Although, Dee, you made a good point – “cunt” can also pull people out of a written flow. As Dev said, for some people it’s still just a harmful swear word. Have to work with what you get, I guess :).

Patty, I don’t even remember what I called my vagina when I was very small. I’m pretty sure I called it a vagina after I was about six or seven, because I remember explaining to my brother what the word meant around that age. Your daughter will probably learn all on her own what words are okay, but I’d say better to be as honest with her as possible. She’ll probably find out the proper word on her own soon enough.

Eden, I can see how coochie snorcher is funny, seriously I can., I just also think it’s weird as hell :). Possibly not as weird as knappy dugout, though. Ugh.

Maja, I love you. My fantastic neologism and I *both* love you. I don’t think that one’ll catch on, though. Being okay with the words versus being okay with the idea, which one happens first, etc . . . it’s a bit chicken-and-egg, really. As for sex, well, I usually use “fucking.” “Making love” has a bit of a “jazz hands!” edge to me, but I’ll use it if it’s appropriate. I like some of the crazy ones that people come up with in conversations, and “making the two backed beast” is still a favorite. Sorry, I haven’t got any better options for you. Read James Clavell’s Shogun sometime and marvel at how many different ways he manages to talk about sex. It’s one of my favorite things about the book. “Making the clouds and the rain” sticks in my head.

Okay, last thing. Dee, what the hell is “minge?”

My biggest euphemism hate? The word ‘minge’. Gah!

xx Dee

Hmm, what about this? “Darling, take off your pants so I can stroke your fantastic neologism.” Perfect! Maybe abbreviate it to FN, pronounce it Effin, and change the meaning of the phrase “Effin sweet!”

Know where else language needs some help? The act itself. Having sex/fucking/making love. “Having sex” is sort of a blah phrase – it makes “doing laundry” sound exciting. Fucking is fun (and my preferred word, generally), but sometimes I don’t want my pants-dance described in edgy consonants (see your post above, of course). So am I making love? EW. That’s too smooth jazz for me. Making love is such a euphemism – I can only think of it being used conversationally by people who would be too embarassed to say “having sex,” i.e. people who don’t generally talk about it, i.e. parents/older co-workers/teachers. It reads Awkward.

And then there’s “doing the nasty” and all that other crap. Gah, language is the harshest of mistresses. (Not that I’m testing you or anything…)

And I LOVE the term coochie snorcher, love it love it love it. I don’t use any other term as consistently to describe my vagina as coochie snorcher when I’m talking about it.

The term I don’t get to describe womens genitals is ‘knappy dug-out’. Can someone please explain that one to me?

I happen to like cock & cunt, but Mrs. Edge prefers pussy. She is sometimes still a little bashful about words; it’s really only been in the last five or six years that I’ve gotten her to stop using “pee-pee.”

No, really.

Most women I know (or at least, those who have discussed it with me) use pussy or cunt.

Coochie snorcher?
*shakes head*

When I casually refer to my self, I actually use a whole bunch of different terms for that area down there. When I talk to my mother, I say bagina. The ‘b’ softens the fact that we’re talking about sexual organ.

Among friends, I refer to it as my vag, my poon, my cooch, my vajayjay, my poonani, and various other ‘one off’ terms or in jokes.

Though, I like how Dane Cook refers to them best as ‘cash and prizes’. Though, ‘downtown bonanza’ is pretty good too.