Do you trim your "lady garden"?

Can they Nonu?
Are you by any chance having a pop at me for picking suzie up on choosing the wrong word (or her iPad's predictive texting) Is it pedantic to avoid confusion?

NO!!!

Bit sensitive tonite aren"t you /

Gracesmum - I am sure you know who Nonu means! The usual target.

Good job I am not feeling sensitive tonight! (Or any other night!)

Laugh !!

Why?

Go to bed!

Doubled up!

Hm - doesn't take much to amuse some minds!

Jingle, I haven't been told to go to bed since I was about nine, a few years after I stopped using baby talk to describe parts of the body.

Having fun, kiddies? It all sounds very jolly on here, a bundle of laughs. Tears before bedtime, I predict.

No tears from me! A wry smile, perhaps.

If people don't want to discuss the issue, why look at the thread in the first place? The title was not in the least ambiguous, unless people really thought it was a sort of gardener s question time!
Incidentally Suzied ,I read the article in the times too. It suggested that older folk should not feel obliged to follow the current fashion for pornification of the nether regions ( my words not the Times),but settle for a 'bikini line' do.

Please excuse euphemism nether regions. Should that be female pudenda or pudendum?

I don't know.

I think those are euphemisms as well...

True, Ana! "Pudendum* means, literally, "a thing of which to be ashamed" in Latin, but has been used to refer to the genitals since about the fifteenth century. Not exactly a euphemism in the truest sense of the word, though!

The trouble shows up right there - for centuries people have been taught to consider parts of themselves as shameful, unclean...

On the subject of euphemism, may I please express my revulsion for the suddenly ever-present 'poo'? Do these same people talk of 'wee-wees'? It's embarrassing to hear grown adults using nursery terms. Imagine a news-reader "At the din-dins held at the Guildhall tonight..."

Rant over.

Suzied I see nothing wrong with your post and agree that anyone who doesn't like it need participate.

Mine is a woman garden!

Very PC.

Ana and Ariadne
Pedant alert! While I am sure you are right about the Latin derivation of pudenda and its associated meaning, it is not a euphemism but a proper anatomical term.

Agree about 'poo', feetle. I wonder if it started with 'poo scoops' for what we used to call dog dirt?

An email I sent to DH from Oxfordshire (he was in Cork) was blocked because I used the word shit. I was telling him about some wild mallards that had taken to visiting our small garden and how nice that was except that you had to keep a look out so that you didn't step in duck shit as there was such a lot of it.

He rang me to find out what on earth I'd said that warranted censorship, as he couldn't imagine I abusing anything or anyone. He was right.

Clearly the company he was working for had a very strict naughty word code in place, the sillies.

Most of these Latin medical words are just made up by either the church or medics aren't they? Rather than handed down from the Romans. Who probably had more earthy terms.
Mons Veneris - to give it its full title - the mount of Venus is a bit more chummy I think than "the shameful bits". Gets ready to keep showing off her grammar school Latin.... But if we are to be anatomically precise do not some of these gullible young things also denude their vulvae in order to conform to patriarchal pressure? (note the plural form oh ye pedants)