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Here is an excerpt from a trial transcript ....
Q. OK. Do you have a term that you use with the children in reference to a woman's genital area?
A. Usually kitty.
Q. OK, and does your husband have a term that he uses in reference to a woman's genital area?
A. Same thing.
Q. And the same question in regard to a male's genital area?
A. I've always taught the boys it was a lala.
Q. How about your husband?
A. Same thing.
Q. A what, again?
A. Lala.
Q. Your husband talked about calling it a peepee or something like that.
A. Yeah.
Q. Did the kids refer to genital areas, have you heard the kids refer to genital areas by use of that term?
A. Very seldom. Usually they call it a penis.
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The etymology of some euphemisms are hard to discover. I have always remembered my mother referring to my penis when I was very small, just beginning to learn words, as my "bottee"
Only quite recently did I realize that it was a corruption of the the word for sausage "L. botulus".
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have always remembered my mother referring to my penis when I was very small, just beginning to learn words, as my "bottee"
There would have been major confusion in our house where a "bottee" was on the other side - obviously a diminutive form of bottom.
Who remembers a old LP (Small Faces?) where a narrator voice asks if we are all sitting comfortably "four-square on your bottees"? It perfectly describes the way my fat, short-legged Jack Russell sits up on her hind quarters when she begs.
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FF's link to sheloveshertoys is very interesting, isn't it? because they have a LOT more euphemisms for female genitalia than for male - they don't even have all the Monty Python song's list under the latter category.
I was interested to see that they classed each word/term, as well. How do they decide what is slang and what is vulgar slang? what is poetic/spiritual as opposed to slang? I noticed that "vertical smile" counts as "vulgar slang" - and yet I would've just called it slang - and jolly slang at that! I mean, it sounds friendly-like and inviting....
I wish I could find a copy of Billy Connolly's monologue on the names of genitalia....He talks about penis and vagina as if they were places to go on holiday: "Vagina sounds like a lovely place to visit - well, it IS! - but it sounds like some sunny place with a beach and blue skies....But penis! Remember Penis? it rained all the time and we got mugged...." (something along those lines anyway....!)
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I find some euphemisms for death to be pretty annoying. "He passed" has to be the worst. And yet some of them are funny, such as "He joined the majority."
I like "He popped his clogs". Anyone have any idea of its origins?
Have also heard "hopped the perch".
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Henry Miller's expression for the vagina, "abricot-fondu", is rather enchanting. It brings multiple images to the mind.
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What about all the euphemisms for getting or being pregnant (many of them very contemptuous of women)?
in the family way
knocked up
up the pole
bun in the oven
eating for two
soon to hear the patter of little feet
This euphemism in limerick form was the lemma to a chapter in a computer language textbook I studied decades ago:
There was a young lady from Thrace
Whose corsets grew too tight to lace.
Her mother said: Nelly,
There's more in your belly
Than ever went in through your face!
I have long forgotten the relevance to what I was studying. But my surprise at finding it in such an unlikely place has helped me remember the verse ever since.
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WARNING: Politically Incorrect I just now received an e-mail that fits well under this subject -- and is an equal-opportunity slammer.
HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1. She is not a babe or a chick - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN.
2. She is not a screamer or moaner - She is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.
3. She is not easy - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.
4. She is not dumb - She is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.
5. She has not been around - She is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION.
6. She is not an airhead - She is REALITY IMPAIRED.
7. She does not get drunk or tipsy - She gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED.
8. She is not horny - She is SEXUALLY FOCUSED.
9. She does not have breast implants - She is MEDICALLY ENHANCED.
10. She does not nag you - She becomes VERBALLY REPETITIVE.
11. She is not a slut - She is SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED.
12. She does not have major league hooters - She is PECTORALLY SUPERIOR.
13. She is not a two-bit whore - She is a LOW COST PROVIDER.
HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT
1. He does not have a beer gut - He has developed a LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY.
2. He is not a bad dancer - He is OVERLY CAUCASIAN.
3. He does not get lost all the time - He INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS.
4. He is not balding - He is in FOLLICLE REGRESSION.
5. He is not a cradle robber - He prefers GENERATIONALLY DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS.
6. He does not get falling-down drunk - He becomes ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL.
7. He does not act like a total ass - He develops a case of RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION.
8. He is not a male chauvinist pig - He has SWINE EMPATHY.
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Speaking (writing/typing) as a vocally appreciative, sexually focused, breasted, ahem, Canadian, I would like to publicly deplore the antics of overly Caucasian men who have liquid grain storage facilities and prefer generationally different relationships. (In brief: why do they always hit on ME?!)   
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Wasn't it Blondie that had an album (dating myself...) named 'Xanadu'? Was there a connection here?
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