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}}</ref> Frisch & Simonsen (2016) reported the incidence of meatal stenosis to be 3.7 times higher in circumcised boys.<ref name="frisch2016" />
==Sexual Functions==
The foreskin is a sexual organ. It provides both mechanical and erogenous functions in sexual intercourse.<ref name="fleiss-hodges-vanhowe1998" />
The gliding action facilitates intromission.<ref name="morgan1965">{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> During the thrusting of sexual congress, the gliding action reduces abrasions and irritation in the female partner and avoids problems with vaginal dryness.<ref name="morgan1965" />
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}}</ref> is a mucous membrane. The inner layer is an extraordinarily complex tissue. It contains apocrine glands which produce Cathepsin B, lysozymes, chymotrypsin, neutrophil elastase, cytokines and pheromones such as androsterone.<ref>{{REFjournal |lastrefname=Fleiss |first=Paul M. |author-link=Paul M. Fleiss |last2=Hodges |first2=F.M. |author2-link=Frederick M. Hodges |last3=Van Howe |first3=R.S. |author3-link=Robert Van Howe |title=Immunological functions of the human prepuce |journal=Sex Trans Inf |date=1998-10-01 |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=364-7 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/fleiss3/ |quote= |pubmedID=10195034 |pubmedCID=1758142 |DOI=10.1136/sti.74.5.364 |accessdate=2019"fleiss-09hodges-29}}<vanhowe1998" /ref> Indian scientists have shown that the subpreputial moisture contains lytic material which has an antibacterial and antiviral effect.<ref name="lakshmanan-prakash1980"/> The natural oils lubricate, moisten and protect the mucous membranes of both the glans and the inner foreskin layer.<ref name="prakash1"/> The tip of the foreskin is supplied with ample amounts of blood through important blood vessels.<ref>Dr. med. Wolfram Hartmann, Stellungnahme zur Anhörung am 26. November 2012 im Rechtsausschuss des Bundestages</ref>
The foreskin serves as a pathway for many significant veins. In addition the foreskin is saturated with very many nerve endings and tactile corpuscles, the same receptors that exist in the fingertips. The enormous density of nerves and mechanoreceptors make the foreskin the most sensitive part of the body, approximately 10 times more sensitive than the fingertips. This also distinguishes the human penis from those of other mammals, which in contrast have the main concentration of nerves in the glans, and not in the foreskin.
The foreskin in childhood is fused with the glans penis by a [[synechia]].
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