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This video is outmoded and does ''not'' provide current information on the care of intact boys.  Parents may injure a child if they follow the recommendations of this video.
 
This video is outmoded and does ''not'' provide current information on the care of intact boys.  Parents may injure a child if they follow the recommendations of this video.
  
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Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) conducted a survey of 4,000 boys in Denmark. They report that the mean age of first [[foreskin]] retraction is 10.4 years in Denmark.<ref name="Thorvaldsen-meyhoff2005">{{REFjournal
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The [[foreskin]] is fused with the [[glans]] penis in childhood and cannot be retracted as advised in this video. No attempt to retract the foreskin should be made. Wright (1994) advises that the first person to retract the boy’s foreskin should be the boy himself.<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal
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|title=Further to the "Further Fate of the Foreskin"
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* [[Retraction of the foreskin]]
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Revision as of 19:21, 22 November 2019

This video is outmoded and does not provide current information on the care of intact boys. Parents may injure a child if they follow the recommendations of this video.

Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) conducted a survey of 4,000 boys in Denmark. They report that the mean age of first foreskin retraction is 10.4 years in Denmark.[1]

The foreskin is fused with the glans penis in childhood and cannot be retracted as advised in this video. No attempt to retract the foreskin should be made. Wright (1994) advises that the first person to retract the boy’s foreskin should be the boy himself.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ REFjournal Thorvaldsen, M.A., Meyhoff, H.. Patologisk eller fysiologisk fimose? [Pathological or physiological phimosis?] (Danish). Ugeskr Læger. 2005; 167(17): 1858-1862. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  2. ↑ REFjournal Wright, J.E.. Further to the "Further Fate of the Foreskin". Med J Aust. 7 February 1994; 160: 134-135. PMID. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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