What did you call your vagina when you were a kid?

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What did you call your vagina when you were a kid?

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  1. kaeorin Avatar

    The whole thing was just my vagina. Nobody gave me any cutesy euphemisms for it, but also nobody got into all the clinical vulva-versus-vagina bits. So it was just all my vagina, and it was all my private parts.

  2. SquirrelDisastrous2 Avatar

    Nothing. I don’t ever recall referring to it. ‘Private parts’ maybe

  3. Pale_Refuse5368 Avatar

    hoo ha :[ always felt silly saying it out loud. vagina is a much better term

  4. Misstucson Avatar

    Wee wee. I will never let my children call their private parts cutsie names like that.

  5. manderifffic Avatar

    Vagina. My mom didn’t like the cutesy names people came up with, so it was always vagina, penis, or privates.

  6. DimmyMoore70 Avatar

    My grandmother called it “your cookie” but I don’t recall calling it anything until I hit Puberty. I guess I didn’t have much to say about it until then. Lol

  7. OkPear6436 Avatar

    Noo noo no idea why

  8. DarkField_SJ Avatar

    My mom was a Japanese immigrant who could never properly pronounce the English word. So when we had the period talk, she used the Japanese: “Chitsu”.

    I never learned Japanese growing up but I still use that word even today.

    Ironically, I’ve learned that’s also how they pronounce the English word “tits”. Maybe I should start using the English name to reduce the ambiguity!

  9. Ok-Half7574 Avatar

    I was in a particularly conservative religion, so I didn’t know it was there.

  10. Din0chickenugget Avatar

    Growing up, my mom always called it a bippy? No idea where that came from 😭

  11. Pondering_Giraffe Avatar

    Vagina. I still call it that and teach my daughters that, even though I know it’s technically wrong, but my language has a ridiculous word for labia, so I refuse to use that. I did try to tell all this wisdom to my 11 yo daughter, but she told me to shut up. I try.

  12. Kiki0223 Avatar

    Furgina. I knew I would eventually grow hair and it would get “furry”

  13. Excellent_Owl_8125 Avatar

    Tissekone (in Denmark we can call the private parts tissekone that translates to “peeing woman” and tissemand that translates to “peeing man”)

  14. heidismiles Avatar

    My mom called it “zoogie.” So embarrassing.

  15. tohruluver Avatar

    my family called it a flower pot for some reason

  16. drainbead78 Avatar

    Hoochie. I never used euphemisms with my own daughter, though.

  17. GamingCatLady Avatar

    Peach.

    In hindsight…I hate it. Teach your kids the REAL words.

    It’s sad cknsdier my mom WAS A NURSE. But she is also a Catholic..therefore shame before education and all that. Vagina and pe is were “swears” around her.

  18. No_Watercress8348 Avatar

    A nina (nigh-nah)

  19. saltyfeminism Avatar

    Tutu, for some reason. I will teach my future children the anatomical names for their reproductive organs – not only are cutesy names ridiculous, they’re dangerous.

  20. Maryhotter Avatar

    I called it my “China” when I was little little and the older I got I said “gina” instead.

  21. ruta_skadi Avatar

    I don’t think I ever had any reason to personally refer to my vagina specifically. I might occasionally refer to everything by the term “privates” or “private parts” when talking about being covered by clothing or something. I did know the term vagina.

  22. Significant_Grape_86 Avatar

    Bowbow, and I had no idea that others didn’t call it that too until I was older.

  23. ugglygirl Avatar

    We used all the words. Open communication. My mom was a hippy. Vagina, pussy, pussycat.

  24. clitorisenvy Avatar

    Belushi. idk how to spell it i just remember my Brazilian grandmother always using that word when we grew up. My mom would say that sometimes too or flower.

  25. Low_Control_623 Avatar

    Pee-pee, bagina. (I was little).

  26. JadeBlueAfterBurn Avatar

    Chocha. I knew it was called a vagina as a kid but i didn’t like that word.

