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→The legend of "20,000 nerve endings": Improve footnote.
# https://www.beschneidungsforum.de/index.php/Thread/4649-England-Why-the-UK-has-no-moral-right-to-tell-Africans-to-stop-genital-mutilatio/?postID=32474&highlight=20000#post32474 : "The [up to 20,000 nerve endings] is by the way an urban legend. There are about 10,000 cells. No one knows where the 20,000 come from. I think this is only a quotation and nowhere with source." (G.) "10,000 to 20,000" noharmm.org/advantage.htm The "urban legend" probably originates from Fleiss, P.M. (1997) The case against circumcision. ''Mothering'', Winter, 36-45 (see below)
* '''FB page of the circumcision forum''': <ref>https://www.facebook.com/beschneidungsforum.de/posts/1785501095046354</ref> It accepts here the page with the empty claim of the "20,000 nerve endings" from the "DocCheck Flexikon"<ref>{{REFweb |url=http://flexikon.doccheck.com/de/Sexuelle_Auswirkungen_der_Zirkumzision |archived= |title=Sexuelle Auswirkungen der Zirkumzision |trans-title= |language=German |last=Fink |first=Bijan |author-link= |publisher=Einfach Eintauchen |website=DocCheck |date= |accessdate=2021-09-03 |format= |quote=}} (only German version)</ref>: “On average, the [[foreskin]] has about 73m of nerve fibers around 20000 mostly specialized nerve endings ..."
* '''[[Ken McGrath]]''' (Email 5.7.2013 to Stephen Moreton PhD): “No one since about 1923 has published a count of neural receptors in the human [[penis]]. At a conference (1998 in Oxford I think) a group asked me to make an estimate of the number of nerve endings in the prepuce. I did a quick back-of-the-envelope guesstimate based on a fingertip and arrived at an orders of magnitude figure of >1000<10000. … this figure quickly inflated, first to >10,000 and then to >20,000; neither of these is anywhere near the truth, because they are an order of magnitude too high.” (emphasis from the author) http://circfacts.org/sensitivity/