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What do you call your, y'know?

 
  

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Glenn Close But No Cigar
12:46 / 24.11.06
What words do you use for female / male genitalia? Is these something politically problematic about using words such as 'cunt' to describe the vagina, and if so does make using then kinda transgressively sexy, or just plain unacceptable? Are you inclined towards medical nomenclature, or do you use phrases such as 'Aphrodite's Temple' or 'Merlin's Staff'? Care to deconstruct animal-identified names such as 'pussy' or 'cock'? What words are / should be used for the genitalia of the people who identify as neither male nor female? Bring on serious discussion, and hopefully a sense of humour too.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:54 / 24.11.06
I call mine 'eXtreme !MARRIAGE!'.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
12:59 / 24.11.06
I'd use "dick" and "pussy". Cunt sounds a tad harsh if ya ask me, and cock/prick (along with cunt) i relate to either porn or derogatory remarks. more on this later. gotta go for a fag.. now there's another one of those loaded words...
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
13:06 / 24.11.06
!MARRIAGE!, you're the first person I've ever heard of with upper-case genitals...
 
 
The Natural Way
14:26 / 24.11.06
You just said 'upper case genitals'.

Fnur hngfnur hur.
 
 
Princess
15:15 / 24.11.06
It's my tuppence.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
15:42 / 24.11.06
I call mine 'THE PINK CRAP'.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
15:47 / 24.11.06
Basically any military rank or aristocratic title will do: The Baron, The General, The Rear-Admiral...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:52 / 24.11.06
Baby Xoc
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:52 / 24.11.06
I myself have never named by genitals, but I did have two separate boyfriends name my breasts.

I feel sufficiently embarrassed now.
 
 
Ganesh
16:48 / 24.11.06
Fireman Sam.
 
 
Papess
17:15 / 24.11.06
The Vortex
 
 
Dead Megatron
17:49 / 24.11.06
[whispering, misterious voice]

"The Other"
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:44 / 24.11.06
When I were but a lad and still pretending to be heterosexual, my girlfriend called her vagina Flossie. I quite liked that. The name, not the vagina.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:46 / 24.11.06
Magical Trevor.
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
19:11 / 24.11.06
Kali, are you going to divulge your boyfriends' names for your breasts? I'll offer 2/1 on 'J.R. and Bobby', and a generous 13/2 on 'King Creole and The Coconuts'.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
19:17 / 24.11.06
My girlfriend calls it 'GARGAMEL'. We don't get on.
 
 
Bamba
20:09 / 24.11.06
A mate of mine once, surprisingly forcefully, stated that he had "a dick, not a cock!" Apparently 'cock' was just a bit too American porn for him. I think I agreed at the time (it was a few years ago) but now I definitely have a cock, though I'm not sure why my opinions have shifted over the years.

As for female anatomy, 'cunt' is the term used between my lover and I, it's strangely honest in my mind to use that word. I also suspect much of the pleasure we both get from the term is from taking what's usually considered the worst of all profanities and turning it on it's head to, from me at least, become something tender and only to be used between the two of us.

Interestingly neither of us have any problems using cunt as the most derogatory insult in our shared lexicon, saved only for those people that most frustrate and infuriate either of us. Bizarrely we seem able to compartmentalise these two opposite definitions with no trouble at all.
 
 
Triplets
21:20 / 24.11.06
"The Magic"
 
 
Triplets
21:21 / 24.11.06
Super current event points for the magic has gone out of your relationship then? and so that's why she broke up with you! jokes.
 
 
Olulabelle
21:24 / 24.11.06
Bamba, how actually do you do that? Can you really differentiate between the use of the word privately, used in a sexual and loving way, and the use of the word as a really abusive term for someone you can't stand? For me the two states are completely alien to one another and so using the word in an abusive way is the complete antithesis of what it actually means and stands for.

That's one of the reasons I don't like it as an abusive term. The other is that I hate the fact that the worst thing you can call another human being, the most derogatory thing you can say is the name for the most lady of ladyparts. I know a lot of people use it all the time and they seem to be able to separate the two meanings, but I just can't separate the two things in my brain. I don't know why.

About breasts, well I like all the words for breasts. I like tits and boobs and the word breasts itself and jugs and, well, just everything. I don't even mind breasticles if I hear that because it's funny in a kind of Simon Pegg kind of way.

But. Once I went out with a man whose father (that's father) called breasts 'drinks'.

That is wrong on so many levels, I can't even begin...
 
 
Proinsias
21:30 / 24.11.06
Would you be ok with calling someone a tit, does it have the same effect as cunt?

Am I making a knob of myself by asking the question?
 
 
Triplets
21:30 / 24.11.06
*pukes*

That's rank.

I do say "cunt" as an insult sometimes. And always feel bad afterwards.
 
 
Olulabelle
22:40 / 24.11.06
I think when people call someone a tit they mean the person is a bit of an idiot; a bit stupid, maybe a bit of a joke. When people call someone the C word, they tend to mean that person is the worst kind of person they can think of; horrible, vile.

So I don't have such a problem with the word tit. If you are a tit you are a dick or a knob or a prat or even a twat, although in writing that I realise that the word twat does seem to hold more severe connotations.

But being any of those things is not the same as being a C word.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
22:59 / 24.11.06
I think there's a transatlantic difference in the way 'cunt' is applied as an insult. In my experience (and I'm very prepared to be proven wrong) American usage is more often applied when being dorogotory toward women, while in Britain you here it more often directed at men.

Consequences of this; I dunno. Misogyny vs gender / sexual orientation slur.

Personally, I'm more affected (though not disturbed as such) by its use toward women than I am when applied to me but that's a cultural thing, I'm sure.

Either way, I don't think I use it in genital description. For me, for no real reason, it just seems a nasty, aggressive word. What's the etymology? Is it anglo-saxon for vagina?
 
 
Ron Stoppable
23:02 / 24.11.06
sorry, that should read "when applied to meN", not "when applied to me" No-one calles me a cunt.

they wouldn't dare...
 
 
ibis the being
01:43 / 25.11.06
I'm pretty shy, so I usually just say, "Hey, you."
 
 
matsya
05:25 / 25.11.06
My dick's name is Adam. Same as my elbow, my ears, my liver...

but I LOVE Magical trevor!

Everyone does, you know.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
05:52 / 25.11.06
*Looks around nervously*

...

Charlemagne, okay? His name is Charlemagne.
 
 
Ganesh
08:59 / 25.11.06
*rereads abstract*

What a coincidence. My arsehole is called 'Mark Millar'.
 
 
Sniv
10:49 / 25.11.06
Jodrell, I'm sure I read (possibly elsewhere on the 'blith) that the word cunt comes from the latin for triangle. The word vagina comes from the word sheath, which conversely is more offensive.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, everybody.
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
12:24 / 25.11.06
Wikipedia has cunt down as a being from the latin 'cunnus' (vulva) a word related to 'cuneatas' (wedge shaped). However, it also claims possible Germanic roots.

Vagina does, indeed, literally mean 'scabbard' in Latin.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
13:10 / 25.11.06
carlos von sexron
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:16 / 25.11.06
Groundhog
 
 
The Falcon
19:09 / 25.11.06
AlienĀ³

The Thing

Sweet Mister Scary
 
  

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