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Serious question:
How should I refer to a woman's genitals in a short story I'm writing?
"Vagina" sounds too clinical. "Cunt" too crude. "Froo froo" sounds fucking gay.

Any advices?

Any authors write about cunt using an acceptable vernacular?

>> No.8259776

Moist towelette or love cave

>> No.8259785

>>8259771
i wouldnt use any direct epithets desu. just say "inside her" or whatever depending on the context

>> No.8259786

pussy or cunt

>> No.8259792

>>8259771

Flower.
Blossom.
Slit.
Sex.
FANNY.

>> No.8259796

>>8259792
Kind of transphobic tbqh famalam

>> No.8259806
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>>8259785
I always feel like the author is afraid of a women's sexuality when they take that approach

>> No.8259817

>>8259806
i dont usually feel that way. any other way usually reads tasteless to me

>> No.8259819

>>8259796
>implying gladioli aren't flowers
uwotm8

>> No.8259827

What happened to "Write what you know", OP?

>> No.8259828

Use pussy. It's bad, but it's the best of a bad lot.

>> No.8259838

>>8259785

No. Don't do that, it's tacky. Don't use any euphemisms for the actual organs either >>8259786

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8259848

Clunge?

>> No.8259854

>>8259771
moist tunnel of love

>> No.8259856

>>8259771
cooter

>> No.8259861

I would have the characters say it if possible so the choice is a reflection on them, not you.

>> No.8259871

>>8259771
Rule 1 of writing: If the characters have sex, write about everything but the sex.

Look at Lolita, not once has Nabokov used something like "vagina" or "inside her", it's unnecessary.

>> No.8259891

>>8259871
This is close to the truth.

Her heat.
Warmth.
Slit.
Sex.

>> No.8259894

vagoo

>> No.8259910

soggy paneer

>> No.8259915
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8259915

cunny

>> No.8259927

Vulcanize the whoopee stick
In the ham wallet

Cattle prod the oyster ditch
With the lap rocket

Batter dip the cranny ax
In the gut locker

Retrofit the pudding hatch
With the boink swatter

Marinate the nether rod
In the squish mitten

Power drill the yippee bog
With the dude piston

Pressure wash the quiver bone
In the bitch wrinkle

Cannonball the fiddle cove
With the pork steeple

If I get you in the loop when I make a point to be straight with you then
In lieu of the innuendo in the end know my intent though
I Brazilian wax poetic so pathetically
I don't wanna beat around the bush:
Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

>> No.8259931

I second moist towelettes

>> No.8259942

>>8259927
Kolsti?

>> No.8260078

>>8259771
>gash
>axe wound

>> No.8260084

>>8259771
minge

>> No.8260090

>>8259927
you and me baby ain't nothin but mammals

>> No.8260092
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8260092

>>8259771

Puse.

>> No.8260100

>>8259827
Underrated kek

>> No.8260154

>>8259771
Axe wound

>> No.8260156

>>8259891
No he Means no explicit depictions of sex.

>> No.8260177

>>8259771
It's a matter of tone. I recently read a book where one irreverent character refers to a group of sexual priestesses as 'holy cunts.' The profanity is appropriate here, when it would be risible elsewhere.

Labia, to me, seems a versatile term.

>> No.8260201

>>8259771
Pubescent area?

>> No.8260203

>>8259771

> her gap trap
> her lack sack
> her void loin
> her absence appliance
> her empty tendie
> her hole mole
> her negation station
> her lacuna smelling of tuna
> her nOthing that smells of rotting

"Woman has no penis, whatever" - Slavoj Zizkek

>> No.8260216

>>8260203
Lack crack works as well

>> No.8260240

Make up your own word for it, then have your characters use it like slang.

>> No.8260332

feminine penis

>> No.8262092
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8262092

"hoo haa"

"mr vagoo"

or

STEAK CAVE

>> No.8262097

>>8260240

in the second of Robert Anton Wilson's "Schrodinger's Cat" books he pretended to avoid the attention of the censors by using the names of Supreme Court Justices for genitals.

so you'd get a woman shouting "STICK YOUR REHNQUIST IN MY FENSTEIN"

weird part was, by the end of the book it seemed natural.

>> No.8262166
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8262166

Dude the proper term got a womans genitals, if your simply referring to the outside is VULVA

if you're looking for vague words for it then use the weird shit in those grandma romance novels about Scottish men being buff and shit.

Target your audience. Sexy part, use sexy words.
Also woman feel different then men for some words. Only use" gross" words if you're appealing to 4chan cucks who hate women.

>> No.8262170

>>8259827
dohohohohohohoho

>> No.8262173

>>8259871

This.

Look at Faust, for example. The only place in which it is implied that Faust has sex with Gretchen, is at the end of the bit with the forest/cave, where he says he's going to visit her, and Mephistopheles says something like:

>"You don't mean-"

>> No.8262180

>writing and actually describing sex

well lump yourself in with the modernists my boy, you're doomed.

>> No.8262185

innuendo

between her legs, up her skirt, etc.

>> No.8262193

>>8259785

I don't see what's wrong with this approach. If it's simply narration it seems very appropriate.

>> No.8262281

>>8259771
Gowl
Gee
Fanny
Clunge
Punani
Myrish swamp

Or make up a sarcastic name that references your discomfort with any of the existing names.

>> No.8262295

Wizard sleeve

>> No.8262391

China

>> No.8262409

OP could you give some context? Can't really choose a euphemism without knowing the general tone/ genre.

