Medical info on the foreskin

[Papai]

I was wondering if anyone could point me to medical info on the foreskin?

I was really thinking of medical literature from Europe. If anyone could point me in the direction of stuff from the UK, Portugal, or Spain that would be great. I mention those countries because those are the languages of Europe that I can understand.

Something I've seen pro-circers say time and time again, and something I think reiterated by the HIV/Circ studies, is that the foreskin is "just skin". I would like to see some of the medical literature from overseas that talks about the nerves, its protective function and mechanical function. Thanks.

[Nathan1097]

Just skin.... The skin is not the same our whole body over.... "just skin" is downplaying. That's all. You know that.

[Papai]

Originally Posted by Nathan1097

Just skin.... The skin is not the same our whole body over.... "just skin" is downplaying. That's all. You know that.

LOL! Yup, I know that first hand.

I've seen people trash the "20,000 nerves" in the foreskin bit, so that's what got me posting this. I wanted to see if there was medical literature from overseas that could confirm or give a different estimate.

[Yulia_R]

This is an excellent movie (done by doctors opposing circumcision) about foreskin’s purpose and harm of circumcision.

http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcisi...o/prepuce.html

[tuansprincess]

Is the sensitivity study "medical liturature"? Wasn't it conducted by the Brittish Department of Urology, or something like that? :

[Yulia_R]

The sensitivity study was published in the BJU International (British Journal of Urology) in April 2007.
Full text of the study (pdf), http://www.icgi.org/touch-test/touch-test-article.pdf
Graphs illustrating the comparison findings http://www.icgi.org/touch-test/

I also read that there has been a study that proved that intact boys and girls have higher thresholds of pain than circumcised boys. It was published in the Lancet (British medical journal) in 1997. I wish I could find it online...
yulia.

[Papai]

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

This is an excellent movie (done by doctors opposing circumcision) about foreskin’s purpose and harm of circumcision.

http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcisi...o/prepuce.html

I've seen that video, but I'm looking for non-anti-circ stuff.

Although that is a wonderful video!

[Nathan1097]

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

The sensitivity study was published in the BJU International (British Journal of Urology) in April 2007.
Full text of the study (pdf), http://www.icgi.org/touch-test/touch-test-article.pdf
Graphs illustrating the comparison findings http://www.icgi.org/touch-test/

I also read that there has been a study that proved that intact boys and girls have higher thresholds of pain than circumcised boys. It was published in the Lancet (British medical journal) in 1997. I wish I could find it online...
yulia.

http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/index20.html

I think it is in there.

[carriebft]

Your best bet would be to go to CIRP and look at the research there. While the studies are reprinted on cirp, you can go to the citations and then search the citation on the internet and get the study printed at another source. Or you can show the studies as printed on CIRP and point out that they are not DONE BY cirp, they are just reprinted there.

So, for example:

http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann2/

THE CUTANEOUS INNERVATION OF HUMAN NEWBORN PREPUCE

printed in: JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, Volume 26 Number 1: Pages 53-67,
January 1956.



or

http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/cold-taylor/

The prepuce

Printed in: British Journal of Urology, Volume 83, Suppl. 1: Pages 34-44,
January 1999.