BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'

Subject: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: gecko
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 07:25 PM

We've all heard many examples of the terminology - usually of an affectionate nature - that males use to refer to their appendages. I am interested to hear from women about the terms they use. This is a serious enquiry (!) and I hope to put some of the answers to good use in a workshop I'm currently writing in retaliation to one I heard last year at Mary River in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Yours in Unity
gecko

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 07:32 PM

Thank you Dr. Kinsey for more than we need to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 07:42 PM

oh, I DO hope there are some answers more creative than "thingy"...*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 07:47 PM

A friend of mime used to call her husband's penis 'wriggler'. We always wondered about that!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:18 PM

Do you think that what women call them is different than what men call them? Or are you presuming that because men seem to have lots of sly nicknames for women's genitals that women recognize but don't use themselves that the reverse is true?

Hmmm. I'll have to think about that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:19 PM

Arbuthnot

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:24 PM

How curious a silence this is!! There must be a few terms floating around the powder room!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:28 PM

Ar, buth not that ye be not buthed!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:42 PM

"To buth or not to buth . . . "

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:43 PM

Wait until tomorrow when the Brits wake up.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: rumanci
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:45 PM

some of us haven't gone to bed............and we're still keeping quiet   *bg*

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:47 PM

Maybe it's just that women aren't quite as fixated on men's genital areas as men seem to be on women's.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:47 PM

Percivil?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:47 PM

Ding Dong
Little Pink Thing
George

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 08:55 PM

pines
spine
snipe

Is a euphemism that thing where ya change the letters around?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Joybell
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 09:01 PM

We just don't think about them as much as you fellas do. I asked a few women friends,
"What do we call willies?" and they said, "willies".
There are the terms used by mothers of little boys, of course:
ding-dong, (sorry too important for lower case) Ding-Dong, Doodle, Pee-Pee, Diddle-do, Woo-Woo.

The ones I like best come from men - "Winged Avenger" and "Symbol of Manly Pride"
Good luck gecko.
(and in case you're wondering, I've heard the obvious name for my man's one.)
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 09:04 PM

I rented a room from a lady who didn't like to use "nasty" words so she pronounced them spelled backwards.
sinep
traf

you get the idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 09:09 PM

Whatever works.

Revetahw skrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peter T.
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 09:27 PM

"His brains" is probably the favourite. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: bbc
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 10:05 PM

Yang yang, pokey man, sir (just kidding!)

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 10:20 PM

What makes you think we sit around thinking up names for it? Or thinking of it at all? All the euphemisms for it I know, I learned from the men who think of that stuff!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 10:37 PM

Oh dear....Merlin, for the magic it can cause?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 10:41 PM

Chinese girls call them 'Little Brother' Xiao di di.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,Evil Man-hating Woman
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 11:08 PM

How about Pimple head?
          Pathetic willie?
          Invisible Ian?
          Arthur upstart?
          Horrible Horace ?

or even "Man twig?"

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 11:46 PM

well, I DID hope for creativity...*grin*

I'm sure sorry some men have given the rest of us such a bad reputation.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: LadyJean
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 11:56 PM

Mother read a book about a British MP, and thereafter called it by the book's title, "The Independent Member".
A group of little girls seeing their baby brother being changed called it the sixth finger.
A friend of mine, as a child, called it a tinklebag.
I have used the term little friend, since it does seem to have a mind of it's own.
And for two years, now, I have been thinking, we're going to war in Iraq to prove once and for all that George W Bush has a bigger do hickey than his father.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:06 AM

When I worked in the Forest Service the guys used to refer to their tally whackers. Their term, not mine.

This reminds me of when a bunch of them drove down to Seattle to go to a topless bar. They came back, all excited and full of stories about the place. There were two women on the crew, and the other one, a bit older and more worldly then I, finally lowered the boom on them.

"Boobs! That's all you can talk about is boobs! I'm sick of hearing about boobs!" They were so surprised by her outburst that they did shut up. They made another trip back a couple of weeks later, but the more mature in the group were willing to admit that the first time was best, that repeated exposure to such places rapidly lost it's charm.

Now what were you asking about what women call pricks?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Teresa
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:17 AM

Ha, we don't think about it as much??? ;) Those who say such, speak for yourselves. :)

Courage, as in: "me 'usband's got no courage in 'im"

When I was little, we referred to it as "ding-a-ling" and "weenie"

How's about "Jelly roll", like in the blues songs?

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,Evil Man-Hating Woman
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:18 AM

You're okay Bill D.















