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Every Swedish child knows that a boy's wiener is called a 'snopp'. But what is the equivalent for a girl's sexual organ? Most of the words in common usage are considered too crude for use by children. Anna Kosztovics from the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning - RFSU) has spent the last few years urging parents and daycare centres to switch to 'snippa'. She now hopes that a major new campaign will mean that the name is here to stay.

Why does the female sexual organ need a new name?

Because there really isn't one word that children use. When I was pregnant a few years ago I wondered what I would call it if I had a girl. A friend of mine suggested the word snippa. As it happened I had a boy. After a few years he asked me: 'Mamma, where's your snopp?' And I replied that I didn't have a snopp, I had a snippa.

Well, it seems Swedish has finally gotten a proper neutral word for the female outer genitalia that isn't as clinical as "vagina" - "snippa"! I like it, and have been using it as often as I possibly can to make it spread.

Does your language have a neutral (i.e. non-vulgar, non-clinical, non-"hoohaa"-type, just something regular) word for the female genitalia? I've been trying to think of one in English and am coming short...

lets see...all the words for vagina i can think of are: pussy, ****, twat, vag, beaver (probably some more..but meh..its almost 3am) and no, none of them are neutral. I don't think there is one. snippa sounds kinda cool though.

I think our culture here is more concerned with creating imaginative dysphemisms than anything else. :p

Pee-pee

That's not a word for the vagina.

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Well, it seems Swedish has finally gotten a proper neutral word for the female outer genitalia that isn't as clinical as "vagina" - "snippa"! I like it, and have been using it as often as I possibly can to make it spread.

Does your language have a neutral (i.e. non-vulgar, non-clinical, non-"hoohaa"-type, just something regular) word for the female genitalia? I've been trying to think of one in English and am coming short...
Pee-pee

Vagina. Vagina. Vagina.

What the hell is with the prudishness about teaching the actual, clinical names of such organs?

Vagina.

Vagina.

VAGIIIIIIIIIIII-NA!

Simple.

Fanny?

I know Americans use it differently but you capitalised English so I'm assuming it's the correct version you're asking about

Fanny?

I know Americans use it differently but you capitalised English so I'm assuming it's the correct version you're asking about

Fanny strikes me as slangy... but, then again, it could be used by little girls and boys. Is it neutral, though? I've heard it in expressions such as "fannying about", so that's why I hesitate.

That's not a word for the vagina.
Yes it is.

I'm sure there will be some kind of negative connotation that the word will eventually come with.

I mean, the word "vagina" never existed until we even knew what a vagina was, and now look? I've made my post non-PG.


In other words, I'm sure if the word vagina referred to a very popular, sweet smelling flower, and the word snippa referred to... well, a vagina... we wouldn't really think about calling a snippa a vagina.

Yes it is.

Nuhuh - it's used for the urine side of things, which is separate from the genitalia in girls, not to mention that it is used for penis as well as a sort of catch-all for "where pee comes from". Plus it also falls under the "hoohaa" category that I ruled out in the OP.

Nuhuh - it's used for the urine side of things, which is separate from the genitalia in girls, not to mention that it is used for penis as well as a sort of catch-all for "where pee comes from". Plus it's also falls under the "hoohaa" category that I ruled out in the OP.
What exactly is "hoohaa"?

Perhaps it is like the white part of bread, something we just don't need a work for.

I'm sure there will be some kind of negative connotation that the word will eventually come with.

I very much doubt that seeing as "snippa" is a complete counterpart of "snopp", which has evaded negative connotations and because "snopp, snippa" are very childish words that would be very difficult to turn into vulgarities or invectives.

What exactly is "hoohaa"?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hoo+haa

Perhaps it is like the white part of bread, something we just don't need a work for.

Swedish has a word for that. It's called "inkråm".

I very much doubt that seeing as "snippa" is a complete counterpart of "snopp", which has evaded negative connotations and because "snopp, snippa" are very childish words that would be very difficult to turn into vulgarities or invectives.

I do believe "beaver" is a fairly benign word, as well...

Mumsfilibaba is my favourite Swedish word, possibly my favourite word in the whole wide world.

I don't think English people are equipped to talk about genitalia without either making a joke option or being downright vulgar. Fanny is the closest word I can come up with in terms of a neutral word but it isn't an officially adopted word if that's the criteria.

EDIT: I like snottetrasse as well, sounds so...Moomin-like.

Fanny?

I know Americans use it differently but you capitalised English so I'm assuming it's the correct version you're asking about

Fanny strikes me as slangy... but, then again, it could be used by little girls and boys. Is it neutral, though? I've heard it in expressions such as "fannying about", so that's why I hesitate.

I would say fanny is the closest in English (British English, anyway). It's what I remember adults calling it when I was younger.

That's pretty slang-oriented though, wouldn't you say? :p

Oh, come on!

