Vulva

[blozo]

Almost forgot my all time favorite from my nursing career; "Her lady business."

 

[jehoram]

There's an opposite effect too though, of overly avoiding using the most accurate descriptive word. You aren't writing a sonnet in the year 1493. You're writing erotica in 2019. So sometimes you've gotta call a spade a god-damn shovel. ;-)

If you were writing in 1493, you might have used the word "quaint" or "queynte" (they weren't too big on consistent spelling back then.) It's just another variation on "cunt." Chaucer used it, and much later on, when Andrew Marvell made a reference to a lady's "quaint honor" turning to dust, he definitely intended the double meaning.

The expression I used (for now) was "the soft delta between her legs", in the context of "Chad closed his mouth over the soft delta between her legs."

I don't know about you, but the last thing I'm thinking of as I chow down on a woman is the Nile or the Mississippi.

 

[GroverLang]

There's an opposite effect too though, of overly avoiding using the most accurate descriptive word.

Sometimes sticking to something such as “inside her” or “her sex” is best with just the occasional foray into something more exotic. Just as an example, no criticism intended, if you use “delta of Venus” too often it will stick in the mind purely because of the words and, even if you don’t use it very often, regular readers might think “can’t he/she think of anything else?” Using a simple, ordinary word doesn’t have the same effect.

It’s been mentioned before using “said” as a dialogue tag doesn’t stand out and only use other words when there is an actual need rather than trying to find a reason to use them instead of “said.”

A lot of the time the KISS (keep it simple stupid) technique can be very appropriate.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't know about you, but the last thing I'm thinking of as I chow down on a woman is the Nile or the Mississippi.

Think of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta and crumbling levees.

 

[Kantarii]

I’ve used the word vulva a couple of times in my stories. It seemed to work well where it was used.
Kant

 

[Athalia]

I don't know about you, but the last thing I'm thinking of as I chow down on a woman is the Nile or the Mississippi.

What? You couldn't get her flowing?

 

[SimonDoom]

I remember someone introducing me to the term "hot box" when I was younger. I can't imagine using it in a story, except perhaps a comedy, because it always makes me laugh.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I remember someone introducing me to the term "hot box" when I was younger. I can't imagine using it in a story, except perhaps a comedy, because it always makes me laugh.

A hot box to put your saveloy sausage in. What's the problem with that?

 

[NotWise]

I remember someone introducing me to the term "hot box" when I was younger. I can't imagine using it in a story, except perhaps a comedy, because it always makes me laugh.

There are a million terms like "hot box" (Hypoxia posted a few in #5), but they do little or nothing to describe the form. In the OP, I was looking for descriptive phrases.

 

[waratah]

I remember someone introducing me to the term "hot box" when I was younger. I can't imagine using it in a story, except perhaps a comedy, because it always makes me laugh.

As a railway man its a funny term. Train bearings sometimes get hot and melt off. They're call a "hot box".

We have temperature sensors between the rails, called "hot box detectors" that report overheating boxes.

Funny to escort female visitors over a hot box detector on a track patrol.

The hot boxes can lead to "screwed off journals"

In rail lubrication is critical.

 

[blozo]

70's high school terms

Pussy, cunt, box, slit, sheath, gash, crease, twat, muff, quim (although it was years later before I fist noticed the dreaded "quivering quim") and last, but certainly not least, "Fuck Wallet".
I'm sure there were more.

 

[blozo]

What about camel toe?

 

[EricasDreams]

My favorite non-slang terms are mound, and even more so, mons, which to me sounds like the intimate parts of a goddess. Also, just use abstract descriptions like “her swollen, dripping flesh”, etc. They get the point across without using a specific term.

-EvH

 

[pornochic]

or "girl-boner" depending on the situation

 

[CuteSlaveLisa]

RIP George Carlin

Remember his schtick, "Quim, were gonna snatch that pussy and put it in a box."

Love and Kisses

Lisa Ann

 

[EricasDreams]

Mons; mound; entrance to her womb; gateway to her sanctum; snatch; pussy; cunt. They all work depending on the context.

-EvH

 

[NotWise]

My question in the OP was prompted by the story that became my entry in the Nude Day contest (linked in my sig). I used a variety of descriptions.

 

[luap50]

I don't know how they missed "woo woo."

This topic comes up from time to time, and usually reflects more on the author's attitude toward lady bits than the actual usages of the words in conversation.

"Womanhood" sounds quaintly Victorian. Same for "sex" ... it's as though the writer (or character) hasn't ever seen a pussy, and is at a loss to know what one looks like. Or maybe it's intended to convey the attitude that nice people don't talk about that area of the body, and certainly don't want to draw the reader's attention to it any more than necessary.

As for me, I'm all over the place in my writing. I use "cunt," "pussy," "vulva" or even "snatch" depending on the context, but please don't ask me to explain why, in a given instance, I might use one word over another. It's a question of ear. What word would spring to my character's mind when describing a girl's genitalia? Frankly, it relates to how horny they might be at the time, or what culture they're coming from (nationality, age, or class), or what the situation is (bedroom? gym shower?). If there's a hard and fast list of what terms to use in which context, I haven't seen it, and I'd probably disregard it anyway.

So far, I haven't heard any complaints from my readers about my choices of words.

The worst, mysoginic, bad taste, expression for vagina is "garage".

 

[TheRedChamber]

@luap50

Surely 'aircraft hanger' would be worse?

Also, mmm, necro-vagina, fragrent.

 

[luap50]

@luap50

Surely 'aircraft hanger' would be worse?

Also, mmm, necro-vagina, fragrent.

"Aircraft hanger" I didn't know it till now. "Necro-vagina" is morbid. "Fragrent" is the first time I see it too.
Let's be more poetic or mithologic. How about "lady's treasure", "delicious garden" and "Venus altar"?

 

[TheRedChamber]

@luap50

Sorry I was just joking with everything - an aircraft hanger being the same as garage only more spacious.

The necro comment refers to the fact this thread was dormant for six years.

 

[EmilyMiller]

How do you describe a woman's vulva without anatomical detail or slang like "pussy"?

I often use anatomically-correct terms like vulva and vagina (and also glans, frenulum, etc.), I find it preferable to some of the injury-centric epithets like: gash, slit, snatch… As for beaver and clam .

And - to be pedantic - mons ≠ vulva, mons ⊂ vulva. You’re welcome.