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My favorite part of this “story?”

October 30th, 2007 · by map · 12 Comments

Right here:

Dr. Carol A. Livoti, a Manhattan obstetrician and gynecologist and an author of “Vaginas: An Owner’s Manual” (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004), said vajayjay and other euphemisms and slang offend her and can render women incapable of explaining their symptoms to health professionals. “I think it’s terrible,” Dr. Livoti said. “It’s time to start calling anatomical organs by their anatomical name. We should be proud of our bodies.”

“It seems like a step backward,” she added.

I’m with you, Carol! I don’t even own a vagina (I’m renting), but I can attest that I’m very much put off by the various and sundry nicknames I see thrown around for penis. Oprah coverage is a reliable indicator that any given cultural phenomenon has simultaneously hit the big time and jumped the shark.

Tags: Entertainment · TMI · TV

  • kim

    here is where i get to name my favorite euphemism for the territory in question – “b’jingo” – from tv sitcom ‘scrubs.’ it’s perky, cheery, and anti-clinical. that’s enough for me!

  • kim

    here is where i get to name my favorite euphemism for the territory in question – “b’jingo” – from tv sitcom ‘scrubs.’ it’s perky, cheery, and anti-clinical. that’s enough for me!

  • http://www.philosyphia.com NathanPralle

    My mother always believed in teaching us kids the correct names for all parts without euphemisms or slang. This managed to shock the hell out of my grandmother once when I was a lad and standing in the store with them. I was apparently paying a mighty lot of attention to my crotchity area and my grandmother whispered to me, “Do you have to use the bathroom?” In response, and at a volume and projection level that only a small child’s tenor can give, I replied, “No, Grandma. My penis itches!”

    My mother said that she didn’t believe in someone levitating until that day when she saw her mother simultaneously stammer and lift several inches off the floor in incredulousness.

  • http://www.nathanpralle.com/blog/ Nathan Pralle

    My mother always believed in teaching us kids the correct names for all parts without euphemisms or slang. This managed to shock the hell out of my grandmother once when I was a lad and standing in the store with them. I was apparently paying a mighty lot of attention to my crotchity area and my grandmother whispered to me, “Do you have to use the bathroom?” In response, and at a volume and projection level that only a small child’s tenor can give, I replied, “No, Grandma. My penis itches!”

    My mother said that she didn’t believe in someone levitating until that day when she saw her mother simultaneously stammer and lift several inches off the floor in incredulousness.

  • http://nicheplayer.net map

    “My mother always believed in teaching us kids the correct names for all parts without euphemisms or slang. ”
    …

    “I was apparently paying a mighty lot of attention to my crotchity area…”

    What would your mother say?! ;)

  • http://nicheplayer.net map

    “My mother always believed in teaching us kids the correct names for all parts without euphemisms or slang. ”
    …

    “I was apparently paying a mighty lot of attention to my crotchity area…”

    What would your mother say?! ;)

  • http://www.philosyphia.com NathanPralle

    Oh, dammit. Foiled again! I meant, of course, to say my “Inner Thigh Funpark”. Silly me.

  • http://www.nathanpralle.com/blog/ Nathan Pralle

    Oh, dammit. Foiled again! I meant, of course, to say my “Inner Thigh Funpark”. Silly me.

  • http://arredonald.blogspot.com/ Lauren/ Paida

    I have to say I just am not a big fan of the word “vagina”. That is how I always talk about it with my kids – but I have to admit it always sounds a bit funny to me.

    The word “penis” is hilarious. Calling it “Johnson” is even more hilarious

    One time after my very prudish Grandma “passed gas”, my sister told her it was, “the loudest fart” she “had ever heard.” From my mother’s description it sounds like she had a similar reaction to Nathan’s grandma.

  • http://arredonald.blogspot.com/ Lauren/ Paida

    I have to say I just am not a big fan of the word “vagina”. That is how I always talk about it with my kids – but I have to admit it always sounds a bit funny to me.

    The word “penis” is hilarious. Calling it “Johnson” is even more hilarious

    One time after my very prudish Grandma “passed gas”, my sister told her it was, “the loudest fart” she “had ever heard.” From my mother’s description it sounds like she had a similar reaction to Nathan’s grandma.

  • http://mama-tchou-tchou.blogspot.com/ Jenny

    Although I think it’s a Very Good Thing to call the various “things” by their proper names, I have to admit that I have a penchant for the French, “zizi” and “kiki” (little boys’ penises). Hubby says you can be forgiven for it, because technically, a penis ain’t a penis (for French people — can you believe this?!) until it can be used for sexual purposes, i.e, until it serves as the instrument used for adding the other half of the future baby. Oh-yé!

  • http://mama-tchou-tchou.blogspot.com/ Jenny

    Although I think it’s a Very Good Thing to call the various “things” by their proper names, I have to admit that I have a penchant for the French, “zizi” and “kiki” (little boys’ penises). Hubby says you can be forgiven for it, because technically, a penis ain’t a penis (for French people — can you believe this?!) until it can be used for sexual purposes, i.e, until it serves as the instrument used for adding the other half of the future baby. Oh-yé!