"Changes in my cervix throughout the month"

June 5, 2008 2:30 PM

"Day Ten - Cervix low and closed. Notice blood spot near os and brown clot near cervix (right). Possibly from vigorous intercourse earlier that day (not mittelschmerz as I am not ovulating yet)." First link has graphic photos that may be NSFW.
posted by pwb503 (110 comments total)

yay, it's back
posted by caddis at 2:32 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

It's back and NSFW.

So, it's a catalog of close-up photos of a cervix throughout an entire month, including the beginning of menstruation.

The photos were rather distracting.
posted by jabberjaw at 2:36 PM on June 5, 2008

Let's re-post this every day!
posted by Dizzy at 2:39 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

First internet photos to have actually turned my stomach.

Well probably not first.
posted by norabarnacl3 at 2:39 PM on June 5, 2008

let's hear it for vigorous intercourse!
posted by quonsar at 2:41 PM on June 5, 2008 [3 favorites]

This makes me feel homesick for some reason.
posted by stavrogin at 2:44 PM on June 5, 2008 [14 favorites]

So, what am I looking at here?
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 2:44 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

Aren't bodies strange? We're just a mass of nerve endings, blood vessels, muscles, tissues, bones, etc. Somehow, something beyond the sum of the parts ties everything together for subjective experiences. Otherwise, you'd have to be some kind of deviant to enjoy sex.
posted by Burhanistan at 2:45 PM on June 5, 2008 [6 favorites]

1 girl, 1 cervix
posted by Flashman at 2:48 PM on June 5, 2008

Quite fascinating. The human body is just wow at times, like "wait, it does what with what?!"

Human Variation is a somewhat related link, where people of all types of body shapes pose nude in a non sexual manner. NSFW.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:48 PM on June 5, 2008 [5 favorites]

NSFW? The way education goes these days, I'd be suprised if people didn't think it was Jabba the Hut in a clever disguise. (and don't get me started on fear of sex and sexuality, the source of a tons of problems).

Anyhow, that's rather fascinating. Certainly could satisfy the curiousty of some girls who want to know how they are inside, but feel uncomfortable using a speculum. There's also evidence that, indeed, a vagina isn't a clown car.
posted by elpapacito at 2:49 PM on June 5, 2008 [3 favorites]

On the flip side when the intercourse is gentle and tender the pictures show a clearly bored cervix.
posted by tkchrist at 2:49 PM on June 5, 2008 [3 favorites]

This takes navel-gazing to an entire new level.
posted by TedW at 2:51 PM on June 5, 2008 [3 favorites]

Certainly could satisfy the curiousty of some girls who want to know how they are inside, but feel uncomfortable using a speculum

Is using a speculum for self-examination common?
posted by pineapple at 2:58 PM on June 5, 2008

And then - here's one of the really amazing things - a baby can be forced through there, and everybody is usually all the better for it. Ditto on the "human bodies are incredible" sentiment, both overt and implied.
posted by jbickers at 3:00 PM on June 5, 2008

PS I THINK YR GONNA HAV A BAYBEE KTHX BAI
posted by not_on_display at 3:02 PM on June 5, 2008

C for Cervixtory!
posted by lalochezia at 3:05 PM on June 5, 2008

a vagina isn't a clown car.

Way to destroy the magic.
posted by davejay at 3:05 PM on June 5, 2008 [5 favorites]

"mittelschmerz" is just the right word for that pain. It could apply to coworkers too: sharp, irritating, periodic (ha!), and unavoidable.

Pretty cool site. She's going to be a great midwife.
posted by lysdexic at 3:06 PM on June 5, 2008

Let's re-post this every day!

More like once every 28 days
posted by anthill at 3:11 PM on June 5, 2008 [5 favorites]

Since NSFW has been fully established I'm not going to go there right now, still I have to ask, apart from the thrill of the NSFW part (and Cool Papa Bell makes me question that use of thrill), is this any different from me setting up a wearable blue tooth ECG and a twitter that tells you in real time what each of my ventricles and atriums is up to?
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 3:12 PM on June 5, 2008

I thought Metafilter was blocked in junior high schools...
posted by Burhanistan at 3:13 PM on June 5, 2008

NSFW
posted by Pecinpah at 3:15 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

"Notice blood spot near os"

What os does the typical cervix run, anyway?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:16 PM on June 5, 2008 [13 favorites]

Way to destroy the magic

And a way to introduce you to this unusual family that could, for the benefit of their own childs of course, learn something about contraception & planned parenthood.
posted by elpapacito at 3:16 PM on June 5, 2008

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posted by dances_with_sneetches at 3:22 PM on June 5, 2008

"What os does the typical cervix run, anyway?"

