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Joanna says: February 13, 2013 at 5:39 pm The word cunt can be found written as quaint in the forms of ‘queinte’ and ‘queynte’ in Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale. Reply cherishthecunt says: February 13, 2013 at 9:08 pm Ooh! Thank you Joanna – I’ll look into that xx I am writing another post soon which will go into the Qu, Coo and Qy roots in more detail x Reply

The word cunt can be found written as quaint in the forms of ‘queinte’ and ‘queynte’ in Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale.

cherishthecunt says: February 13, 2013 at 9:08 pm Ooh! Thank you Joanna – I’ll look into that xx I am writing another post soon which will go into the Qu, Coo and Qy roots in more detail x Reply

Ooh! Thank you Joanna – I’ll look into that xx I am writing another post soon which will go into the Qu, Coo and Qy roots in more detail x

womandrogyne says: February 16, 2013 at 11:34 am I’ve also seen it spelled Quoint, though I can’t remember where. And then there’s Quim. (By the way, about Cunda – in Pali/Sanskrit, the C is pronounced Ch like in Chair – so Cunda sounds like Choondah.) Reply

I’ve also seen it spelled Quoint, though I can’t remember where. And then there’s Quim. (By the way, about Cunda – in Pali/Sanskrit, the C is pronounced Ch like in Chair – so Cunda sounds like Choondah.)

fionntáin says: April 9, 2013 at 9:40 am thank you very much for this inspiring research…..its like an archaeological dig into words and symbols that some people, mainly christian leaders, found too hot to handle and therefore suppressed them……this article for me reawakens a little more the omnipotence that lies at the core of my being Reply

thank you very much for this inspiring research…..its like an archaeological dig into words and symbols that some people, mainly christian leaders, found too hot to handle and therefore suppressed them……this article for me reawakens a little more the omnipotence that lies at the core of my being

fionntáin says: April 9, 2013 at 9:54 am in one definition of the word ‘cunctipotent’ it says ‘………as well as the four-letter word beginning with cun- which I will leave unstated’ For me, it is a difficult word to say….this article brings new light to the word which allows me at least to write publicly for the first time : cunt…..there….now, that wasn’t so bad!!! Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:21 pm Yippee! Go Foinntain! you did it! Sorry it took me so long to congratulate you xx much respect xx Reply

in one definition of the word ‘cunctipotent’ it says ‘………as well as the four-letter word beginning with cun- which I will leave unstated’ For me, it is a difficult word to say….this article brings new light to the word which allows me at least to write publicly for the first time : cunt…..there….now, that wasn’t so bad!!!

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:21 pm Yippee! Go Foinntain! you did it! Sorry it took me so long to congratulate you xx much respect xx Reply

Yippee! Go Foinntain! you did it! Sorry it took me so long to congratulate you xx much respect xx

fionntáin says: April 9, 2013 at 10:04 am also I have found the abundance of sile na gig imagery in ancient ireland to be very inspiring….it dispels a lot of the sexual hangups, mine anyway!!!….and allows for a much greater flow of energy…..in me anyway!!!….you may be interested to know of a coffee/bookshop in county tipperary called ‘sheelagh na gig’ http://www.sheelaghnagig.com Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:23 pm The Sile’s are so inspiring, aren’t they? They completely took over my dreams for a few months last year. I want more Irish people to know about them. They certainly to liberate and educate us about sexuality and the power of women. I’ll check out the cafe too, thanks x big cunty love x Reply

also I have found the abundance of sile na gig imagery in ancient ireland to be very inspiring….it dispels a lot of the sexual hangups, mine anyway!!!….and allows for a much greater flow of energy…..in me anyway!!!….you may be interested to know of a coffee/bookshop in county tipperary called ‘sheelagh na gig’ http://www.sheelaghnagig.com

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:23 pm The Sile’s are so inspiring, aren’t they? They completely took over my dreams for a few months last year. I want more Irish people to know about them. They certainly to liberate and educate us about sexuality and the power of women. I’ll check out the cafe too, thanks x big cunty love x Reply

The Sile’s are so inspiring, aren’t they? They completely took over my dreams for a few months last year. I want more Irish people to know about them. They certainly to liberate and educate us about sexuality and the power of women. I’ll check out the cafe too, thanks x big cunty love x

fionntáin says: April 9, 2013 at 10:37 am it seems to me that it is through the crack, the crevice, the cunt of our existance that we maintain the connection with the root of our being, our connection with mother nature, our connection with source…..and in order to maintain these connection to this oneness, the crack, crevice, the cunt is given to us in a meriad of magical manners some obvious some not so obvious….if we only have the eyes to see Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:25 pm so true xxx It’s all there in nature… we just have to really see around us x Reply

it seems to me that it is through the crack, the crevice, the cunt of our existance that we maintain the connection with the root of our being, our connection with mother nature, our connection with source…..and in order to maintain these connection to this oneness, the crack, crevice, the cunt is given to us in a meriad of magical manners some obvious some not so obvious….if we only have the eyes to see

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:25 pm so true xxx It’s all there in nature… we just have to really see around us x Reply

so true xxx It’s all there in nature… we just have to really see around us x

Idris Charles says: May 15, 2013 at 8:25 pm Concerning Avebury/West Kennet: It has always struck me as highly fitting that much of the archaeological work done there in the first part of the 20th century was performed by Mrs Maud Cunnington. A more appropriate name would be hard to find! Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:24 pm Cunnington! I love it x Reply

Concerning Avebury/West Kennet: It has always struck me as highly fitting that much of the archaeological work done there in the first part of the 20th century was performed by Mrs Maud Cunnington. A more appropriate name would be hard to find!

