# What's the medical term for the butt-crack?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 22, 1999, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-medical-term-for-the-butt-crack/2144 "1999-07-22T23:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 1999, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-medical-term-for-the-butt-crack/2144/21 "1999-07-24T16:29:00Z")

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Im curious Reverend Tim, why you need to know what it’s called? Part of the sermon? 🙂

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**Post date:** [July 25, 1999, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-medical-term-for-the-butt-crack/2144/22 "1999-07-25T05:52:00Z")

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Well Handy, the flock gets tired the standard fire-and-brimstone stuff week after week, so I like to throw in an anal-cleft-and-posterior-rugae to break up the monotony.

My dilatator-naris-posterior-and-philtrum sermon really packed 'em in the pews.

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**Post date:** [July 24, 1999, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-medical-term-for-the-butt-crack/2144/23 "1999-07-24T21:09:00Z")

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Nickrz said:

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> I could get crude and ask “in which direction am I to travel?” but such things are beneath me.

_laughing_ No pun intended, right?

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