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Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:32 AM

When we were small, my mother used to refer to my brother's penis as his "little whistle". I'm pretty certain she had no concept as to the connotation. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: LadyJean
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:42 AM

I almost married a seventeenth century reenactor. We used to call sex Musket Drill. The seventeenth century musket drill goes, "Handle your cock! Ram your piece" and now you know why I didn't marry him.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:55 AM

Well, Karen and I had the conversation regarding what to use for the boys. I can't see the penis crap and she wasn't one to use it either so I asked her what did she call a dick.....and she said "A dick." However she wouldn't agree to using that with the kids as she thought it too crude. Now to me, it just made sense because I'd put money on the most popular street slang being "dick."......and all of you guys named Dick, I apologize, but it is the term of choice!!!

Anyway.......It's a long story, but we decided on "Hoozhee." Don't ask. It worked well but nowadays I have overheard Michael on numerous occasions using "dick." The kid has picked up way too much from his Old Man as I've heard it used as a term of derision as well. I keep meaning ro have a talk with his Dad about it............................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:14 AM

My mom called it a "duncan". Of course she was a nurse.

My girlfriend (also a nurse) calls mine "Little Ricky". She assures me it's meant affectionately and not literally. Sure....

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:31 AM

John Hancock

and other handles roo far back to recall....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:56 AM

Spaw I think you are correct. Most women I know call it a dick when speaking in general terms. Although most women I know, don't always tell each other, how they refer to it in intimate circumstances.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:02 AM

I happen to know that some women think of it as "your cock" but I don't think I should explain how I know that.... :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 07:30 AM

I had a boyfriend once who called it his 'pinkle'. I've never called them anything much (since I find they don't need you to call them by name to respond!), but had to find a term when I had a baby son. I find a lot of the common euphemisms a little distasteful, but settled for 'willie' because it seemed to be what all the little boys around used and it seemed that it would be better for him to be calling it the same thing as his contemporaries.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:49 PM

I suppose we must be odd parents, but we simply called genetalia either "penis" or "vagina" with our kids. Why do people feel the need to dumb down terms or create euphemisms for their children? I have never understood that one, indeed, I find the "naming" of body parts with other names at times to be rather embarrassing.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:53 PM

The first time I heard the expression 'meat and two veg' it was said by a woman. While an old friend of mine's wife said it reminded her of the little plastic bag containing the neck and giblets that are inside a frozen turkey. No I don't know how it got there!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:54 PM

We followed the same policy. It worked perfectly well. I think it is better to start from the right name, and overcome any stupidity about being embarassed because one is endowed with ordinary human equipment. Then you can add nicknames on as a frill if you want to.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:11 PM

We use 'willie', but I've known a 'Cedric' and a 'Percy' (as in pointing Percy at the porcelain). The commonest response though, is to point and laugh.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: whiterainbow
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:30 PM

I think it depends on who it belongs to, and how he uses it.....that is in the intimate way of course......

Otherwise in ordinary conversation...I call it a prick or his tackle.

WR

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: coldjam
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:31 PM

Put me in the column for thoses who used the rightful names for body parts. The nicknames seemed too demeaning to teach a child and to kinda marginalize the power of the parts!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:36 PM

I've heard it called "meat and two veg" and someone I know call them "the family jewels"

Personally I don't think about it but it woudl probably be cock or dick.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:44 PM

Ah, but "family jewels" are not the same thing, at least, I always distinguished this as the propulsion unit. (As opposed to the pocket rocket)   :)

NONE of this has to do with what small children call their genetalia, and everything to do with what playful adults engage in.

SRS

Geez, I bet this conversation can get raunchy in a hurry. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: tarheel
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:45 PM

Talley Whacker!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: MaineDog
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:49 PM

I once heard someone telling a sad tale of spilling their coffee and burning Big John and the Twins. At first I thought they were a band, but now I'm not sure --
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: alanabit
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:58 PM

I remember when my brother was first born, my Mum referred to it as his "Twiddly Thomas" on one occasion. She was a nurse, so her usual terminology was "penis".

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,Oncest a Texan
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:02 PM

Down yunner theys called hit a tally whacker, particularity ifn' hit wuz well endalled (1 foot long) Ya no whut theys says bout Texicans.

