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Ken McGrath, New Zealand senior lecturer in pathology and anatomist (now retired), estimated the number of nerve endings in the prepuce, Summer 1998:
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| Text=I did a quick back-of-the-envelope guesstimate based on a fingertip and arrived at an orders of magnitude figure of >1000<10000 … this figure quickly inflated, first to >10,000 and then to >20,000; neither of these is anywhere near the truth, because they are an order of magnitude too high. …” <ref>McGrath’s e-mail from 5.7.2013 quoted in www.circfacts.org/sensitivity (emphasis from author)</ref>,<ref>So the numbers “70„70,000” 000+“ and "between „between 80,000 and 100,000” are found on the internet, see: httpshttp://webcachewww.googleusercontentsavingsons.comorg/2009/10/search?q=cache:JxwyO1xo7vAJ:; https://www.vice.com/dede_ch/article/7bm5gx/ein-mann-und-seine-vorhaut+&cd=2&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de ; www.savingsons.org/2009/10/ , http://en.rightpedia.info/w/Circumcision ; many more by searching on internet.</ref>
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