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'''Intact-friend''' and '''foreskin-friendly''' are terms used in the [[United States]], where [[circumcision]] has been generally practiced, to describe health-care providers who are knowledgeable regarding care of the natural [[penis]] with a [[foreskin]].
The extraordinary ignorance of many American health-care providers regarding the human foreskin, a natural body part, makes these terms necessary. <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Narvaev |first=Darcia F. |init= |author-link= |last2=Geisheker |init2=JV |author2-link=John V. Geisheker |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201110/doctor-ignorance-male-anatomy-harms-boys |title=Doctor ignorance of normal foreskin anatomy harms boys |journal=Psychology Today |date=2011-10-30 |volume= |issue= |pages= |accessdate=2022-09-09}}</ref> It is said that the only thing doctors learn in medical school about the human foreskin is that it is to be cut off!
It is very common for American doctors to forcibly retract a young boys non-retractile foreskin, thereby causing great injury and [[pain]].<ref>{{REFweb
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