There’s a lot of weird stuff in your balls. And it’s only getting weirder.. .

We’re no ballologists, but most people have a pretty firm grasp on their own balls, at least at some point in the day. They might not be able to name every structure holding the system up, but they’ve got a reasonably good idea what’s in there, and if something surprising popped up, they’d like to think they’d know. 

The Weirdest Stuff in Your Balls
The latest addition – microplastics!

May 24, 2024
Amanda Mannen

But it turns out, there’s a lot of weird stuff in your balls. And it’s only getting weirder.. . .

If you’ve got balls, you’ve also got two more of them in there, the appendix testis and the appendix of the epididymis. They’re both leftovers of ducts every fetus has before their body makes a genital decision, but they don’t leave anything behind when it lands on ovaries because the human body is a confusing nightmare.

1Taste Buds
Remember in 2020, when dudes were dipping their balls in soy sauce and claiming they could taste it? First of all, that was before lockdown. Make it make sense. All that aside, it was probably because one guy read somewhere that testicles have taste buds, which isn’t untrue. They appear to play a role in sperm production, but they’re on the inside, so tea-bagging a bowl of ramen is “like trying to taste soy sauce by dabbing it on the outside of your cheek.”

You actually do have taste receptors all over your body, though notably not anywhere in or around the vagina. As if it doesn’t make life disappointing enough.