Swedish has a word for that. It's called "inkråm".
So do the French, but I am morally opposed to knowing that word as I have convinced myself that learning French in highschool was a waste of time considering 30% of people in the city speak Mandarin.

Don't leave us hanging, what's it mean? ;)

Yummy!

Jolt timewarp's on fire today!

I do believe "beaver" is a fairly benign word, as well...

That's pretty slang-oriented though, wouldn't you say? :p

I would say fanny is the closest in English (British English, anyway). It's what I remember adults calling it when I was younger.
Fanny is the butt, no?

Mumsfilibaba

Haha!

is my favourite Swedish word, possibly my favourite word in the whole wide world.

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I don't think English people are equipped to talk about genitalia without either making a joke option or being downright vulgar. Fanny is the closest word I can come up with in terms of a neutral word but it isn't an officially adopted word if that's the criteria.

I could buy fanny - it doesn't have to be "official" since there is no such thing when it comes to languages, really - but I still have the impression that's it's not neutral, like say, "willy". Guess someone British and independent can tell us.

Mumsfilibaba is my favourite Swedish word, possibly my favourite word in the whole wide world.


Don't leave us hanging, what's it mean? ;)

EDIT: I like snottetrasse as well, sounds so...Moomin-like.

I've never heard of that word, and neither has google it would seem.

Yummy!

Jolt timewarp's on fire today!

Hah. Great word. :p

Yeah, we're warping but good.

Fanny is the butt, no?

Nope, in British English it means "vagina". That's why it's so hilarious to think of that Fran Drescher show "The Nanny", when they sing in the opening that she was thrown out "on her fanny". *giggles*

Edit: But, if you're British, then, yes - it means "bottom, butt" in the USA.

Haha!



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I could buy fanny - it doesn't have to be "official" since there is no such thing when it comes to languages, really - but I still have the impression that's it's not neutral, like say, "willy". Guess someone British and independent can tell us.

Alas not but I dated a Swedish girl for a while and picked up a bunch of phrases.

...and I am British so I'm qualified, though not necessarily right, to say that I think fanny is about as neutral as it gets :)

I've never heard of that word, and neither has google it would seem.

I may have spelt it wrong - it means 'security blanket', of the sort Linus from Peanuts carries around.

Could it be regional, the girl was from the South, large city beginning with A. It was a while ago.

I know someone named "Franny..."

Thankfully she wasn't British. I knew she hated me already but...

Nope, in British English it means "vagina". That's why it's so hilarious to think of that Fran Drescher show "The Nanny", when they sing in the opening that she was thrown out "on her fanny". *giggles*
In North American English it is most definitely the butt. In one episode of the Simpsons, Milhouse refers to a butt as a fanny, which solidified its meaning on our continent.

I may have spelt it wrong - it means 'security blanket', of the sort Linus from Peanuts carries around.

Could it be regional, the girl was from the South, large city beginning with A. It was a while ago.

Ah... well, the more common word for "security blanket" would be "snuttefilt".

Alas not but I dated a Swedish girl for a while and picked up a bunch of phrases.

...and I am British so I'm qualified, though not necessarily right, to say that I think fanny is about as neutral as it gets :)

Well, then, fanny it is! Now, the yanks have to think of one that doesn't mean butt to them and the rest of the world will pretend to care about their little idiosyncrasies.

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Well, it seems Swedish has finally gotten a proper neutral word for the female outer genitalia that isn't as clinical as "vagina" - "snippa"! I like it, and have been using it as often as I possibly can to make it spread.

Does your language have a neutral (i.e. non-vulgar, non-clinical, non-"hoohaa"-type, just something regular) word for the female genitalia? I've been trying to think of one in English and am coming short...

I have no idea. I always use the clinical terms as I hate most slang terms for the genitals. I may occasionally use dick--as part of dickweed--but that's about it.

In North American English it is most definitely the butt. In one episode of the Simpsons, Milhouse refers to a butt as a fanny, which solidified its meaning on our continent.

That was solid long before The Simpsons was a glimmer in Matt's eye...


To the subject at hand...I'm not so sure that I want the place where I'm going to put my snoop to be called a snippa...sure, in Swedish it might not imply anything, but in English, lets just say that snip makes me nervous...

There's "front-bottom," but I think it sounds a bit childish and evasive.

Not to mention misleading and awfully misogynistic. Our counterpart - "framstjärt" - is widely loathed, and every woman I've met has found it insulting.

Well, then, fanny it is! Now, the yanks have to think of one that doesn't mean butt to them and the rest of the world will pretend to care about their little idiosyncrasies.

There's "front-bottom," but I think it sounds a bit childish and evasive.

There's "front-bottom," but I think it sounds a bit childish and evasive.
I always thought 'front bottom' or 'front butt' was when someones belly folded over their genitels creating what looks like a superfluous ass.

