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|accessdate=2019-10-15
}}</ref> During the thrusting of sexual congress, the gliding action reduces abrasions and irritation in the female partner and avoids problems with vaginal dryness.<ref name="warren-bigelow1994"/><ref name="morgan1965"/>
==Sensory functions==
Nature designed the foreskin to be an erogenous sensory organ. The foreskin has a layer of muscle called the [[dartos]] muscle sheath that provides the foreskin with elasticity, flexibility, and stretchiness. There is a mucocutaneous region at the tip of the foreskin where outer skin changes to inner mucosa. Winklemann (1959) identified the foreskin as a specific erogenous region (meaning a region of acute erogenous sensation). Winklemann reported rete ridges in the foreskin with nerves set close to the surface.<ref name="winkelmann1959">{{REFjournal
|last=Winklemann
|first=RK
|author-link=
|title=The erogenous zones: their nerve supply and significance
|journal=Mayo Clin Proc
|date=1959-01-21
|volume=39
|issue=2
|pages=39-47
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann/
|pubmedID=13645790
|accessdate=2019-10-16
}}</ref>