Redundant foreskin
Redundant foreskin (aka Insufficient foreskin removal) is classed technically as a complication of elective circumcision. The major issue is cosmetic because the expected circumcised appearance has not been achieved. The expected appearance of the circumcised penis was established in the Second Century when the Jewish rabbis instituted periah and has no relationship to health. There are no additional health issues from insufficient foreskin removal. A circumcision revision may be carried out to achieve the desired appearance.[1]
Circumcision revision is a revenue generator for urological surgeons. The term redundant foreskin appears to have been invented as a sales aid for harmful, non-therapeutic surgical amputation of the foreskin.
There is no accepted definition of redundant foreskin.
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Acroposthion
A longer foreskin that some may consider "redundant", also may be considered to be an acroposthion, that was highly regarded in ancient Greece.[2]
See also
External links
Anonymous (April 2025). How can you tell if someone has redundant foreskin? Is it usual in the uncircumcised?
, REDDIT. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
References
- ↑
Fekete F, Török A, Nyirády P. Revisions after unsatisfactory adult circumcisions. Int Urol Nephrol. June 2011; 43(2): 431-5. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ↑ Hodges, Frederick M.. The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome: Male Genital Aesthetics and Their Relation to Lipodermos, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, and the Kynodesme. Bull. Hist. Med. September 2001; 75(3): 375-405. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
