Foreskin restoration: Difference between revisions

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[[Image:Restoration before after.JPG |thumbnail|right|300px| A human penis circumcised at birth, before and after 42 months of non-surgical restoration.]]

'''Foreskin restoration''' refers to the process of expanding the residual skin on the circumcised [[penis]] in order to recreate the [[foreskin]] which was removed in [[circumcision]]. It can also refer to the process of expanding existing skin in a penis whose foreskin is abnormally short or non-existent (see [[aposthia]]).<ref name="collier2011">{{REFjournal

'''Foreskin restoration''' refers to the process of expanding the residual skin on the circumcised [[penis]] in order to recreate the [[foreskin]] which was removed in [[circumcision]]. It can also refer to the process of [[Tissue expansion| expanding existing skin]] in a penis whose foreskin is abnormally short or non-existent (see [[aposthia]]).<ref name="collier2011">{{REFjournal

|last=Collier

|first=Roger

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== History ==

Foreskin stretching (called "uncircumcision," or epispasm) appears to have been a common practice among Hellenized Jewish men in Hellenistic and Roman societies,<ref name="Rubin">{{REFjournal

Foreskin stretching (called "uncircumcision," or ''epispasm'') appears to have been a common practice among Hellenized Jewish men in Hellenistic and Roman societies,<ref name="Rubin">{{REFjournal

|last=Rubin

|first=Jody P.

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 [[Image:Restoration before after.JPG |thumbnail|right|300px| A human penis circumcised at birth, before and after 42 months of non-surgical restoration.]]
-'''Foreskin restoration''' refers to the process of expanding the residual skin on the circumcised [[penis]] in order to recreate the [[foreskin]] which was removed in [[circumcision]]. It can also refer to the process of expanding existing skin in a penis whose foreskin is abnormally short or non-existent (see [[aposthia]]).<ref name="collier2011">{{REFjournal
+'''Foreskin restoration''' refers to the process of expanding the residual skin on the circumcised [[penis]] in order to recreate the [[foreskin]] which was removed in [[circumcision]]. It can also refer to the process of [[Tissue expansion| expanding existing skin]] in a penis whose foreskin is abnormally short or non-existent (see [[aposthia]]).<ref name="collier2011">{{REFjournal
   |last=Collier
   |first=Roger
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 == History ==
-Foreskin stretching (called "uncircumcision," or epispasm) appears to have been a common practice among Hellenized Jewish men in Hellenistic and Roman societies,<ref name="Rubin">{{REFjournal
+Foreskin stretching (called "uncircumcision," or ''epispasm'') appears to have been a common practice among Hellenized Jewish men in Hellenistic and Roman societies,<ref name="Rubin">{{REFjournal
   |last=Rubin
   |first=Jody P.