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{{Construction Site}}'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a medical term that is used to designate the normal, healthfulhealthy, developmental condition of the [[penis]] during infancy, boyhood, pre-teen, and adolescence.
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<b>Physiological</b> is a word that designates a normal, healthful healthy condition. It opposes the word <b>pathological</b> that designates an abnormal, perhaps diseased condition.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/physiological
|title=Physiological
}}</ref>
[[Phimosis]] is the word derived from Greek that denotes the condition of a [[foreskin]] that does not retract. Phimosis is not a disease.
==Discussion==
The [[foreskin]] evolved over many hundreds of thousands of years in men and animals to provide protective functions that enhance survival. It provides protection to the penis from [[trauma]] and [[infection]]. It <ref name="fleiss-hodges-vanhowe1998">{{FleissP HodgesF VanHoweRS 1998}}</ref> Its presence over the [[glans penis]] prevents [[meatal stenosis]] and [[keratinization]].
Nature provides two means to prevent retraction and maintain protection of the [[foreskin]] during the developmental period. <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/phimosis-balantis/ |title=Phimosis and Balanitis |last=Anonymous |first= |init= |author-link= |publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision |date=2016 |accessdate=2025-10-22}}</ref> 1) The inner surface of the foreskin is fused with the underlying [[glans penis]] by a common [[synechia]] to prevent retraction. Forcible retraction will tear the synechia so should be avoided. 2) The Nature provides a second method is provided to prevent retraction by making the tip of the immature foreskin is too narrow to pass over the [[glans penis]]. One-half of boys can retract by 10.4 years of age, so but the others do not become retractable until later.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Thorvaldsen |first= |init=MA |author-link= |last2=Meyhoff |first2= |init2=HH |author2-link= |etal=no |title=Patologisk eller fysiologisk fimose? |trans-title= |language=Danish |journal=Ugeskr Læger |date=2005-04-25 |volume=167 |issue=17 |pages=1858-62 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/normal/thorvaldsen1/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=15929334 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |doi= |accessdate=2025-10-29}}</ref> Continued physiological phimosis with non-retractable foreskin into adult life is a second method is provided to prevent retractionnormal variant. The first person to retract a boy's [[foreskin ]] should be the boy himself.<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Wright
|init=JE
|journal=Med J Aust
|volume=160
|pages=134-135
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/wright2/
|accessdate=2025-10-22
}}</ref>
==Adolescents==
A few pubescent [[intact]] adolescents will find that their foreskin has retained the normal childhood tightness. French physician Dr. Michel Beaugé (1997) recommends that teens adopt a [[masturbation]] style that will cause [[stretching]] of the [[foreskin]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Beaugé
|init=M
|author-link=
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/beauge2/
|title=The causes of adolescent phimosis
|journal=Br J Sex Med
|date=1997-09
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=26
|accessdate=2025-10-26
}}</ref>
==Warning to parents==
Some medical doctors, either because of ignorance or because of greed, will tell parents that their normal, healthy son, with a normal, healthy, non-retractile foreskin needs a [[circumcision]]. Circumcision is a [[pain| painful]], harmful, and usually unnecessary [[amputation]] that permanently causes [[bodily harm]] by destroying the many useful, healthful, beneficial [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions of the foreskin]], so circumcision should be avoided except as a last resort.
Parents who have such a doctor for their [[intact]] son would do well to find a [[Lists of foreskin-friendly and intact-friendly physicians| foreskin-friendly physician]].
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Development of retractable foreskin]]
* [[Masturbation]]
* [[Pathological phimosis]]
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