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:24 pm Cunnington! I love it x Reply

Cunnington! I love it x

Paul cherry says: May 24, 2013 at 9:13 pm when i was growing up and at school for our sex education we were given a book to read ( late 50s and early 60s teachers were shy and so were we )and in this book i remember reading “CUNT” was a saxon word used to describe the sheath farmers would carry aroud their waist to put the stone used to sharpen their scythes when harvesting the corn/wheat etc . I can’t remember the book ‘s title but i have never forgotten the paragraph, I was 10yo in 1960 and hormones running wild , and we (boys) would look up all the “naughty” words we knew . Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:39 pm Wow Paul. That’s so interesting. I’ve never heard that and can’t find anything online about it. I know that ‘vagina’ means sheath for a sword so maybe it’s connected with that somehow? Reply

when i was growing up and at school for our sex education we were given a book to read ( late 50s and early 60s teachers were shy and so were we )and in this book i remember reading “CUNT” was a saxon word used to describe the sheath farmers would carry aroud their waist to put the stone used to sharpen their scythes when harvesting the corn/wheat etc . I can’t remember the book ‘s title but i have never forgotten the paragraph, I was 10yo in 1960 and hormones running wild , and we (boys) would look up all the “naughty” words we knew .

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:39 pm Wow Paul. That’s so interesting. I’ve never heard that and can’t find anything online about it. I know that ‘vagina’ means sheath for a sword so maybe it’s connected with that somehow? Reply

Wow Paul. That’s so interesting. I’ve never heard that and can’t find anything online about it. I know that ‘vagina’ means sheath for a sword so maybe it’s connected with that somehow?

nilmini fernando says: June 2, 2013 at 1:47 am Lovely to read all the non-european roots of the word. I have always felt it a shame that there is no word in English that is respectful or non-medical/anatomical for women’s sexual parts. The East is full of such words, and here, the entire sex act has been debased through the debasement of women and their body parts. I gues sits what happens when you appropriate the language but ignore the culture in which the language originated. Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:40 pm i completely agree x Reply Jom Spencer says: February 9, 2014 at 10:20 am There’s no English word for the male member … even “penis” is a Latin euphemism meaning “tail” Reply Emilia says: April 25, 2014 at 11:29 am what about cock? Paul D. Lawrence says: July 23, 2014 at 1:08 am “Dick” clive winmill says: July 24, 2014 at 2:25 pm The word ‘cock’ has apparently been around since 1610 and possibly earlier, which makes it pretty English. For a detailed survey see http://languor.us/why-penis-also-called-cock . Its alliteration with ‘cunt’ makes them go together rather well.

Lovely to read all the non-european roots of the word. I have always felt it a shame that there is no word in English that is respectful or non-medical/anatomical for women’s sexual parts. The East is full of such words, and here, the entire sex act has been debased through the debasement of women and their body parts. I gues sits what happens when you appropriate the language but ignore the culture in which the language originated.

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:40 pm i completely agree x Reply

i completely agree x

Jom Spencer says: February 9, 2014 at 10:20 am There’s no English word for the male member … even “penis” is a Latin euphemism meaning “tail” Reply Emilia says: April 25, 2014 at 11:29 am what about cock? Paul D. Lawrence says: July 23, 2014 at 1:08 am “Dick” clive winmill says: July 24, 2014 at 2:25 pm The word ‘cock’ has apparently been around since 1610 and possibly earlier, which makes it pretty English. For a detailed survey see http://languor.us/why-penis-also-called-cock . Its alliteration with ‘cunt’ makes them go together rather well.

There’s no English word for the male member … even “penis” is a Latin euphemism meaning “tail”

Emilia says: April 25, 2014 at 11:29 am what about cock?

what about cock?

Paul D. Lawrence says: July 23, 2014 at 1:08 am “Dick”

“Dick”

clive winmill says: July 24, 2014 at 2:25 pm The word ‘cock’ has apparently been around since 1610 and possibly earlier, which makes it pretty English. For a detailed survey see http://languor.us/why-penis-also-called-cock . Its alliteration with ‘cunt’ makes them go together rather well.