Does your language have a neutral (i.e. non-vulgar, non-clinical, non-"hoohaa"-type, just something regular) word for the female genitalia? I've been trying to think of one in English and am coming short...

So, you mean the word you once told me hasn't even been a "real" word in "real", wide-spread existence? *pseudo-sulks*

As for your question.. I don't think we have that problem in German, but then again,I've been raised in a manner that might cloud my judgement (i.e. that makes it hard for me to recognize fainter shades of "bad" or "taboo" words because there has been no such thing in my family as far as genitalia are concerned).
So I'd go for "Scheide", really, which technically also doubles for "sheath" but nobody uses that word on a regular basis in that sense, now. It's not a technical/clinical for too much, but it's also fine for usage in any context, i.e. not at all vulgar. I know it's the word I have grown up using (and still use, for that matter), but I wonder whether other kids might be told a more "childish" word - only I can't think of one.

I remember my flatmate telling me that she was supposed to use "Spalte" as a kid, which literally translates as "cleft, crevice" (and dict.cc tells me the latter is also vulgar for vagina?) and I only vaguely knew to also name the female organ - and she since stopped using it and says she can't imagine anyone using it apart from kids, so maybe you have more of the kind of word you're looking for there; I don't know.

I always thought 'front bottom' or 'front butt' was when someones belly folded over their genitels creating what looks like a superfluous ass.

Not only have I never heard of this, I can't even imagine what you're talking about :confused:

Is it that the belly is so large that it folds in on itself vertically?

Fanny strikes me as slangy... but, then again, it could be used by little girls and boys. Is it neutral, though? I've heard it in expressions such as "fannying about", so that's why I hesitate.

Isn't that what snippa is basically? A slang term?

Box? Sleeve? Gates of Heaven?

Can a vagina have delusions of grandeur?

lets see...all the words for vagina i can think of are: pussy, ****, twat, vag, beaver (probably some more..but meh..its almost 3am) and no, none of them are neutral. I don't think there is one. snippa sounds kinda cool though.
Box? Sleeve? Gates of Heaven?

So, you mean the word you once told me hasn't even been a "real" word in "real", wide-spread existence? *pseudo-sulks*

It is a real word, and it has been quite widely used... just not widely enough. It needs to reach all recesses of this long realm of ours before it is cemented and we can rest.

So I'd go for "Scheide", really, which technically also doubles for "sheath" but nobody uses that word on a regular basis in that sense, now. It's not a technical/clinical for too much, but it's also fine for usage in any context, i.e. not at all vulgar. I know it's the word I have grown up using (and still use, for that matter), but I wonder whether other kids might be told a more "childish" word - only I can't think of one.

Vagina means literally "sheath", and "Scheide" is a direct translation - we have it in Swedish as well ("slida"), but here it has a clinical/scientific ring to it since it is so closely related to vagina. It's the word you'd use in an instruction pamphlet for tampons, for instance ("För in tampongen i slidan"). It would be very German for it not to be technical, so I could buy that.

I remember my flatmate telling me that she was supposed to use "Spalte" as a kid, which literally translates as "cleft, crevice" (and dict.cc tells me the latter is also vulgar for vagina?) and I only vaguely knew to also name the female organ - and she since stopped using it and says she can't imagine anyone using it apart from kids, so maybe you have more of the kind of word you're looking for there; I don't know.

Spalte? That is hilarious. Here "spalt" means "rectangular opening, cleft" and is used, for instance, in physics for plates with such openings in them used to create interference patterns when light or waves are sent through them, or for the "hole" in vending machines where you deposit your coins... so, uhm, I guess I could buy that, too, if it's as childish as you say, but it strikes me as a euphemism.

Isn't that what snippa is basically? A slang term?

No, it's not slang.

Spalte? That is hilarious. Here "spalt" means "rectangular opening, cleft" and is used, for instance, in physics for plates with such openings in them used to create interference patterns when light or waves are sent through them, or for the "hole" in vending machines where you deposit your coins... so, uhm, I guess I could buy that, too, if it's as childish as you say, but it strikes me as a euphemism.

Sounds like slot in english

Not to mention misleading and awfully misogynistic. Our counterpart - "framstjärt" - is widely loathed, and every woman I've met has found it insulting.

I think the consensus where I am is that it is a silly and pointless expression. Judging by the fact it is rarely if ever used in real life situations (in fact I think I have only seen used on TV).

I think the consensus where I am is that it is a silly and pointless expression. Judging by the fact it is rarely if ever used in real life situations (in fact I think I have only seen used on TV).

Never once encountered that one myself. :confused:

Ever been to one? *nods emphatically*
Especially when someone's yelling "ohgodohgodOHGODUnnharrggghhhH!" whenever they're crossing the magic threshold - tends to leave an impression.

