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		<title>By: Cate</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My favorite euphemisms for actually both the female and male genitalia (unisex, how fancy!) are:

your &quot;hoo-hoo dilly&quot;
your &quot;cha-cha&quot;
your &quot;bits&quot;
and my favorite, your &quot;situation&quot;

I also really like the Vagina Monologues&#039; &quot;coochie-snorcher.&quot; It sounds like a Dr. Seuss character. :*)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My favorite euphemisms for actually both the female and male genitalia (unisex, how fancy!) are:</p>
<p>your &#8220;hoo-hoo dilly&#8221;<br />
your &#8220;cha-cha&#8221;<br />
your &#8220;bits&#8221;<br />
and my favorite, your &#8220;situation&#8221;</p>
<p>I also really like the Vagina Monologues&#8217; &#8220;coochie-snorcher.&#8221; It sounds like a Dr. Seuss character. :*)</p>
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		<title>By: Amy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A male GYN I used to go to did not for some reason use the proper medical terms when discussing my body with me.  He kept saying, &quot;Relax your bottom.&quot;

Personal favorites are twat and mushmallow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A male GYN I used to go to did not for some reason use the proper medical terms when discussing my body with me.  He kept saying, &#8220;Relax your bottom.&#8221;</p>
<p>Personal favorites are twat and mushmallow.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve got no problem using clinical terms with my doctor (my ass and shit are the ones that gives me trouble... I&#039;m always worried about horrifying the poor woman!). Personally I tend to use &quot;cunt&quot;, the boyfriend uses &quot;cunt&quot; or &quot;pussy&quot;, a friend uses &quot;ladybits&quot; or &quot;my bits&quot;... and, occasionally, when we want to be horrifying, my sister and I call it Cthulu (with slurping sound effects). Explaining why would take WAY too long and would only horrify you all further, so I&#039;ll leave you all to just bleach your brains now...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got no problem using clinical terms with my doctor (my ass and shit are the ones that gives me trouble&#8230; I&#8217;m always worried about horrifying the poor woman!). Personally I tend to use &#8220;cunt&#8221;, the boyfriend uses &#8220;cunt&#8221; or &#8220;pussy&#8221;, a friend uses &#8220;ladybits&#8221; or &#8220;my bits&#8221;&#8230; and, occasionally, when we want to be horrifying, my sister and I call it Cthulu (with slurping sound effects). Explaining why would take WAY too long and would only horrify you all further, so I&#8217;ll leave you all to just bleach your brains now&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ACG</title>
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		<dc:creator>ACG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I happen to love &quot;vajayjay&quot; and use it all the time (advice from &lt;i&gt;30 Rock&lt;/i&gt;&#039;s Kenneth the Page to &quot;work that vajayjay&quot; had me rolling).  I think I like it &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; it&#039;s so immature and childish, but without the creepy pedophiliac undertones of all the childish names that actually originated from children.  For me, at this point in my life, anything going on in that particular area is likely to be playful and fun, and I like having playful and fun names to assign to it.

I was raised by a doctor and a nurse who started me on the facts of life with a pop-up book around age 5, so I&#039;ve never been reluctant to use precise anatomical terms when appropriate (e.g., with my doctor).  In casual conversation, of which there is a surprising lot, it&#039;s &quot;vajayjay,&quot; &quot;vaj,&quot; &quot;girly parts,&quot; &quot;ladybits,&quot; or &quot;down south&quot; (particularly when discussing a man&#039;s willingness or reluctance to head there), and my new favorite term is, of course, &quot;baloney rose.&quot;  I&#039;m also amenable to &quot;pussy,&quot; simply because it&#039;s warm, furry, somewhat standoffish to strangers, and friendly when petted.

