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Foreskin far from useless, HSC pathologist says
Newborn boys in North America may have a Winnipeg doctor to thank for growing up to be natural men.
That’s the nickname for men who survive their infancy with foreskins intact – avoiding the encounter with a scalpel that their fathers suffered.
Dr. John Taylor, a pathologist at Health Sciences Centre, has identified vital functions for the foreskin, which is usually dismissed as a useless flap of flesh.
“There’s nothing like it anywhere else on the body,” Taylor said recently, after the medical world was introduced to his work.
It’s the first new finding about the human anatomy – in this case the foreskin – since two Italian anatomists theorized back in 1450 that the foreskin both protects the penis from damage and heightens sexual pleasure.
It does, on both counts.
Taylor’s research over eight years confirmed that often-dismissed medieval theory by identifying thousands of nerve endings in the foreskin which are stimulated during sex.
Nerve endings
“You can almost see these nerve endings with the naked eye, lined up along the top ridge. They’re the size of a pin.” Taylor said.
His research on the foreskin – the prepuce, specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision – in the British Journal of Urology caused a flurry in the United States where the circumcision rate approaches 90 per cent in some states.
One doctor in ultra-conservative Utah, for instance, confided to a researcher whose organization opposes routine circumcision that he recommends it.
It turns out that the practice of retracting the foreskin to clean the penis makes some mothers feel they are masturbating their babies.
It’s easier for Utah women to have their boys circumcised instead, said the researcher, Steve Scott, who is the national education co-ordinator for NOCIRC – the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centres.
“American men who have been circumcised don’t know what they are missing,” said Scott.
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Well, even more reason to circumcise those prone to spreading AIDS.
If sex is MORE pleasurable with the foreskin intact, then circumcising will not only make these guys more sanitary thus slowing the spread of AIDS, they might be less likely to have sex, which is the true cause of the spread of AIDS.
Either way, it works. And to think, the pro-foreskin researcher just made an excellent case for circumcision....huh!
Oh yeah we do. We're missing watching our ladies recoil in horror at the sight our third-world-style johnsons.
" back in 1450 that the foreskin both protects the penis from damage and heightens sexual pleasure. "
I didn't realize that men HAD a problem protecting their penis' or with sexual pleasure.