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Because of its location, the ridged band is invariably excised if a male is circumcised.
The late John R. Taylor, MB, Ch.B., MRCPEd, FRCPC, a British-Canadian pathologist and biomedical researcher who practiced medicine at the [https://www.hsc.mb.ca/| Health Sciences Centre] in Winnipeg, MB, first used the term "ridged band" instead of "wrinkly skin" and described the ridged band at the ''Second International Symposium on Circumcision'', organized by [http://www.nocirc.org NOCIRC] in San Francisco, 1991, after examining the foreskins of 22 adults obtained at autopsy. The mean age was 37 years, range 22–58. The prepuces were studied grossly and histologically.
==Structure==
==Function==
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
| first=RK
| coauthors=
| title=The cutaneous innervation of human newborn prepuce.
| journal=Journal of Investigative Dermatology
| date=1956
| volume=26
| issue=1
| pages=53-67
| url=http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann2/
| quote=
| pubmedID=13295637
| pubmedCID=
| DOI=10.1038/jid.1956.5
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}</ref>
Cold & Taylor (1999) stated:
<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>{{REFjournal
| issue=February
| pages=34-44
| url=https://pdfswww.semanticscholarjidonline.org/9fd6article/S0022-202X(15)48804-9/e8ea9806ffddf96d079e224f36f496ca965a.pdf
| quote=
| pubmedID=1034941313295637
| pubmedCID=
| DOI=10.1038/jid.1956.5
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}</ref></blockquote>