" … the bedazzled _vaginas_ …"

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Sat Jul 7 02:55:23 UTC 2012


On Jul 6, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> I would have said "vagina."
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> Really? Even though you know what the vagina is and where it's located?

Well, other than that, I could say, "bush," but it never occurred to me there was a separate non-vulgar word for that part. "Vulva" sounds Latin and technical, so I always assumed it was a synonym for "vagina."

But youneverknow

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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