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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== | ==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 [[foreskinned]] 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 | 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 [[foreskinned]] 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 | ||