In today’s history lesson, the Times’ Stephanie Rosenbloom dips a toe into the golden river of linguistic history to bring us the origins of “vajayjay,” the most popular name for your pussy popularized by Grey’s Anatomy. Jimmy Kimmel has used it. Tyra has used it. Oprah loves it even more than that ginger Origins scrub she keeps pimping. Even Gloria Steinem is getting in on the vajayjay monologues.
In a voice-mail message left for a reporter, Gloria Steinem said she hopes the women using vajayjay are doing so because they think it is more descriptive than vagina, not because they are squeamish.
Of course, anything as fabulous as our vagina deserves a winning pet name. Our pet name? Alfonso. But that’s just us.