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n In Greek terminology, a person who had undergone the procedure of stretching the [[Foreskin| prepuce ]] was known as ''epispastikós'', the stretched one (epispasmós = pull-over). Similarly, the Romans addressed him as ''recutitio'', the reskinned (cutis = skin), not differentiating by this term whether it was done surgically or nonsurgically.<ref name="schultheiss1998" />
Typo; Wikify prepuce; add text.
The practice of epispasm seems to have persisted from the Second Century B. C. to the Sixth Century A. D.<ref name="hall1992" />
The technique was lost but it was rediscovered in the Twentieth Century by a group of American men who called themselves Brothers United for Future Foreskins ([[BUFF]]}. Non-surgical foreskin restoration seems to be of ever-increasing popularity among circumcised men and even teenagers.
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