The word ‘cock’ has apparently been around since 1610 and possibly earlier, which makes it pretty English. For a detailed survey see http://languor.us/why-penis-also-called-cock . Its alliteration with ‘cunt’ makes them go together rather well.

cherryzensunshine says: June 11, 2013 at 3:19 pm Reblogged this on Poetry class of 2012 . Reply

Reblogged this on Poetry class of 2012 .

lindsey says: June 13, 2013 at 12:50 pm I was called a cunt yesterday and decided I would investigate the word. I really appreciate all this. You did an excellent job compiling it together. And now I am 110% sure that I am not a cunt. But I won’t be so offended when someone uses it. Thank you!!! Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:40 pm yippee! my job is done x Reply

I was called a cunt yesterday and decided I would investigate the word. I really appreciate all this. You did an excellent job compiling it together. And now I am 110% sure that I am not a cunt. But I won’t be so offended when someone uses it. Thank you!!!

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:40 pm yippee! my job is done x Reply

yippee! my job is done x

Kimish says: June 13, 2013 at 7:46 pm I am not sure but the photo depicting goddess kunti i think is inaccurate. It seems more like scene where draupadi is being stripped and krishna is providing the endless saari to prevent the shame. A scene where pandavas lose in gambling game. Btw very interesting article. I did not know about the possible connection with kunti but its sounds intriguing. Reply cherishthecunt says: June 14, 2013 at 10:53 pm Thank you for this – someone else mentioned it to me too. I will investigate further! x Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:44 pm Thanks for your comment Kimish. I have been told this before about the image and have made the decision to delete it. I have learned more about Kunti though. She was a figure much respected within the Hindu tradition, being the wife of King Pandu, the mother of the three Pandava brothers and Draupadi’s mother-in-law. Interestingly the son she had with the son god is called Karna. More on Kunti here http://www.mahabharataonline.com/stories/mahabharata_character.php?id=57 No picture as of yet so please let me know if you find one x Reply

I am not sure but the photo depicting goddess kunti i think is inaccurate. It seems more like scene where draupadi is being stripped and krishna is providing the endless saari to prevent the shame. A scene where pandavas lose in gambling game.

Btw very interesting article. I did not know about the possible connection with kunti but its sounds intriguing.

cherishthecunt says: June 14, 2013 at 10:53 pm Thank you for this – someone else mentioned it to me too. I will investigate further! x Reply

Thank you for this – someone else mentioned it to me too. I will investigate further! x

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:44 pm Thanks for your comment Kimish. I have been told this before about the image and have made the decision to delete it. I have learned more about Kunti though. She was a figure much respected within the Hindu tradition, being the wife of King Pandu, the mother of the three Pandava brothers and Draupadi’s mother-in-law. Interestingly the son she had with the son god is called Karna. More on Kunti here http://www.mahabharataonline.com/stories/mahabharata_character.php?id=57 No picture as of yet so please let me know if you find one x Reply

Thanks for your comment Kimish. I have been told this before about the image and have made the decision to delete it. I have learned more about Kunti though. She was a figure much respected within the Hindu tradition, being the wife of King Pandu, the mother of the three Pandava brothers and Draupadi’s mother-in-law. Interestingly the son she had with the son god is called Karna. More on Kunti here http://www.mahabharataonline.com/stories/mahabharata_character.php?id=57 No picture as of yet so please let me know if you find one x

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Calvin H. Johnson says: June 17, 2013 at 3:40 am I love to admit it: I love cunts. Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:45 pm Glad to hear it Calvin x Reply

I love to admit it: I love cunts.

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:45 pm Glad to hear it Calvin x Reply

Glad to hear it Calvin x

charlesfirst says: June 21, 2013 at 9:57 am It’s so good to find ‘cunt’ and cunt being celebrated – and so well researched Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:46 pm Thanks Charles. Thanks for popping by! Reply

It’s so good to find ‘cunt’ and cunt being celebrated – and so well researched

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:46 pm Thanks Charles. Thanks for popping by! Reply

Thanks Charles. Thanks for popping by!

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Paul Arvidson says: July 5, 2013 at 10:58 pm Fascinating stuff. Two things to add: – I think quoint is from Chaucer – Your mime of the Sheela contains the BSL hand sign for ‘cunt’. We were signing it with our daughter instead of ‘diamond’ in ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Oops. Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:47 pm Yes I am researching the Quoint/ Chaucer link at the moment. Oops for the BSL mistake but hey, its good for your daughter to learn all about her cunt, eh? xx Reply

Fascinating stuff. Two things to add: – I think quoint is from Chaucer – Your mime of the Sheela contains the BSL hand sign for ‘cunt’. We were signing it with our daughter instead of ‘diamond’ in ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Oops.