But I never get to call my penis the Rod of Unimaginable Power or some such phrase. At least when I do my girlfriend laughs rather than find it sexy :(

Can a vagina have delusions of grandeur?

Ever been to one? *nods emphatically*
Especially when someone's yelling "ohgodohgodOHGODUnnharrggghhhH!" whenever they're crossing the magic threshold - tends to leave an impression.

Sounds like slot in english

That's the word I was looking for but couldn't think of this early in the noon.

That's the word I was looking for but couldn't think of this early in the noon.

I only thought of it based on some old jokes I heard as a child

Never once encountered that one myself. :confused:

Probably for the reason outlined above :)

But I never get to call my penis the Rod of Unimaginable Power or some such phrase. At least when I do my girlfriend laughs rather than find it sexy :(Hmmm. Sounds like you should get her to focus on G-spot techniques or something similar.
The name she settles on is more like "Snurky" or something equally endearing?

Not only have I never heard of this, I can't even imagine what you're talking about :confused:

Is it that the belly is so large that it folds in on itself vertically?

Some more wordings (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=front+butt&defid=1062405) (#4 actually supports the vagina usage)

Not good picture-
http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/09/39/69/image_1869399.jpg

Hmmm. Sounds like you should get her to focus on G-spot techniques or something similar.
The name she settles on is more like "Snurky" or something equally endearing?

I get the fun yet slightly questionable name of "Spiderman" thrust upon my Rod of Unimaginable Power

It is a real word, and it has been quite widely used... just not widely enough. It needs to reach all recesses of this long realm of ours before it is cemented and we can rest.
And so you (ab)use a poor young German speaker as your cement? Ah.

Vagina means literally "sheath", and "Scheide" is a direct translation - we have it in Swedish as well ("slida"), but here it has a clinical/scientific ring to it since it is so closely related to vagina. It's the word you'd use in an instruction pamphlet for tampons, for instance ("För in tampongen i slidan"). It would be very German for it not to be technical, so I could buy that.
Well, as I said, it is a word appropriate for all context - hold, on, let me check: Yes, it says "Scheide" on both the tampon and the condoms box leaflet thingy - but it's that strange mixture of "official" yet not clinical, but also everyday usage, as far as I know/feel. Wish some othe rnative speaker would drop in.

Spalte? That is hilarious. Here "spalt" means "rectangular opening, cleft" and is used, for instance, in physics for plates with such openings in them used to create interference patterns when light or waves are sent through them, or for the "hole" in vending machines where you deposit your coins... so, uhm, I guess I could buy that, too, if it's as childish as you say, but it strikes me as a euphemism.
Well, I already said it means "cleft", and I'd use it for the thing-light-passes-through-in-physics but not for the coin-slot.. anyhow, of course it is a euphemism, but that's make predestinates it for children's use, no, and it doesn't make it vulgar or technical.. and I don't think it qualifies it for the hoo-ha group, either, because it's not widly nonsenical, but only a non-offensive word to mroe or less describe the thing. So to speak.

Sounds like slot in english

Yeah, basically.

Some more wordings (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=front+butt&defid=1062405) (#4 actually supports the vagina usage)

Not good picture-
http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/09/39/69/image_1869399.jpg

Thanks - my life is so much richer for knowing this :)

I hope I never get to the point where I ever think it's a good idea to belt myself above the navel.

I get the fun yet slightly questionable name of "Spiderman" thrust upon my Rod of Unimaginable Power

As soon as i saw it, i thought of the cafeteria scene.
*nods*

Let's see... in Japanese, boys have a "chin-chin" and girls have a "warame-chan". Warame means "crack" and "-chan" is a diminuitive feminine suffix, so girls learn about "little missy crack" in health class. :)

Let's see... in Japanese, boys have a "chin-chin" and girls have a "warame-chan". Warame means "crack" and "-chan" is a diminuitive feminine suffix, so girls learn about "little missy crack" in health class. :)

That creeps me out for some reason. That, and the Japanese in general. :p

Don't leave us hanging, what's it mean? ;)Yeah, Fass (or Barringtonia), tell us already! What's Mumsfilibaba?

So I'd go for "Scheide", really, which technically also doubles for "sheath" but nobody uses that word on a regular basis in that sense, now. It's not a technical/clinical for too much, but it's also fine for usage in any context, i.e. not at all vulgar. I know it's the word I have grown up using (and still use, for that matter), but I wonder whether other kids might be told a more "childish" word - only I can't think of one.
Well, as I said, it is a word appropriate for all context - hold, on, let me check: Yes, it says "Scheide" on both the tampon and the condoms box leaflet thingy - but it's that strange mixture of "official" yet not clinical, but also everyday usage, as far as I know/feel. Wish some othe rnative speaker would drop in.
*drops in*

I'd sorta agree. Nobody ever says vagina outside of a doctor's office, pretty much. The next best "official, non-vulgar" word is Scheide. That's what it says on the tampon leaflet, that's what you use if you actually have to talk about a vagina in a non-sexual social situation.
Hence, it's the word that parents who don't want their children to learn cutesy euphemisms for sexual organs would teach them.


