My husband is a medical professional, and as such, we taught our boys the actual term for each of their body parts.When one of my sons was in the 3rd grade he expressed concern when one of his classmates was hit in the groin area by a soccer ball at recess. I believe his exact words were “Ow, your penis!”. He was promply grabbed by the recess attendant and marched to the principals office, where he received a referral and one day in school suspension for using obsenity!!!

My husband and I were incensed, and fought this all the way up to the superintendant, but were told that it is up to the principal of the school to decide what is appropriate and what is not. I asked, over and over again, what the problem was with the word penis. To me, it is the same as expressing concern over the classmates leg or elbow! My husband went to the school to talk to the particular teacher who heard this on the playground, to ask him why he felt the need to take our son to the principal and my husband said this teacher, who was a MAN, could not even say the word to my husband in their conversation. He continuously turned red in the face and stammered. I just do not understand how anyone, but men in particular, could take offense at someone using the correct anatomical term for the penis??

Sorry for my long rant, apparently I am still sensitive on this subject, even though it happened 4 years ago.

LOL, this is great.

I write romance too and bought several books on how to write the sex scene and they all pretty much said don’t use the “P” word!

Janice~

“Ish all in the book, ish alllll in the book.” (g)

Pam

Beth, I believe your penis started this.

Lack of a penis, actually. Lack of a description of a penis, to be tediously precise.

What I miss when I don’t check for a few days!

LOVE IT!

Sorry, Diana. I feel like I’ve opened Pandora’s Box (no pun intended) and now you know why I have the reputation of being the family sh!t disturber. Back to the topic of writing!

P.