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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. | 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]]. | 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]].<ref>{{REFweb | ||
|url=https://www.yourwholebaby.org/phimosis | |||
|title=The Doctor Says My Child has Phimosis! | |||
|last=Ward | |||
|first=Katie | |||
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|publisher=Your Whole Baby | |||
|date=2019-06-29 | |||
|accessdate=2026-02-07 | |||
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* [[Development of retractable foreskin]] | * [[Development of retractable foreskin]] | ||
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|accessdate=2025-10-22 | |accessdate=2025-10-22 | ||
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