private parts:
Euphemism for the male or female genitials. See penis and vagina for synonyms.QUOTES:
(1) Florinda (Brenda Vaccaro) to Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton) in Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981): ' You know , as the Alcalde's wife , I must play many, many roles, but the people only see the part I play in public. Only a few select friends know my private parts .'
(2) Dick Harper (George Segal) and Jane (Jane Fonda) in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977):
-- Dick: ' Would you be embarassed if I kissed you in a public place? '
-- Jane: ' I'd be embarassed if you kissed me in a private place with all these people around .'
(3) Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984): 'If sex be an act , we all have parts to play with.' Most of us know them as the carnal-parts (early-18 th C), the natural-parts (mid-16 th C), the naturals (17 th C), the parts-below (17 th C), the underparts (mid-19 th C), the privy-parts (c. 1565), the private parts (c. 1885), the privates (20 th C).'
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