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Physiological phimosis

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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a medical term that is used to designate the normal, healthy, developmental condition of the [[penis]] during infancy, boyhood, pre-teen, and adolescence.
<b>Physiological</b> is a word that designates a normal, healthy condition. It opposes the word <b>pathological</b> that designates an abnormal, perhaps diseased condition.<ref>{{REFweb
|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) Nature provides a second method is provided to prevent retraction by making the tip of the immature foreskin too narrow to pass over the [[glans penis]]. The tip One-half of the [[foreskin]] normally widens to render the foreskin retractable boys can retract by 10.4 years of age 18, but a few persist 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 normal variant.
The first person to retract a boy's [[foreskin]] should be the boy himself.<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal
|journal=Med J Aust
|volume=160
|issue=
|pages=134-135
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/wright2/
|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]]
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