Call me Vagina

»No matter how long I think about it, there is no nice name for the vagina«, a friend said to me the other day after I asked her what she calls her genitals. After a long break she asked me to come closer. So I moved very close to her and could hear the word „COOCH“ just by her lip movement. »I find cooch still the most acceptable, that sounds like me, like a woman. I definitely don’t have a pussy.« Interesting I thought the moment I looked around and looked at some mothers who lovingly rocked their children. I wonder what they’ll say. Would they also whisper their words to me secretly or look at me indignantly, because nobody should notice that we talk about our sexes in public and then also with these terrible names: Pussy, vagina, cooch, cunt! And doesn’t that lead to confusion for your children at some point? According to one study, both boys and girls know more frequently names for the male than for the female genitalia. In almost all educational books for children only vagina is mentioned, but only the inner part is meant. At the latest, however, when it comes to petting or hygiene, it is important to distinguish between vagina and vulva.

I wondered which name I liked best and could not decide at all. I personally like cooch, vagina, vulva and also pussy, always depends on the context in the respective situation. Mostly I prefer to call the details by name, why not lick the clitoris, stroke the labia and stimulate the wonderful G-spot? Strangely enough, it still seems to be a taboo topic to talk openly about the sexual organs of women. During my research on this topic I became aware of a flood of terminology. If you google »other word for vagina«, interesting and also strange names for the female sex pop up. While I almost fell out of the office chair laughing with fuck grove, juice cunt and meat hole, I found others like flower, mumu or plum very far fetched and also quite childlike. Why is it so difficult for us to say beautiful words like »vagina« or »cooch« out loud and to accept them as they are?

When I write my erotic stories, I often use different terms to bring in variety. I find vulva the most poetic, but this only refers to the outer part of the sexual organs and not to the beautiful inner life. Otherwise I switch between pussy, cooch, vagina, sex, or even temple. I must admit that I also only suggest pussy with women who are either young or submissive. I always imagine very slender, gracile bodies. A pussy is shaved, a cooch belongs to a mature woman, she is allowed to have a lot of pubic hair and is of course self-confident towards her sexual partners. I find the german words »Vagina« and »Scheide« equally beautiful, I have no particular associations. As a written word, I always see the aesthetics in the letters differently anyway, I speak them out loud in my thoughts and then find them very erotic in context. The English variants »Vagina« and »Cooch« naturally sound softer and somehow more atmospheric, but nevertheless one should bring a little more appreciation to the German clear word creations.

Have women not yet completely arrived with their self-confidence to accept her own body as it is, independent of all the medial pendants of unattainable skinny figures?

Feminism or not, while some proudly present their femininity, evaluate words like »Cunt« positively, let their pubic and axillary hair grow like a jungle and thus present a kind of counter-movement, are on the other hand, those who are constantly worrying, with questions like: Am I actually properly shaved, when he goes down on discovery, does my pussy smells good enough? Perhaps women still have some catching up to do in comparison to men, who do not seem to have any problems with their sexes and the associated words such as penis or cock and also swing their whip quite freely. And who wants a steel cunt anyway? The shades in between are what i am always missing: no insecure females and no feminist monster women either.

Call sexuality by its name, because I really believe that every word can be beautiful, in the end it only depends on how you pronounce it, how you embody it. Stop for a moment, repeat the terms several times, and you will find that a penis is no more beautiful than a vagina. If every woman’s gender would have a voice, it would probably say, »Call me as you like, as long as you’re comfortable!«