Some marvelously super suggestions so far.
Honorable mentions go to Jupiter's
Secret Smile, which tweaked my memory nipples into a remembrance, and, dare I say it, a total reappraisal of Semisonic's 1997 titular tune.
I also salute Aggy B's centre, which, I feel, definitely works as a strong and powerful term for the foof because it incorporates the female (or the feminine) as not only a part of the person, but the central part of that person.
As for FP's Business. Well, my word! The business it is. Great term and open, ahem, for so much wordplay and interpretation that one can only glow with all the possible potentialities it presents.
There is one term I am particularly inclined to engage with ...
I respectfully submit my front bottom.
Now, not only am I excited to have such a thing submitted, but I marvel at the succinct way in which it suggests, in two words, everything that I shall now discuss in words too many.
Front Bottom. Where does this term come from?
Initially, I think, it is a term to de-sexualise the vagina of a young child. But (excuse the pun), look closer at the term -- as Peaches is, I boldly believe, asking us to do -- and what strange and dangerously odd things appear?
What are the properties of a bottom?
In the first (or juvenile) case, it is a channel for excreta. Its physical properties seem similar to that of the foof -- There is a cleft there, something split. A small echo of the actual appearance of the buttocks and the anus -- but what is this de-sexualisation attempting? What is its purpose?
Certainly, part of the front bottom is used to pass a waste product and there is, perhaps, reason to stall an explanation of the birds and the bees. However, it might be beneficial to think about how the term could affect a changing and more adult view of the vaginal canal (minus a C?).
Could it be suggested that the term has an inherent hatred of the function of the Foof as a producer of babies? Is there a fit between the term and a later view of what is passed though it as somehow useless? Could the front bottom only produce shit, and therefore, be reductive to one of the greatest and, perhaps, most defining characteristics of the female person type person (whether that person gives birth or not)?
Is it a term which works against womanhood? In other words, does it suggest that women are allowed to create and have the power of creation, but also enforce a view that what is created is reduced to an unimportant by-product?
Who created the term? Is it a male jealousy? Is it the thumb and self-hatred of those who cannot harbour life within themselves pushing down on the young heads of those who can?
Am I pushing this idea too far? Maybe. Though, when examining the concept of male jealousy with regard to the female ability to give birth I would ask you to consider the names of atomic bombs.
Fat man -- male pregnancy and destruction.
Little boy -- birthed and destructive.
In the second, and more adult case, a bottom becomes sexualised.
How does this happen? The bottom becomes, it could be argued, a 'masculinised' sexual destination. It can be seen as a male foof, something to be fucked that further reduces the importance of the female and her foof, because, like opinions, everybody has one.
Furthermore, a front bottom is not
the bottom -- despite the primacy of its name (the front) it can be said that the front bottom becomes a secondary destination by virtue of pre-fix.
Where does this put the female and the female foof on a hierarchal societal and sexual scale?
I would posit that 'below the man' is the answer to the above question. Moreover, the woman whose front bottom is, as I have discussed, a secondary thing, resides in the gendered hierarchy below the homosexual man who is, in a patriarchal and euro-centric society, himself below the heterosexual man.
It would seem to me that all these terms and all this language does much to cut the legs from under the female. With this in mind, I come back to the thought that either the hard terms for foof are best used and reclaimed, or, another term needs be created.
The question is, can you or you or you create it? And if you can, will it be open to such deconstructions? Is there anyway a term can be produced that reflects the power and the perfection of the foof without being loaded with anti-fem connotations?
Perhaps, as I mentioned before, a foreign term might be more applicable. Is there a term for foof that comes from a matriarchal society? Who knows.
Keep 'em coming. The project must go on.
