GARDIAN - PENTRU PROTECTIA GENITALA A BAIETILOR



GARDIAN:
Sir, I would like to use some of your precious time and ask you a few questions regarding your and your team remarkable scientific research on the foreskin functions.
I believe this is extremely important due to generalized ignorance in the Romanian medical world. While the Canadian medical authorities consider both circumcision and forced premature foreskin retraction as counter-indicated, unfortunately Romanian medical authorities allow this type of mutilating-abusive interventions, as therapeutic or prophylactic measures.

Sir, could you make a brief description of your background and professional academic achievements, for some of our readers who don't know you, yet?

John R. Taylor:
Pathologist, English training, retired. Mainly worked in hematological, forensic and heart pathology, and cluding tropical disease. Side interest in anatomy with publications on the anatomy of the thyroid gland (Nigeria), heart, arteries and prepuce (foreskin).



GARDIAN:
Could you briefly describe, what is Taylor ridged band, and its sexual-erogenous role?

John R. Taylor:
Others might call it Taylor's ridged band. I call it "ridged band" of the prepuce.
The ridged band is a strip or band of corrugated mucosa just inside the tip of the prepuce (foreskin) when the prepuce is in its forward position. When the prepuce is retracted, the ridged bad lies across the upper surface and sides of the shaft of the penis. The ridged band is continuous, on the under-surface of the penis, with the frenulum of the prepuce. The major part of the ridged band is on the upper (dorsum) surface of the penis, that is, on the main sexual contact surface of the penis.
Ridged band is rich in movement-sensitive nerves that detect and respond to stretching of the penis skin and outer skin of prepuce, as in sexual intercourse. Stretching of the accordion-like ridged band and its "mechanoreceptors" triggers reflex or involuntary contraction of the bulbocavernosus muscle. This muscle surrounds the shaft of the penis at its base; when it contracts, it squeezes the urethra (male urinary passage). Squeezing of the contents of the urethra causes ejaculation; voluntary (non-reflex) squeezing of the urethra expresses urine from the posterior urethra after urination (prevents dribbling).
Contraction of the bulbocavernous muscle is erogenous. For intact or uncircumcised men, stretching of the ridged band and reflex contraction of bulbocavernosus and bulbospongiosus muscles, as well as prostate and seminal vesicles, is probably the main source of deep erogenous sensation. Contraction of this muscle also helps maintain erection until after ejaculation. For circumcised men erogenous sensation is triggered by direct glans contact. Intact men by contrast do not seem to rely on direct glans contact.



GARDIAN:
Fact that foreskin is erogenous is not new for the science. Could you tell us the name of the scientist who first introduced to the classical anatomy the concept of foreskin as erogenous tissue, in the19th century?(1)

John R. Taylor:
Don't know. Erogenicity of any part of the penis has not been studied scientifically. Most of what is "known" is hearsay, passed on by word of mouth. Mostly concentrates on the glans or head of penis. The presence of nerve endings in the prepuce in general, and thought but not proved to be "erogenous", was described in general terms in 1959 by Dr R. K. Winkelmann, a dermatologist at the Mayo Clinic in USA. What we in Canada described was a specific anatomical structure (ridged band) of the prepuce. The ridged band is the only part of the prepuce rich in mechano (or movement - sensitive) receptors. The ridged band is obvious to the naked eye: it is easy to check its effect on bulb muscle contraction and deep erogenous sensation.



GARDIAN:
Could you name the medical journal that published the results of your research?

John R. Taylor:
British Journal of Urology, volume 77, pages 291-5, 1996 "The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision".



GARDIAN:
Are there any other relevant aspects regarding the foreskin functions that you would wish to highlight?

John R. Taylor:
Those are the main points but there is still a lot to do. My present work is related to the intertwining of foreskin and glans functions, and how the intact penis works. It is essential to explain the normal structure and functions of the penis and dispel common myths.



John R. Taylor

July 8, 2005 Winnipeg, Manitoba



GARDIAN:
Thank you Sir, for the honor granted in accepting to answer to our questions and wish luck in your future research.

2005 Copyright Protected GARDIAN.


Note

In the memory of professor Johnny Nevada, deceased

(1) Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955), English Anatom and Anthropologe, classical anatomy

Source: archive digging performed by Johnny Nevada, Romanian origin Australian anatomy professor in the '80s, Melbourne, Australia.
Of course, in the past decades, organized crime pro-circumcision interest groups censored and made "lost" this classical scientific truth from Fundamental Anatomy.
Born Ioan Placintar, near Turda, Romania, he later changed his name to John Nevada. He passed away in 1995, at Melbourne, Australia.


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