• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

    Much like the term balls, which are only on the inside, has come to be colloquially used as a synecdoche for “testicles and scrotum”, vagina gets used the same way to encompass “vagina and vulva”. Besides, the clinical definition of vulva includes the vaginal opening, so it’s not exactly a huge leap to the colloquialism.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah yeah, but vulva is the whole bouquet and I’m doing my part to change the mindset

      Vul-va! Vul-va! Vul-va! lol