Taint (slang)
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Template:Otheruses3 Taint is a term used to refer to the Perineum (the region of the human body between the testicles or vagina and the anus). This term has no basis in medical terminology and is most often considered lewd and obscene.
The word taint is derived from the combination of the word "it" and the term "ain’t" with the joke commonly being it ain’t your pussy (or balls) and it ain't your asshole. Despite its dubious origins the term taint has become relevant to pop culture having been used by several television programs and stand up comedians.
One example is episode #406 of the HBO program, Mr. Show with Bob and David. The episode was entitled It’s insane this guy's taint! and contained a comedy sketch about a man who makes a small fortune through the publication of an adult magazine centered on the taint (one of the magazines stars allegedly had a 5 inch taint). David Cross has continued to use the term in his stand up comedy and has become somewhat synonymous with the term.
Though the term has become widely known in the U.S. part of its allure is that it has not become part of mainstream vocabulary. Starting in the year 2003 a person claiming to be David Cross began writing to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and inserting the term "It’s insane this guys taint!" in their correspondence. Several of the letters were published and are now widely available on the internet. It has not been established if the writer was in fact David Cross.
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Usage among the U.S. homosexual population
The term taint is now commonly used in the U.S. homosexual population, especially among gay men. The term has become so well known that a Washington D.C. gay/lesbian dance night is called Taint and a gay rock band has also taken the name Taint. Also of note was a gay publication entitled Taint.
Sexual fetish
The taint is in close proximity to the sensitive prostate gland, and thus is sometimes used to enhance the male orgasm. Putting pressure on the taint to increase pleasure is a practice prevalent in the gay community, but common in the straight community as well. Anilingus performed on the taint is often referred to as a tainted salad (a word play on the more common term tossed salad).
Pressure on the taint has also been used as a means to control external male ejaculation. This is believed by some to increase the longevity of the sex act. This practice has been called riding the taint.
References in popular culture
- On the MTV series Beavis & Butt-head, Beavis attempts to contort himself in order to view his own rectum. His attempt to do this fails, and it results in him falling off-screen and off a couch. He can then be heard exclaiming "Hey look! My taint!"
- In the Olympia Press book Play This Love With Me ISBN: 1596541652, published 1955, the term, along with its colloquial origins, is mentioned. The book is also known as Play My Love. Its author, Baird Bryant, was an American.
- In an interview with Blender magazine Depeche Mode front man David Gahan stated that he had his taint pierced but was going to remove it.
- In the television show Deadwood the character Dan Dority used the term taint when Al Swearengen was unable to pass a kidney stone.
- Radio Shock jock Howard Stern has mentioned several times that he likes his women to shave their taints
- An episode of Mr. Show (titled It's Insane, This Guy's Taint, featured a parody of The People vs. Larry Flynt in which a photographer spearheads an empire of taint-based pornography, including Taint Magazine (spinoffs included `Twasn't, `Tweren't, and Neither Dick Nor Ass), and the films Taint Misbehavin and Taint Your Wagon.
- The comedic musical duo, Bobo and Tender (famous for their song parodies on the Ron and Fez show) wrote and played a song entitled, You Can’t Say Taint on the Radio.
- In the film Waiting... a chef in the film, played by Dane Cook, rubs an annoying customer's garlic bread on his taint.
- On the March 3, 2001 episode of Saturday Night Live, a sketch features Conan O'Brien as a doctor that must inform Horatio Sanz's character that he lost his "fleshy fun-bridge" in a car accident, but can make him a new one from wood. The skit goes on to discuss how taintless Americans, including "your friendly announcer," are valuable members of society (a parody of a public service announcement for blindness from the early 1980s).
- On the Geto Boys Album Grip It On That Other Level, Willie D rapped the lines “I Tell you all that ho’s a saint/ Got on her knees and licked my taint.”
- On a first-season episode of Weeds, the term "taint" was the subject of a discussion between the characters played by Justin Kirk and Kevin Nealon.
- On the episode of the Daily Show broadcast on January 17 2006, the term taint was frequently used in an exchange between host Jon Stewart and "Senior Political Analyst" Ed Helms, after Congressman John Shadegg (R-Arizona), seeking the position of House Majority Leader, claimed he had less of a "level of taint" (referring to corruption) than his opponents. The joke went on for several minutes, making excessive use of the pun, during which a map of Washington, D.C., with the Washington Monument representing the penis and the Pentagon representing the anus, was provided.
- In an episode of Family Guy, "Stuck Together, Torn Apart," Stewie tells Brian "Don't forget the taint" as Brian is cleaning him and changing his diaper.
- On the Daily Show 03/22/06, Jon Stewart refers to the Basque Region of Spain as "sorta the geo-political equivalent of Europe's taint."
See also
Gooch, another word for the "taint"