You got it, buddy

Isn't it near Uranus?

No one really knows. Some even say it doesn't exist.

The correct answer is: "I forgot, you should show me."

To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.

Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone will find useful.

Example:

Wolf's entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:

Species: Wolf <> Wolf

Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis

Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini

Family: Dogs <> Canidae

Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia

Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora

Ask someone what "Caniformia" is and most would probably think you're talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what "Doglike" refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.

kept the English terms for anatomy.
Please tell me where I can find out about the original English words for these things.
- Ask a cunning linguist?
I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.
- This doesn't apply to most other fields though.
  In physics, only the abbreviations are (mostly) the same internationally. But the full terms are always translated into languages, despite being equally as technical.
  In math, no terms are international - only the specification of formulas is standardized.
  Music is the exception but their field belonged to elitist pricks for most of history tbf.
  Art (painting) uses translated terms everywhere from what I can tell. There are no translated terms for paints, canvas type, style, periods etc.
  History certainly doesn't use international terms either. Medieval, stone age, bronze age, modern age etc. are all translated into each language.
  Amd frankly, I don't see why anatomy has to use international terms whatsoever while other fields can use translated terms without any issue.
- We call them the "little lips" (which is a direct translation of labia minora btw) in my language and I don't believe we're losing anything there.
Anyone who's a bit inquisitive about what words means will notice that "transform" means "changing shape", and that the teeth that look like dog fangs are called "canines". At that point, "caniformia" obviously means "dog-shaped".
Specialistic terms don't need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist. I can say that "a complete lattice is the generalisation of the power set of some domain" which is a phrase composed entirely of English words but if you haven't studied anything about abstract algebra you don't knkw what it means, but that is a phrase made for math students, not for any random guy.
Also those Latin terms are literally international terms, a Russian biologist will say "Canis lupus" to an Icelandic biologist and they will understand. So you really have nothing to complain about. Just be glad that Linnaeus used an agnostic language for international terminology instead of using his native language (Swedish) like the anglophones do.
P.s. you know that Mussolini had all commonly used foreign words and names translated to Italian? And to this day Italian children don't study Francis Bacon and René Descartes, but Francesco Bacone and Renato Cartesio.
- I don't have an issue with using scientific names in scientific contexts if you intend to publish something international researchers should be able to parse. But just like maths, there is no problem in just... translating names? Imagine if you had to phrase sentences like: "The numerus realis make up a copia infinita." You'd have to translate Latin every time new studens would be taught because most mathematical terms convey a decent amount of information.
  What I do have an issue with is using these terms anywhere outside of international contexts.
  A doctor should not tell their patient they have a "humerus" fracture. In German they would take about the upper arm bone.
  Or imagine if a doctor told you there is an infection in your digitus pedis. Fortunately English didn't replace the term "toes" with its scientific one... YET.
  Hell, I could even apply this to doctor names in English which require a dictionary for anyone trying to parse them. I had to look up half of them by the way.
  Children's Doctor <> Pediatrician
  Women's Doctor <> Gynecologist
  Tooth Doctor <> Dentist (the least bad in my opinion - at least it's short)
  Eye Doctor <> Optometrist
  Neck-Nose-Ear Doctor <> Otorhinolaryngologist (wtf???)
  Skin Doctor <> Dermatologist
  Like, surely there must have been (native) English terms for those doctors in the past. It's not like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700's. You can't tell me a 15th century English peasent used Latin/Greek derived names for common specialized doctors.
Where are the smaller lips?
- Note that these, too, have a German name, which translates to "inner taint-lips". Just calling them "labia" in English is not just defaulting to Latin but also imprecise.
I got confused because i initially read that as Worf instead of Wolf, and i thought that it was weird trying to make a point with a Star Trek character.
- "Mr. Worf, set course to the Vulva region on Labia Minora 4"
Ask someone what "Caniformia" is and most would probably think you're talking about some region on the US West Coast.
You're obviously talking about noobs who aren't watching TierZoo 😎
Yet another thing that could be fixed by better education in the US.
Ask someone what "Doglike" refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.
Way to damn humanity with faint praise 😄
Carnifornia sounds like a great festival I gotta call up my rancher buds and get this going
Sharing a world with another term with less precise meaning is a bug not a feature

To be fair, the majority of women, who have said bits, don't know what they are either, most seem to think it is all vagina.

I mean, colloquially it is.
- Everything’s vagina
- Indeed, but it’s as accurate as saying ones scrotum is dick.
Aren’t most of the external parts actually the vulva? I thought the vagina was just the tube…
- It is, but properly naming things isn't something Internet users are very good at.

"Is it that one over there? I can't really tell since it is not visible with this light pollution. Even though there is only one Libra constellation, you have have been confused by Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor, where some stars are very visible. Oh you said labia."

I'm not Jewish, so I don't know much about menorahs in general.

For some guys it might well be light years away.