  27. My_Uneducated_Guess Avatar

    I was raised to never possibly call it anything or acknowledge it in any way. I inherited too much of my personality from my dad when it comes to that stuff I guess. Being raised mormon didn’t help, either

  28. Latinagyro Avatar

    Toto in spanish

  29. Active-Hotel1719 Avatar

    It was my “mini”

  30. dosesandmimosas201 Avatar

    Poe-poe ….. literally have no fucking idea why, I actually need to ask my mom that now lol it freaks me out to even say it now😂😂

  31. Zeiserl Avatar

    “Vorderpopo” which would loosely translate into “Front butt”. Not sure why because my mom always used the proper anatomical terms in German. Not because she’s some sort of sex ed champion (we were mostly left to our own devices which isn’t the worst given Germany has pretty okay sex ed) but because she hated and rejected out of principle any form of baby talk.

    I think my sister and I picked up from the other kids that “Scheide” (Vagina) is an embarrassing word to use and came up with our own euphemism.

  32. TheSniperWolf Avatar

    My front bum 😂

  33. MindlessKillerTree Avatar

    My grandma called it my “monkey” and I never knew what she meant bc I didn’t understand context and thought she was talking about my monkey stuffed animal

  34. mistress_chimera Avatar

    Choochoo or chooch

  35. evaj95 Avatar

    My mom called it a “tutu” lol.

  36. Odd-Raccoon4191 Avatar

    My Mom convinced my sister and I vaginas were called “Wonkey-donkeys.” I may have learned by the age of 7 this wasn’t the case.

  37. PsychNurse27 Avatar

    My front butt 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  38. GreyHorse_BlueDragon Avatar

    Vagina. My mom was of the opinion that kids should grow up knowing the real names for their parts. She also told her mom friends that she thinks they should also be teaching their kids the same.

  39. sleepysock98 Avatar

    Vagina. I really dislike it when parents use ridiculous names.

    One time I was babysitting a young girl and she was trying to tell me she was uncomfortable, can’t remember why, clothes itching or something. She kept saying ‘minnie’ and I had no clue what she was talking about, one of her brothers had to tell me.

  40. ftwclem Avatar

    My mom always called it my “potty”

  41. Sea_Kindly_0226 Avatar

    Tuppence 🤷🏻‍♀️

  42. swizzleschtick Avatar

    Vagina. My mom was a paediatric nurse at the hospital, and making up cutesy names only helps protect the predator if (god forbid) your child ever gets molested (since most adults won’t pick up on it if they’re told by a kid that “uncle touches their bunny” or something like that).

    Teach your children proper anatomy along with boundaries so that they can communicate when something is wrong!!

  43. Pink_Ruby_3 Avatar

    My peepee – I just thought boys and girls peepees just looked different but that girls were still called peepees. It’s probably because I had an older brother.

  44. AllantoisMorissette Avatar

    I don’t think I was aware of it until 12 or 13 years old. I have a lot of siblings and was homeschooled so the conversation around that either slipped through the cracks or purposefully wasn’t given, who knows. My niece calls hers her “giant” though and I find that hilarious

  45. jmstanosmith Avatar

    Dupa. As an adult, I realized this is a word for ass. So was my mom referring to my lady bits or my ass?!?

  46. _Gypsy_Crusader_ Avatar

    When I was little my mum referred to it as a fanny or front bum😭

  47. PhoenixBorealis Avatar

    Nothing. Growing up as a good little Catholic, we were taught not to talk about our bodies.

  48. MarsupialNo1220 Avatar

    Fanny. I’m wildly uncomfortable with this word now 😂

  49. rozyputin Avatar

    Bg: I grew up in a small, christian town and was birn in 2002 in Canada

    My mom told me it was called “my pinky” I guess because it’s pink. I didn’t know I had a vagina until I was like 11? My grandmother called it a “mustn’t-touch-it” (tbf she grew up in the 30s and 40s).