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:47 pm Yes I am researching the Quoint/ Chaucer link at the moment. Oops for the BSL mistake but hey, its good for your daughter to learn all about her cunt, eh? xx Reply

Yes I am researching the Quoint/ Chaucer link at the moment. Oops for the BSL mistake but hey, its good for your daughter to learn all about her cunt, eh? xx

wayne kerr says: July 9, 2013 at 9:42 am fully sik i wanna visit the river cunt Reply

fully sik i wanna visit the river cunt

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Jim Bliss says: July 16, 2013 at 12:29 pm Odd. I always assumed (with no evidence whatsoever it must be said) that the word ‘cunt’ was an anglo-saxon abbreviation of cunny, which in turn was a variant of “coney” which is the word for “rabbit fur”, and is sometimes used as another word for “rabbit”. Just like pussy, it denotes something soft and stroke-able :) Also, rabbit ears have a vaguely similar shape. As I say, I have no evidence for that at all… but it just “seemed right” to me. Reply cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:47 pm i like it – will look into it xx Ta Jim Bliss Reply

Odd. I always assumed (with no evidence whatsoever it must be said) that the word ‘cunt’ was an anglo-saxon abbreviation of cunny, which in turn was a variant of “coney” which is the word for “rabbit fur”, and is sometimes used as another word for “rabbit”. Just like pussy, it denotes something soft and stroke-able :)

Also, rabbit ears have a vaguely similar shape.

As I say, I have no evidence for that at all… but it just “seemed right” to me.

cherishthecunt says: February 5, 2014 at 6:47 pm i like it – will look into it xx Ta Jim Bliss Reply

i like it – will look into it xx Ta Jim Bliss

AgentJane99 says: July 27, 2013 at 3:07 am Excellent work – I enjoyed reading this with my 12yr old son, having first read it myself and decided it is entirely appropriate given his predisposition for using this word at volume when arguing with his counterparts in Australia over Xbox live – those Aussies use the word LOTS, while we New Zealanders mostly find it highly offensive. Having read your blog, I decided to write a comment on your wondering as to why the English (and the NZders) do find it so offensive. I think it reflects a long history of women being oppressed, denigrated, and subjugated to men – who, rather than worshiping woman gave them a really hard time for many many centuries, so that eventually the suffragettes and then the feminists fought oppression, and for respect for woman and for equality – viva la difference etc. The word became even more disliked (and offensive) to woman, as it was became a swear or ‘cuss’ word – to abuse women who didn’t like to be called that word – as it represented the woman is being abused, as she was referenced as ONLY being about her sex bits, when lots of women were angry as they knew they were so much more than that. Women have spirituality, hearts, minds and the whole that makes up a person, man or woman. Women even have other sporting/athletic talents beyond sexing and emasculating men by taming the sword, so to speak. So the word was and still is offensive, when used in that context and given the culture of men oppressing women and referring to them as their sex parts to abuse them. It is worse than being called a Dick, because men’s culture encourages them to love their dicks and to expose their priviate parts to others – hence communal showers in mens sports clubs and single booths for women. Being called a “dick” is not as offensive as when a man calls a woman a cunt. The word was and still is used to debase a woman singularly and all women collectively. Also, it has something to do with woman as sex objects, which hasn’t got much to do with procreation, or love or worship of fertility. Personally, I prefer the conception of woman’s ‘power’ being in fertility and procreation, and more to do with the womb and the ovary plump with eggs, rather than her ‘godliqualities’ bein about the bits that provide for a bit of sport and pleasure that is enticement, seduction and the power of lust and what goes on between parties to sexual activity. Yes, it’s fun to be attractive, but that ‘power’ isn’t the one we should all aspire to. It’s OK to not care about being sexy, and to try to be a top corporate lawyer – now that is power, that women find sexy in a man, so why not men finding competent women sexy – guess what, most men would still worship at the ‘cunt’ sexigoddess, to the ambitious entrepreneur, funny that. If only there was a single word for the whole of the fertility organs – that would be a GREAT word, that I might get excited about… Actually, you might be interested… in NZ Maori, the word “whenua” meaning land, also means placenta. The placenta is sacred and must be buried in the child’s whenua – or homeland. A Maori must be then buried in their whenua, when they die, no matter where in the world they die. Maori are “Tangata Whenua”, which we translate as the People of the Land – probably a misnomer, given land and placenta are same word… they might also be people of the placenta, i.e. people – not fish, not birds, not trees, not rocks. not rivers etc, all of which have their own ‘life force’ or mauri, and are also related to the people through genealogy connecting them all to the tight family of Gods, one for each element – the air, the water, the land, the sky, the ocean (etc). Earth mother, sky father, brother forest, brother ocean, brother air/wind etc – watch Avatar, made in NZ. The cunt is an important word, but as a concept to worship – well it’s a good thing for sure – but there is still soooo much more to us – REALLY. Reply

