To be fair, the word "penis" itself also doesn't drop down. The toolbar is mostly based on how often the phrase is searched, then apparently filtered for appropriateness or something. I can't imagine that there aren't plenty of people searching "penis" and "vagina," so it must have decided that those words were inappropriate, but "penile" was not. Very weird, but I'd say more arbitrarily sex-phobic than sexist.

Yep. As MarySophia says, Google autocomplete filters words that are likely to be part of searches for pornography. There is no drop down for vagina, penis, anus or anal, as well as terms that are considered more genuinely pornographic such as cock, tits or cum.

The reason for this, as near as I can tell, is because the drop down field, when active, displays the most common searches based off of what you've typed so far. Presumably, the most common searches that include the words vagina and penis are pornographic in nature, so if those words weren't filtered out, you'd see a drop down list of NSFW searches.

I don't even necessarily think that it is because Google is sex-phobic, but rather because their engine is utilized by all age groups. They've integrated filtering of results of course (so if safe search is active and you search for "vagina" you won't get porn) but presumably there are parents who would be up in arms if the autocomplete function suggested obscene search completions when little Susie or Billy typed in a basic anatomical term.

Weird. I just did the same thing both with the toolbar and on the Google site and I got all the way to the end of the word vagina without it popping up anything. I went even further and got all the way to the end of "vagina monologues", just to see what would happen, and it still didn't pop up anything, and that had 778,000 search results! But to be fair, "penis enlargement" also didn't pop up and it has 3,320,000 results.

I don't have any of the safe search features turned on. Quite bizarre.

On a side note, while putting in random terms to see what would filter out, I discovered Black & Decker has some sort of home appliance called a BDSM400. o.O

clit and clitoris do generate a drop down list on mine.

Tell me again, why are we using Google to search for body parts? Often, people do that at bars.

On another note: I think looking at Google search results can give quite an indication of society and gender. In fact, I think it might be a good idea for a senior thesis!

I bet that, although "vagina" is not on the drop down menu, "pussy" is. Now, use just that for an essay on comprehensive sex ed vs. objectification of women, or separating women from their body parts, as a society often does.

On "penis enlargement," one can almost write an essay on its own about society's focus on heteronormative sex, and porn culture's obsession over penis size.

But that's just my over-thinking brain, with three Red Bulls, at 8:50 in the morning.