Pudenda

[MrPixel]

I was fascinated by @EmilyMiller 's use of "pudenda" in a passage in her excellent Jacob's Progress where the protagonist found it unnerving/fascinating to be staring at the detail of his running partner's body being displayed by her clingy running attire. "Pudenda" is a rarely-used but seemingly useful alternative to "pussy", "vulva", "labia", etc., and is particularly evocative of the appearance of the external female genitalia, encompassing the mons down to the labia majora.

So I was curious about the etymology. Drilling down, it basically means "that with which to be ashamed of". Okay. So. In today's perception of the female form where we in essence glorify the beauty of the uncovered (shaven/waxed) female private area, where exactly does "pudenda" fit in our lexicon?

 

[onehitwanda]

Frankly, I'd keep pudenda in the same box I'd keep flange, moist and whitebait.

There are some pseudo-Victorian books in which pudenda would fit for me - in the same way you'd refer to a lady's posterior or derrière, perhaps while musing on her decolletage.

I prefer labia. I know it's not the same. I just do.

 

[Voboy]

where exactly does "pudenda" fit in our lexicon?

I don't think it does. That's why you almost never read it...

 

[MelissaBaby]

Sounds like a gym teacher.

"Mr. Pudenda had us running laps."

 

[AlinaX]

Isn't a pudenda where people sit and drink lemonade?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Frankly, I'd keep pudenda in the same box I'd keep flange, moist and whitebait.

There are some pseudo-Victorian books in which pudenda would fit for me - in the same way you'd refer to a lady's posterior or derrière, perhaps while musing on her decolletage.

I prefer labia. I know it's not the same. I just do.

If you look it up, it's a bit more extensive than just that.

I like the word dishabille, which can mean being in a state of partial undress. If I may engage in some self-promotion, it is used by Amanda in the upcoming Geek Pride prequel. Anybody who has read it (all 3,000 of you at the most) should be able to figure out the main plot point of the prequel.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Isn't a pudenda where people sit and drink lemonade?

You're thinking of Veranda, which sounds like the name of Mr. Pudenda's girlfriend.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I was fascinated by @EmilyMiller 's use of "pudenda" in a passage in her excellent Jacob's Progress where the protagonist found it unnerving/fascinating to be staring at the detail of his running partner's body being displayed by her clingy running attire. "Pudenda" is a rarely-used but seemingly useful alternative to "pussy", "vulva", "labia", etc., and is particularly evocative of the appearance of the external female genitalia, encompassing the mons down to the labia majora.

So I was curious about the etymology. Drilling down, it basically means "that with which to be ashamed of". Okay. So. In today's perception of the female form where we in essence glorify the beauty of the uncovered (shaven/waxed) female private area, where exactly does "pudenda" fit in our lexicon?

It just means genitalia (male or female) - I am guilty of reading way too much Victorian literature - so sue me already! .
Em

 

[gunhilltrain]

Isn't a pudenda where people sit and drink lemonade?

You mean a veranda, which is porch that can extend around the sides of a house.

 

[XerXesXu]

If you look it up, it's a bit more extensive than just that.

I like the word dishabille, which can mean being in a state of partial undress. If I may engage in some self-promotion, it is used by Amanda in the upcoming Geek Pride prequel. Anybody who has read it (all 3,000 of you at the most) should be able to figure out the main plot point of the prequel.

I use both.

‘She raised her knees and spread to display her mirror-finish, plucked and moisturised pudenda.’

In my latest contribution to Lit.

A Revelation, Surreal but Divine - Exhibitionist & Voyeur - Literotica.com

From my next contribution.

‘They would, usually, make more noise than a rookery with a cat up the tree when socialising, dishabille, at home.’

 

[gunhilltrain]

It just means genitalia (male or female) - I am guilty of reading way too much Victorian literature - so sue me already! .
Em

Those Victorians (and arguably the Edwardians too) were so repressed on the surface that it came out in odd ways underneath. Fun to read about, but I suspect I wouldn't have actually liked living then.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I use both.

