# Girls ain't got taint? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 26, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992 "2005-10-26T14:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/1 "2005-10-26T14:07:32Z")
A letter writer to Dan Savage’s Savage Love column claimed that females don’t have taints, only males. I’ve never heard this of distinction being made. Is it true? FYI, the letter’s here (third one from top): [http://avclub.com/content/savagelove/pubes](http://avclub.com/content/savagelove/pubes) BTW, the page linked to above contains no work-unsafe images, but it does contain words of a sexual nature, such as taint, pubes, semen and the like. So if your workplace is anal about such things, don’t go there. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/2 "2005-10-26T14:16:00Z")
I always thought it was _only_ females who have taints, so called because “'Tain’t one and 'tain’t the other”. Men have gooches. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/3 "2005-10-26T14:31:05Z")
They both do have perineums. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/4 "2005-10-26T14:36:09Z")
Unless I’ve been misled lo these many years, the “taint” is the perineum. Both men and women have a perineum. If women _don’t_ have them, it’s going to be quite a surprise to all the millions who have had one tear, or cut for an episiotomy, during childbirth, to only now discover that they are mutuants. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/5 "2005-10-26T14:37:26Z")
“Mutuants” being even worse than “mutants.” They’re mutants with perineums, naturally. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/6 "2005-10-26T14:43:23Z")
They don’t? Then what have I been using for a chin-rest? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/7 "2005-10-26T14:44:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > They don’t? Then what have I been using for a chin-rest? I am not yet awake enough to be spewing coffee all over the monitor! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/8 "2005-10-26T14:45:23Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > BTW, the page linked to above contains no work-unsafe images, but it does contain words of a sexual nature, such as taint, pubes, semen and the like. So if your workplace is anal about such things, don’t go there. That’d be the irony, Bob. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/9 "2005-10-26T16:53:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > chin-rest Are you the same guy who used that line in a childbirth class? Didn’t go over too well, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/10 "2005-10-26T17:27:33Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Are you the same guy who used that line in a childbirth class? Didn’t go over too well, as I recall. When I first read this I didn’t see the word “line.” That gave me a whole different mental image of the childbirth class in question. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/11 "2005-10-26T18:29:11Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > That’d be the irony, Bob. Say it taint so! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/12 "2005-10-26T19:56:06Z")
I thought the same thing when I saw that letter. Didn’t seem right…and since when I looked it up one of the definintions that came up was “The thing that allows you to hold a woman like a six pack”…I’d say it refers to that Special Place on both men and women. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/13 "2005-10-26T20:59:50Z")
Can someone give or link to a definition of “taint” or “gooch”? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/14 "2005-10-26T21:17:43Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Can someone give or link to a definition of “taint” or “gooch”? Here’s the one I was talking about > **[Urban Dictionary: taint](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=taint)** > > A.k.a. chad or perineum. The region between genitals and arsehole. Taint gets its name from the sentence: It ain't pussy, it ain't arse. i.e. 'taint pussy, 'taint arse. #6 is interesting, why didn’t I ever take up figure skating? I note there is a link to gooch: > **[Urban Dictionary: gooch](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gooch)** > > Gooch is another word for chad: the region between the balls and the arse-hole; can be an erogenous zone for some. Girl: I was fingering that part between his balls and his arse and there was shit there. Everyone listening remained silent but later... ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-aint-got-taint/327992/15 "2005-10-27T14:55:14Z")
I’ve heard that Jesus’s Mom was untainted, but she was the only one.