Front bum and behind bum?? What the...?!

[i-need-a-martini]

I was just reading this article about what kids are allowed to call their bits and am seriously amused.

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/preschoolers/preschooler-education/its-not-a-lady-garden-its-a-vulva...

I grew up not calling my bits anything. Was all too embarrassing for my family. And it took me a long time to manage to say the correct words without turning beet red. Now I say them any chance I get so my kids hear real words.

So what were you taught to say and what did you teach your kids to say?

[kengillard]

my 2 kids were hysterical telling me a little saying they had heard at school.  p enisbutter and v aginamite.   lol they were about 8 and 10 at the time

[i-need-a-martini]

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@azureline** wrote:

the correct term for a girl is vulva I believe.

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Do you know what? I didn't know that until I read the article. I mean I knew the anotomy but didn't realise that I having been calling it the wrong thing. Or maybe I did and it didn't register. Will be hard to swing back from finally managing to call it v agina...

Although I supose the point is that it is still a correct anotomical term?

[azureline**]

Yes, exactly, maybe people just didn't check? hence my irritation at those calling it v agina. That is an internal organ.

[i-need-a-martini]

I don't think v agina is oncorrect though. Vulva is just the parts under the labia really. So in theory even that isn't the correct word. Maybe pubis? But the v agina is where all the action happens so I think it probably is the correct word.

It would be like calling the p enis a foreskin?

[azureline**]

No, the vulva is the correct term for the external organs of a female, just as a p enis is the correct term for a male's.