‘She raised her knees and spread to display her mirror-finish, plucked and moisturised pudenda.’

In my latest contribution to Lit.

A Revelation, Surreal but Divine - Exhibitionist & Voyeur - Literotica.com

From my next contribution.

‘They would, usually, make more noise than a rookery with a cat up the tree when socialising, dishabille, at home.’

You outdo me on the self-promotion angle.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Those Victorians (and arguably the Edwardians too) were so repressed on the surface that it came out in odd ways underneath. Fun to read about, but I suspect I wouldn't have actually liked living then.

Makes for better stories than living conditions, for sure.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I was fascinated by @EmilyMiller 's use of "pudenda" in a passage in her excellent Jacob's Progress where the protagonist found it unnerving/fascinating to be staring at the detail of his running partner's body being displayed by her clingy running attire. "Pudenda" is a rarely-used but seemingly useful alternative to "pussy", "vulva", "labia", etc., and is particularly evocative of the appearance of the external female genitalia, encompassing the mons down to the labia majora.

So I was curious about the etymology. Drilling down, it basically means "that with which to be ashamed of". Okay. So. In today's perception of the female form where we in essence glorify the beauty of the uncovered (shaven/waxed) female private area, where exactly does "pudenda" fit in our lexicon?

I also get people complaining about my use of glans. And labia minora.

In Determination, i traverse and name the entire human digestive tract. Bottom (literally) to top.

I never said I wasn’t a little odd.

Em

 

[Rob_Royale]

I like the sound of the word. It sounds full and soft.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I like the sound of the word. It sounds full and soft.

It does doesn’t it. I think I used it as the FMC in question is of Italian extraction. It seemed to work.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

In Determination, i traverse and name the entire human digestive tract. Bottom (literally) to top.

I'm sure it was done with the best of intestines.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Makes for better stories than living conditions, for sure.

Em

I didn't mean the living conditions, I mean the, I assume - sexual hypocrisy? Notable that in England back then, prostitution was a big thing. (Well, maybe it's always a big thing.) If you read Conrad's The Secret Agent, it's set in London in 1886 (although it was published more than twenty years after that). At the beginning, the "anti-hero" Verloc is running a small shop, and he and his wife also sell porn and I think condoms there. It's both funny and sort of distressing when the customers for these slide in and fumble around trying to describe what they want.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Isn't a pudenda where people sit and drink lemonade?

To me, it sounds more like a Victorian England dessert.

Lord Boffin-Huge smacked his lips in delight. "My dear, your pudenda is absolutely marvellous. Any man, or for that matter, woman, would be thrilled to get a chance to taste it."

 

[AlinaX]

My dear, your pudenda is delightfully moist - and much sweeter than my mother's!

 

[Emilymcplugger]

You're thinking of Veranda, which sounds like the name of Mr. Pudenda's girlfriend.

Okay, I’m making a note of this for my current story, if you don’t mind?

(Some of the smaller characters will be coaches/gym teachers).

 

[tenyari]

where exactly does "pudenda" fit in our lexicon?

It's an incredibly unappealing sounding word. I don't think I've ever heard it used anywhere but in very bad writing (I've not read the story mentioned here so I have no idea if it makes an exception). It's the kind of word that instantly makes me want to leave because it just sounds so unflattering / unappealing / unsexy.

Like greasy mud on the edge of an oil spill out by the gas station.

 

[Voboy]

Like greasy mud on the edge of an oil spill out by the gas station.

He stared, mesmerized, the pudenda shimmering with an unearthly, oozing glow. It made an irregular ring around the soupy, oily murk, the kind of murk a man could sink into and never be able to find his way out of.

He reached out a trembling hand, wondering whether he dared touch its troubled magnificence...

 

[SimonDoom]

She said, "I've a lovely pudenda."
He said, "Oh yeah, babe, let me friend ya."
But when the time came,
His moves were so lame,
That their tryst came to quite a bad end-a.

 

[AlinaX]

The puddy-tat loved a pudenda
Almost much as she loved a big spenda
After taking a team
She'd be licking the cream
From the length of a thick double-enda