Foreskin Sexual Function/Circumcision Sexual Dysfunction.
The human foreskin is highly innervated, and vascularized sensitive erogenous tissue.
It plays an important role in normal human sexual response and is necessary for normal copulatory behavior.
An understanding of this role is now emerging in the scientific literature.
Removal of the foreskin (circumcision) interferes with normal sexual function.
This page brings together, in one place, scattered material relevant to the study of the role of the foreskin in human sexuality, and the dysfunction caused by its amputation.
Protection.
The foreskin in the adult male either partially or completely covers the glans penis.
The foreskin protects the glans penis from friction and from dryness.
The foreskin maintains the sub-preputial space in a state of wetness with prostatic, vesicular and urethral secretions.
The glans penis is covered with mucosa, not skin, so the wetness is essential for optimum health.
There may be a correlation between wetness and sensitivity.
Removal of the prepuce by circumcision results in a change in the appearance of the glans penis.
The color tends to change from a red-purple to a light pink in caucausians and the texture changes from a glossy finish to a matte finish and becomes dull rather than shiny.
Some believe that the epithelium of the glans thickens after removal of the foreskin to provide additional layers of protection and that this keratinization deadens sensation.
Morgan (1965) said, "Removal of the prepuce exposes the glans to foreign stimuli which dull these special receptors.
Bigelow (1994) observed that improvement in glanular sensitivity is the most frequently reported outcome of foreskin restoration.
Pertot (1994) reports that the glans becomes softer after foreskin restoration.
These older papers do not recognize the sensitivity of the foreskin itself.
Some doctors who are associated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University have carried out measurements of glanular sensitivity in both circumcised and intact males.
Bleustein et al. (2003) claimed to measure overall penile sensitivity, but their methodology made that impossible.
Even though the high innervation, the sensitivity, and the erogenous nature, of the foreskin had been reported previously, the foreskin inexplicably was not tested.
The foreskin was held back out of the way and the contribution of the foreskin to overall penile sensitivity was not determined.
Their studies reported little difference in glanular sensitivity between circumcised and intact males.
If that is the case, then the decrease in penile sensitivity after circumcision and the increase noted after foreskin restoration must lie elsewhere.
The most likely location is in the foreskin.
Denniston reported loss of sexual pleasure in a survey of males circumcised in adulthood.
The most recent study finds that the intact penis is about four times more sensitive than the circumcised penis.
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