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==External links== ==External links==
Note: the three articles listed below can be accessed through CIRP (Circumcision Information Resource Pages), an internet library of medical reports and articles. Many of the articles and items housed by CIRP denounce circumcision, but it also contains articles by authors who advocate circumcision. It is described on the British Medical Journal website as having Note: the three articles listed below are available on CIRP (Circumcision Information Resource Pages), an internet library of medical reports and articles carefully selected so as to present an anti-circumcision point of view. It is described in an article on the British Medical Journal website as having


* Winkelmann RK. The erogenous zones: their nerve supply and significance. <i>Mayo Clin Proc</i> 1959;34(2):39-47. URL: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann/ * Winkelmann RK. The erogenous zones: their nerve supply and significance. <i>Mayo Clin Proc</i> 1959;34(2):39-47. URL: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann/
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* Taylor JR, Lockwood AP, Taylor AJ. The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision. <i>Br J Urol</i> 1996;77:291-295. URL: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/taylor/ * Taylor JR, Lockwood AP, Taylor AJ. The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision. <i>Br J Urol</i> 1996;77:291-295. URL: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/taylor/


* Foreskin: Ridged Band. URL: http://research.cirp.org/ * The Ridged Band. URL: http://research.cirp.org/

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The ridged band was first described by John R. Taylor, a Canadian pathologist, and others in an article that was published in the British Journal of Urology in 1996. Taylor described a band of highly innervated and vascularised tissue located just inside the tip of the foreskin of the human male near the mucocutaneous boundary. The combination of high vascularity and high innervation make the ridged band a nerve and vascular plexus.

The ridged band separates the outer skin of the penis from the inner mucosa. The ridged band contains nerve endings arranged at the crest of rete ridges. The nerve endings resemble Meissner corpuscles or Krause end-bulbs.

External links

Note: the three articles listed below are available on CIRP (Circumcision Information Resource Pages), an internet library of medical reports and articles carefully selected so as to present an anti-circumcision point of view. It is described in an article on the British Medical Journal website as having "useful information on the subject."