I guess hit comes frum ever time a guy gits some nuckie ya "tally" that one up as oncest mo ya whack-her. I ain't no eddymollyjust, but dat make cents tah me.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:09 PM

Concluding line from an article by Richard Rhodes, entitled "What an Odd Organ," in which he details how the penis often does not behave in a manner that the man to whom it is attached wishes it would, e.g. becoming rampant at inappropriate moments or going south when its services are required:—

"Having a penis is like owning a cat."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Rasener
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:18 PM

By God he's got a big "Tadger"

Everard

Goblin

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:19 PM

A gal once used to call it "Big Fella"---same as the Lone Ranger also called Silver--also between his legs.

Either that or she'd say, "Get 'em up, Scout!"----a reference to what Tonto used to say to his horse to get him going.

She had a thing for Fred Foy too. (the Lone Ranger's radio announcer---one of the best voices in early radio).

But that was a whole other era...

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:42 PM

The wife's best friend

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:53 PM

My seven year old daughter agrees with you wholeheartedly SRS, and keeps asking me why the kids at school need to make up fake names for their "private parts." I didn't bother to point out that her term seemed a bit euphemistic.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:23 PM

It used to be my wifes "Wedding Present" but now..well.. just the "One eyed trouser snake".
Personally I like the correct names!
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:25 PM

My daughters learned the terms penis, vagina and vulva. From the time they were old enough to wonder and ask about it all. We had a teacher in grade 1 or 2 call the house and ask why my youngest knew that term. Dolt. We told her that is was what the pee-pees are called in REAL life.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:27 PM

Do we need to start another thread to gather women's euphemisms for endometriosis, and another one for euphemisms for the slime found on old refrigerator- vegetables, and another for euphemisms used by women for the secret ambitions they have for wealth and comfort which they are not allowed to speak of? And what about euphemisms for Kirlian photography and de-gaussing?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:31 PM

>>We told her that is was what the pee-pees are called in REAL life.<<

HA!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:31 PM

We always used the REAL life terms with our daughters too, brucie. It didn't seem to cause them any harm.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:37 PM

More education in the proper names for genitals would probably be a good thing. I see a lot of people in the media who confuse vulva and vagina.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 04:42 PM

A friend of mine has a fourteen year old boy who recently went through a sex ed class. One step of it was to have the boys and girls in separated groups recite "Penis! Vagina!" repeatedly until the mortal embarrassment wore off it.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 05:17 PM

Having just posted on the Dickhead thread by mistake (!) - another UK euphemism is "John Thomas". If I had had a son I was going to call him that anyway (but that's another story!).

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Joybell
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:10 PM

Here in Aus, in the 1950s, little coctail frankfurts were always called "little boys". Might still be for all I know. It became so familiar as a title that there are all sorts of stories about women asking for them by that name and nobody laughing.

My brother was named "John Thomas". What were they thinking? Not as bad as the "Richard Head" I knew though.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:12 PM

John Thomas was the euphemism used in Lady Chatterly's Lover I believe.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:20 PM

Well, here are some cultural terms, not necessarily euphemisms, but maybe:

From England - John Thomas (penis) Lady Jane (vagina) D.H. Lawrence, just to be outrageous, titled a novel of his "John Thomas and Lady Jane". It was the first draft of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and is said to be actually a better book than the more famous one. I read both back in my early 20's, and I think JT & LJ is the better of the two.

From China - Jade Stem (penis), Turtle Head (penis), and numerous other poetic terms. These are from the taoist tradition. They saw sex not as a moral matter, but a health matter, and they were quite correct, in fact. Jade Gate was the vagina, which had, again, many other poetically descriptive names.

Common American slang - whanger, tool

Not hard to see how American civilization rates when you compare it to Taoism... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:31 PM

A co-worker said her (ex)boyfriend called it "winky the one-eyed wonder lizard".

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:35 PM

folks...this is the WorldWideWeb!...of COURSE there is a website dedicated to precisely this subject. (I made a bet with myself before I did the search)

"Woody's" naturally

kinda scary....

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:44 PM

I had a friend in my 20's, a guy who was so shy of woman that he could barely speak in their presence. He used to boast loudly to the other guys about his penis, however, when women were not around, and he referred to it as "Little Wally". This occasioned a lot of amusement among the rest of us, given the fact that "Litte Wally" had clearly never been let out of the stall, let alone been put through his paces on the track itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:47 PM

There's a whole museum of them in Rekyavik, Iceland....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 06:58 PM

gee wiz Bill, that was way more than I wanted to know. But I didn't see "Howitzer" on the list. I guess he was one of a kind!!! Yes, I do believe he was! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: alanabit
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 07:26 PM

I think that Mellor's appendage was also referred to as "Droopy Ned" at the end of Lady Chatterley. I don't have a copy any more, but I think the last line is something about Droopy Ned wishing Lady Jane good night. Where is Peter T when we need him?
We use the terms penis and vagina with our childen too. We have no embarrassment and neither do they. I don't see anything wrong with referring to them in joky terms as well though. Plenty of our language has no colour at all.
I am a little baffled though why we should need a euphemism for any part of the body. I can't think of any body part which I would want to lose(although I don't miss my appendix much, I confess).

