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[[Image:Keratinization_intact_vs_circumcised.JPG |thumbnail|right|200px| The glans and mucosa of intact and circumcised human penises in adult males.]]
[[Image:Keratinization_intact_vs_circumcised.JPG |thumbnail|right|200px| The glans and mucosa of intact and circumcised human penises in adult males.]]


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  |date=2010-03-27
  |date=2010-03-27
  |accessdate=
  |accessdate=2020-06-07
}}</ref> Another study found that "no difference can be clearly visualized between the inner and outer foreskin."<!-- <ref>{{REFcontribution
}}</ref> Another study found that "no difference can be clearly visualized between the inner and outer foreskin."<!-- <ref>{{REFcontribution
  | contribution=HIV-1 Interactions and Infection in Adult Male Foreskin Explant Cultures
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}}</ref>--> Be that as it may, this hypothesis continues to be popular among researchers who advocate for circumcision as STD prevention.
}}</ref>--> Be that as it may, this hypothesis continues to be popular among researchers who advocate for circumcision as STD prevention.


Higher incidence of [[Circumcision and HIV|HIV infection]] is found in circumcised men who lack the immunological protection of the [[foreskin]] and its [[Langerhans cells]].
Higher incidence of [[Circumcision and HIV|HIV infection]] is found in circumcised men who lack the immunological protection of the [[foreskin]] and its [[Langerhans cells]].<ref name="rosenberg2018">{{REFjournal
|last=Rosenberg
|first=Molly S.
|author-link=
|last2=Gómez-Olivé
|first2=FX
|author2-link=
|last3=Ronr
|first3=Julia K
|author3-link=
|last4=Kahn
|first4=Kathleen
|author4-link=
|last5=Bärnighausen
|first5=Till W
|author5-link=
|etal=no
|title=Are circumcised men safer sex partners? Findings from the HAALSI cohort in rural South Africa
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=PLOS ONE
|date=2018-08-01
|volume=13
|issue=8
|page=e0201445
|url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201445
|quote=
|pubmedID=30067842
|pubmedCID=6070310
|DOI= https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201445
|accessdate=2019-10-20
}}</ref>


==Treatment==
==Treatment==


[[Foreskin restoration]] by non-surgical means has been found to reduce keratinization and to improve appearance and sensation.  
[[Foreskin restoration]] by non-surgical means has been found to reduce keratinization and to improve appearance and sensation.
 
{{SEEALSO}}
 
* [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin]]


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[[Category:Physiology]]
[[Category:Physiology]]
[[Category:Penile disorders]]
[[Category:Penile disorders]]
 
[[Category:Foreskin anatomy]]
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[[Category:From Intactipedia]]
[[Category:From IntactWiki]]
[[Category:From IntactWiki]]


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