Dolly shows her front bottom

Can you really see her genitals?

50,000 copies of Dolly magazine, says World Sex News, have been withdrawn because they accidentally show a model's genitals.

I beg to differ. A woman's pubic region is not her genitals, which are cleverly (or frustratingly) hidden away from view. More precisely, the genitals are the reproductive organs including the uterus and vagina. Less precisely, the genitals sometime include the vulva, clitoris and labia.

Movie star Sharon Stone complained that when she crossed her legs in Basic Instinct, everyone could see her genitals too. You couldn't, which is not to say that you couldn't see part of her that she considers private.

This brings up another quandary, what do we call a woman's pubic region, which distinguishes it from her vulva and genitals? "Bush" refers to pubic hair, if she has any. "Slit" is undistinguished and vulgar. Medically I've seen "genital cleft", and the British sometimes use the quaint "front bottom". Surely there is a better term out there?