Excellent work – I enjoyed reading this with my 12yr old son, having first read it myself and decided it is entirely appropriate given his predisposition for using this word at volume when arguing with his counterparts in Australia over Xbox live – those Aussies use the word LOTS, while we New Zealanders mostly find it highly offensive. Having read your blog, I decided to write a comment on your wondering as to why the English (and the NZders) do find it so offensive. I think it reflects a long history of women being oppressed, denigrated, and subjugated to men – who, rather than worshiping woman gave them a really hard time for many many centuries, so that eventually the suffragettes and then the feminists fought oppression, and for respect for woman and for equality – viva la difference etc. The word became even more disliked (and offensive) to woman, as it was became a swear or ‘cuss’ word – to abuse women who didn’t like to be called that word – as it represented the woman is being abused, as she was referenced as ONLY being about her sex bits, when lots of women were angry as they knew they were so much more than that. Women have spirituality, hearts, minds and the whole that makes up a person, man or woman. Women even have other sporting/athletic talents beyond sexing and emasculating men by taming the sword, so to speak. So the word was and still is offensive, when used in that context and given the culture of men oppressing women and referring to them as their sex parts to abuse them. It is worse than being called a Dick, because men’s culture encourages them to love their dicks and to expose their priviate parts to others – hence communal showers in mens sports clubs and single booths for women. Being called a “dick” is not as offensive as when a man calls a woman a cunt. The word was and still is used to debase a woman singularly and all women collectively. Also, it has something to do with woman as sex objects, which hasn’t got much to do with procreation, or love or worship of fertility. Personally, I prefer the conception of woman’s ‘power’ being in fertility and procreation, and more to do with the womb and the ovary plump with eggs, rather than her ‘godliqualities’ bein about the bits that provide for a bit of sport and pleasure that is enticement, seduction and the power of lust and what goes on between parties to sexual activity. Yes, it’s fun to be attractive, but that ‘power’ isn’t the one we should all aspire to. It’s OK to not care about being sexy, and to try to be a top corporate lawyer – now that is power, that women find sexy in a man, so why not men finding competent women sexy – guess what, most men would still worship at the ‘cunt’ sexigoddess, to the ambitious entrepreneur, funny that. If only there was a single word for the whole of the fertility organs – that would be a GREAT word, that I might get excited about… Actually, you might be interested… in NZ Maori, the word “whenua” meaning land, also means placenta. The placenta is sacred and must be buried in the child’s whenua – or homeland. A Maori must be then buried in their whenua, when they die, no matter where in the world they die. Maori are “Tangata Whenua”, which we translate as the People of the Land – probably a misnomer, given land and placenta are same word… they might also be people of the placenta, i.e. people – not fish, not birds, not trees, not rocks. not rivers etc, all of which have their own ‘life force’ or mauri, and are also related to the people through genealogy connecting them all to the tight family of Gods, one for each element – the air, the water, the land, the sky, the ocean (etc). Earth mother, sky father, brother forest, brother ocean, brother air/wind etc – watch Avatar, made in NZ. The cunt is an important word, but as a concept to worship – well it’s a good thing for sure – but there is still soooo much more to us – REALLY.

Emily Harnett says: August 4, 2013 at 12:06 pm Love the article I have some info on the word It was a Celtic word which was made derogatory by Anglo Saxons And it is linked to Country Cunt tree Is the land Is the woman Is the mothers line I would love to return to Ireland and see the ancient stones at Kildare xxx Reply

Love the article I have some info on the word It was a Celtic word which was made derogatory by Anglo Saxons And it is linked to Country

Cunt tree Is the land Is the woman Is the mothers line

I would love to return to Ireland and see the ancient stones at Kildare xxx

Nick Westcott says: August 8, 2013 at 12:18 pm Excellent. Sometimes there is no other word to express deep feeling. The French use it all the time, in everyday use (con). the reason the French call a computor an ordinateur is because ‘computor’ in French is “cunt-whore”! Reply

Excellent. Sometimes there is no other word to express deep feeling. The French use it all the time, in everyday use (con). the reason the French call a computor an ordinateur is because ‘computor’ in French is “cunt-whore”!

RavinRay (@Ravin_Ray) says: August 16, 2013 at 11:10 am Very interesting article.The picture used for ‘Kunti’ actually shows her daughter in law Draupadi, who was publicly molested and the image depicts the God Krishna saving her from it.Kunti is actually an ordinary princess(which makes her even cooler than being a Goddess, I think) who is given a divine boon to seduce any God she likes.Both Draupadi and Kunti are amazing female characters from the epic Mahabharata. Reply

Very interesting article.The picture used for ‘Kunti’ actually shows her daughter in law Draupadi, who was publicly molested and the image depicts the God Krishna saving her from it.Kunti is actually an ordinary princess(which makes her even cooler than being a Goddess, I think) who is given a divine boon to seduce any God she likes.Both Draupadi and Kunti are amazing female characters from the epic Mahabharata.

Julia Scales says: October 28, 2013 at 1:07 pm Reblogged this on Happy Feminism and commented: In one of my other posts for this week, Sophia Wallace reveals that the majority of today’s profanity revolves around the female genitalia or the shame of being on the receiving end of male genitalia. Although each of these concepts should be neutral (if not positive), society has distorted the language around this subject to be something overwhelming negative. Realizing that this has not always been the case, Cherish the Cunt’s post introduces many of the theories revolving around the origin of the word “cunt,” including one describing it as both magical and all powerful. Reply

Reblogged this on Happy Feminism and commented: In one of my other posts for this week, Sophia Wallace reveals that the majority of today’s profanity revolves around the female genitalia or the shame of being on the receiving end of male genitalia. Although each of these concepts should be neutral (if not positive), society has distorted the language around this subject to be something overwhelming negative. Realizing that this has not always been the case, Cherish the Cunt’s post introduces many of the theories revolving around the origin of the word “cunt,” including one describing it as both magical and all powerful.

kendralice says: November 13, 2013 at 4:36 pm Next time I’m in Ireland, I’d love to meet up and chat!! This was way cool! Reply

Next time I’m in Ireland, I’d love to meet up and chat!! This was way cool!

