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Written by RJK at 02 Aug 2001 23:55:24: Re: I have a question - Tangential question
As an answer to: Re: I have a question - Tangential question written by Paul B. at 02 Aug 2001 23:44:43:
>> Paul M, you seem to have a built-in frill in the meatus ('pee-hole') that may be the result of having had diaper rash when
>> you were very young. (That's speculative, of course!)
> Very speculative indeed.
> The trick is, nappy (diaper) rash has interesting characteristics, most notably being that it only occurs on skin exposed to the
>nappy. This means that it does not extend into the folds, a girl's vulva or inside a boy's foreskin, so circumcised boys get meatal
>stenosis but uncircumcised boys do not. One of the standard reasons that ritual infant circumcision should not be practiced.
> That Paul M now has a foreskin normally covering his glans, is pretty good proof that it was doing so as an infant and he would
>have been most unlikely to have had meatal stenosis.
> It's a fascinating point - nappy rash is directly caused by (bacterial action in) the nappy, while the skin itself resists this action
>quite effectively. The ultimate, but rather difficult, cure for it is to manage without a nappy!
>> Surgery was developed to enlarge a narrow meatus (but not necessarily to eliminate a 'frill'), called a 'fish-mouth'
>> operation.
> Not heard of that one. Oh well!
Nonetheless it exists. I suppose none of us has heard of everything.