Surprisingly only one person on the trans surgeries sub objected to the "female centric" language used in the linked scientific observational poster of vaginas, and that person was actually downvoted. When they are reassuring themselves that they look "real enough" they tend to drop the pretense.

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[–]MarkTwainiac 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Bugs me that what's under discussion on both that thread & the attached document are vulvas, but everyone is using the word vagina instead.

No one would call testicles a penis, or a penis testicles - or an ear an elbow, or a foot a head. But when it comes to female anatomy it seems being specific no longer matters. This ain't progress. It's like going back to the days when girls & women were taught to regard their vulvas, vaginas, clits, labia, urethras & groin area generally as an undifferentiated mass & a total mystery- and to refer to them euphemistically with general, intentionally vague terms like "the down there" or "privates."

[–]BettysBitterButter[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're right and I did it in the title here, too. All I can say is it's sorta a colloquial. But we should fix that.