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Help[Opinions] WDYTO Venus?
It’s the name of the day. Do you like Venus? It makes me think of the planet first and foremost, but I know it’s also the name of a goddess. Is it too close to “penis”?
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The penis thing doesn’t bother me. I knew a few girls named Venus and they were all pretty cool so I have good associations with the name. I think it’s pretty cool, as a matter of fact.
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Not a fan. Would be awkward on someone ‘s not conventionally attractive.
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Stop me if you've heard this, but I knew a very old unmarried lady named Venus who was tiny, stooped, ferocious and ruled the local Scrabble club with a rod of iron. She died when in her late 90s, and only then did I find out that she was an old girl of my school (which was at the other end of the country). So clearly the goddess connection and indeed the penis connection just don't work for me.
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I think it's interesting. It reminds me more of venal than penis, but I can ignore that.
I can't think of any other feminine names with *us endings, so it's unique in that way...stereotyped femininity but almost masculine looking language-wise.
I barely think of the planet, but that's a cool connection. My main associations are Venus Williams, art, and the goddess.
I prefer the sound of Aphrodite but maybe not the connotations based on the goddess...maybe I haven't read enough, but she strikes me as more fickle and aggressive or less benevolent: more airy, less earthy. Venus was significant and connected to gardens/prosperity/fertility, not just love/lust/beauty; she is associated with change, but it seems like mostly positive change? Good luck, mercy, beginnings, morning, spring, wit, wine, flow, ease, creativity. She also supposedly protected against vice...in the sense that sexuality/pleasure was supposed to be understood as beautiful and revered and without conflict, I guess. And I think she was a patroness of prostitutes, so I wouldn't use it personally unless I was okay with that connection.
Compared to some other goddess names, I'd rather be Venus than Athena or Persephone, but I don't think I like it more than Minerva, Freya, Ourania, Iris, Demeter. It's about on the level of Gaia (distinctive and kind of pleasant but in-your-face divine in a borderline hokey way, at least to me).
I can't think of any other feminine names with *us endings, so it's unique in that way...stereotyped femininity but almost masculine looking language-wise.
I barely think of the planet, but that's a cool connection. My main associations are Venus Williams, art, and the goddess.
I prefer the sound of Aphrodite but maybe not the connotations based on the goddess...maybe I haven't read enough, but she strikes me as more fickle and aggressive or less benevolent: more airy, less earthy. Venus was significant and connected to gardens/prosperity/fertility, not just love/lust/beauty; she is associated with change, but it seems like mostly positive change? Good luck, mercy, beginnings, morning, spring, wit, wine, flow, ease, creativity. She also supposedly protected against vice...in the sense that sexuality/pleasure was supposed to be understood as beautiful and revered and without conflict, I guess. And I think she was a patroness of prostitutes, so I wouldn't use it personally unless I was okay with that connection.
Compared to some other goddess names, I'd rather be Venus than Athena or Persephone, but I don't think I like it more than Minerva, Freya, Ourania, Iris, Demeter. It's about on the level of Gaia (distinctive and kind of pleasant but in-your-face divine in a borderline hokey way, at least to me).
This message was edited 6/22/2021, 8:46 PM
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Reminds me of the razor commercial too much. It is a cool name, though.
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I just think it's a lot to live up to.
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