Duh. It runs Cervix!
posted by dolface at 3:26 PM on June 5, 2008 [5 favorites]

What os does the typical cervix run, anyway?

open solaris on virtualbox.
posted by quonsar at 3:26 PM on June 5, 2008 [7 favorites]

is this any different from me setting up a wearable blue tooth ECG and a twitter that tells you in real time what each of my ventricles and atriums is up to?

Note to Web 2.0 types: cervixr.com is available.
posted by naju at 3:29 PM on June 5, 2008

I would have expected a cerVAX to run VPMS.

/ducks, runs
posted by GuyZero at 3:29 PM on June 5, 2008

What os does the typical cervix run, anyway?

[Don't make the U*untu joke, Fellini. Just don't do it.]
posted by FelliniBlank at 3:30 PM on June 5, 2008 [5 favorites]

This is spiffy, thanks for posting it. It's bizarre to me that up until today I had never seen a cervix, despite being the proud owner of one.
posted by supercrayon at 3:31 PM on June 5, 2008

This is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cameras wedged into their vaginas, or why.
posted by CynicalKnight at 3:32 PM on June 5, 2008 [13 favorites]

Wasn't this up yesterday, saying these were SFW?
posted by tybeet at 3:35 PM on June 5, 2008

So interesting. Glad to see you re-posted.
posted by Mavri at 3:35 PM on June 5, 2008

let's hear it for vigorous intercourse!

Hooray!

what?

Does anyone else here have their own speculum? My OB-GYN gave me one at the health clinic I used to go to in Seattle. Really a speculum is pretty much for someone else to look at your cervix, unless you have a mirror and maybe I'm just a self-hater but MAN, I will not be doing that particular yoga position again anytime soon. The nice OB-GYN said "use it in good health comrade" and I mostly keep it on my wall where it is a fascinating conversation starter, especially hanging up next to the spurs. Thanks for reposting pwb503
posted by jessamyn at 3:35 PM on June 5, 2008 [11 favorites]

Ah, a public cervix announcement... I'm here all week, tell your friends!
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:39 PM on June 5, 2008 [6 favorites]

Wasn't this up yesterday, saying these were SFW?

No, that was a different cervix.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 3:41 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

Insightful.
posted by athenian at 3:43 PM on June 5, 2008

jessamyn writes "Does anyone else here have their own speculum?"

Buddy of mine picked up a chrome/stainless speculum at a yard sale. He used to keep it on the counter of his second hand store. Guys would pick it up and start playing with it (the metal ones have a thumb wheel for adjustment that just calls out to be fiddled with) and then almost invariably drop it like a hot potato when they found out what it was for.

elpapacito writes "NSFW? The way education goes these days, I'd be suprised if people didn't think it was Jabba the Hut in a clever disguise. "

Ya, you probably don't want to go there.
posted by Mitheral at 3:51 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

Na sehste, geht doch!
posted by chillmost at 3:52 PM on June 5, 2008

Super-stretchy fertile fluid

Super-stretchy fertile fluid

Super-stretchy fertile fluid

Seriously, I think this is kind of cool. My sex ed was very progressive, compared to the rest of the South, but we never got to see anything like this and I think it's very useful, for both genders. I knew, conceptually, what a cervix was and were it was located, but I didn't fully 'get it' until I saw these photos.
posted by showbiz_liz at 3:57 PM on June 5, 2008

I'm not surprised at the NSFW controversy. A number of years ago it occurred to me that some porn was moving in the direction of ever closer close-up shots, and I began to wonder where this might lead. Perhaps we would transition from external shots to internal shots like we see here, to the final frontier, microscopic porn. Long before the notion of "rule 34" was suggested, or there was even a World Wide Web, I thought the future of porn might be Madonna's Pap Smear.

