What is foreskin?????!


Question: i just want to know ive heard it everywhere on health where and what is foreskin on your penis?


Answers: i just want to know ive heard it everywhere on health where and what is foreskin on your penis?

It's the fold of skin that protects the head of the penis. All boys are born with a foreskin that protects the penis but in some cultures (Jewish, Muslim), they remove the foreskin a few days after birth during a procedure called circumcision and it's done as a religious tradition.

Most boys in the United States are also circumcised right after they are born (tradition) so if you don't know what a foreskin is, you probably don't have one because you were circumcised when you were born. If you had been born in England or France, you probably would still have your foreskin and you might not know what circumcised means instead.

A circumcised penis looks a little different than an uncircumcised one when they are soft because the skin covers the head of the penis. When the penis is erect, the foreskin can slide back to the base revealing the head and it looks almost exactly like a circumcised penis.

This link should illustrate the difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fores...

The purpose of the foreskin is to protect the head of the penis from chaffing and keep it moist and sensitive. It also acts as an aid for sexual activity because of the gliding function and it is very sensitive itself, and acts as a natural lubricant. One of the reasons that the majority of Americans circumcise their boys at birth is because it is believed that a circumcised penis is easier to keep clean and reduces the chance of infections. It is also considered to be more asthetically pleasing in that part of the world.

Most male animals either keep their penis tucked safely inside their bodies until they are needed for use, or they will also have a foreskin covering their penis called a sheath. I'm sure you've noticed what a dogs penis looks like when he has an erection and it emerges from the sheath. Otherwise, it withdraws back inside the sheath keeping it protected.

Girls also have a "foreskin" which covers the clitoris called the clitoral hood. It basically serves the same purpose as the male foreskin which covers the penis.

its the thin bit of skin that covers the head of your penis that you can pull back to expose the head - if you have been circumcised it isnt there anymore and you might not notice it when erect. as it will be pulled back.

here is real pic of uncut penis( with foreskin):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fores...

& this is pic of cut penis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Penis...

Like what she said up their but in my words. Its when the skin on the head of the penis covers the head. But when you start masturbating it wont be their anymore until you are able to compurt sperm.

Dude when all of us little dudes are born there is a layer of skin covering the head of the peni. back in the days it was thought that it was healthyer to cut it off so any little dude that was born had this layer of skin cut off of thier units.(circumsision) they would and still do strap the kid to a form hands and legs then get a scalpel or sissors and just start cutting no anastesha the kid screams as they are cutting. Most chicks feel it should be done because it is cleaner but if a dude does maintenance to his unit as he does to his face ears body buy cleaning it when he cleans his body with soap and water he should have no problems with it. it doesnt carry any more diseses than a circed unit. and we live long healthy lives with skin in tact

curtdude

eewwww. the picture above me is grose!!

It's a piece of skin keeping your glans warm and moist.

HOT!

is it some you wear out when you going shopping





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