

How bodies are innervated-how nerves travel to that part of the body-is different. Testicles are different and inguinal canals are different.

Everybody’s anatomy is slightly different. Sometimes that gets better over time, and sometimes it doesn’t. But at least anecdotally, there isn’t any evidence that that happens more often in people who tuck. We need more research dollars for folks who tuck, folks who bind. However there isn’t the science to back that, which is unfortunate. There isn’t any increased likelihood that people who tuck get hernias. It’s a space that something like a testicle could travel through. In any case, as adults, a few things travel through the inguinal canal, like blood vessels. In a percentage of human beings, one or both testicles don’t fully descend-someone could have a testicle still in their abdomen or partially in that canal. Most babies who have testicles when they are born had both testicles travel down from their abdomen into their scrotum. That canal is actually a remnant of an important process that happened during fetal development, and that’s how the testicles traveled down into the scrotum from growing in the abdominal cavity. There’s a few different ways you can tuck, but one is by putting pressure on the testicles so they travel up through this canal in that fold on either side of the groin. If I tuck, where do my balls go? Is it true they go inside me?