    I knew I had a pee hole and a poo hole and to wipe from front to back. I never really was curious about my body, I never did any self exploring until I was 13 almost 14. So I didn’t know there was anything in between, if you will. I thought my clitoris was just where the pee came from and thought nothing of it.

    When I think back on it, it feels almost harmful to not teach me about it body til school sex ed does. What if there was an issue or someone SAed me as a kid and I said “oh he touched my pinky!”. No one would ever take that seriously, they would assume I meant my little finger.

    Idk, teach your kids about their bodies with the proper names, teach them properly about sex, teach them about consent, please.

  50. Mission_Pineapple69 Avatar

    Water tank 😂😅

  51. FoxLovesKnots Avatar

    I was encouraged to use proper terminology at home. In school (Catholic) we had to say “private parts” which I hate.

    As an adult, if I’m just joking around, my vaginas is Her Highness. LoL

  52. Wolagatetogatago Avatar

    Nenette and pussy

  53. firstbasic Avatar

    Bagina. I couldn’t quite hear the difference between B and V. settled on B.

  54. hazelpoof Avatar

    My “duck”

  55. cattyb1 Avatar

    I was a nanny in France and the little kids called them zizi (penis) & zizette (vagina) and I just find that so funny lol

  56. Opposite-Pangolin650 Avatar

    90’s uk kid we called it a whistle

  57. Velvet-Summer Avatar

    My popola. Dominican slang for coochie if you will lol

  58. Lazy-Conversation-48 Avatar

    Ba-gina. Dad is from Spain and had an accent. Never realized I was saying it wrong till I learned to spell. 😂

  59. RavenlyCreates Avatar

    My mom has called it coochie our whole life. She still says coochie but I refuse to continue. We use vagina and penis but my young daughter says “bagima” which we sometimes mimic

  60. DeterminedTaurus Avatar

    Toodle Noodle. I made it up apparently 😅

  61. Lunchbox9000 Avatar

    My mom called it a monkeyshine.

    My roommate called it a dutt. But you gotta say it right.

    Idk what was up with either of them. 🤷‍♀️😂

  62. dxonnie Avatar

    We called privates “boofy” when we were kids. One day my sister told her teacher that her “boofy” was itchy and when the teacher called my mom my mom was offended that the teacher referred sisters genitalia as genitalia or private parts. My mom said “I am not going to tell my 4 year old that she has a vagina” and wouldn’t use any terminology that was centered around genitals.

    Now as a RN that works in primary care and crisis management and has seen many cases of abuse and exploitation. With my own children I will use terms such as privates and correct anatomy and teach them consent and safety in the ways my mother did not.

  63. Material-Term-1778 Avatar

    “Monkey”, then, in high school I got a yeast infection from antibiotics after my tonsillectomy and my mom shamed me at the ER for not saying “vagina” when all id ever heard it called was a monkey. My children know anatomical names and say them loud and proud.

  64. Ok_babey Avatar

    A “peep”
    That’s what my mom came up with. No idea why.

  65. stressandscreaming Avatar

    Bagina because I didn’t realize the B was a V.

  66. DiviFail Avatar

    “Framåtstjärt” which would loosely translate to “frontal butt”. I don’t know why this was what my mother chose, but a few years later it was broadly decided in Sweden that the word for vagina would be “snippa” so thats a term I also used.

  67. Jeyandra9 Avatar

    “My triangle”

  68. zestynogenderqueer Avatar

    I have no idea where it started but I called it China

  69. Ichgebibble Avatar

    A lady told me one time to “mind my purse” because I wasn’t paying attention to mine and then she said “both of them” and gave my vagina a side-long look. Never forgot it

  70. churrofromspace Avatar

    I called it “my body” for some reason

  71. Ambitious-Ad2217 Avatar

    We didn’t have slag for it growing up. But my son’s calling it my front butt. I still remember them being like 5 and 3 busting in when I was in the bathroom and the oldest yelling see mom doesn’t have a penis she has to sit down to pee. The youngest one said in his tiny voice oh my god she has a front butt and it has some hair on it.

