The prepuce
@article{Cold1999TheP, title={The prepuce}, author={C.J. Cold and J.R. Taylor}, journal={BJU International}, year={1999}, volume={83} }
cultures are diBcult to define, but include rites of Introduction passage, blood sacrifices and cultural markings [4]. Ritualistic, childhood genital surgery has become popuThe prepuce is a common anatomical structure of the male [1] and female [2] external genitalia of all human lar in the last several thousand years, making the prepuce the most vilified normal anatomical structure and non-human primates; it has been present in primates for at least 65 million years, and is likely to of the…
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