# Taint no big thing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510 "2011-03-21T20:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 21, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/1 "2011-03-21T20:23:35Z")
Well, actually, [it is](http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/08/key-genital-measurement-linked-male-fertility/?intcmp=obnetwork). At least if you are planning on having kids. Seems the length of a man’s taint is directly related to his fertility. \ Something new to add to the eHarmony questionnaire. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/2 "2011-03-21T20:35:24Z")
So THAT’S why I haven’t been able to conceive? How will I tell my husband? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/3 "2011-03-21T22:31:46Z")
I knew that. I learned it from my subscription to “Under Your Balls Quarterly.” Joe ---
**Author:** ![Curious3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Curious3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curious3d)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/4 "2011-03-21T23:13:58Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > I knew that. I learned it from my subscription to “Under Your Balls Quarterly.” > > Joe There’s a bi-annual joke in there somewhere, but I don’t have the energy to come up with it. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/5 "2011-03-22T00:35:54Z")
That is something that never in a million years would have occurred to me to measure ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/6 "2011-03-22T00:44:00Z")
Oh boy. Just when you think the internet can’t surprise you with its extremely personal minutiae… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/7 "2011-03-22T12:31:52Z")
It’s insane, this guys’ taint! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/8 "2011-03-23T08:37:05Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Something new to add to the eHarmony questionnaire. If I knew anybody well enough to ask them to measure it, I wouldn’t need eHarmony, would I? ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/9 "2011-03-23T13:47:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If I knew anybody well enough to ask them to measure it, I wouldn’t need eHarmony, would I? And if I were flexible enough to measure it myself, I wouldn’t need eHarmony either. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taint-no-big-thing/575510/10 "2011-03-23T13:55:10Z")
How do tainted food products fit into this equation? I bet Spam is full of taint, if not made exclusively from it.