Interesting thought: do we treat her/their desire for privacy rather as we do copyright? I.e. Once you've died, you lose control.

Yes, I would say it is appropriate to feel it is private and not meant to be gawked at in public. I like your copywrite, privacy rights until death idea.