I remember my flatmate telling me that she was supposed to use "Spalte" as a kid, which literally translates as "cleft, crevice" (and dict.cc tells me the latter is also vulgar for vagina?) and I only vaguely knew to also name the female organ - and she since stopped using it and says she can't imagine anyone using it apart from kids, so maybe you have more of the kind of word you're looking for there; I don't know.
Spalte? That is hilarious. Here "spalt" means "rectangular opening, cleft" and is used, for instance, in physics for plates with such openings in them used to create interference patterns when light or waves are sent through them, or for the "hole" in vending machines where you deposit your coins... so, uhm, I guess I could buy that, too, if it's as childish as you say, but it strikes me as a euphemism.
Well, I already said it means "cleft", and I'd use it for the thing-light-passes-through-in-physics but not for the coin-slot.. anyhow, of course it is a euphemism, but that's make predestinates it for children's use, no, and it doesn't make it vulgar or technical.. and I don't think it qualifies it for the hoo-ha group, either, because it's not widly nonsenical, but only a non-offensive word to mroe or less describe the thing. So to speak.
WHOA!

Someone has never come across German porn stories/postings/whatevers on the internet...

Spalte is (like cleft in English, unless I'm gravely mistaken) a very porn-y word. I have *never* heard it used in real life by grown-ups and, due to its usage in porn, I would be rather shocked to hear it from a kid.

Apparently, though, it was different when your friend was a kid.

lets see...all the words for vagina i can think of are: pussy, ****, twat, vag, beaver (probably some more..but meh..its almost 3am) and no, none of them are neutral. I don't think there is one. snippa sounds kinda cool though.

You forgot 'cooter'.

I'll have to repeat Allanea and say 'cooter'. I'll also suggest 'coochie'.

Let's see... in Japanese, boys have a "chin-chin" :eek:

"Little pig, little pig, let me in!"

"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!"

Meh, guess we don't have one..

I googled another word for vagina and first site I hit I see someone called it 'beef curtains' .. that's nasty. I've always despised the word twat, but now it's not too bad. LOL

Beef... curtains... oh everloving Jesus.

*bleaches brain with boiling, radioactive bleach*

if cooter or coochie is in.. then I'll go with muff.

there wasn't a single nuetral word I could think of when I was pregnant with my first girl. I can remember a lot of the porny words, but none of them are very nice.........and a bunch of the "kiddy" words, but they all sounded stupid. I decided to just call it a vulva and be done with it........no sense in teaching my kids that they have "oopsies" or "no-nos" or "hoo-haas"

Why not? After all, we teach boys that they have weenies.

there wasn't a single nuetral word I could think of when I was pregnant with my first girl. I can remember a lot of the porny words, but none of them are very nice.........and a bunch of the "kiddy" words, but they all sounded stupid. I decided to just call it a vulva and be done with it........no sense in teaching my kids that they have "oopsies" or "no-nos" or "hoo-haas"

woah.. I've never heard anyone call it a oopsie or a no no lol. My mom always called it a twat ..but I just never liked that word.

Edit: Ahh.. I see what you meant now.. not the actual word no no or oppsies.. you were referring to Fass in his OP. Sorry. I'm a bit tired. :/

Why not? After all, we teach boys that they have weenies.


the snopp word made me think of a new one for them .. Snork (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snorks) .. hehe. :p

the snopp word made me think of a new one for them .. Snork (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snorks) .. hehe. :p

Now to start a meme...

Why not? After all, we teach boys that they have weenies.
I wouldn't. Boys have penises. (or hopefully just one a piece...)

There is a difference between boys and girls in this area though, girls for years have been taught to be ashamed of their genitals, boys on the other hand have been taught to be proud. I don't want my girls to grow up repressed or so embarrassed about what they have that they can't talk to their husbands (or wives) or doctors.

woah.. I've never heard anyone call it a oopsie or a no no lol. My mom always called it a twat ..but I just never liked that word.
my mom for a while called it a "no-no" or a "bad spot":rolleyes:

"oopsies" or "no-nos"Wow, that's awful. Is that a bible belt thing?

I wouldn't. Boys have penises. (or hopefully just one a piece...)



Unless they post on BMEzine.

I wouldn't. Boys have penises. (or hopefully just one a piece...)

There is a difference between boys and girls in this area though, girls for years have been taught to be ashamed of their genitals, boys on the other hand have been taught to be proud. I don't want my girls to grow up repressed or so embarrassed about what they have that they can't talk to their husbands (or wives) or doctors.


my mom for a while called it a "no-no" or a "bad spot":rolleyes:
Guess you just answered my question.

