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→Fine-touch sensitivity: Wikify.
[[Image:Fine-Touch-Pressure-Thresholds-in-the-Adult-Penis_IntactWiki.gif|right|thumb|Fine Touch Pressure Thresholds in the Adult Penis.]]
The [[foreskin ]] has important sexual nerve receptors that are removed during [[circumcision]].<ref name="CutaneousInnervation"/><ref name="ErogenousZones"/><ref name="Mucosa"/><ref name="cold1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Cold
|init=CJ
|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10349413?dopt=Abstract
|pubmedID=10349413
}}</ref> [[Circumcision ]] removes the most sensitive part of a man's [[penis]]. The five most sensitive areas of the [[penis ]] are on the [[foreskin]]. The transitional region from the external to the internal foreskin is the most sensitive region of the fully [[intact ]] penis, and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the [[circumcised ]] [[penis]].<ref name="FineTouchPressure">{{REFjournal
|last=Sorrells
|first=Morris L.
}}</ref>
In a 2007 study, which was published in ''BJU International''. They physically measured the sensitivity of all the parts of the [[penis]]. They used a very accurate pressure sensing probe while the test subject, who’s view was blocked with a screen, reported a sensation of touch. To demonstrate precision they took each measurement multiple times. To no surprise, their results corroborated with the neuro-anatomy that has been discussed previously.
"Five locations on the [[foreskinned]] [[penis ]] that are routinely removed at [[circumcision]] were more sensitive than the most sensitive location on the circumcised penis[...] The [[glans]] in the [[circumcised ]] male is less sensitive to fine-touch pressure than the glans of the [[uncircumcised]] male[...]The most sensitive location on the circumcised penis is the [[circumcision scar]] on the ventral surface [...] When compared to the most sensitive area of the [[circumcised ]] [[penis]], several locations on the [[uncircumcised]] penis that are missing from the [[circumcised ]] [[penis ]] were significantly more sensitive."<ref name="FineTouchPressure"/>
[[Image:Sorrells_AAP.jpg|right|thumb|AAP skepticism that loss of foreskin could actually affect sex.]]