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[[Ken McGrath]], Senior Lecturer in Pathology at the Faculty of Health, {{UNI|Auckland University of Technology|AUT}} and Member of the [https://www.nzimls.org.nz/ New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists] discusses his research into the neural anatomy of the human [[penis ]] and the physical damages caused by [[circumcision]].
McGrath is author of The Frenular Delta: A New Preputial Structure published in Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem, Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity: Safeguarding Fundamental Human Rights in the 21st Century, held December 7-9, 2000, in Sydney Australia.
== Abstract ==
Textbooks and papers referring to penile function state that the source of penile sensation is solely the glans and often justify the existence of the prepuce by stating it protects the 'sensitive' glans. These statements are contrary to the neuro-anatomical and physiological facts accumulated over more than a century. This study reviews the findings of [http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/taylor/ Taylor, et al. (1996)], that the prepuce is the primary sensory platform of the [[penis]], and describes a new preputial structure.
This interview was taped in Berkeley, California 2010.
...and from the [http://www.circumcisionharm.org/ Global Survey of Circumcision Harm]:
Removal of the male [[foreskin ]] and the female clitoral hood (female foreskin) are anatomically equivalent.
However, neurologically speaking, removal of the male foreskin is as destructive to male sexual sensory experience as removal of the [[clitoral glans]] is for females. This video discussion of [[penile skin]] and [[foreskin]] neurology explains why.
Contrary to popular Western myth, many circumcised women do report the ability to feel sexual pleasure and to have orgasm, albeit in a compensatory manner that differs from [[intact ]] women (suggested reading: Prisoners of Ritual by [[Hanny Lightfoot-Klein]]). Similar compensatory behaviours for achieving orgasm are at work among [[circumcised ]] men, who must rely on the remaining 50% or less of their penile nerve endings.
Just as clitoridectomized girls grow up not knowing the levels of pleasure they could have experienced had they been left [[intact]], so too are men [[circumcised ]] in infancy unaware of the pleasure they could have experienced had they not had 50% of their [[penile skin]] removed. The above video also explains what's really behind the erroneous comment made by some [[circumcised ]] men that they 'couldn't stand being any more sensitive'.
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