You got it, buddy
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Aren’t most of the external parts actually the vulva? I thought the vagina was just the tube…
It is, but properly naming things isn't something Internet users are very good at.
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I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We call them the "little lips" (which is a direct translation of labia minora btw) in my language and I don't believe we're losing anything there.
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To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.
But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.
Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone will find useful.
Example:
Wolf's entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:
Species: Wolf <> Wolf
Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis
Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini
Family: Dogs <> Canidae
Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia
Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora
Ask someone what "Caniformia" is and most would probably think you're talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what "Doglike" refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.
Feel free to have a look-see at what that could look like. Taxonomy isn't "taxonomy" anymore, it's "setlore." Find that easier to understand?
https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lifelore ("Lifelore" is biology)
It's an "Anglish" wiki, based on Poul Andersson's "Uncleftish Beholding", a text that's trying to see what English would look like if it didn't have latin borrowings as much, just the teutonic words.
Here's some atomic theory ie "uncleftish beholding".
The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.
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I know it says bf (which I will assume means boyfriend)
But I'd you read the studies:
45% of men aged 18-25 had never approached a woman in person for a date
29% of all men said they never approached a woman in person for a date before
27% said it had been more than one year since they approached a woman for a date
Source(s):
https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/
https://x.com/DrThomasAG/status/1674391128215367682
Pair that with the quality of education and it is of no surprise that a boyfriend doesn't know what they never knew existed in the first place
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Wasn't English's French influence mostly over by this point? The Norman conquest added a bunch of French vocabulary but by the 1700's, England was a stable colonial power.
And for very frequently used terms - like anatomical terms - the English root remained mostly intact and loanwords weren't used. Arm, nose, shoulder, knee, elbow etc. are not French in origin.
I suspect it could be remnant of nobility separating itself from the common people. By only ever referring to anything with its Latin term, you can distinguish the wealthy, highly-educated from the poorer, lesser-educated people. After all, if you spoke Latin and/or Greek those terms make a lot of intuitive sense.
French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the "official" language. That last part is totally right.
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Yeah after hearing the "can't find the clitoris" and "it doesn't exist" jokes for so long, I was kind of shocked by how easy it was when I finally got down there...
I do believe that there are men who have this issue, but it seems kind of fucked up that the woman would just complain about it rather than take 3 seconds to show them. It's not like it's well hidden or anything.
but how am i going to get free internet points if i just do the sensible thing?
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I too quiz my partner on the anatomy of genitalia when we're hanging out
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I too quiz my partner on the anatomy of genitalia when we're hanging out
Wait, what, you don't have a cloaca?
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I mean, the state of sex education in the US is abysmal, misinformation and just no information is so rampant that it's rather silly to expect the average young adult to know the detailed anatomic names.
In my life so far, I've dated plently of women who didn't know anatomical names, or with a few, even basic signs of what a vaginal health problem looks like.
With one, I had to deduce that her described urinary problems were possibly actually bacterial vaginosis when I uh, also noticed the smell.
She got extremely pissed off, thinking I was insulting her, thinking I was saying she had an STD/STI... a week later she's back from the doctor and yep, I was right, now she's on antibiotics.
How many women can, off the top of their head, identify the vas deferens, cowper's gland, or know that testicular torsion is even a thing?
Yeah its awful. Ive had the BV situation happen with two different partners. And God forbid, you bring up anything thats considered outside the heterosexual spectrum in an educational setting. Could you imagine if men were taught about the possibilities of the prostate in a judgement free environment?
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Yeah its awful. Ive had the BV situation happen with two different partners. And God forbid, you bring up anything thats considered outside the heterosexual spectrum in an educational setting. Could you imagine if men were taught about the possibilities of the prostate in a judgement free environment?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I was this close to also mentioning that yeah lol, turns out any guy can have pleasure and potentially an orgasm from proper prostate stimulation...
And you don't even have to be attracted to other dudes to be able to do that, and enjoy it!
Pegging and toys exist!
But again, nope, not allowed by heteronormativity.
To go with another personal anecdote... different girl I was dating at one time, who considered herself pansexual... well, I broached the idea of using an anal toy... and she, again I remind you, a self described pansexual... just started calling me gay, constantly made buttsex jokes and quips all the time, started trying to get me to hook up with dudes.
WTF?!
I respect her gender and sexual identity/preferences, she doesn't respect mine at all, while she's literally wearing rainbow flag pins and going to every pride event in town and constantly making IG posts about how everyone should be more inclusive and accepting?
Sorry to rant but yeah, the hypocrisy is strong and multifaceted in this realm.
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To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.
Feel free to have a look-see at what that could look like. Taxonomy isn't "taxonomy" anymore, it's "setlore." Find that easier to understand?
https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lifelore ("Lifelore" is biology)
It's an "Anglish" wiki, based on Poul Andersson's "Uncleftish Beholding", a text that's trying to see what English would look like if it didn't have latin borrowings as much, just the teutonic words.
Here's some atomic theory ie "uncleftish beholding".
The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.
To be fair, the atom names are literally just German. Except sunstuff, that's Helium in German too. Not too difficult to parse imo but I may be biased.
But it's not like I want all French influence be gone. Rather, for common things it feels... artificial(?) to use some fancy Latin word when it just refers to something so basic it shouldn't have a Latin word outside of scientific contexts to begin with.
It's like a science fiction novel where the author insists on naming the Earth Terra, the Moon Luna and the Sun Sol. It feels needlessly artificial and somewhat clinical.
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Wait, what, you don't have a cloaca?
Way to advertise you don't know how to find the c-spot. So on-brand.
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idgaf what "science" says.
It's.
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Way to advertise you don't know how to find the c-spot. So on-brand.
OMG what a shit take >=[
bad dum tish
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Yeah after hearing the "can't find the clitoris" and "it doesn't exist" jokes for so long, I was kind of shocked by how easy it was when I finally got down there...
I do believe that there are men who have this issue, but it seems kind of fucked up that the woman would just complain about it rather than take 3 seconds to show them. It's not like it's well hidden or anything.
Right? Like - talk about having the luckiest version of XKCD's Ten Thousand!
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That's the flappy part!
But what if it's all flappy parts?
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OMG what a shit take >=[
bad dum tish
All I'm saying is "tickle her cloaca and she'll stay wit ya."
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Wait, what, you don't have a cloaca?
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I know it says bf (which I will assume means boyfriend)
But I'd you read the studies:
45% of men aged 18-25 had never approached a woman in person for a date
29% of all men said they never approached a woman in person for a date before
27% said it had been more than one year since they approached a woman for a date
Source(s):
https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/
https://x.com/DrThomasAG/status/1674391128215367682
Pair that with the quality of education and it is of no surprise that a boyfriend doesn't know what they never knew existed in the first place
From this we can infer that at least 2% of survey respondents were less than a year old
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Why taint though? O.o
Taint is a bit inaccurate, I'd say. It's actually "Schamlippen". "Scham" meaning "shame" and was also used as an innocuous or rather less derogatory word to refer to this area of the female body that may not be spoken of. "Outer and inner shame lips" just stuck and is the colloquial expression for labia majora and minora.
