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==The role of the foreskin in heterosexual relations==
The knowledge of the important of the intact penis in heterosexual relations long has been known to the Jewswho give us our earliest evidence of the value of the foreskin to the female partner. Moses Maimonides, a Jewish rabbi and physician, stated in the 12th century: <blockquote>''It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him.''<ref>{{REFbook |last=Maimonides |first=Moses |year=1963 |title=The Guide of the Perplexed |url=http://www.cirp. org/library/cultural/maimonides/ |pages=609 |isbn= |accessdate=2019-10-11 }}</ref></blockquote> According to the Rabbi Isaac ben Yedaiah, who lived in Southern France in the late 13th century:
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''She too will court the man who is uncircumcised in the flesh and lie against his breast with great passion, for he thrusts inside her a long time because of his foreskin, which is a barrier against ejaculation in intercourse. Thus she feels pleasure and reaches an orgasm first. When an uncircumcised man sleeps with her, and then resolves to return to his home, she brazenly grabs him, holding on to his genitals and says to him, "Come back, make love to me." This is because of the pleasure that she finds in intercourse with him, from the sinews of his testicles—sinew of iron—and from his ejaculation—that of a horse which he shoots like an arrow into her womb. They are united without separating, and he makes love twice and three times in one night, yet the appetite is not filled.''<ref name="saperstein1980">{{REFbook |last=Saperstein |first=Marc |year=1980 |title= Decoding the Rabbis: A Thirteenth-Century Commentary on the Aggadah |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/yedaiah1/ |pages= |isbn= |accessdate=2019-10-22}}</ref>