Good grief, even Radio 4 can't get it right!

I listened to that discussion on 'sex( or lack of it) in Japan Phoenix interesting wasn't it?
I didn't pick up on the pedantry aspect though, but you are very likely correct ( unless of course, she really did make a model of a vagina) we may never know.

May be wrong, often am, but think that the reporter said she "moulded" a model of her vagina.

Well, depending on the method used, if it was her vagina rather than vulva, she would either have had to have used one of those special cameras to have a good look internally, or shoved a load of some sort of modelling material up her parts.

I don't think either method holds much appeal.

I think the problem is that an awful lot of people don't know or use the word 'vulva' and 'vagina' has become a catch-all description. Even, apparently, for Radio 4 presenters...

Bit like those pink so-called vagina hats (if I remember correctly) that people on anti-Trump protests in the States wore. I think they were more accurately vulva hats. Is vulva the same as 'pussy', or is pussy supposed to refer only to the fur?

A good question Baggs

I remember DH and I playing scrabble with my parents a few years ago. I had the letters to spell vulva and could have put it on a triple word score. I couldn't bring myself to play it - I wasn't even sure my parents would know the word and was too embarrassed to risk having to tell them what it meant! I told DH about it afterwards and he still laughs about it. I'm not usually prudish, only in front of my parents!
Sorry, totally off-topic but whenever I hear the word I remember that!

Baggs I think we can discount "pussy" in this thread, as, as far as I'm aware it's not a medical/anatomical term!

If we started talking about vernacular terms, then that could open up a whole new can of worms.............

Goodness, you can't get worms in your unmentionables can you? (let alone a whole can of them)

Cats ( pussies) can do Crafting.

How bizarre to have an item about the lack of sexual activity in Japan on British radio – never mind someone modelling one or another, rightly or wrongly named, of her sexual parts. Why would British listeners want to know about this? Why would anyone?

Scientific research, absent. For pure knowledge and for finding solutions to sexual problems people might have. Sex is life. It's important from a scientific point of view. Even flowers do sex. Sex is why life on the planet is as it is. So it's worth studying from all sorts of angles (that sounds funny, I know!).

I know that feeling when playing Scrabble, mamacaz. It has happened to me too!

Also, the population is falling in Japan.

A spermatozoon is a bit worm-like is it not?

I've just finished rereading "Shogun" (worth reading at least twice) and it seems that in the 16th Century the Japanese were very open about sexual matters and nudity, and couldn't understand English reticence. Perhaps they have imported foreign attitudes since then and become inhibited.

(No, I don't mean British, I mean English)

Check out the thread on Mumsnet about a school teaching the vulva/vagina bit all wrong. The parent went into the school and complained about it, but was told that, even though they knew it was wrong, that was how it was on the course they had bought in, so they just went along with it - unbelievable!

Ah, yes, Scrabble - we play double score for a rude word (?definition), double for a French word, and triple for a rude French word!