Science is not “prost.” If people think using anatomically-correct terms instead of krepel or schmeckie is inferior, then that is simply an insult to any intelligent, mature person who has ever studied Anatomy and Physiology, or taken a health or sex ed class. It also reflects how little many of our ilk reject science or any kind of higher learning. It is not “prost” for male doctors and health professionals to learn about gynecology, just as there is nothing inherently wrong or improper about rabbis delving into niddah and the complex issues surrounding it. Better to be mature about niddah than view it as the Karaites did.
R’ Henkin, zt”l, felt that if a couple got a civil marriage or even cohabitated and lived as a married couple would, they would need a get.