Sex, while mid-act, tends to be &quot;having sex&quot; or &quot;making love&quot; or &quot;fucking,&quot; depending on the partner and the circumstances.  In discussion, it&#039;s any of those, plus &quot;shagging&quot; (my favorite), &quot;getting horizontal,&quot; &quot;bumping uglies,&quot; &quot;scrogging,&quot; &quot;boinking,&quot; &quot;tapping&quot; (as in, &quot;I tapped that,&quot; which I find appropriate for either partner), &quot;hitting it&quot; (ditto), &quot;boning,&quot; &quot;churning butter,&quot; &quot;sharing bodily fluids,&quot; &quot;getting groiny,&quot; &quot;waking the neighbors,&quot; &quot;making the baby Jesus cry,&quot; and &quot;pointing my heels to Jesus and thinking about handbags,&quot; among others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I happen to love &#8220;vajayjay&#8221; and use it all the time (advice from <i>30 Rock</i>&#8216;s Kenneth the Page to &#8220;work that vajayjay&#8221; had me rolling).  I think I like it <i>because</i> it&#8217;s so immature and childish, but without the creepy pedophiliac undertones of all the childish names that actually originated from children.  For me, at this point in my life, anything going on in that particular area is likely to be playful and fun, and I like having playful and fun names to assign to it.</p>
<p>I was raised by a doctor and a nurse who started me on the facts of life with a pop-up book around age 5, so I&#8217;ve never been reluctant to use precise anatomical terms when appropriate (e.g., with my doctor).  In casual conversation, of which there is a surprising lot, it&#8217;s &#8220;vajayjay,&#8221; &#8220;vaj,&#8221; &#8220;girly parts,&#8221; &#8220;ladybits,&#8221; or &#8220;down south&#8221; (particularly when discussing a man&#8217;s willingness or reluctance to head there), and my new favorite term is, of course, &#8220;baloney rose.&#8221;  I&#8217;m also amenable to &#8220;pussy,&#8221; simply because it&#8217;s warm, furry, somewhat standoffish to strangers, and friendly when petted.</p>
<p>Sex, while mid-act, tends to be &#8220;having sex&#8221; or &#8220;making love&#8221; or &#8220;fucking,&#8221; depending on the partner and the circumstances.  In discussion, it&#8217;s any of those, plus &#8220;shagging&#8221; (my favorite), &#8220;getting horizontal,&#8221; &#8220;bumping uglies,&#8221; &#8220;scrogging,&#8221; &#8220;boinking,&#8221; &#8220;tapping&#8221; (as in, &#8220;I tapped that,&#8221; which I find appropriate for either partner), &#8220;hitting it&#8221; (ditto), &#8220;boning,&#8221; &#8220;churning butter,&#8221; &#8220;sharing bodily fluids,&#8221; &#8220;getting groiny,&#8221; &#8220;waking the neighbors,&#8221; &#8220;making the baby Jesus cry,&#8221; and &#8220;pointing my heels to Jesus and thinking about handbags,&#8221; among others.</p>
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		<title>By: annejumps</title>
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		<dc:creator>annejumps</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Baloney Rose. Which my husband finds hilarious.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Oh lord. That&#039;s a new one to me and it cracked me the hell up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Baloney Rose. Which my husband finds hilarious.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh lord. That&#8217;s a new one to me and it cracked me the hell up.</p>
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		<title>By: Umm Yasmin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Umm Yasmin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW Linguist Steven Pinker has a really good article on swearing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=246c0071-a9cd-46e2-a665-c6e61a45377e&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and I would hazard a guess that the reason why the argument between &#039;we should be allowed to use nicknames for genitalia&#039; versus &#039;it&#039;s demeaning to use nicknames for genitalia&#039; which some of the commenters started to touch on, has more to do with avoiding the invocation of the &#039;swear reflex&#039;.

So, forcing people to re-set their responses is a bit futile really IMHO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW Linguist Steven Pinker has a really good article on swearing <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=246c0071-a9cd-46e2-a665-c6e61a45377e" rel="nofollow">here</a> and I would hazard a guess that the reason why the argument between &#8216;we should be allowed to use nicknames for genitalia&#8217; versus &#8216;it&#8217;s demeaning to use nicknames for genitalia&#8217; which some of the commenters started to touch on, has more to do with avoiding the invocation of the &#8216;swear reflex&#8217;.</p>
<p>So, forcing people to re-set their responses is a bit futile really IMHO.</p>
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		<title>By: Lindsay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lindsay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 2, I couldn&#039;t help but call my vagina Kraken.  When tentacle thing burst out of the water and Jack Sparrow jumped into it&#039;s toothy mouth, all I could think of was &quot;GIANT VAGINA!&quot;  Just like Starship Troopers.

&quot;If you&#039;re lucky later, my Kraken will take down your pirate ship.&quot;  

Ok, so that&#039;s a more extreme slang term.  I&#039;m a fan of the straight-forward vagina, sometimes cunt.  I hate coocher and pussy.

