Female Equivalent.

[JaseC]

Can anybody tell me what the female equivalent of Phallic / Phallus is please?

Have annoyed all my friends and collegues with this.

Many thanks

Regards

Jase

[SteveD]

Maybe "clitoral" and "clitoris".

[Clanad]

If you mean as a symbol, the point (or dot) within a circle has been recognized for centuries as often representing female sexuality... it does represent other things though, including the sun...

[Nummy]

i think it's "yonic"

a doughnut can be decribed as yonic!

[Quizmonster]

'Yonic' comes from the Sanskrit word 'yoni', meaning the female genitals or a symbol thereof. They're the kind of words you would find in the Kama Sutra. Since 'phallus' is derived from the Greek word 'phallos', perhaps a female Greek equivalent is required. In Greek, 'vagina' = koleos, so perhaps you can make something up based on that!

[Grimalkin]

I may well be wrong about this, but I think way we use the word phallus in everyday language largely came about after Freud's work on psychoanalysis, where the phallus is as much a state of mind as a body part.  As he neglected the female point of view he didn't require an equivalent term, so we haven't got one.  In theroretical work I have noticed people tend to say clitoral, but I'm not convinced.

[Haggisdj]

The original symbols were  /\  for male and  \/  for female...

[schmeeges]

Brain? (if we're talking thinking apparatus)

One lingering concept from the underfed Ally McBeal was that of the male 'thinking with his dumbstick'.

[BigMac]

Schmeeges, I think it's said that "God gave man a brain and a penis... but only enough blood to work one at a time"