Sharon Rose says: November 14, 2013 at 3:59 pm I wonder if Ghee has some relationship to the word Chi, sometimes spelled Qi? It would make sense as similar concept of Life Force, like Kundalini. Reply

I wonder if Ghee has some relationship to the word Chi, sometimes spelled Qi? It would make sense as similar concept of Life Force, like Kundalini.

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ceclay says: November 16, 2013 at 7:18 am I’m writing “tales of the uncontrollable cunt” and you are going to be a link, dahling. deardementeddiary Reply

I’m writing “tales of the uncontrollable cunt” and you are going to be a link, dahling. deardementeddiary

Clive Winmill, Australia says: November 21, 2013 at 12:29 pm I believe one of the most immediate sources of the English word is the Latin ‘cunnus’, meaning the vulva, The word might have come into Britain with the Roman occupation, because I daresay the occupiers paid a fair bit of attention to the vulvae of the Britons, as occupiers are wont to do. Its ‘poshest’ form is in the word for that loveliest of erotic pleasures, ‘cunnilingus’. A related Latin word is ‘cuneus’, a wedge, rather descriptive of the cunt itself and also found in the word ‘cuneiform’ – as detailed by your site. Congratulations on your work. Much conflict might be avoided if humans could stop having good/bad reactions to mere labels, and learnt to give rational and appreciative consideration to the objects themselves. And as many of your commentators observe, the object you’ve chosen for your study is surely the most vital and beautiful one there is. Without cunts we wouldn’t be here. I’m also much in favour of the the word ‘yoni’ which should be better known globally because, as I understand it, it stands for more than just a ‘temple’. It represents the female principle O-rigin of all things at all levels – e.g. the circle or O-rifice of a galaxy, or even of the Big Bang, no punning intended. I have a lovely brass candle-holder representing the yoni and its male principle counterpart, the lingam, (or cunt and cock in Anglo-Saxon English) and would be happy to send you a digital photo for your site on request. It’s so pleasing to see somebody demonstrating the root syllables of language: deep meaning comes from them, So thank you Cherisher. Thanks also to D.H. Lawrence, who suffered much for being an earlier pioneer of the process of restoring lusty Anglo-Saxon words to their rightful place in what is probably the world’s most widely-spoken lingua-franca. CW. Reply

I believe one of the most immediate sources of the English word is the Latin ‘cunnus’, meaning the vulva, The word might have come into Britain with the Roman occupation, because I daresay the occupiers paid a fair bit of attention to the vulvae of the Britons, as occupiers are wont to do. Its ‘poshest’ form is in the word for that loveliest of erotic pleasures, ‘cunnilingus’. A related Latin word is ‘cuneus’, a wedge, rather descriptive of the cunt itself and also found in the word ‘cuneiform’ – as detailed by your site. Congratulations on your work. Much conflict might be avoided if humans could stop having good/bad reactions to mere labels, and learnt to give rational and appreciative consideration to the objects themselves. And as many of your commentators observe, the object you’ve chosen for your study is surely the most vital and beautiful one there is. Without cunts we wouldn’t be here. I’m also much in favour of the the word ‘yoni’ which should be better known globally because, as I understand it, it stands for more than just a ‘temple’. It represents the female principle O-rigin of all things at all levels – e.g. the circle or O-rifice of a galaxy, or even of the Big Bang, no punning intended. I have a lovely brass candle-holder representing the yoni and its male principle counterpart, the lingam, (or cunt and cock in Anglo-Saxon English) and would be happy to send you a digital photo for your site on request. It’s so pleasing to see somebody demonstrating the root syllables of language: deep meaning comes from them, So thank you Cherisher. Thanks also to D.H. Lawrence, who suffered much for being an earlier pioneer of the process of restoring lusty Anglo-Saxon words to their rightful place in what is probably the world’s most widely-spoken lingua-franca. CW.

Te says: December 1, 2013 at 8:20 pm Yes, Jim Bliss, cunt IS related to cunny, but not as its derivative. The other way around. Cunny is the diminutive of cunt. Yes, lots of tie-ins with little furry critters (ergo, also called pussy and mouse). In Britain in times past, punsters had a heyday with poems about ferrets chasing coneys down the cunny-hole. See The 1812 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. I found a ton of good information for a paper I wrote on it all. Word of caution: all the old dictionaries like this tend to quote one another, so I never could find who did some of the original work. And it’s considered good luck to wet your finger before you touch the cunny of a Sheela-na-gig. Good manners are always appreciated! Reply

Yes, Jim Bliss, cunt IS related to cunny, but not as its derivative. The other way around. Cunny is the diminutive of cunt. Yes, lots of tie-ins with little furry critters (ergo, also called pussy and mouse). In Britain in times past, punsters had a heyday with poems about ferrets chasing coneys down the cunny-hole. See The 1812 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. I found a ton of good information for a paper I wrote on it all. Word of caution: all the old dictionaries like this tend to quote one another, so I never could find who did some of the original work.

