Comments on: You Say Vagina, I Say Shut Up

By: Fenicle » Daddy Likes Those Too!

Fenicle » Daddy Likes Those Too! — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:12:19 +0000

[...] True, but still. Then I saw a post over at IzzyMom about explaining to kids the correct body part names. She’s not ready to go there and neither am I. Right now the only vocabulary word we use is pee-pee. That’s all he needs to know. [...]

By: SEO

SEO — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:42:06 +0000

my child is now 5 year old, we mostly point him donot touch your ‘lullu’, as saying penis directly to a child is some uncomman, it he grows he understand this. all these thing makes him happy too…

By: Anne Glamore

Anne Glamore — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:14:31 +0000

I don’t have any idea what you tell girls, but I wrote about what WE told our son in “It’s Natural But It’s Rated ‘R’” (on my left sidebar. ) I had NO IDEA until I was well into the talk that it would get as graphic as it did, but I must say, my son appears to understand the process quite well.
I cannot believe I have to do this 2 more times…

Good luck!!

By: Izzy

Izzy — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:44:53 +0000

I’ve thought the same thing but I can’t even begin to address the reasons behind it aside from a subconscious mass conditioning; although little girls don’t have any problem with the proper words at all, which is even more telling. It’s interesting how most of the female population (in America) feels the same way about female genital names. Same thing goes for the word “panties”. It doesn’t bother me but almost all women I know loathe that word. Why?

By: Her Bad Mother

Her Bad Mother — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:30:16 +0000

I think that the interesting question here is WHY these words - vagina, labia, vulva - give us the heebie jeebies? (and, for the record, I am well heebie-jeebied by them.) They’re nice latinate words - their creepiness can only come from the fact that we’ve been conditioned to think of them as creepy words. And isn’t that sad?

I may have to take this up in my own post…

By: Guy Vestal

Guy Vestal — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:25:23 +0000

I have 7 daughters, and to this day they all still refer to it as their “HooHa”. My wife taught them that, and they seem to like the name, so I guess who cares what it is called as long as you use it responsibly?

By: August

August — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:46:33 +0000

Ha. I know what you mean! Why do the correct names have to sound so icky???

Oooh, Chase sent me, in case you wondering.

By: binkytown

binkytown — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:46:05 +0000

Its so unfortunate that vagina is such an unpleasant sounding word. Its all hard sounds and gs. I appreciate what it can do but it should be called something else. Bet a man thought that one up.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:30:59 +0000

Thank God I don’t have children.

Funny, I remember my mom calling my brother’s wing-wang his “peanut,” which made perfect sense to me, because that’s exactly what it looks like (at that age). I don’t, however, remember us calling my parts anything. I mean, she’s a hippie, and it must have been discussed, but for the life of my I can’t remember what we called it.

As for Ricky, well, I think he got off easy. When I was 14, my brother (Mr Peanut) caught me “reading” the Devil in Miss Jones (ahh, the library - no wonder I became a librarian!) in the attic. At dinner that night he announced, in front of my GRANDMOTHER no less, that “Jessica was playing with herself in the attic today.” I. Wanted. To. Die. And kill him. My grandmother laughed her ass off, thankfully. But then everyone knew why I spent so much time in the attic….

By: Fenicle

Fenicle — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:08:12 +0000

Our son is 4.5 years old and he only calls his man part a “pee pee.” We haven’t gotten much past that. BUT he’s starting to ask questions about my parts. We are an open family - open bathroom doors, running around half naked while getting dressed, etc… I’m stuck at what to tell him too!