The Muskoxen

Within the next week or two, there's a roughly 50% chance that I will have a daughter. To that end, Val and I were discussing the need for a new word to take the place of vagina.

Basically, vagina is a crappy word. It's not surprise because it is, after all, a medical term. It probably meant "bucket" or something in Latin, and now we're stuck with it. (Author's note: I just looked it up, and it actually means sheath or scabbard in Latin... you know... because it fits on our "swords"... So, it's basically like a bad, 3000 year old joke).

The thing is that, while penises got nicknames for every occasion, vaginas went straight from medical to dirty (cunt, twat, pussy), confusing (box, cooter), intentionally gross and silly (camel toe, hatchet wound), or those stupid variants of other terms (vag, vagine, cunnie, vajayjay, etc.).

What I'm proposing is a good, general use term. Something short and simple that would act as the female equivalent of the word, "dick." After a quick talk, we came up with a logical solution: "raych." The thinking behind this was that "Dick" is short for "Richard," "Rachel" was the closest thing we could think of as a female equivalent for "Richard," and the shortened version of "Rachel," would be "Raych" or "Rach" or however you'd spell that.

So, that's my suggestion, but I figured I'd open it up to the public (or as much public as reads our awesome blog). Let us know what you think.