I mentioned this concept to this guy I met from Texas named Rick Linklater. Later on he incorporated this into his movie Slacker.
posted by Tube at 4:00 PM on June 5, 2008

saw this yesterday and thought it was cool then. I think the best thing is that she details all the various states . . . I know for some girls it's really freaky "downtown" and just being able to find out that yes, that business that you just saw there, that's normal, would be great.
posted by Medieval Maven at 4:04 PM on June 5, 2008

...a vagina isn't a clown car.

Sometimes it is.
posted by miss lynnster at 4:06 PM on June 5, 2008 [3 favorites]

Does anyone else here have their own speculum?

In college one of the feminist student groups was handing them out, and having "look at your cervix" workshops. The cute part was when they had a "decorate your speculum" day, and for a few days afterwards there were arty speculi all over campus. My favorite was the godzilla speculum, but the frog one was neat, too.

(The speculum is interesting -- according to this, they are mentioned in the Talmud from about 1300BCE, and are found elsewhere in antiquity. The modern version is credited to J Marion Sims, who was a pretty unethical guy by modern standards (developing surgical techniques on slave women using no anesthesia) but who also made some important advances in the field.)
posted by Forktine at 4:07 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

OK, I realize I lead a sheltered life, but I have to ask, who sells something like a speculum at a yard sale? "Hey, how much is this trocar? Ten bucks, huh? Will you take five?"
posted by FelliniBlank at 4:09 PM on June 5, 2008

Super-stretchy fertile fluid

So, huh. Is that native fluid, or foreign? 'Cause it looks kinda like it came from a vesicle of some sort.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:11 PM on June 5, 2008

So, huh. Is that native fluid, or foreign? 'Cause it looks kinda like it came from a vesicle of some sort.

Totally natural and normal. (I'm assuming you were serious?)
posted by peep at 4:14 PM on June 5, 2008

Wow, that was way more cooler than I was expecting.
posted by liquorice at 4:21 PM on June 5, 2008

I found it really fascinating -- like people say, you know about your cervix and inner workings (or one would hope so), but don't ever see it. I was surprised at how much it looks like a glans and meatus. To me, at least.

Speculums always pinch me. I used to think it was the doctor's fault but I've been to more than one doctor now for exams and it's happened every time. Speculums are not my friend.
posted by tracicle at 4:32 PM on June 5, 2008

Tube writes "A number of years ago it occurred to me that some porn was moving in the direction of ever closer close-up shots, and I began to wonder where this might lead."

Rule 34 not withstanding, this is already there. There is porn that seems to consist just of documenting measuring sexual organs in detail. Much of it with extreme close ups. (Ugh, sometimes I hate my job).

FelliniBlank writes "I have to ask, who sells something like a speculum at a yard sale?"

What do you think is going to happen when jessamyn's great-grandson needs to clear out all the stuff at her place? It'll be there on the table next to the spurs.
posted by Mitheral at 4:33 PM on June 5, 2008

Okay, who's buying me Speculum? Best journal title ever...
posted by unknowncommand at 4:35 PM on June 5, 2008

Well, there goes all the mystery from that. Thanks, internet cervix lady.
posted by mikeh at 4:39 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

That is completely awesome.

About fifteen years ago, I saw Annie Sprinkle perform, and had the pleasure of standing on line to see her cervix. Without thinking, I blurted out, "It looks just like mine!" (Link NSFW.)
posted by tits mcgee at 4:47 PM on June 5, 2008 [3 favorites]

I've mostly only seen drawings and diagrams of a cervix. The freakiest one was the one the hippie birth prep instructor showed us, the one that clarifies how a baby can get out of there. Ten centimeters never looked so big.
posted by padraigin at 4:47 PM on June 5, 2008

i'm shocked there's that much variation in appearance so quickly. i mean, i sort of intellectually knew it happened, but wow, that's a lot of change in a day some days.
posted by rmd1023 at 4:53 PM on June 5, 2008

This is cool.
posted by LobsterMitten at 5:02 PM on June 5, 2008

I found this fascinating, and I'm really glad it came back, but that being said I still have to remind myself that I am not staring down at a surly facehugger taking aim at me from a freshly hatched Alien egg.
posted by steef at 5:21 PM on June 5, 2008

First link has graphic photos that may be NSFW.

