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One of the most common alibis cited for non-theraputic circumcision is that it is supposed to facilitate hygiene. However, according the "Circumcision Policy Statement" produced by the "Task Force on Circumcision" appointed by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], which was published in ''Pediatrics'' in 1999 and reaffirmed on September 1, 2005, "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimal penile hygiene".<ref>American Academy of Pediatrics: [http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/ Circumcision Policy Statement]; Task Force on Circumcision" ''Pediatrics'' Vol 103 No.3 March 1999, pp.686-693. (Statement Reaffirmed Sept. 1, 2005).</ref> | One of the most common alibis cited for non-theraputic circumcision is that it is supposed to facilitate hygiene. However, according the "Circumcision Policy Statement" produced by the "Task Force on Circumcision" appointed by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], which was published in ''Pediatrics'' in 1999 and reaffirmed on September 1, 2005, "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimal penile hygiene".<ref>American Academy of Pediatrics: [http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/ Circumcision Policy Statement]; Task Force on Circumcision" ''Pediatrics'' Vol 103 No.3 March 1999, pp.686-693. (Statement Reaffirmed Sept. 1, 2005).</ref> | ||
==Care of newborn, infants, toddlers, and boys== | |||
Boys are born with a non-retractable [[foreskin]].<ref>{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Simpson | |||
|first=Errol T | |||
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|last2=Barraclough | |||
|first2=Phillip | |||
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|etal=no | |||
|title=The management of the paediatric foreskin | |||
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|journal=Aust Fam Physician | |||
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|date=1998 | |||
|volume=27 | |||
|issue=5 | |||
|pages=382-3 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/hygiene/simpson1/ | |||
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|pubmedID=9613002 | |||
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}}</ref> Retraction cannot be done because the tip of the foreskin is too narrow to pass over the [[glans penis]] and/or the inner foreskin is fused with the glans penis by a [[synechia]]. No attempt should be made to retract a boy's foreskin. Attempts to retract a non-retractile foreskin will injure the boy. Caregivers should wash the outside of the penis as one might wash a finger.<ref>{{REFweb | |||
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-parents/care-of-the-intact-penis/ | |||
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|title=Care of the intact penis | |||
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|language=English | |||
|last=Geisheker | |||
|first=John V. | |||
|author-link=John V. Geisheker | |||
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision | |||
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|date=2016-03 | |||
|accessdate=2020-05-28 | |||
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}}</ref> The foreskin is self-cleaning, so no further cleaning is necessary. The first person to retract a boy's foreskin should be the boy himself.<ref>{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Wright | |||
|first=J E | |||
|author-link= | |||
|etal=no | |||
|title=Further to "the further fate of the foreskin" | |||
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|language=English | |||
|journal=Med J Aust | |||
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|date=1994-02-07 | |||
|volume=160 | |||
|issue= | |||
|pages=134-5 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/wright2/ | |||
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|pubmedID=8295581 | |||
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|DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb126559.x | |||
|accessdate=2020-05-28 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
==Penile care for adolescents and teens== | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | |||
* [[Retraction of the foreskin]] | |||
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