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What do you call your daughter's private parts? pom pom, fanny, frou frou?

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e11ie5 · 29/11/2012 13:27

serious question ... I've been pondering it for a while only to find that the Telegraph has a piece on the very matter as well ... so far people have suggested pom pom, frou frou, bits, Mary ... and fronthind ... any thoughts!! I've written about the matter here
crazypregnantperson.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/by-any-other-name/

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cathpip · 29/11/2012 13:30

Foo Foo in our house, at my sisters its a Minnie. :)

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MrsWolowitz · 29/11/2012 13:31

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pictish · 29/11/2012 13:31

minnie here

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AnAirOfHopeForSnow · 29/11/2012 13:33

My 3 year old son calls it "No penis" i correct him to use the medical term.

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LarkinSky · 29/11/2012 13:50

We call it her ''gina", short for vagina. Yes, I know it's not necessarily anatomically correct but I don't think my 3 yr old roll be disadvantaged!

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VoterColonelSebastianDoyle · 29/11/2012 14:34

Loo loo Grin

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SillyBeardyDudeyman · 29/11/2012 14:36

girl bits.
Unless we need to discuss specific parts and then we get medical.

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e11ie5 · 29/11/2012 14:36

ohhh I like 'gina short for Vagina ...interesting minnie seems a common name as well wonder where that came from?

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systemsaddict · 29/11/2012 14:49

Influenced by previous discussions on here, vulva. Which was fine until they learned to read the word Volvo and started to understand the concept of jokes.

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allinagoodcause · 29/11/2012 14:51

vagina you weirdos - whats wrong with calling it by it's proper name ???

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HullyEastergully · 29/11/2012 14:52

Auntie Betsy

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LaCiccolina · 29/11/2012 14:52

Bits

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qo · 29/11/2012 14:54

Lady garden, or fantoosh.

Allinagoodcause, the vagina is the internal part, the external (which I think OP is talking about) would be vulva

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GreenShadow · 29/11/2012 14:56

Just called 'bottom' - never distinguished between 'front' and 'back'

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MrsMushroom · 29/11/2012 14:56

Ginny, la la, vagina, bits, foof, foo foo, "dot", mooli, LOADS of words here. We tend to make them up randomly.

I like "Fantoosh" as it sounds fancy and yet powerful! Grin

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Spero · 29/11/2012 14:56

Vagina. I know it should be vulva, but i think that battle is lost.

I think it is really sad that we appear to be so alarmed/ashamed of our girl parts' that we can't even name them. And I have seen lots of investigations into sexual abuse flounder at initial stages because one person's 'frou frou' was another person's 'noo noo'.

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RillaBlythe · 29/11/2012 15:00

Vagina (yes vulva blah blah).

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allinagoodcause · 29/11/2012 15:01

True but vagina will do won't it?

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qo · 29/11/2012 15:05

It doesn't bother me what other people call their daughters bits, if vagina is your choice.
It's just that saying oh whats wrong with the correct name, when it isn't actually the correct name IYSWIM? Grin

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Spero · 29/11/2012 15:08

It just worries me that all the cutesie names are part of our warped attitude to female sexuality. We don't call our daughter's arms or legs by weird fluffy nicknames.

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MrsWolowitz · 29/11/2012 18:45

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MrsMushroom · 29/11/2012 19:45

spero Yes...but we don't want to get too serious about our Fannys do we? I mean men have funny names for their penis's don't they?

John Thomas, Winky, Willy, Wee Wee, Python etc.

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stargirl1701 · 29/11/2012 19:49

Vulva.

As a teacher I think it's so important children know the correct names for their own body parts. I had a mum when teaching P1 who was shocked that, as part of the H&W curriculum, we taught the correct names for body parts. She encouraged her child to call her vulva a flower. I suggested that if her child told me someone had touched her flower it wouldn't ring alarm bells for me. That choice of name was, IMHO, inappropriate.

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Spero · 29/11/2012 19:53

Why does the counterpart for serious have to be excruciatingly twee? Most little boys get away with 'willy', not wibbly Wobblies or similar.

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Sargesaweyes · 29/11/2012 19:57

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