Wow, that's awful. Is that a bible belt thing?

I think it's a family thing.......people have just passed down the badness. She claims now that she didn't want me to get molested, it didn't work however since she housed a child molester for 10 years and told me to "shut up" about it because she "had her own problems" :mad:

I think it's a family thing.......people have just passed down the badness. She claims now that she didn't want me to get molested, it didn't work however since she housed a child molester for 10 years and told me to "shut up" about it because she "had her own problems" :mad:

Lovely.

Lovely.

yeah, I am still pretty pissed at her.

I refrained from comparing her to Piper Laurie's character in Carrie a few minutes ago when the 'bad spot' thing reminded me of Margaret White calling her daughters breasts 'dirty pillows' .. but now the gloves are off!

That's some heavy stuff to deal with Smunk.

I refrained from comparing her to Piper Laurie's character in Carrie a few minutes ago when the 'bad spot' thing reminded me of Margaret White calling her daughters breasts 'dirty pillows' .. but now the gloves are off!

That's some heavy stuff to deal with Smunk.

yeah, she tells people that the reason I am a recovering drug addict is because I "fell in with the wrong crowd"
:rolleyes:

Yeah, Fass (or Barringtonia), tell us already! What's Mumsfilibaba?
Not that I'd be either Fass or Barringtonia, but as far as I can gather, it's something like "umm, über-yummy" :]

*drops in*
Thank the Elk.

I'd sorta agree. Nobody ever says vagina outside of a doctor's office, pretty much. The next best "official, non-vulgar" word is Scheide. That's what it says on the tampon leaflet, that's what you use if you actually have to talk about a vagina in a non-sexual social situation.
Hence, it's the word that parents who don't want their children to learn cutesy euphemisms for sexual organs would teach them.

*chalks down agreement #1*

So that's what you'd teach your kids if you happened to have one now?

WHOA!

Someone has never come across German porn stories/postings/whatevers on the internet...

Umm.. what? But, umm, yeah, that's sorta true, mostly because I find porn in German utterly awkward. So, point conceded.

Spalte is (like cleft in English, unless I'm gravely mistaken) a very porn-y word. I have *never* heard it used in real life by grown-ups and, due to its usage in porn, I would be rather shocked to hear it from a kid.

O-kay... as we just established, I don't consume much German porn, but I still want to say that I'd never ever associate it with porn.. I find it a peculiar word, but I'd always have classfied it as "word mummies use when too prim to use Scheide with their kids" ..

Umm.. what? But, umm, yeah, that's sorta true, mostly because I find porn in German utterly awkward. So, point conceded.



O-kay... as we just established, I don't consume much German porn, but I still want to say that I'd never ever associate it with porn.. I find it a peculiar word, but I'd always have classfied it as "word mummies use when too prim to use Scheide with their kids" ..
Porn in German *is* awkward. :p

And, well, it might be that it's just regional differences. Maybe it's just southern Germany where nobody would ever use that with their kids. It's a rather "hochdeutsches" word anyway, in a way that I can't explain. Meh.

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Well, it seems Swedish has finally gotten a proper neutral word for the female outer genitalia that isn't as clinical as "vagina" - "snippa"! I like it, and have been using it as often as I possibly can to make it spread.


I'm trying to picture you making the female outer genitalia spread, to no avail.

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Well, it seems Swedish has finally gotten a proper neutral word for the female outer genitalia that isn't as clinical as "vagina" - "snippa"! I like it, and have been using it as often as I possibly can to make it spread.

Does your language have a neutral (i.e. non-vulgar, non-clinical, non-"hoohaa"-type, just something regular) word for the female genitalia? I've been trying to think of one in English and am coming short...

Is it just me or did you immediately think of someone "snipping some poor guys snopp" with their snippa??

Vagina: Bajingo
Penis: Peep

Thank you Scrubs.

They both sound like cheaply veneered, particle-board shelving units from IKEA to me.

Vagina: Bajingo
Penis: Peep

Thank you Scrubs.

that reminds me, thanks to Grey's Anatomy my kids have been using the word "Va-jay-jay" a lot

I for one have a penis.

snizz

Just call it a vagina and stop trying to come up with euphemisms.

Just call it a vagina and stop trying to come up with euphemisms.

Puritan killjoy!

How cute! I surely like it better than "snopp."

Puritan killjoy!

Somehow I think if I decided to start saying "vagina" openly, some people might decide to take offense. :p

Somehow I think if I decided to start saying "vagina" openly, some people might decide to take offense. :p

I think it's the manner or elocution that really makes the difference to me.
Perhaps some hand gestures would help ... or hinder.

Kinda like Drew Carey's take on the "Aristocrats" joke.

