cooch
coochie
your privates

I always called mine a "pee-pee," and when I had to go potty I had to "tee-tee" I was never even told what to call a "man part" but that didn't matter because I'm sure I thought all people were the same. I love reading your blog, by the way. :)

It was always "down there". Now my girlfriends and me calls it Julia. It is like another friend of ours to us :) /don´t mean to offend anyone called Julia of course/

I'm pretty sure my mom just taught me to call it "vagina." When I was three, I would introduce myself with my name and end with "and I have a vagina!" Family friends still tell that story to everyone!

However, I do know that my mom referred to boys differently. When she told me what to do if a strange man tried to touch me, it was "kick him between the legs" even tho I really *really* wanted to "kick him in the head"

girls "privates" were called something like a chupka. my family was from poland, so I always assumed that was the proper polish word for "vagina." now that I think about it, though, maybe it was a slang/curseword. or maybe it wasn't polish at all.

my parents used "tee-tee" (girls) and "tee-jay" (boys)-- was very confused the first time i saw a TJ Maxx store!

i like girl bits, coochie, or cha-cha

In my family we went with Bits for the most part, although Privates and Parts were both used once in a while. I don't know why everything had to be plural.

flower! =D

It was always just "down there,' for me, although my mother called my rear end my "moony," which still cracks me up. Why that?

My best friend called hers her "cookie," which presented many issues later in life.

the little boy I sit for now calls his his "peenee," but can also say the word "testicles." nice.

When I was a kid my vagina was referred to by my mother as a "tussy" (which was also the name of a brand of deodorant--was she trying to tell me something?). My brother's penis was a "berry". I don't think I learned the proper names for things until middle school when we had sex ed. It was in this class that I learned one of my favorite names for the penis, supplied by a classmate: "Mr. Mike". Needless to say, that boy spent the rest of the 7th grade going by the nickname Mr. Mike.

I was taught to say Winnie, but the neighbor girl said Francine.

My mom taught us to call it our P.B. I have no idea what it stands for, but I still feel weird when some one offers me a pb&j. My dad's daughter called it her "scrotch".

a friend of mine calls it her twinkle.

We are struggling with this with our 4-year-old daughter now....what I dislike about vagina is that, while it is the analagous part to the penis, it is not what you see when you first look nor what you are washing in the tub. So vulva or labia seem more appropriate, but won't people think you're weird for using THOSE terms? When I was little we didn't really call it anything. With our gal we mostly just talk about washing "the bathroom area," which includes her "bottom" (which only refers to the backside at our house) and her "front." We've told her about her vagina, as well as about her urethra, but when it comes to bathtime we're really more concerned about washing off the pee and poo residue so "bathroom area" seems ok!!

Incidentally, my husband and his 2 brothers grew up snickering whenever they heard "pickles" being referenced, and my dad still has the same reaction to "noodles."

Other terms used in the local parlance of our crowd are "cookie" (for girls) and "cracker" (for boys), but we've chosen not to go with those for obvious reasons.

A related question--what about farts? What are you going to call those? We like "toot."

On the off chance that you can possibly read this far:

Wooter = Penis (derived from peter)

Wootus - Vagina (derived from uterus)

courtesy of my sister-in-law and her kids!