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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the [[skin]] which covers and protects the parts of the [[penis]] shaft. The [[shaft skin]] is part of the epithelium of the [[penis]]. The shaft skin incorporates a layer of muscle fiber called the [[Dartos]].
The Dartos is not attached to the underlying [[Buck's fascia]], so there is a very high degree of mobility , allowing [[gliding action]].
In humans and some other mammals parts of the shaft skin become covered with pubic hair at puberty.
{{NOTE}} The male [[foreskin]] is no not part of the penile shaft skin but a separate "organ" which covers and protects the [[glans penis]]. The shaft skin, the [[foreskin]] and the [[preputial mucosa]] build the epithelium of the [[penis]].
[[Category:Physiology]]