Somehow I think if I decided to start saying "vagina" openly, some people might decide to take offense. :p

Well, if you tried to work a mention of genitalia into conversations all the time, people might think you have a problem. But saying "vagina" is probably one of the least offensive ways to refer to a vagina, when necessary.

Well, if you tried to work a mention of genitalia into conversations all the time, people might think you have a problem. But saying "vagina" is probably one of the least offensive ways to refer to a vagina, when necessary.
You could sing it, kinda like The Bloodhound Gang.

Well, if you tried to work a mention of genitalia into conversations all the time, people might think you have a problem. But saying "vagina" is probably one of the least offensive ways to refer to a vagina, when necessary.

Perhaps the people I know are just big prudes, if they must mention the area they would prefer to say something like "down there" and not have any specifics at all.

I'm trying to picture you making the female outer genitalia spread, to no avail.

Gee, thanks for that lovely image.

You could sing it, kinda like The Bloodhound Gang.

Perhaps the people I know are just big prudes, if they must mention the area they would prefer to say something like "down there" and not have any specifics at all.

Sounds like WASPs! And they hate the Bloodhound Gang. ;)

Perhaps the people I know are just big prudes, if they must mention the area they would prefer to say something like "down there" and not have any specifics at all.

That's how it was with my family - anything from the common cold, to pneumonia to chicken pox to pregnancy was "female problems," as long as the sufferer was female. I don't think I even learned that men and women were anotomically different in that way until I was about 20, and even then, only by watching the discovery channel, or something. :p

As a Brit, I'd have to go with fanny - its a perfectly acceptable word whether talking to my mum, my mates or my doctor. Its not really used in a sexual way, like pussy for example, and it's not used as an insult, like ****, so it doesn't seem to offend anybody.

When I was little, the other girls at school called it a Woo, but I don't see that catching on :p

Sounds like WASPs! And they hate the Bloodhound Gang. ;)

I should hope not, "Bad Touch" is such a great song! :cool:

As a Brit, I'd have to go with fanny - its a perfectly acceptable word whether talking to my mum, my mates or my doctor. Its not really used in a sexual way, like pussy for example, and it's not used as an insult, like ****, so it doesn't seem to offend anybody.

When I was little, the other girls at school called it a Woo, but I don't see that catching on :p

I'm sure your doc would find vagina ok since they'll be used to it what with it being the clinical term but then again they've heard a lot of different terms i'm sure

Perhaps the people I know are just big prudes, if they must mention the area they would prefer to say something like "down there" and not have any specifics at all.
Could be about the t'ain't, ya know!
:eek:

I should hope not, "Bad Touch" is such a great song! :cool:

A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying.
ftw.

I'm sure your doc would find vagina ok since they'll be used to it what with it being the clinical term but then again they've heard a lot of different terms i'm sure

Actually, the nurse who does my smear tests also calls it fanny :)

Edit: so have other medical professionals, now I come to think of it.

I would say fanny is the closest in English (British English, anyway). It's what I remember adults calling it when I was younger.

Oh dear, must give you conniptions when we call a waist-pack a fanny-pack.

I've heard tish, and also roses, but I doubt either are in wide use.

I know someone named "Franny..."

Thankfully she wasn't British. I knew she hated me already but...

I have an Aunt Fanny! :eek:

And her sister-in-law is from London originally! :eek::eek:

That must have been a FUN introduction. :D

I have an Aunt Fanny! :eek:

And her sister-in-law is from London originally! :eek::eek:

That must have been a FUN introduction. :D

Please tell me you also have an Aunt Flow. :D

Please tell me you also have an Aunt Flow. :D

My family is weird, but not THAT weird.

Nope, no Florences.

I never encountered a trouble like the one described in first post... but maybe's it's just in my language that the definitions have "always" (as long as I know, anyway) stood thus:

boy: pippeli
girl: pimpsa

(NSG brings out the weirdest conversations sometimes...)

I could buy fanny - it doesn't have to be "official" since there is no such thing when it comes to languages, really - but I still have the impression that's it's not neutral, like say, "willy". Guess someone British and independent can tell us.

Canadian and I think it's completely neutral, but it might piss off the people from the USA if the word is used in a different contect from their usage.Like when about a year ago when threads would be hijacked at the use of "USian".

As a Brit, I'd have to go with fanny - its a perfectly acceptable word whether talking to my mum, my mates or my doctor. Its not really used in a sexual way, like pussy for example, and it's not used as an insult, like ****, so it doesn't seem to offend anybody.

When I was little, the other girls at school called it a Woo, but I don't see that catching on :p

Fanny is equivelent to ass over here in the states. :p

I never encountered a trouble like the one described in first post... but maybe's it's just in my language that the definitions have "always" (as long as I know, anyway) stood thus:

boy: pippeli
girl: pimpsa

(NSG brings out the weirdest conversations sometimes...)What language is that? Finnish?

