Philip Roth
 

I just finished reading EVERYMAN by Philip Roth (THE HUMAN STAIN, GOODBYE, COLUMBUS; PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, etc.) and I sincerely wish that I had a magic wand because I would wave it around and bestow the following three gifts on Mr. Roth:

1) Immortality. Perhaps with the relief this knowledge would bring he could write a different g*ddamn story for once. Something decidedly NOT morbid and death-obsessed.

2) Limitless pudenda. This would no doubt enable him to focus on something other than, well, pudenda and his deep, deep, nearly unnatural desire for it, especially when it's on a female literally whole quarters of centuries younger than he is. Roth (in his 70's himself) would like us to believe that 70-something men are what 20-something women are looking for in a casual lover.

3) Ability to Get Over Himself.

What I am saying is EVERYMAN was like EVERY other book Roth has written and I feel like a sucker for reading it.

yet, Stephen Fry is delicious. Read HIPPOPOTOMUS and die laughing.

Wait a minute, you've read all his other books and you didn't know he doesn't write stories, he only writes about pudenda?

Oh, I get it! :litebulb: You were leading us into thinking about porn lit and your quintessential womanly hawtness at the same time, so the drool (and miscellaneous fluids) will short out the keyboard and you can take over the Cellar for your private porn site.

Such a tricky vixen. I don't think my keyboa......bzzzt...snap.....arc....

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1) Female reproductive organ
2) Hot women, esp in large groups at social functions
That party was amazing, it was full of mad pudenda!
by Tuffy Holland, MI May 18, 2005 email it
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The Latin word for "shame," some Victorian clown thought it would be a great euphemism for female genitalia, possibly because he felt shame for wanting to see some.

May also have, over time, devolved into "pussy".
"'Pudenda' was Latin for 'shame'?"

"Yes, and 'vagina' meant 'scabbard'. Isn't studying Latin fun?"

tags devolve euphemism sexist
by Gahmuret Avalon, PA Jul 4, 2006 email it

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Synonym to vulva. The external parts of the female reproductive system.
Her pudenda is very pretty.
tags cookie
by Petey J Corvus USA Nov 26, 2005 email it

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The outer female genitals. The vulva.
The pudenda: a forbidden and yet highly sought place.
tags love mound cooter
by Loreleili CA Nov 25, 2005 email it

Gee. I've just been edumacated, yet I feel strangely dirty.

But a washcloth, moistened in warm water, can take care of most of that.