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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, and adolescence.
'''{{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
<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
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==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 destroys the many useful, healthful, beneficial [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions of the foreskin]], so surgery should be avoided except as a last resort.
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* [[Development of retractable foreskin]]
* [[Development of retractable foreskin]]