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The Foreskin Is Necessary By Dr. Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH - One medical doctor rejects circumcision surgery.

The Foreskin Is Necessary By Dr. Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH

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:) Related Intactivist Tools and URLs: (In English) :)
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- > Intact America (USA) :)
- > http://www.INTACTAMERICA.org

- > International Coalition for Genital Integrity (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.icgi.org

- > Doctors Opposing Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.doctorsagainstcircumcision.org

- > Jews Opposing Circumcision (USA) :)
- > http://www.JEWSAGAINSTCIRCUMCISION.org

- > Mothers Opposing Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org






The Foreskin Is Necessary By Dr. Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH

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'The foreskin has numerous protective, sensory, and sexual functions.'


The Foreskin Is Necessary
By Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH

Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH, is assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He is the author of numerous scientific articles published in leading national and international medical journals.

Published in Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living, Winter 1997, pp. 36--45.
http://www.cirp.org/news/Mothering1997/

What Are the Foreskin's Functions?

The foreskin has numerous protective, sensory, and sexual functions.

• Protection: Just as the eyelids protect the eyes, the foreskin protects the glans and keeps its surface soft, moist, and sensitive. It also maintains optimal warmth, pH balance, and cleanliness. The glans itself contains no sebaceous glands-glands that produce the sebum, or oil, that moisturizes our skin.11 The foreskin produces the sebum that maintains proper health of the surface of the glans.

• Immunological Defense: The mucous membranes that line all body orifices are the body's first line of immunological defense. Glands in the foreskin produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme.12 Lysozyme is also found in tears and mother's milk. Specialized epithelial Langerhans cells, an immune system component, abound in the foreskin's outer surface.13 Plasma cells in the foreskin's mucosal lining secrete immunoglobulins, antibodies that defend against infection.14

• Erogenous Sensitivity: The foreskin is as sensitive as the fingertips or the lips of the mouth. It contains a richer variety and greater concentration of specialized nerve receptors than any other part of the penis.15 These specialized nerve endings can discern motion, subtle changes in temperature, and fine gradations of texture.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

• Coverage During Erection: As it becomes erect, the penile shaft becomes thicker and longer. The double-layered foreskin provides the skin necessary to accommodate the expanded organ and to allow the penile skin to glide freely, smoothly, and pleasurably over the shaft and glans.

• Self-Stimulating Sexual Functions: The foreskin's double-layered sheath enables the penile shaft skin to glide back and forth over the penile shaft. The foreskin can normally be slipped all the way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion is the mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated.

• Sexual Functions in Intercourse: One of the foreskin's functions is to facilitate smooth, gentle movement between the mucosal surfaces of the two partners during intercourse. The foreskin enables the penis to slip in and out of the vagina nonabrasively inside its own slick sheath of self-lubricating, movable skin. The female is thus stimulated by moving pressure rather than by friction only, as when the male's foreskin is missing.

• The foreskin fosters intimacy between the two partners by enveloping the glans and maintaining it as an internal organ. The sexual experience is enhanced when the foreskin slips back to allow the male's internal organ, the glans, to meet the female's internal organ, the cervix-a moment of supreme intimacy and beauty.

The foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood. Scientists in Europe recently detected estrogen receptors in its basal epidermal cells.24 Researchers at the University of Manchester found that the human foreskin has apocrine glands.25 These specialized glands produce pheromones, nature's chemical messengers. Further studies are needed to fully understand these features of the foreskin and the role they play.

- The Case Against Circumcision, by Paul M. Fleiss, MD

Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH, is assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He is the author of numerous scientific articles published in leading national and international medical journals.

Published in Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living, Winter 1997, pp. 36--45.
http://www.cirp.org/news/Mothering1997/







'What about religion? For boys and girls alike, under basic human rights principles, anothers right to practice a religion must end where that individuals body begins. Otherwise, individual protections carry little meaning. Many Jews and Muslims are involved with organizations working to stop male circumcision, and many are questioning whether removal of healthy tissue from the bodies of their children is required by or even consistent with their faith. When the child is of the age of consent, he or she can make up his or her own mind about his or her own body.'
- Steven Svoboda, J.D., 'In Search of Fatherhood' Magazine Interview
http://www.arclaw.org/arc_activities/fatherhood-interview.ph....



___________________________________________________________________
:) Related Intactivist Tools and URLs: (In English) :)
___________________________________________________________________

- > Jews Opposing Circumcision (USA) :)
- > http://www.JEWSAGAINSTCIRCUMCISION.org

- > Intact America (USA) :)
- > http://www.INTACTAMERICA.org

- > A Jewish Woman Denounces Circumcision by Laura Shanley. (USA) :)
- > http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/miscarticles/circarticle....

- > Ending Circumcision In The Jewish Community By Moshe Rothenberg, MSW. (UK, USA) :)
- > http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/rothenberg.html

- > Intact America: (USA) :)
- > http://www.INTACTAMERICA.org

- > Mothers Opposing Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org

- > International Coalition for Genital Integrity (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.icgi.org

- > The Case Against Circumcision by Paul M. Fleiss, MD. (USA) :)
- > http://www.cirp.org/news/Mothering1997/

- > Doctors Opposing Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.doctorsagainstcircumcision.org

- > Jews Opposing Circumcision Surgery (Israel, UK, International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.JEWSAGAINSTCIRCUMCISION.org

- > *Brit B'lee Milah and Bris Shalom: An Alternative Non-Circumcision Ritual (UK) :)
- > http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html

- > A Rabbi Speaks Out to Stop Circumcision, 2007 (Israel, UK, CA, International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.rabbinathan.com/writings/circum.shtml

- > Brit Shalom, A Holistic Covenant of Wholeness Text (Israel, UK, International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming_ceremony.php

- > Bris B'lee Milah and Bris Shalom Ceremony Text (UK, USA, International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.noharmm.org/nontrad.htm

- > Brit B'lee Milah and Bris Shalom Ceremony Text (Israel, UK, USA, International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/bris_shalom.html

- > List of Brit B'lee Milah and Bris Shalom Rabbis by Dr. Mark Reiss, M.D. (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html

- > Muslims Opposing Circumcision (International and Worldwide) :)
- > To Mutilate in the Name of Jehovah or Allah by Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
- > http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/aldeeb1/

- > Catholics Opposing Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org

- > The History of Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.HISTORYOFCIRCUMCISION.net

- > Nurses Opposing Circumcision (International and Worldwide) :)
- > http://www.nurses.cirp.org
 
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