[Ads-l] A (too?) late candidate for QOTY, medical division

[Jonathan Lighter]

Male agency was evidently required in the 13th century "Le Chevalier qui
faisoit parler les cons et les culs."

A speaking vagina named "Vajoana" appeared in 2006 on Comedy Central's
_Drawn Together_ .

JL

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:31 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Est autem vagina loquens in Diderot, "Bijoux indiscrets" (1748), ch. 47.
> (Cave! Debes praetera plus quam XVIII annos habere!)
>
> Anates etiam Romani "tetrinniebant."
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 3:43 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  Tetrissitare. (Suetonius.)
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 2:45 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, but the vagina dentata is one thing. The vagina loquens, ambulans et
>>> latrans is something else again.
>>> (Yes, I realize the last one involves barking rather than quacking; I
>>> don't
>>> know the Latin for "quack", v.)
>>>
>>> LH
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:41 PM Carl W. Thiel <
>>> 000002029019beff-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Thursday, December 29, 2022, 05:45:46 AM EST, Carl W. Thiel <
>>> > rootinteuton at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > There are two movies of which I'm aware wherein a vagina takes on the
>>> > attributes of another orifice:
>>> > "Chatterbox!" (1977) about a woman with a vagina that talks and
>>> > "Teeth" (2007), which literally exemplifies the myth of the vagina
>>> dentata.
>>> >
>>> > Carl William Thiel
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00:31 AM EST, ADS-L automatic digest
>>> > system <listserv at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>>> >
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>>> > Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 08:08:30 -0500
>>> > From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>>> > Subject: Re: A (too?) late candidate for QOTY, medical division
>>> >
>>> > In my day, "talking" alone would have been thought sensational.
>>> >
>>> > JL
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:07 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
>>> >
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Or the “stop that simile” division...
>>> > >
>>> > > From an article in today’s NYT, on a new process developed by Dr. Don
>>> > > Ingber, a Harvard bioengineer, for a ‘vagina on a chip’ to help in
>>> > treating
>>> > > bacterial infections.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/science/vagina-chip-bacterial-vaginosis.html
>>> > >
>>> > > The “vagina on a chip” was made from vaginal cells donated by two
>>> women.
>>> > > The model was grown inside of silicone rubber chips the size of a
>>> stick
>>> > of
>>> > > gum, forming channels that were responsive to fluctuating estrogen
>>> levels
>>> > > and bacteria. The chip successfully mimicked key features of the
>>> vaginal
>>> > > microbiome, the swarming communities of bacteria that play a crucial
>>> role
>>> > > in the organ’s health, the study found.
>>> > > The chip is more realistic than other laboratory models of the
>>> organ, Dr.
>>> > > Ingber said: “This walks, talks, quacks like a human vagina.”
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>> truth."
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