Pussy

I always struggle with what to call my genitals. Particularly here, where I see it written down.

I use the word 'cunt' a lot, but I don't like it as a descriptive for my own body, as it's a harsh and ugly-sounding word, in my opinion. Though for those very reasons, it makes a really awesome swear word, even less acceptable than saying fuck, and I like that. And yes, I know the history of the word and it's Goddessy pagan origins, and I respect that. But it just doesn't have the right sound to it, for me.

Pussy always seems so kind of 'safe' and tame, and paradoxically also slightly like a badly made porn movie. Sleazy guys in bad movies use that word. Redneck guys in trucker hats use it.

All the other words are all either negative, or words that giggly teenagers use, and I just can't find one that fits my own image of my own body all that well at all. Clam, furburger, pink taco, quim, beaver, slit, poontang, etc. 'Beaver' and 'furburger' always make me laugh, I don't mind them too much. But mine ain't usually all that hairy. I shave, or keep a well-mowed landing strip, generally.

Vagina seems too virginal. Little girls have vaginas. Vaginas are neat little-girl-bits, before they hit puberty. It's too clinical and text-booky. Prissy. Jilly Cooper probably has one when she goes riding on her horse in the English countryside. The Queen has one that gets served a cream tea at 4 on nice china plates, after she's fed the Corgis.
Posh women have vaginas.

Yoni I don't like, too obscure and New Agey, despite it's aeons as a sacred Hindu word. Plus I just don't like the sound of it. It's not my language.

I guess I'm taking the 'pussy' way out, and sticking with that for now, though I hate the connotations of using a word that also means chickenshit. But maybe for now, that's the most fitting one.