What does "venus" mean anyway?

[Chomp]

I'll bet a bunch of you know what it means, but could you please tell me?
Because I have no idea.

 

[Grey Moss]

Well, that is rated R. The clean version goes, they named it Venus because Venus was the goddess of beauty and they thought this plant was "beautiful".

 

[JRFxtreme]

I had completely forgotten about this.

 

[DrWurm]

We'll tell you when you're older.

Jason

 

[Chomp]

Okey...
sorry i asked

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

hehe.

its not a problem that you asked. it just refers to something which cant be mentioned on these forums.

Alex

 

[blokeman]

google works wonders

 

[Clue]

You really don't wanna know. (Weird botanists...)

 

[petmantis]

Chomp, there is a page on that on a pretty well known website, but you really don't need to know that right now.

 

[Chomp]

okay, I understand... I didn't realize it was anything like that.

Every one try and forget all about it!

 

[BigBella]

I'll bet a bunch of you know what it means, but could you please tell me?
Because I have no idea.

Well, Venus was the Roman goddess of love (hence the term, venereal) and it may have something to do with lonely, heat-stroke-deranged, field-bound botanists "hallucinating" that Dionaea's trapping leaves resembled women's . . . um, er . . . naughty bits ("tipitiwitchets"); again, I can't help but wonder about the particular company they had been keeping . . .

 

[Chomp]

ah, that explains it.

 

[Grey Moss]

Bet you won't look at your venus flytraps the same way again.

 

[Noddy]

Even when it's a "SHORT TEETH" or "WACKY TRAPS / BART SIMPSON" LOL

 

[Nepfreak]

"venus's flytrap."

 

[seedjar]

Even when it's a "SHORT TEETH" or "WACKY TRAPS / BART SIMPSON" LOL

LOL, now I'm traumatized.
~Joe

 

[Halt]

Oh i get it.

 

[Noddy]

Took you a while ....LOL

 

[Capensis]

It's funnier now that you get it, huh?

 

[Alexis]

Somebody's got to say it...


VAGINA.


There. I've gone and done it.

Incidentally, I personally think it may come from an old myth which these links may explain better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata
http://www.teethmovie.com