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 07:28 PM

Howitzer? 'ol 105mm?....musta been....ummmm...'interesting'

(but it IS the first place I have ever seen the word my mother used for 'it' when I was a kid!)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 07:32 PM

Here's a grammar term for it....the "dangling element".

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 07:53 PM

dingle dangle (swinging proud and free . . . or just plain swinging in the breeze?)
John Thomas, of COURSE, from Lady Chat
"Kidney-scraper" -- but that's not a term I'd use.

Linn

(BTW, I really like "dangling element".)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: gecko
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 08:33 PM

What a great response, especially from the blokes! What I'm really looking for are the names or terms that women use when they talk to each other. I'm not sure that men would know what these are or even be aware that women could possibly view male 'bits and pieces' with less affection and pride that they do themselves. So, sisters, take a deep breath and PM me if you don't want your cover blown!
Here are a few to get you going: 'nudger' - and what woman hasn't been 'nudged' awake at some ungodly hour; 'It' - as in "and then he got 'it' out; 'whatsit' - as in "he's always got his 'whatsit' in his hand".

Thanks for the 'Woody's' site info but I found it to be a puerile and sad sack site, if you'll pardon the pun, most probably written by men for men, with the aid of a good thesaurus!

Yours in Unity
gecko

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 09:00 PM

I usually give them a name, like Charlie. But I have to know one well enough for it to have developed a personality, which is what makes me think of the name. It kind of pops up, that is... My fave of the Monty Python litany was the One-Eyed Trouser Snake. Link to the litany, somebody?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 09:01 PM

What unity?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 09:17 PM

Years ago, before graduate school, back when I had little time to do anything but laundry and change diapers, trashy romance novels were light-weight enough to read but not greive over if you didn't get to finish them. Now the writers of those bits of yellow "literature" found some pretty silly euphemisms for penis. I don't think they ever actually wrote the word. "Manhood" was a common one. It has been about 15 years since I read many of those, so changing times may have changed the euphemisms. But I'd be willing to bet they're still practicing poetic license in naming body parts.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 09:51 PM

Jeez perhaps I've lived a sheltered life, but it seems unlikely. Talk between females in pairs or groups can on occasion get just as over the top sometimes as "the mens", but I haven't noticed too much gender difference as to euphemisms, except perhaps less references as to some kind of weapon, but maybe I wasn't paying much attention. The whole tends to be discussed, with no particular obsession on the parts.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 11:40 PM

I wonder where I heard the term "Mister Friendly"...

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 11:51 PM

I think it was a brand of ice cream, Joe...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:26 AM

From 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', D H Lawrence, final paragraph:

"John Thomas says good night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart."

Droopy Ned must be a different book.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 07:03 AM

Thanks for the 'Woody's' site info but I found it to be a puerile and sad sack site, if you'll pardon the pun, most probably written by men for men, with the aid of a good thesaurus!

How smug you are. This is a poor excuse for a thread. Shove your sexism.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,Animal Whackers
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 09:56 AM

What does a gecko call his? Pardon, what does a lady gecko call her mates you-know-whats?

Animal Wh(Cr)ackers

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 12:21 PM

OK Mrzzy - "My fave of the Monty Python litany was the One-Eyed Trouser Snake."

I've got a little animal, I suppose you'd call it a pet
But if there's something wrong with it, I don't have to call the vet.
He goes everywhere that I go, whether sleeping or awake -
God help me if I ever lost my one eyed trouser snake!

Attributed to Barry "Scott" McKenzie, on the Private Eye flexi-disc "The Abominable Radio Gnome", December 1967.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 12:53 PM

There's another Monty Python song... done a la Noel Coward, which goes something like 'isn't it frightfully nice to have a willy', isn't it awfully good to have a dong'....

A pleasant one to listen to in the car when transporting 8 year olds around....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 01:25 PM

well, gecko...I suspect that there are many differences in what women say privately to other women. It no doubt depends on their social class, as well as how well they are acquainted and what MOOD they are in when the subject 'arises'. In the last analysis, most of the common terms no doubt get used, just as between men.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 01:39 PM

I had that flexi disc, and oh how I wish I still did. Gems like,

Good King Wenceslas got pissed on the feast of Stephen
Said the fuzz we know you're pissed[?]
Into this bag you're breathing
Brightly shone the crystals green
Due to excess wassail
Christmas is a groovy scene
God bless Barbara Castle.

deathless prose or what?