This FPP has words that may be NSFW.
posted by IndpMed at 5:46 PM on June 5, 2008

I'm still not talking to mine.
posted by gomichild at 5:58 PM on June 5, 2008

Very cool.
posted by SassHat at 6:00 PM on June 5, 2008

I'm going to be totally honest and admit that it totally squicked me out. Utterly. To the bone.
It's not that it's a cervix, I think it's just because of what it looks like. I get the same thing when you say those videos when they send some ultratiny camera down someone's digestive system. Oof.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:23 PM on June 5, 2008

Following some links from the os Wikipedia link, I stumbled upon the most terrifying depiction of a vagina I've ever seen. That thing looks like it belongs in the Lovecraft pantheon.
posted by DecemberBoy at 6:29 PM on June 5, 2008 [4 favorites]

The freakiest one was the one the hippie birth prep instructor showed us, the one that clarifies how a baby can get out of there. Ten centimeters never looked so big.

At our ante-natal class the midwife bought along a couple of chunks of plastic piping, joined by an angular bit, and a newborn infant sized doll. She held it up, asked if we knew what it was ("Uh, downspouting from a house, no wait, too big"), gleefully thrust her hand into it, then said, "actually it's 10 centimetre pipe at about the same angle as the birth canal."

Then she crammed the doll through it, demonstrating the way it would twist around during the delivery. A bunch of the mothers-to-be went quite pale.
posted by rodgerd at 6:33 PM on June 5, 2008 [4 favorites]

Very interesting and informative. Thanks for reposting pwb503.
posted by tellurian at 6:51 PM on June 5, 2008

I find the "oooh, ick" comments a mite odd. I mean, its just a cervix, what's to ick about?

Mind, I find people's reactions to bodies in general a mite odd, so I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that I find the reactions to this strange. I am disturbed by some of the vagina aversion that seems evident in a few posts.

Nifty all the way around. Thanks for (re)posting it pwb503.
posted by sotonohito at 6:53 PM on June 5, 2008 [2 favorites]

Dammit, her ISP couldn't handle her cervix's bandwidth and is blocking all images.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:09 PM on June 5, 2008

I find the "oooh, ick" comments a mite odd. I mean, its just a cervix, what's to ick about?

What's so gross about mucusy discharge and blood and mushy inside your body pictures? Like I said, it could be pictures of an esoph--

Mind, I find people's reactions to bodies in general a mite odd, so I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that I find the reactions to this strange.

Oh. Well. Yeah. There you go.

I am personally grossed out by the images just by virtue of the fact that they are OMG PICTURES FROM INSIDE UR BODY WTF. I'm not making any sort of judgment call on the pictures or the post or cervixes... cervi... cer... cervices? Cervices. Right, I'm not making any sort of judgment call on them or cervices in general, I'm just saying "these pictures gross me out." I don't think it's so odd, considering there are people who faint or become ill at the sight of blood, y'know? I think blood is perfectly fine but there are just some people who lose their cool/lunch around it.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:21 PM on June 5, 2008

Funny-- I can look at pictures of a vagina for hours, be amazed at its florid delicacy, aroused by its primitive voraciousness, etc.
But I CANNOT ABIDE looking at a picture of a woman's foot for more than a second or so.
Why?
posted by Dizzy at 7:24 PM on June 5, 2008

After years in the cervix industry, I've never seen thingx quite this way.
From here on out I pledge to look at every cunundrum through the pure light of an arclamp and binoculars . . . or perhaps it is better to feel than to see.
posted by isopraxis at 7:24 PM on June 5, 2008

Thanks for the heads up FFF! I actually found the site to be pretty interesting even without the pictures, since I actually was able to stick around and read the text. Though not very descriptive, as I'm sure she relies on the pictures for that, they are still pretty informative and interesting.

Captain's log...
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:26 PM on June 5, 2008

1 girl, 1 cervix, 1 beer.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:29 PM on June 5, 2008

Not seeing pictures. :(

At least Annie Sprinkles is still up.
posted by Meep! Eek! at 7:34 PM on June 5, 2008

I stumbled upon the most terrifying depiction of a vagina I've ever seen.

