In the Netherlands and across Europe, a quiet but consequential reckoning is underway: the words long used to describe women's bodies in medicine and daily life carry within them centuries of shame, myth, and moral judgment. When the Dutch dictionary Dikke van Dale added 'vulvalippen' as a neutral alternative to 'schaamlippen'—literally 'shame lips'—it marked a small but symbolic step in a broader effort to disentangle anatomy from stigma. From Sweden's reimagining of the hymen to British campaigns against the language of hysteria and failure, reformers argue that the words a culture chooses t