# What all is contained inside a scrotum? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114 "2012-01-20T06:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/1 "2012-01-20T06:44:51Z")
Balls Tubing Anything else? Balls aren’t cubes (typically), so they dont fit together flush. So what fills the gaps? ---
**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:** [January 20, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/2 "2012-01-20T07:11:21Z")
Oh, about tree-fiddy. ---
**Author:** ![ExcitedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/3 "2012-01-20T09:05:17Z")
This should answer all of your questions: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrotum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrotum) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/4 "2012-01-20T12:30:05Z")
Also fluid to keep everything suspended and lubricated. These fluid-filled regions can swell to outrageous size in a condition called a _hydrocele_, which , if it doesn’t go away on its own, requires an operation to reduce. Your correspondent speaks from recent experience. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/5 "2012-01-20T12:44:42Z")
The wikipedia cite includes “ballsack” and “ballbag” but completely omits “nutsack” and “cobbler’s purse”. I have remedied. I am shocked that inside one of my organs of masculinity I have something called a ‘tunica vaginalis’. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/6 "2012-01-20T13:51:55Z")
Well, it’s _very very complicated_ tubing, with separate names for all the different sections, plus various membranes and layers on top of the testis itself, all of which are very important for messing with the minds of anatomy students who must regurgitate the names on exams. > [@jjimm](#): > > I am shocked that inside one of my organs of masculinity I have something called a ‘tunica vaginalis’. Yes, but to counter that there is a layer of deep connective tissue in the penis called “Buck’s fascia” which is a very masculine name, if you ask me. **Jackmannii** , who once lectured to medical students on pathology of The Penis and The Testis, and is thus an expert on such matters. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/7 "2012-01-20T14:09:04Z")
Interstitial cells. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/8 "2012-01-20T14:12:46Z")
What are you asking us for? Go grab a flashlight, put up your legs and stretch out your nether bits and check it out yourself! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/9 "2012-01-20T14:14:03Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > **Jackmannii** , who once lectured to medical students on pathology of The Penis and The Testis, and is thus an expert on such matters. 🙂 I picture a lot of head turning and coughing in that class. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/10 "2012-01-20T14:41:58Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > What are you asking us for? Go grab a flashlight, put up your legs and stretch out your nether bits and check it out yourself! You assume the OP is male. Maybe this option is not open to her. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/11 "2012-01-20T14:45:35Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > …Yes, but to counter that there is a layer of deep connective tissue in the penis called “Buck’s fascia” which is a very masculine name, if you ask me… I don’t want Buck’s face anywhere near my boys, especially an Italian named Buck. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/12 "2012-01-20T15:12:01Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > The wikipedia cite includes “ballsack” and “ballbag” but completely omits “nutsack” and “cobbler’s purse”. I have remedied. And what about teabag? The page is blocked. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/13 "2012-01-20T16:07:26Z")
The diagram on the wiki page shows a lot more non-ball meat in the sack than I was expecting: muscles, cords, etc. The sack is pretty well fully occupied. The scrot is also apparently arranged to conform to the shape of the contents, like [vacuum sealed meatballs](http://svkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Meatballs04.jpg): not a lot of free open space in there. I was imagining something more like this [bag o’ marbles](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Multiply_4_bags_3_marbles.svg) with some voids to fill with _something_ (other than a third marble). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/14 "2012-01-20T16:46:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Also fluid to keep everything suspended and lubricated. These fluid-filled regions can swell to outrageous size in a condition called a _hydrocele_, which , if it doesn’t go away on its own, requires an operation to reduce. > Your correspondent speaks from recent experience. Ouch. There was an episode of the BBC show _Embarrassing Bodies_ that showed one of these hydroceles being drained. It’s an image that won’t soon leave me. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/15 "2012-01-20T16:49:16Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > There was an episode of the BBC show _Embarrassing Bodies_ that showed one of these hydroceles being drained. It’s an image that won’t soon leave me. Cursed as I am with a tendency to literal visualisaton that just serves you right for your user name. ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/16 "2012-01-20T18:55:14Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > What are you asking us for? Go grab a flashlight, put up your legs and stretch out your nether bits and check it out yourself! This is more or less how docs diagnose the aforementioned hydrocele. The fluid in the scrotum refracts the light in such a way that the entire scrotum glows. At least that’s how mine was diagnosed back in 1981, just after graduating high school. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/17 "2012-01-20T19:04:39Z")
Does scrotal fluid have a name? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/18 "2012-01-20T19:10:36Z")
> [@3waygeek](#): > > This is more or less how docs diagnose the aforementioned hydrocele. The fluid in the scrotum refracts the light in such a way that the entire scrotum glows. At least that’s how mine was diagnosed back in 1981, just after graduating high school. That’s what I was told, so I gleefully got my Maglite – the big three-D cell one, and turned it on. I was severely disappointed with the results. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/19 "2012-01-20T19:14:58Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > The wikipedia cite includes “ballsack” and “ballbag” but completely omits “nutsack” and “cobbler’s purse”. I have remedied. . . I salute your efforts in the fight against ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114/20 "2012-01-20T19:24:15Z")
> [@3waygeek](#): > > This is more or less how docs diagnose the aforementioned hydrocele. The fluid in the scrotum refracts the light in such a way that the entire scrotum glows. Bummer, all mine did was cast a rainbow on to the side of the refrigerator. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-is-contained-inside-a-scrotum/610114.md?page=2)