And it’s considered good luck to wet your finger before you touch the cunny of a Sheela-na-gig. Good manners are always appreciated!

jcouttsJohn says: December 20, 2013 at 9:44 am I live in Spain (I’m Scottish) and like you say is the case in Ireland, the Spanish equivalent word for cunt (coño – pronounced as cone-yo) is used all the time here, but not at all in the way it is used in the UK and the US. The first time I heard this word used in public here was in a crowded bar, and the person saying it (very loudly) was a woman. I looked around, expecting to see disapproving looks from others nearby, especially from some of the other women, but no one batted an eyelid. The word, coño, can be used in Spanish in the hard derogatory sense it is used in the UK and the US, but most of the time it is used in a mild form, and both sexes use it freely – even in what might be considered polite company. Reply

I live in Spain (I’m Scottish) and like you say is the case in Ireland, the Spanish equivalent word for cunt (coño – pronounced as cone-yo) is used all the time here, but not at all in the way it is used in the UK and the US.

The first time I heard this word used in public here was in a crowded bar, and the person saying it (very loudly) was a woman. I looked around, expecting to see disapproving looks from others nearby, especially from some of the other women, but no one batted an eyelid.

The word, coño, can be used in Spanish in the hard derogatory sense it is used in the UK and the US, but most of the time it is used in a mild form, and both sexes use it freely – even in what might be considered polite company.

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Jeremy Dixon says: February 9, 2014 at 5:05 am And then there is the rabbit. A rabbit used to be called a “coney”, pronounced to rhyme with “honey”. (We still have the old word in a disguised version as the baby-talk “bunny”, also an old slang term for cunt). We started calling coneys rabbits about the same time as we started calling cocks “roosters” and asses “donkeys” and for the same reason. Hence of course the Easter Bunny. Really the Easter Bunny is a hare, a magical creature in its own right, and sexual too, Shakespeare continually puns on hare and whore. Witches turned into hares. But Easter is a fertility festival and so “bunny” fits. What kind of bunny produces eggs? A menstruating bunny. Reply

And then there is the rabbit. A rabbit used to be called a “coney”, pronounced to rhyme with “honey”. (We still have the old word in a disguised version as the baby-talk “bunny”, also an old slang term for cunt). We started calling coneys rabbits about the same time as we started calling cocks “roosters” and asses “donkeys” and for the same reason.

Hence of course the Easter Bunny. Really the Easter Bunny is a hare, a magical creature in its own right, and sexual too, Shakespeare continually puns on hare and whore. Witches turned into hares. But Easter is a fertility festival and so “bunny” fits. What kind of bunny produces eggs? A menstruating bunny.

rosross says: February 12, 2014 at 7:52 am Perhaps if there were more respect for cunt there would be fewer women who screamed in childbirth. :) Reply

Perhaps if there were more respect for cunt there would be fewer women who screamed in childbirth. :)

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Rory says: March 18, 2014 at 9:45 am In endemic South American linguistic styles many of them have ‘kun’ at their root (or as itself) for a word for ‘female genitalia’. More interestingly this appears to have come about independently from Western (or even Eastern!) cultures….or did it? Some suggest it is proof of an ancient link between even more ancient cultures the globe over. Reply

In endemic South American linguistic styles many of them have ‘kun’ at their root (or as itself) for a word for ‘female genitalia’. More interestingly this appears to have come about independently from Western (or even Eastern!) cultures….or did it? Some suggest it is proof of an ancient link between even more ancient cultures the globe over.

Tara says: March 20, 2014 at 3:16 pm I ♥ that you are on a quest to familiarise people with the true power and meaning of the cunt. From a book called Phallic Worship I found a meaning of Cunts being high priestesses who had sexual union with people to bring them to a higher level of spirituality! And that the word was later bastardised by a male dominated christian church. All hail the power of the Cunt ♥ Reply cherishthecunt says: March 20, 2014 at 4:45 pm oh thank you Tara! I love that definition and will so get the book ;.) would love you to join the quest if you feel drawn x please contact me if you have any questions xxx Reply

I ♥ that you are on a quest to familiarise people with the true power and meaning of the cunt. From a book called Phallic Worship I found a meaning of Cunts being high priestesses who had sexual union with people to bring them to a higher level of spirituality! And that the word was later bastardised by a male dominated christian church. All hail the power of the Cunt ♥

cherishthecunt says: March 20, 2014 at 4:45 pm oh thank you Tara! I love that definition and will so get the book ;.) would love you to join the quest if you feel drawn x please contact me if you have any questions xxx Reply

oh thank you Tara! I love that definition and will so get the book ;.) would love you to join the quest if you feel drawn x please contact me if you have any questions xxx