I can only speak for the US, and as far as I know we have no non-clinical words for vagina or penis that are not controversial. This is probably because Americans are so sexually repressed that the culture cannot talk about sex at all without turning into a bunch of gutter-minded perverts. Just about any euphemism, no matter how innocent or pretty, will become a sexual joke or insult in approximately 15 minutes of first being used, or, increasingly, some super-repressed puritan perv will not wait for that and will just go ahead and declare it obscene just because it refers to anything sexual in any way at all.

This is one of the many pieces of cultural bullshit that I am really getting tired of around here. Add US misogyny to that and, I promise you, the adorable word "snippa" would soon become one of America's foulest insults. I am really getting sick to hell of my countrymen and their dumbass crap.

EDIT: More to the point of the OP, all the English words for such things that are now controversial used to be ordinary usages, like "snopp" and "snippa." If they sound harsh, you can thank Anglo-Saxon and abbreviated Latin for that. I guess they sounded less harsh back in the day. Again, in the US, people seem to be settling for the unisex, safe, and decidedly unpretty "private parts."

EDIT 2: Oh, and in the US "fanny" = butt. If a boyfriend of mine used the word "fanny" in a context that clearly showed he meant my vagina, I'd buy him a Grey's Anatomy as a gift so he could learn the front from the back.

EDIT 2: Oh, and in the US "fanny" = butt. If a boyfriend of mine used the word "fanny" in a context that clearly showed he meant my vagina, I'd buy him a Grey's Anatomy as a gift so he could learn the front from the back.

Some guys aren't that discriminating.

I can only speak for the US, and as far as I know we have no non-clinical words for vagina or penis that are not controversial. This is probably because Americans are so sexually repressed that the culture cannot talk about sex at all without turning into a bunch of gutter-minded perverts. Just about any euphemism, no matter how innocent or pretty, will become a sexual joke or insult in approximately 15 minutes of first being used, or, increasingly, some super-repressed puritan perv will not wait for that and will just go ahead and declare it obscene just because it refers to anything sexual in any way at all.

This is one of the many pieces of cultural bullshit that I am really getting tired of around here. Add US misogyny to that and, I promise you, the adorable word "snippa" would soon become one of America's foulest insults. I am really getting sick to hell of my countrymen and their dumbass crap.

EDIT: More to the point of the OP, all the English words for such things that are now controversial used to be ordinary usages, like "snopp" and "snippa." If they sound harsh, you can thank Anglo-Saxon and abbreviated Latin for that. I guess they sounded less harsh back in the day.
I like you.

I like you.

There's a line. :D

Some guys aren't that discriminating.

Tell me about it. :rolleyes: To me, it is a horrible variation on the old "he couldn't find his ass with a roadmap and a flashlight" condition.

Originally Posted by Unlucky_and_unbiddable
I like you.
There's a line. :D

Now, now, boys, no shoving. There will be plenty of frustration for everyone. ;)

Tell me about it. :rolleyes: To me, it is a horrible variation on the old "he couldn't find his ass with a roadmap and a flashlight" condition.

Perhaps guiding hands aren't enough, and you should get him into bondage a little? :D

Perhaps guiding hands aren't enough, and you should get him into bondage a little? :D
Bah! I remember a time when red-blooded American males needed no help finding their way around a woman's body. The spirit of exploration, that's what it was. It got us to the moon and it got me laid, too. Nowadays? Well, I'm sorry, but a guy who needs that much guidance isn't really trying. I blame above-ground nuclear testing and microwave ovens for the apparent lack of testosterone in many men. (All that standing right in front of the microwave set at crotch-level counter height, shrinking their nuts as they watch the pizza go round and round.)

EDIT: I mean, for crying out loud, they don't even know what to call a vagina anymore!!!

Bah! I remember a time when red-blooded American males needed no help finding their way around a woman's body. The spirit of exploration, that's what it was. It got us to the moon and it got me laid, too. Nowadays? Well, I'm sorry, but a guy who needs that much guidance isn't really trying. I blame above-ground nuclear testing and microwave ovens for the apparent lack of testosterone in many men. (All that standing right in front of the microwave set at crotch-level counter height, shrinking their nuts as they watch the pizza go round and round.)

EDIT: I mean, for crying out loud, they don't even know what to call a vagina anymore!!!

Exactly. It's the soy, I think - unleashes estrogen into the blood, it does.

Snippa is a pretty fun sounding word, but the world should just use 'vagoo' instead. ;)

I might give a cookie if anyone gets the reference, but I feel kind of lazy.

(All that standing right in front of the microwave set at crotch-level counter height, shrinking their nuts as they watch the pizza go round and round.):p

I might just sig you on that.

:p

I might just sig you on that.

Haha, feel free. :D

Now, now, boys, no shoving. There will be plenty of frustration for everyone. ;)

Hey! Boy? I have a snippa I will have you know!