Why did Freud laugh at Jung?Follow

It was funny at the time. Which is probably the problem with all my posts.



If I had to explain half the way my thinking works I'd be put away.

Well, thankfully I don't have to deal with this yet. But I have a friend (who is a midwife) with an almost 3-year-old whose ambition in life is to be a mommy. The problem is, her kid's a boy. So she explains to him that because he's a boy, someday he's going to be a daddy, not a mommy. And he answers that it's true, right now he has a *****, but when he grows up, he's going to have a yoni so that he can be a mommy.

And Nexa, "yoni" is actually quite a good answer to the question of what to call female genitalia, since it's neither exclusionary (***** only really covers external genitalia and ****** only covers internal) nor derogatory (there are no names for female genitalia that are nether clinical nor vulgar) nor sexist (the origins of the word "******" means sheath of scabbard for a "sword" wink wink nudge nudge.)

"Yoni" is catching on, at least among crunchy types, because it's a very positive, almost reverent term that encompasses the whole of female genitalia.

The biggest downside of trying to teach one's children the proper names of their private parts, is trying to also teach them not show off their knowledge in public.

My 3 year old grand daughter within the last month has been rather proud of her having a ******. New Years Eve, she pointed to her privates, while telling Jonwin and I that she has a ******. few days later she was demanding my daughter show her ****** to her, which of course lead to another lesson on the fact that it's a private part and mommy will not let her see it.

Then there was the night my daughter went to see the ****** Chronicles and came home with the chocolate ****** for her husband. Grandson saw it just before dinner and wanted a bite. When he was told no, he ran about the house yelling, "I love your ******." Then granddaughter also thought a green vibrator her mom got, was a new teething toy for her when she was turning 2.

I haven't heard any more stories on the subject, since last week.

Instead she tried to carry books down the stairs and ended up getting an ambulance ride to the ER. MRI and CAT scan were fine, but they have no idea why she was bleeding from nose and mouth. This was not the first time she has fallen down the stairs due to an armload of books.

Are you implying that your research has made you mistake-proof, or implying that you're not worried about things that old-fashioned people would typically call "mistakes"?

My son was taught that boys had a ***** and girls had a ******. His Great Grandmother (RIP this week) taught him to call it a "tee tee" and that drove me insane. My daughter was taught the same, and her dad's mom calls it a "pee pee" and it has sort of stuck. I really don't think I want my daughter going to school and talking about her "*****" her ancient teacher would croak on the spot. ROFL. I do see your point though, once my son was older it was easier to explain all the parts. He now refers to it as his diamonds or something, get it jewels, diamonds... Once my daughter gets older I am sure she will call it something different altogether.

A friend of mine had a really good one for her kids, she has three girls and a boy all very close in age.

The word my mother use was "kazoinky" (I think I mentioned that here before. Maybe not.) It was not gender specific, all I knew is that boys had a different one and that is what made them boys and not girls.

I had a fairly sexually active older sister and a healthy imagination so I'd figured it out around the age of seven or eight or so, with the help of the children's encyclopedia set I was reading way before my parents expected me too. It had a section on human sexuality that fortunately got most of it straight in my head before too many peer-lies could confuse me.

As long as it's not "vajayjay." For some reason that one drives me up the wall. Grrr...wtf?




LOL, that's a good one.

My soon to be four niece refers to her private parts as "hiney" (or, well, the German word for that). She doesn't seem to be aware it's a separate thing. I thought about asking my brother about that, but I know he made it all clear to me as soon as I could read, with giving me a comic book about the topic, so she'll learn it soon enough.

The "do you have hair on your hiney?" question a few weeks ago was kind of awkward, though.

I am aware of the meaning of hiney. That's why I think it's strange that she calls it that, while using the same word for her backside.