Jesus, the damn thing has grown legs and looks pretty determined to take over civilization as we know it! Though there will be resistance, I don't much like the chances for the bald faction in the face of these grizzly and unkempt old creatures. I think that their vanity will be their undoing.

Penises will be totally fucked.

I, for one, totally welcome our new Vagina overlords.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:37 PM on June 5, 2008

I didn't really get what she was talking about with all the high-and-open/low-and-closed stuff. Maybe an animated gif would have illustrated it better.

Then again, a pulsing cervix gif would probably have been quickly stolen and turned into HypnoVag by someone.
posted by CKmtl at 7:49 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

I find the "oooh, ick" comments a mite odd. I mean, its just a cervix, what's to ick about?

Blood and mucus is icky. It's icky because, up until more recent times, it was not something you would WANT to see - because that meant that your insides were on the outside, and that's not ok. It made me a bit queasy, i have to admit, and I own one.
posted by The Light Fantastic at 7:58 PM on June 5, 2008 [2 favorites]

I find the "oooh, ick" comments a mite odd. I mean, its just a cervix, what's to ick about?

As CitrusFreak said.. it's because it's 'inside the body' stuff. I just.. I mean it's cool, and holy hell is it a very educational tool for anyone who owns or is likely to come in contact with, a cervix. But ick. Inside bodies. Ick. (Male or female, doesn't matter)
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 8:05 PM on June 5, 2008

I find the "oooh, ick" comments a mite odd. I mean, its just a cervix, what's to ick about?

On the bright side, now I've got some ammunition against those dykes the other day who were telling me at great length how icky & ugly penises are.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:32 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

I mostly keep it on my wall where it is a fascinating conversation starter, especially hanging up next to the spurs.

That's it. The wife and I are coming out for a meetup, after that.
posted by middleclasstool at 8:51 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

tracicle said: "meatus"

That word is more revolting than any picture of internal organs.
posted by loiseau at 9:14 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

Following some links from the os Wikipedia link, I stumbled upon the most terrifying depiction of a vagina I've ever seen.

Really? We're in a thread discussing female sexual anatomy and people still can't tell vulva from vagina?
posted by kittyprecious at 9:22 PM on June 5, 2008

Does anyone actually see these images? I'm at home, so there's no content firewall, and AdBlock reports it's blocking no elements...
posted by Xoder at 9:30 PM on June 5, 2008

Looks like her cervix went over bandwith.
posted by theantikitty at 9:37 PM on June 5, 2008

a vagina isn't a clown car.



Would the boyzone PLEASE get their facts straight:

NOT VAGINA,



UTERUS!!!!!!!!!!!

:-P
posted by brujita at 10:42 PM on June 5, 2008

Really? We're in a thread discussing female sexual anatomy and people still can't tell vulva from vagina?

Tell me about it. We taught our daughter what her Vulva is, and we were being thwarted by the preschool teachers calling it her Vagina. We finally had to tell them to knock it off (well, my wife did, and more politely.)
posted by davejay at 10:53 PM on June 5, 2008

I always pictured it as darker in color!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:03 PM on June 5, 2008

Would the boyzone PLEASE get their facts straight

If the worst boyzone complaint you can make in a thread about girly pink bits is that people are confusing the esoteric technical terminology, then I think MetaFilter has come a long way.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:28 PM on June 5, 2008 [2 favorites]

On the bright side, now I've got some ammunition against those dykes the other day who were telling me at great length how icky & ugly penises are.

well, yes, at great lengths they are a bit self-parodying but the rest of the time they're not so bad.
posted by heeeraldo at 11:32 PM on June 5, 2008

Would the boyzone PLEASE get their facts straight: NOT VAGINA, UTERUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, love, but the truth is that none of those bits should be treated like a clown car.
posted by five fresh fish at 11:36 PM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

at great lengths they are a bit self-parodying but the rest of the time they're not so bad.

Unless they're running Microsoft.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:41 PM on June 5, 2008

On vagina power
posted by hortense at 12:01 AM on June 6, 2008

Not complaining sweetness, correcting. It's one at a time even with a multiple caesarian.
posted by brujita at 12:06 AM on June 6, 2008

We're in a thread discussing female sexual anatomy and people still can't tell vulva from vagina?

