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[Ziggurat]

The question is, if we don't call it a "vagina" than what the heck do we call it?

Oh, there are plenty of candidates:

mystery spot
baby escape hatch
extra-special fun place
genetic receptacle
that-which-must-not-be-named
female bits
the final frontier
woman cave​

to name just a few.

 

[Lowpro]

I wonder if they offer this book on itunes...

 

[brodski]

Stupid that they censor it, but Naomi Wolf doesn't half talk a load of crap...

are you saying that Naomi Wolf's Vagina is bollocks?

 

[godless dave]

Oh, there are plenty of candidates:

mystery spot
baby escape hatch
extra-special fun place
genetic receptacle
that-which-must-not-be-named
female bits
the final frontier
woman cave​

to name just a few.

Whisker biscuit.

Seriously, though, I see censoring the dirty terms for genitalia, but if you're not supposed to use the dirty terms, shouldn't the clinical one be allowed?

 

[CynicalSkeptic]

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck" as well, even when it was used in a non-sexual context.

I'm personally responsible for getting the word suck added to the nanny-filter on an old discussion board. It lead to much humor when the word was used in a benign manner.

 

[brodski]

This alone will be better than a million sycophantic feminist reviews. Now she can pretend she's relevant.

I don't know about the US but the feminist reviews in the UK have pretty much all been very negative. Partly because Wolf is a self agrandising gender essentislist rape apologist and partly because of the sheer level of pseudoscientific ******** that Wolf packs the book with. Oh and the much mocked pasta incident.

 

[casebro]

Oh, there are plenty of candidates:

mystery spot
baby escape hatch
extra-special fun place
genetic receptacle
that-which-must-not-be-named
female bits
the final frontier
woman cave​

to name just a few.

Vestibule?

Though the rules of etiquette used to state that there are some subjects to be cautious about discussing. Not the words, the subject. Truth to tell, I don't miss those days. Seems today that half of what passes for entertainment is grammar school level astonishment at the use of off color subjects. I guess I'd just as soon leave the mysteries of life to be learned the old fashioned way. In pool halls and the military. Hey, I learned about bumping uglies at the age of 6. One friend's older sister and another friend's older brother were 'rubbing their pee-pees together. More was learned later when I got curious. But anatomy lessons weren't plastered all over TV.

 

[casebro]

Maybe if they backed off on the absolute horror of the word that rhymes with Sea Hunt.

 

[Aepervius]

I am willing to bet that they are autocensoring some fields, and it is just the auto censor doing its job.

 

[Ziggurat]

Vestibule?

Ooo... I like that!

I guess I'd just as soon leave the mysteries of life to be learned the old fashioned way.

"I'd really like to get into her mystery of life". That's better than "mystery spot". Well done.

 

[Steve001]

Humorous.
Why the Uproar Over Naomi Wolf’s Vagina?

Naomi Wolf's new book is almost too boring to review. Despite all the coverage, and the mini-controversy it's drummed up, Vagina: A New Biography has few thrills to offer outside of the look you get from a Barnes & Noble employee when you buy the thing. The only real story of Vagina is its role in Wolf's ongoing expulsion from feminism.
But let's cover the book first. Half of Vagina is comprised of sloppily recycled medical information that wouldn't surprise a sixth-grade health class. Wolf, for example, is stunned to learn that nerves–even the pelvic nerve!

More: http://inthesetimes.com/article/13843/why_the_uproar_over_naomi_wolfs_vagina

 

[kalen]

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

Now you know what the "i" stands for.

 

[IMST]

One of my bands got the asterisk treatment on a song that is very, very clearly about a cat.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Time for the obligatory:

Panties aren't the best thing in the world, but they are next to it...

 

[CORed]

I'm personally responsible for getting the word suck added to the nanny-filter on an old discussion board. It lead to much humor when the word was used in a benign manner.

One board I post on censors, or used to censor anyway, the word "homo". I assume they did this to keep it from being to mean homosexual to insult another poster. But I had a few posts there where I talked about **** sapiens.

 

[Kahalachan]

The forum hiccuped and posted my comment twice. I deleted the duplicate, and Travis' comment is an attempt at humor.

Oooooh

I thought he was your sock puppet or something for a second

 

[Ferguson]

Apple's sense of what's appropriate can be funny (or frustrating), at least when it comes to games.
When I developed a WW2 game for iPhone, they called me and told me to remove references to Hitler, Stalin, and to remove the phrase "dirty communists" from one of the (German) mission briefings.

Such things are "not appropriate" in the "context of the App Store."

Violence and profane language is fine. Politics, religion, and sex are taboo, or at least open to an undefined and sometimes contradictory sense of "inappropriate" or "offensive."

Middle east war games are difficult to get through as well, you can't have entities like "Iraq" or "Afghanistan," instead you have to make up countries like "Zahrastan" or such. A game that actually takes place in Iraq or Afghanistan would be too "political."

But there seems to be quite an element of luck as well, lots of things get approved despite violating their rules, and lots of things get rejected for seemingly bizarre interpretations of their rules.

 

[gabeygoat]

I remember when mp3.com was big (early 2000s), I couldn't use my real last name in band listings as it was deemed obscene.

 

[Mark6]

I wonder if they offer this book on itunes...

The link takes you to Amazon page, and the name of the book itself is not censored in any way... but take a close look at the URL!

 

[Alan]

Apple also until recently (the past few months) censored 'bisexual', but not 'homosexual' or 'heterosexual' on iTunes.