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[[John R. Taylor|Taylor]] described the ridged band as a transversely ridged band of mucosal tissue, located just inside the tip of the foreskin near the mucocutaneous boundary. He characterized the ridged band as intensely vascular and richly innervated, stating that it "contains more [[Meissner's corpuscles]] than does the smooth mucosa", and noted that these tactile corpuscles were found only in the crests of ridges.<ref>{{REFjournal

|last=Taylor

|author-link=John R. Taylor

|last2=Lockwood

|last3=Taylor

|title=The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision

|journal=Br J Urol

Winkelmann (1956) had previously reported that the prepuce is "a region of great sensitivity and possessed of an abundant nerve supply."<ref>{{REFjournal

|last=Winkelmann

|title=The cutaneous innervation of human newborn prepuce.

|journal=Journal of Investigative Dermatology

<blockquote>The complex interaction between the protopathic sensitivity of the corpuscular receptor-deficient glans penis and the corpuscular receptor-rich ridged band of the male prepuce is required for normal copulatory behaviour.<ref name="cold-taylor">{{REFjournal

|last=Cold

|last2=Taylor

|author2-link=John R. Taylor

|title=The Prepuce

Work in progress shows that stretching the prepuce and its ridged band triggers reflex contraction of muscles of the bulb of penis known to be associated with ejaculation and, not insignificantly, erogenous sensation.<ref name="taylor2003">{{REFjournal

|last=Taylor

|author-link=John R. Taylor

|title=Letter

The range of functions of the ridged band remains uncertain but it is deeply corrugated, rich in distortion-sensitive [[Meissner's corpuscles]] and subject to the movement of muscularised shaft skin during sexual intercourse. It now seems that the concertina-like ridged band might be reflexogenic as much as fine-touch sensitive. Initial study (J.R.T. unpublished) indicates that the real importance of the ridged band to sexual intercourse lies in an ability to trigger a reflex contraction of muscles responsible for ejaculation.<ref name="taylor2007A">{{REFjournal

|last=Taylor

|author-link=John R. Taylor

|title=Fine touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis

The ridged band of prepuce is tucked just inside the tip of the unretracted prepuce; it is a richly vascular muscosal tissue heavily innervated by movement-sensitive [[Meissner's corpuscles]]. In addition to touch sensitivity, the ridged band is uniquely ridged or corrugated, and not surprisingly, work in progress indicates that retraction or stetching of this accordion like structure triggers reflex contraction of bulbocavernosus and bulbospongious. These "bulb muscles" compress the root or bulb of the penis and among other things, including deep erogenous sensation, are responsible for ejaculation and clearing of residual urine from the posterior urethra following micturition.<ref name="taylor207B">{{REFjournal

|last=Taylor

|author-link=John R. Taylor

|title=The forgotten foreskin and its ridged band.

|last=Kim

|first=DaiSik

|last2=Pang

|title=The effect of male circumcision on sexuality

|journal=BJU Int

}}</ref> Podnar (2012), working in Slovenia, compared the sexual response of normal intact men and circumcised men. The bulbo-covernosus reflex was elicitable in 92 percent of normal intact men, but it was elicitable in only 27 percent of circumcised men.<ref>{{REFjournal

|last=Podnar

|title=Clinical elicitation of the penilo-caversosus reflex in circumcised men.

|journal=BJU Int