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…