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}}</ref> [[Jakob Øster| Øster]] (1968) reported that some boys will not develop retractable [[foreskin]] until after puberty.<ref name="Øster1968">{{OesterJ 1968}}</ref> | }}</ref> [[Jakob Øster| Øster]] (1968) reported that some boys will not develop retractable [[foreskin]] until after puberty.<ref name="Øster1968">{{OesterJ 1968}}</ref> | ||
==Visiting the doctor== | |||
After a century or more of relentless promotion of unnecessary, non medically indicated [[circumcision]], many American healthcare providers are ill-trained in the care of the natural, normal, healthy [[foreskin]] and are likely to harm the [[penis]] of a boy by [[Forced foreskin retraction| premature forcible retraction]] of his protective non-retractile foreskin. Parents must be alert and on guard, ready to aggressively jump in to protect a boy's foreskin during the examination by the doctor.<ref name="saltalamacchia2019">{{REFweb | |||
|url=https://www.yourwholebaby.org/common-sense | |||
|title=What's Okay and What's Not | |||
|last=Saltalamacchia | |||
|first=Angela | |||
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|author-link=Angela Saltalamacchia | |||
|publisher=Your Whole Baby | |||
|date=2019-11-06 | |||
|accessdate=2025-04-05 | |||
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==Behavior of young intact boys== | ==Behavior of young intact boys== | ||