For sex, my boyfriend and I fuck or have sex or &quot;play Scrabble.&quot;  The latter can lead to interesting conversations.  We&#039;re in a long distance relationship so I sometimes have a Facebook status of &quot;Lindsay is wanting to play Scrabble badly right now.&quot;  My well intentioned friends bring over a Scrabble board and offer to play, and well, I&#039;m a Divinity school student so they&#039;re not big on the premarital sex so telling how I&#039;m sexually frustrated isn&#039;t quite as appealing for them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 2, I couldn&#8217;t help but call my vagina Kraken.  When tentacle thing burst out of the water and Jack Sparrow jumped into it&#8217;s toothy mouth, all I could think of was &#8220;GIANT VAGINA!&#8221;  Just like Starship Troopers.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re lucky later, my Kraken will take down your pirate ship.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Ok, so that&#8217;s a more extreme slang term.  I&#8217;m a fan of the straight-forward vagina, sometimes cunt.  I hate coocher and pussy.</p>
<p>For sex, my boyfriend and I fuck or have sex or &#8220;play Scrabble.&#8221;  The latter can lead to interesting conversations.  We&#8217;re in a long distance relationship so I sometimes have a Facebook status of &#8220;Lindsay is wanting to play Scrabble badly right now.&#8221;  My well intentioned friends bring over a Scrabble board and offer to play, and well, I&#8217;m a Divinity school student so they&#8217;re not big on the premarital sex so telling how I&#8217;m sexually frustrated isn&#8217;t quite as appealing for them.</p>
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		<title>By: Jovan1984</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jovan1984</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like the word &quot;cunt&quot; as well.  But I very rarely would I use it.  Here is the original definition of the word (circa 1996):

[US and UK vulgar slang]: The female genitalia, especially the vulva.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the word &#8220;cunt&#8221; as well.  But I very rarely would I use it.  Here is the original definition of the word (circa 1996):</p>
<p>[US and UK vulgar slang]: The female genitalia, especially the vulva.</p>
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		<title>By: orlando</title>
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		<dc:creator>orlando</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In Australia a woman&#039;s general genital region has occasionally been referred to as our &quot;map of Tassie&quot;. For those not familiar with the geography of my country (now there&#039;s a double entendre if ever there was one), here it is. You can find Tasmania at bottom right:
http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/indj/maps/australia-map.gif

When I first got to uni, a popular euphemism for sex was &quot;romping&quot;. It seemed to drop out of use shortly after, which is a shame, because I think it describes the recreational nature of the event beautifully.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Australia a woman&#8217;s general genital region has occasionally been referred to as our &#8220;map of Tassie&#8221;. For those not familiar with the geography of my country (now there&#8217;s a double entendre if ever there was one), here it is. You can find Tasmania at bottom right:<br />
<a href="http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/indj/maps/australia-map.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/indj/maps/australia-map.gif</a></p>
<p>When I first got to uni, a popular euphemism for sex was &#8220;romping&#8221;. It seemed to drop out of use shortly after, which is a shame, because I think it describes the recreational nature of the event beautifully.</p>
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		<title>By: CassandraSays</title>
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		<dc:creator>CassandraSays</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also interesting, something that Thomas said...

&quot;I do use a lot of euphemisms for sex, boning among them. But I find I use them very indistinctly; as in, without regard to whether there is penetration or who is penetrating whom.&quot;

I use boning, screwing, fucking etc this way too. The idea of only using the words to refer to the partner on top never even occurred to me until I was talking to my friend and saying &quot;so I was fucking Dude X&quot; and some guy interrupted me to say &quot;no you weren&#039;t&quot;. In the middle of a bar. I was pretty drunk at the time, but according to my friend I turned around and went &quot;um, excuse me, but I was there, I&#039;m pretty sure I was fucking him&quot; and he then proceeded to explain that this was impossible due to my being a girl. 
He was a bit upset when the friend and I started laughing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also interesting, something that Thomas said&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;I do use a lot of euphemisms for sex, boning among them. But I find I use them very indistinctly; as in, without regard to whether there is penetration or who is penetrating whom.&#8221;</p>
<p>I use boning, screwing, fucking etc this way too. The idea of only using the words to refer to the partner on top never even occurred to me until I was talking to my friend and saying &#8220;so I was fucking Dude X&#8221; and some guy interrupted me to say &#8220;no you weren&#8217;t&#8221;. In the middle of a bar. I was pretty drunk at the time, but according to my friend I turned around and went &#8220;um, excuse me, but I was there, I&#8217;m pretty sure I was fucking him&#8221; and he then proceeded to explain that this was impossible due to my being a girl.<br />
He was a bit upset when the friend and I started laughing.</p>
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