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:00 PM

Most of the girls that I know tend to refer to my penis as "that", such as," Chrsit almighty, look at the size of that, I have to have that tonight."

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:48 PM

I find that eating cheese before going to bed leads to dreams like that too.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:52 PM

Thread drift, somewhat, but I have often suspected that the frequently found "willy" is a corruption of the latin "membrum virile"

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Joybell
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 06:05 PM

I really wish I could help, gecko, but I'm nearly 60. (can't be true!) and I just can't.
I was brought up in a working-class suburb, worked as a nurse, sang in pubs and classy restaurants, rode the Greyhound for a couple of months in America. Been in a lot of "powder rooms" "Dunnyies" and the like and got involved in lots of conversations with friends and strangers. Willies have come up, if you'll excuse the pun, at times, but I don't recall any particular names we used. Womens' private conversations can be as colourful and creative as those among men, I think, but they just doesn't seem to go in the same direction. This runs to the singing of bawdy songs as well. That's much more apparent among males.
Wish I could help. Sorry. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 06:12 PM

Sadly, Bill D, the subject 'arises' all too infrequently.....

If it does, we call it 'a bleedin' miracle!'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 06:46 PM

awwwww....tsk! It ain't fair!
I guess I should be happy that Viagra is not (yet) indicated.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 08:12 PM

I think it's men who talk all the time about penises, not women. That's my impression, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 08:17 PM

Well, duh.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 08:53 PM

Thanks for that endorsement of my line of reasoning, Stilly. We men need all the encouragement we can get, because we are THICK, lemme tell ya. Dense. Like, Duh! Eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 09:11 PM

That's why women shouldn't call a schlong a dick. It's belittling.
(I'm outta here I can't believe I even opened this (a couple of times).)

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 09:14 PM

You think so? It's usually men who call schlongs "dicks" isn't it?

Oh shit. Did it again. Doh!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 09:14 PM

Got number 100! Oh joy!

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Teresa
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 10:08 PM

Well, I've heard some pretty lusty, raunchy conversations among women, I'll tell you. I do agree with some of the other gals on here: there seems to be a different quality about the discussion, at least compared to what I *think* men talk about.

As far as I know, I think of men discussing cup size, penis size, and other specific aspects of the body.

Women, in my experience, tend to discuss concepts more than parts, as in: "I just bet I know what you were doing." It seems to me that even though the discussion is very suggestive, there's still some room for the imagination to fill in the blanks (which probably makes such a conversation even more graphic).

I really haven't heard many alternative terms for penis. dick, cock, willie,all the usual names.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,HILDA FISH
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 10:30 PM

I've just come back from up north and while up there I met one of my sons and his wife as I was walking along the main street of a small town. Forgot they were there!!! I was delighted and sat down with them. They looked beautiful, particularly radiant, and I said so. They advised me that they had just had wonderful news. They were expecting their third child - 7 weeks pregnant. They already have the just turned two year old, and the just turned one year old, both boys. I said, "jeez, you don't waste time" and my daughter in law said "Nah, I don't but it's his old bloke that's been extra busy". Another daughter in law has just had her third girl, all pretty close together. She said, "His loaded gun don't waste time and don't shoot blanks". What can you say? So there you go, Old Bloke and Loaded Gun.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 10:51 PM

I recall seeing a televised debate years ago from a rather austere English university which I cannot now name. Germaine Greer was debating a panel and at one point said something to the effect of : Little Suzy finds out at the age of five that little boys can simply stand and pee at the edge of the woods while on family outings in the country... at that moment, from the gallery, a voice asked, "Is that why they call them picknickers then ?"

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 11:42 AM

My great big heaving nob.

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: GUEST,Rufio
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 04:42 PM

"His Majesty"

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 04:44 PM

"My great big heaving nob."

Wheel barrow to get it around, then?

Subject: RE: BS: Women's euphemisms for 'penis'
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 02:35 PM

In my youth, I used to meet my Mother in the local ladies' salon on the odd occasion. Once I was old enough to understand the conversation, I was shocked - my Mother certainly didn't talk about such things... and I'm not sure whether the conversation was toned up or down for my benefit...

In my adult life, however, the most frequent comment has probably been - "not that...again!"