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The perineum is the stretch of skin between the genitals and the anus.

means The small stretch of skin between the genitals and the anus, clinically called the perineum.

from "Taint" as slang is a clipped, half-joking shortening of the phrase "'taint this, 'taint that" (it ain't this, it ain't that) — a folk coinage playing on the idea that the spot isn't quite one thing or the other. It's unrelated to the older word "taint" meaning stain or corruption, which comes from Old French teint/teindre, "to dye or color," itself from Latin tingere. The anatomical slang and the dye-stain word just happen to collide in sound, not ancestry.

medical name
The clinical term is perineum
etymology myth
not actually from taint of both, folk invention
function
anchors pelvic floor muscles, does real work
slang
Used as informal slang for the perineum
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