  72. AshamedPurchase Avatar

    Foo foo. Not passing that onto my kids.

  73. lets-snuggle Avatar

    Peesh (spelled phonetically) idk where this came from it may be an Italian/ Italian American thing lol

  74. Peachy_247 Avatar

    Vagina or peepee. As an ECE I don’t think there’s a “right” term, some parents believe the proper anatomical term is “right”, some parents want to use age-appropriate language and call it a peepee or private part. That’s fine. Just not stupid words like hooha or cookie or punani lol. That’s beyond inappropriate. Reading some of these replies has me horrified

  75. olivejew0322 Avatar

    My sister and I called it a “china” for the longest time when we were really little

  76. gourdworm Avatar

    Ours was petunia 😖 just had my daughter and gonna teach her vagina and penis from the start. No need to beat around the bush.

  77. jocee225 Avatar

    Pocketbook is what my mom said so thats we called it. Then as a teen it was privates.

  78. Temporary_Piece2830 Avatar

    “Front butt” because my mother, A BIOLOGY MAJOR, didn’t want me to say “vagina” till I was like 18

  79. Evil_lincoln1984 Avatar

    Chee-cha. Boys had a chee-cho.

  80. Glittering_Ice9186 Avatar

    Minnie – no idea it was something my stepmother would say.

  81. Vegetable_Resort6108 Avatar

    private parts, coo, or vagina

  82. Local-Park-322 Avatar

    I remember calling it my tush. Which is odd now especially since thats the word alot of people use to refer to their butt.
    My daughter asked me today what she should call it and I said call it your vagina, that’s what it is. She said someone at school said that was a bad word. I thought this was ridiculous! Who is telling their daughter vagina is a bad word, that’s literally what it is.

  83. wannagohome29 Avatar

    My mom always said privates and I remember the first time I said vagina she freaked out. God forbid I say the correct name to describe a part of my body lol

  84. orrieberry Avatar

    My ma called it a pocketbook. But we’re from Massachusetts, so it was “pockabook.”

  85. hummer_chickenfeed Avatar

    My mum called it my fanny was super weird about it. Like it disgusted her

  86. GurRevolutionary6682 Avatar

    “Fa-china” or “wee”. Don’t ask because I have no idea lol

  87. Putyourmoneyonme80 Avatar

    In my family almost all the women call ours our “frog”. Don’t know why, but we all find it hilarious.

  88. BeesAndBeans69 Avatar

    I couldn’t say vagina with my speech impediment, so I called it an agenda

  89. jamililiahlouise Avatar

    My mom called it a minkus.. have no idea why. I thought it was weird then..I would just say my privates or something. And why did it take me this long to realize she called it the same name as the little nerd on boy meets world.. lol

  90. zen-chilipepper Avatar

    My Tim. And I couldn’t understand why my girl friends at school didn’t call it a Tim. It’s such a pretty name for a vagina.

  91. MotivationDrPhD Avatar

    My mom referred to it as my knish (she’s Italian but my dad was Jewish and it’s a Jewish food). Imagine my HORROR when I went to a Jewish deli and someone ordered a knish. I assumed they were cannibals and ate vaginas as a delicacy. It was so messed up. Yeah. My daughter knows the clinical terms.

  92. MrLimberLegs1 Avatar

    “Mimi” My mom said I just started calling it that one day. One day I came home from school distraught because a new girl started and her name was Mimi and I was so upset about why anyone would name their daughter that?! My mom had to explain – again – that it was because I’m the only person that calls my private parts that haha

  93. demonchee Avatar

    Uhh, this is a deep memory holy shit. Coo-coo? Kinda weird

  94. MSRegiB Avatar

    My Lucy Mae. That’s what my Grandmother called it. I always thought it was funny.