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|last=Fleiss
|first=Paul M.
|init=PM
|author-link=Paul M. Fleiss
|title=The Case Against Circumcision
|journal=Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living
|last=Cox
|first=Guy
|init=G
|title=De virginibus puerisque: The function of the human foreskin considered from an evolutionary perspective
|journal=Med Hypotheses
|last=Nadler
|first=Ronald D.
|init=RD
|title=Proximate and ultimate influences on the regulation of mating in the great apes
|journal=American Journal of Primatology
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Williams-Ashman
|firstinit=H.G.HG
|title=Enigmatic features of penile development and functions
|journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
}}</ref> The human penis has retained and modified its prepuce over a period of extraordinarily evolution.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Dixson
|firstinit=A.F.AF
|title=Baculum length and copulatory behavior in primates
|journal=American Journal of Primatology
A histologic study of the penile and clitoral prepuce, carried out on human and non-human primates, showed that corpuscular receptors are concentrated at the prepuce/glans penis and the prepuce/glans clitoridis interface in humans and rhesus monkeys.<ref name="macaca">{{REFjournal
|last=Cold
|firstinit=C.
|last2=Tarara
|first2init2=R.
|title=Penile and clitoral prepuce mucocutaneous receptors in macaca mulatta
|journal=Vet Pathol