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Taylor (2007) commented:
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The range of functions of the ridged band remains uncertain but it is deeply corrugated, rich in distortion-sensitive Meissner 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 Initial study (J.R.T. unpublished) indicates that the real importance of the ridged band to sexual intercourse lies in an ability to trigger a reflex contraction of muscles responsible for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="taylor2007taylor2007A">{{REFjournal
| last=Taylor
| first=John
}}</ref>
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Taylor also remarked:
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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 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
| first=John
| coauthors=
| title=The forgotten foreskin and its ridged band.
| journal=J Sex Med
| date=September 2007
| volume=4
| issue=5
| pages=1516
| url=https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(15)31653-2/fulltext
| quote=
| pubmedID=17727357
| pubmedCID=
| DOI=10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00588.x
| accessdate=28 September 2019
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
More recent studies provide additional evidence of the sensory and sexual function of the ridged band and foreskin. 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.{{REFjournal
| last=Podnar
| first=S
| coauthors=
| title=Clinical elicitation of the penilo-caversosus reflex in circumcised men.
| journal=BJU Int
| date=February 2012
| volume=109
| issue=4
| pages=582-5
| url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10364.x
| quote=
| pubmedID=22897330
| pubmedCID=
| DOI=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10364.x
| accessdate=28 September 2019.
}}</ref>
==Illustrations==