So weird to hear this. Like the whole area just isn’t that big, surely eventually most people stumble into it even if they aren’t making an effort…
- I very rarely come across a labia minora either at work or at home, but maybe I'm not working in the right place or something.
- Yeah after hearing the "can't find the clitoris" and "it doesn't exist" jokes for so long, I was kind of shocked by how easy it was when I finally got down there...
  I do believe that there are men who have this issue, but it seems kind of fucked up that the woman would just complain about it rather than take 3 seconds to show them. It's not like it's well hidden or anything.

I too quiz my partner on the anatomy of genitalia when we're hanging out

Wait, what, you don't have a cloaca?
- Way to advertise you don't know how to find the c-spot. So on-brand.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2023/10/21/90-of-americans-feel-unprepared-by-sex-education-new-survey-shows/

I mean, the state of sex education in the US is abysmal, misinformation and just no information is so rampant that it's rather silly to expect the average young adult to know the detailed anatomic names.

In my life so far, I've dated plently of women who didn't know anatomical names, or with a few, even basic signs of what a vaginal health problem looks like.

With one, I had to deduce that her described urinary problems were possibly actually bacterial vaginosis when I uh, also noticed the smell.

She got extremely pissed off, thinking I was insulting her, thinking I was saying she had an STD/STI... a week later she's back from the doctor and yep, I was right, now she's on antibiotics.

How many women can, off the top of their head, identify the vas deferens, cowper's gland, or know that testicular torsion is even a thing?

Yeah its awful. Ive had the BV situation happen with two different partners. And God forbid, you bring up anything thats considered outside the heterosexual spectrum in an educational setting. Could you imagine if men were taught about the possibilities of the prostate in a judgement free environment?
- I was this close to also mentioning that yeah lol, turns out any guy can have pleasure and potentially an orgasm from proper prostate stimulation...
  And you don't even have to be attracted to other dudes to be able to do that, and enjoy it!
  Pegging and toys exist!
  But again, nope, not allowed by heteronormativity.
  To go with another personal anecdote... different girl I was dating at one time, who considered herself pansexual... well, I broached the idea of using an anal toy... and she, again I remind you, a self described pansexual... just started calling me gay, constantly made buttsex jokes and quips all the time, started trying to get me to hook up with dudes.
  WTF?!
  I respect her gender and sexual identity/preferences, she doesn't respect mine at all, while she's literally wearing rainbow flag pins and going to every pride event in town and constantly making IG posts about how everyone should be more inclusive and accepting?
  Sorry to rant but yeah, the hypocrisy is strong and multifaceted in this realm.

I see all these stupid boyfriend/stupid husband stuff, and I can't help but think maybe my ex wife was just jealous of her friends that had stupid men in their lives.

And maybe I'm just overqualified for relationships. I mean, shit, that was the advice my brother gave me: "I get along with people because they're much smarter than me." One of the first red flags I remembery ex wife telling me was "you know you don't have to be so smarty all the time."

Ok, no, I can't even lie to myself that well, can you imagine? Being overqualified for dating lol

Can confirm, people generally prefer their version of reality over truth and knowledge. Spend a life aquiring knowledge and love teaching people just to learn they don't really love learning how things actually are. Who knew people love to be told they are right, even if that's not the case. X(
Funnily enough, when you are in a situation with someone who you have discussed for example immigration with and someone else more stupid than them starts going off about immigrants and you just start ranting the same shit as them, this seems to get number one suddenly thinking a lot more about how ridiculous you look when you so it.
Know more tricks like this, let me know. ;)

I couldn't tell you the Latin names for my own bits, either.

Edit: that said, I might not know all the street names, but I can still drive you home, and I'm not averse to asking for directions.

Mine's Biggus Dickus.
- He said Latin not lying
- Mine's "Alexa Google Dick in Latin"

It's so much better to offer a demonstration.

I know it says bf (which I will assume means boyfriend)

But I'd you read the studies:

45% of men aged 18-25 had never approached a woman in person for a date

29% of all men said they never approached a woman in person for a date before

27% said it had been more than one year since they approached a woman for a date

Source(s):

https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/

https://x.com/DrThomasAG/status/1674391128215367682

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin-does-dating/202305/the-potential-negative-impact-of-unwanted-singlehood

Pair that with the quality of education and it is of no surprise that a boyfriend doesn't know what they never knew existed in the first place

The first link doesn't work the second is twitter. The third didn't appear to contain the stats you cited.
From this we can infer that at least 2% of survey respondents were less than a year old

The search still go on ✨

Uno Reverse Card:

Tell her to point to the Vas Deferens
"We're not so different, you and I"
High-five
True gender-equality finally accomplished

He must’ve forgot which hemisphere he was on. Common mistake.

i didnt know we were getting quizzed. crap. is that the uh inner lips?

Bingo! You win a heated bath mat!
- holy hell im goated cant believe i remembered that
  ill have to put that in my dating profile "correctly guessed what labia minora is"

idgaf what "science" says.

It's. 👏 Still. 👏 A. 👏 Planet. 👏

Easy: it was once on the island of Lesbos, but it’s now in its rightful place in the British Museum and there is shall remain!