Why do they call it a penis and a vagina?

Who named it a penis ?, and who thought “i know ill call that a vagina”.

Was it a man or a woman ? i guess its a man, but who knows who made up the names.

clit ,labia , uterus , rectum , these are examples but what daft names .

l say its a man who named them for science … and a big thank you to Kimberly .

She very kindly explained all.

As I remember in my Latin and Greek courses, Penis means "tail" in Latin, Vagina means "sheath", Clitoris I believe is Greek for "little hill", Labia is Latin for "lip", Uterus is Latin for "womb", and Rectum comes from Latin Rectus, which means "straight". Schools conducted classes in Latin in the middle ages, so that everyone spoke the same language. The Greeks wrote extensively about medicine in Greek. The science comunity during the middle ages gave everything Greek and Latin names, as they would be easily understood by scholars. You are right, it was most likely men they gave all the body parts names, as most anatomists were men.

Many thanks for this useful information Kimberly. I also studied Latin and Greek at school, but these words were never in our vocabulary lists! You must have attended a very liberal, forward-thinking school, whereas my education was sadly deficient.

Wow, what an interesting display of knowledge, I love learning all the neat things there are to the fetish that we are sharing.

Yes, I very big thank you for the education. I was aware that a lot of the medical terms came for Latin or Greek but had never researched them. Guess what thanks to Kinberly I don't have to do the research she gave me the answers to the test! LOL

Does this mean I have to stop calling mine "BIG ED"???

My degree is in Classics, we had to read Plato, Socrates, Galen, Herodotus, Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Suetonius, etc., so you had to develop a strong foundation in vocabulary. Once you know the root word, you can derive the words' meaning. I would have gone on and probably completed a masters or doctorate in Classics, but atlas, I had to raise a husband and two kids.

I can not claim authorship, but....

Body Facts

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).

The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

Women reading this will be finished now.

Men who read this are still busy checking their thumbs

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Hi, I rathur like the word Phallus more than Penis.