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Erections tend to be painful and may cause wound dehiscence. There is danger of [[infection]] until the circumcision wound heals closed.<ref name="wang2023" />
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'''Adolescent and adult circumcision''' is rare when compared to the millions upon millions of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcisions of boys that are carried out in Islamic nations, Israel, the [[United States]], and elsewhere.
[[Rosemary Romberg]] commented on adult circumcision in the [[United States]]:
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<i>In the United States doctors tend to consider the foreskin as something "dispensible."
…
It is difficult to ascertain the true percentage of actual need for adult circumcision among intact males. In a circumcision-oriented society such as ours many doctors prescribe the operation for conditions which could be resolved, often easily, without resort to surgery.…</i><ref>{{REFbook
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|first=Rosemary
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|author-link=Rosemary Romberg
|year=2021
|title=Circumcision — The Painful Dilemma
|url=https://circumcisionthepainfuldilemma.wordpress.com/
|work=
|editor=[[Ulf Dunkel]]
|edition=Second Edition, Revised
|volume=
|chapter=The Circumcision of an Adult
|scope=
|page=247
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|publisher=Kindle
|ISBN=23: 979-8683021252
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|accessdate=2023-08-31
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</blockquote>
==Consent==
|DOI=10.2147/IJGM.S17875
|accessdate=2020-12-19
}}</ref> recurrent [[balanitis| balanoposthitis]], and gangrene.
* Damaged foreskins — This includes any type of physical trauma and injury that is beyond surgical repair. Zipper injury does not require circumcision.<ref name="flowerdew1977">{{REFjournal
==Recovery period==
Recovery from an adult circumcision is frequently said to be six weeks.
===Complications===
Erections tend to be painful and may cause wound dehiscence.<ref name="wang2023">{{REFjournal
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|title=Wound healing rates and wound problems of conventional circumcision compared with ring circumcision: A meta-analysis
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|journal=Int Wound J
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|date=2023-06-11
|volume=Online ahead of print
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===Lymphoedema===
[[Lymphoedema]] of the [[penis]] is a normal and expected [[complication]] of male adult circumcision due to the adverse effect on blood circulation. Ferhatoglu et al. (2019) reported edema in 108 of 198 patients or 54.5 percent.<ref>{{REFjournal
===Videos===
Here are five videos in which [[regret men ]] who had an adult circumcision express [[Regret men| their regret]].
==== Circumcised at 18 ====
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