>> No.8262425

Loch

>> No.8262470

>>8259871

Could you give an example? Are you saying you can imply they had sex, but don't write the actual scene? Or just describe everything around them but the act itself? The moonlight outside, the apartment furniture, etc?

>> No.8262582

Pizda.

>> No.8262806

>>8259771
the sex hole

>> No.8262848

snatch

>> No.8262903

>>8259771
Her member

>> No.8263121

>>8262582
Romanian is truly a beautiful language

>> No.8263130

British-English-fanny

>> No.8263184

>>8262295
I came to say this

>> No.8263254

The Weeping Cave

>> No.8263257

Portal to John Malkovich's head ;)

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8263275

>this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6Yf_V_iD0

>> No.8263279

>>8259771
Like the great comedian Pat Cooper
>envelope

>> No.8263443

>>8259771
the destroyer of sophisticated society

>> No.8263450

Seed leech

>> No.8263457

>>8262173
>basing your own approach to writing sex on a 200 year old play.

>> No.8263473

My last girlfriend called it her Judy since before I met her. Judy was my Grandmother's name. You should call it what your character who has it, calls it.

>> No.8263565

>>8260177
It only describes ones specific part of the vagina. It's like referring to a penis as foreskin.

Also don't listen to the people telling you should only vaguely imply sex. The amount of anatomical detail is up to your story's demands, as is how clinical, silly or dirty you want it. Do you really need a word for all of it, or a specific part?

>> No.8263854

>>8259771

refer it as ''her diary''

>> No.8263868

Mossy Cottage

>> No.8263910
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8263910

>>8263473

I dated a girl who had the same first name as my mom. That was weird.

What you said makes me think, what do girls call their own vagoos? I always think of my penis as "my dick" or sometimes "Little Anon." Do they think of their vaginas in the same rude lewd terms as men do? My ex called it a "pussy" but she only talked about it when I was supposed to be doing things to it, in the heat of the moment so to speak, and my other ex called it "her cat" but I doubt she always thought of it with cute euphemisms, because she was a tough girl, and very lewd.

>> No.8263920

>>8259771

Either "A gaping maw of deserting mucous" or "A soft, delicate, and inviting rose," depending upon the narrator. Bonus if you manage to use both in the same paragraph.

>> No.8263926

Pig's Intestine

Slip'n'Slide

The Deliverator

The Black Maw that Spat You Forth and Will Devour You Anew

>> No.8263952

>>8262281
>Gowl
>Gee
>Fanny
>Clunge
>Punani
>Myrish swamp
irish as fuck

>> No.8263961

ayyy he stick is hobs knob to er piss flaps an ey all ad a good time

>> No.8264254

>>8259785
>inside her
Have you read White Noise?

>> No.8264259

>>8259771
>8259771
say "he knew her" like in the bible

>> No.8264261

>>8259927
bloodhound gang

>> No.8264657

Hoo-ha

>> No.8265380

>>8259854
Why am I laughing so much

>> No.8265392

front bottom

>> No.8265409

pot calling the kettle black

>> No.8265853

punci

>> No.8265869

>>8259817
Of course it doesn't feel that way, of course it reads as tasteless to you. It's because you're afraid of women's sexuality like that anon said.

>> No.8265874

>>8265380
because you're dumb?

>> No.8265902

How did Lovecraft refer to it?

>> No.8265903

>>8265902
there was no sex in love

t. not read

>> No.8265942

>>8259771
Her weeping gash.

>> No.8266261

>>8259771
lips between the hips
minge
muff
fanny
pussy
front-bum
wound
"lady bits"
her flower (if it was made by ed Gein and made out of human pussy)
inverted penis
pouch

>> No.8266270

>>8262391
Chris?

>> No.8266275

>>8259827
Perfect post, 10/10.

>> No.8266280

FAGGOT

>> No.8266281

Rose Bud is objectively the best. Especially if you know the history behind it.

>> No.8266296

>>8266281
infinite money on the sims hot date

>> No.8266304

>>8259771

I went inside her mellow and sweet, V-jay-jay
Dark tunnel for beginners
Moist scented flower
Persepolis
Metropolis
Anal but the front hole actually
Her peepee thingy
Her concupiscence

That's my honest contribution
I would read/10

>> No.8266319

>>8259771

>schlong-sleeve
>balls-bower
>cum-cauldron
>baby-bestower
>fuck-furrow
>man-mound
>horn-hole
>queef-quince
>penis-pie
>dick-depository
>cock-cupper
>blood-belcher
>period-primer
>fish-feltcher
>semen-soaker
>knob-kneader
>bleeding-burrow
>pink-portal
>sex-slit
>jizz-jug

That should be enough to not be repetitive in your writing, OP.

>> No.8266336

>>8259771
if you have to refer to it, it's a cunt
but you really shouldn't have to describe the mechanics of the fucking unless that's somehow independently important
did she get kicked in the cunt?
is she just getting fucked? if so, you don't have to point out "in the cunt" you mong

>> No.8266344

>>8266281
egzblain

>> No.8266374

>>8266336
>vaginal sex is the only kind

>> No.8266385

>>8259927
they actual have some talent, more than a lot more serious people.

>> No.8266391

>>8259827
Nice.

>> No.8266395

>>8266374
one need only explain otherwise and then you don't need a word for it
problem solved

>> No.8266397

>>8259927
isn't the punchline that it is homosexual sodomizing and not a vagina they are talking about?

>> No.8266500

>>8259792
WTF thanks now im fired from work