A man has sparked outrage online by claiming that women shouldn’t even use the word ‘vagina’ because it’s “vulgar.”

Eric Amunga, known on Twitter as @Amerix, is a reproductive medicine specialist, fat loss coach, and men’s health consultant based in Western Kenya. Last week, he addressed his 340K followers, tweeting, “Men, stay away from vulgar women.”

“A feminine, respectful woman values what she speaks or writes. A woman who easily says or writes ‘f***k’, ‘vagina’, ‘d**k’ is a NO,” Amunga added. “Vulgar women are damaged women who come with emotional baggage. FOCUS ON YOUR LIFE.”

There is plenty about the tweet that people took issue with, but they were really furious that Amunga included a clinical term for a sexual organ on his list of “vulgar” words.

Last week, a man told his 340K followers to stay away from vulgar women

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Later that day, he added that a woman is just a “passenger” in a man’s life

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And explained that “purity” and “submission” are the things men actually look in women

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“You are a ‘medical specialist’ in REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH or all things… and think it’s vulgar to say the SCIENTIFIC NAME of a woman’s reproductive organ???” one of Amunga’s critics wrote.

But when Bored Panda contacted the man for a comment on his controversial thoughts, he doubled down. “I am an African and we believe in moral values,” Eric Amunga told Bored Panda. “We don’t appreciate the use of vulgar language in public. If some of these words are mentioned in public in the local language, they are offensive and disgusting. There has been a deterioration of African norms and an erosion of our manners because of alien behaviors imported from foreign nations.”

Amunga thinks the reaction to his tweets was fronted by radical feminists. He finds it strange they didn’t mention the words ‘d**k’ or ‘f**k’ and just focused on vagina. “The word ‘vagina’ is a medical term. I agree,” he said. “It should be only mentioned in a medical space or the bedroom. I have not stopped women and men from using it but I have advised African men to stay away from women who throw vulgarity and epithets.”

His claims instantly received a lot of attention, even spawning quite a few memes

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Even with its newfound exposure, the vagina has remained somewhat of a taboo. Consider this: the Kotex company planned a TV commercial for its pads and tampons that mentioned the word “vagina.” No surprise there, after all, it’s closely related to the product. But then, three broadcast networks told the company it couldn’t use that word. So Kotex filmed the ad with the actress using the phrase “down there.” Two of the three networks, however, rejected even that. And this wasn’t in the 1960s or anything — the ad ran in 2010.

Some think this fear has serious effects — many people still don’t know the difference between the vagina and vulva, much less how to care for either one. A 2013 survey at a U.S. university revealed that only 38 percent of college women could correctly label the vagina on an anatomical diagram (beating out the 20 percent of college men who could find it).

What’s more worrying, fewer than half of all women in another international survey said they’re comfortable discussing vagina-related issues with their healthcare provider.

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