OK, vulva. Geez. You can see how I might make a mistake with terminology. Look at that footer bar on the Wikipedia link, with a complexity usually reserved for science fiction TV series. You people have more parts to your privates than electronic components in the computer I'm typing this on. I have enough trouble with a simple cackn'balls, I don't know how you deal with a Rube Goldberg reproductive system.

Unless they're running Microsoft.
On vagina power

Does Windows run on the PowerVagina architecture?
posted by DecemberBoy at 12:15 AM on June 6, 2008

Does Windows run on the PowerVagina architecture?

Yes, but installing your hardware is impossible unless you have the right privileges.

boyzone? sheesh, nerdzone more like it.
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:23 AM on June 6, 2008

Fascinating link. Thanks for reposting.
posted by Locative at 3:01 AM on June 6, 2008

Her cervix has broken the internet.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:24 AM on June 6, 2008

Man, this thread is a train wreck. And, no; I am not going to look at pictures of someone's cervix.

If I had wanted to be a gynaecologist, I would have gone to fucking medical school. Looking at someone's internal bits for free is not my idea of a pleasant leisure activity.

It's the same reason I won't watch American Idol (and the 10,000 shows which imitate it): If I had wanted to be a casting agent, I would have done so in the first place. Why sit through bad auditions for free? I want MONEY to watch people suck at singing. I'm also allergic to karaoke and poetry slams.
posted by chuckdarwin at 3:47 AM on June 6, 2008

You got cerv-ix.
posted by Pollomacho at 3:59 AM on June 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

This is great - thanks for reposting!
posted by goo at 4:09 AM on June 6, 2008

Nothing like cervix with a smile!
posted by jonp72 at 7:17 AM on June 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

I find the "oooh, ick" comments a mite odd. I mean, its just a cervix, what's to ick about?

Smegma post in 5... 4... 3...
posted by Sys Rq at 7:37 AM on June 6, 2008

I would have gone to fucking medical school.

They have that now? Damn. I missed my calling!
posted by five fresh fish at 7:38 AM on June 6, 2008

I'm a guy with a good attitude towards menstruation
posted by crunchywelch at 9:00 AM on June 6, 2008

I second the "the human body is neat" posts.
Also, on a completely unrelated note, I'M F*CKING GLAD I'M MALE AND DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH STUFF LIKE THAT^*! Ahem.

Seriously, could you imagine what men would be like if we had to go through changes like that every month? I mean, bleeding? From our private parts? Regularly? *shudder*

Then, on the other hand, it seems to stand to reason that we human males are permanently stuck in the "Feeling very randy sexual" phase... at least it would explain a lot of things.

^* In my own body, that is. I'm not saying I'd try to keep my girlfriend from ovulating.
posted by PontifexPrimus at 9:19 AM on June 6, 2008

Man, I searched for that one for at least five minutes yesterday before giving up, crunchywelch.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:20 AM on June 6, 2008

This all reminds me of something.

My Grandma always pronounced the word Uterus "You-TRUSS." And don't ask how the word always came up in conversations with my 85 year old grandma. But it did.

"So... your great Aunt Dorothy...well... she had to have her youTRUSS removed after the w..."

"You-ter-US." My sister would correct.

"Oh. What's that?"

"It's like a youtruss only easier to find."

"That's what I said. Youtruss. So. Your great Aunt Dorothy went to Pocatello and had..."

"Vagina." My sister blurts out.

"No. Pocatello. In Idaho."

"Say "VA-GI-NA."

"I-DA-HO."
posted by tkchrist at 10:20 AM on June 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

A friend of mine from the less populated parts of the Minnesota Iron Range told me her fundy mother was very loath to say any word that was sexually related, but one time was forced to refer to reproductive body parts and called them jen-eat-alls. My friend, who was 13 at that time, tried to stifle her laughter, but couldn't, and so she was sent to her room for the duration.
posted by Mental Wimp at 1:20 PM on June 6, 2008

Smegma post in 5... 4... 3...
Smegma Your Friend and Mine. There were some ick comments but mostly 'what an amazing thing'.
posted by tellurian at 5:31 PM on June 6, 2008

nerdzone more like it.....We are ALL nerds here--dangly bits or not. :-)
posted by brujita at 11:58 PM on June 6, 2008