Michael Marek says: March 22, 2014 at 8:04 am how poor is english speaking world without knowing of eastern Europe, what about “kunda” from western Slavs? (espec. Czechs) definitely same meaning as the english “cunt” ;) Reply cherishthecunt says: March 22, 2014 at 11:18 pm Thank you Michael! YES YES i love this… I’m sorry I didn’t quote it before but now that I know i will xxxxxx Reply

how poor is english speaking world without knowing of eastern Europe, what about “kunda” from western Slavs? (espec. Czechs) definitely same meaning as the english “cunt” ;)

cherishthecunt says: March 22, 2014 at 11:18 pm Thank you Michael! YES YES i love this… I’m sorry I didn’t quote it before but now that I know i will xxxxxx Reply

Thank you Michael! YES YES i love this… I’m sorry I didn’t quote it before but now that I know i will xxxxxx

salliesweet says: March 31, 2014 at 5:13 am Thank you…I found this very interesting. I have to laugh whenever someone gets their panties in a wad over it…the U.S. seems to be the only country with such a huge feeling of offense toward using the word. Reply

Thank you…I found this very interesting. I have to laugh whenever someone gets their panties in a wad over it…the U.S. seems to be the only country with such a huge feeling of offense toward using the word.

salliesweet says: March 31, 2014 at 5:17 am Thank you…I appreciated this. I find it laughable whenever anyone gets their panties in a wad over the word. The U.S. seems to be the only country to find offense with its use…lol. Reply

Thank you…I appreciated this. I find it laughable whenever anyone gets their panties in a wad over the word. The U.S. seems to be the only country to find offense with its use…lol.

AxeGrrl says: April 19, 2014 at 1:45 am I don’t think it’s the word itself that people object to so much as its use as a _pejorative_ :) Similarly, gay people don’t object to people using the word ‘gay’ to mean homosexual, they object to it being used to mean ‘lame’. Why do people react negatively to ‘cunt’ but not to ‘vagina’? Because people don’t say “you’re such a vagina” with spittle flying as they do with the former :) Reply

I don’t think it’s the word itself that people object to so much as its use as a _pejorative_ :)

Similarly, gay people don’t object to people using the word ‘gay’ to mean homosexual, they object to it being used to mean ‘lame’.

Why do people react negatively to ‘cunt’ but not to ‘vagina’? Because people don’t say “you’re such a vagina” with spittle flying as they do with the former :)

AxeGrrl says: April 19, 2014 at 1:51 am If/when anyone calls me a cunt, insultingly, my response is: Let’s see, cunts spit out 10lb+ babies, withstand jackhammeresque pounding, and are the source of divine pleasure…. so, please DO call me a cunt ;) Reply

If/when anyone calls me a cunt, insultingly, my response is:

Let’s see, cunts spit out 10lb+ babies, withstand jackhammeresque pounding, and are the source of divine pleasure….

so, please DO call me a cunt ;)

Brian says: April 30, 2014 at 5:59 am I don’t know why but reading this article gives Me a boner. Reply

I don’t know why but reading this article gives Me a boner.

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darren says: June 14, 2014 at 8:46 pm I don’t care how much history there is with the word, it justs sounds bad and degrading to Women in my opinion. I prefer Pussy myself. Reply

I don’t care how much history there is with the word, it justs sounds bad and degrading to Women in my opinion. I prefer Pussy myself.

Leigh says: July 12, 2014 at 6:25 am thanks for sharing your findings. Cunt in the u.s. really is one of the “harshest” swear words we have, like it’s the most offensive thing to call a woman and really is only spoken in the most demeaning of circumstances, by the foulest mouths . But for some reason, the word always resonated with me. Its my go-to word with my husband for steamy talk. Cunt feels very sensual and seductive, rather than raunchy and foul , like it’s too often portrayed. I was so excited when I heard my Australian friends use it so casually, using it like a North American might call their friend “jerk” or “dork”, in a friendly playful way. I tried to start using it that way, but only got dirty looks, I gave it up. I wonder how the ladies at my yoga studio would feel if I began talking about their cunts. I just love all the effort you have put into cunts, this must make you some kind of a master of cunts or maybe a major cunt? And I do think your going to have to get a naked picture of your Sile Na Ge impersonation…for your private collection anyway :) Much happiness to you from a fellow cunt lover <3 Reply

thanks for sharing your findings. Cunt in the u.s. really is one of the “harshest” swear words we have, like it’s the most offensive thing to call a woman and really is only spoken in the most demeaning of circumstances, by the foulest mouths . But for some reason, the word always resonated with me. Its my go-to word with my husband for steamy talk. Cunt feels very sensual and seductive, rather than raunchy and foul , like it’s too often portrayed. I was so excited when I heard my Australian friends use it so casually, using it like a North American might call their friend “jerk” or “dork”, in a friendly playful way. I tried to start using it that way, but only got dirty looks, I gave it up. I wonder how the ladies at my yoga studio would feel if I began talking about their cunts. I just love all the effort you have put into cunts, this must make you some kind of a master of cunts or maybe a major cunt? And I do think your going to have to get a naked picture of your Sile Na Ge impersonation…for your private collection anyway :) Much happiness to you from a fellow cunt lover <3