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=== Techniques and instruments === | === Techniques and instruments === | ||
Over time, a vast variety of methods has been developed to remove the [[foreskin]]. A multitude of clamps and tools is available to ease the work of the circumciser, to improve the chance for visually symmetrical results and to prevent injuries to the [[Glans penis|glans]] from inexpert cuts. I will introduce some of the most widely spread variants. | Over time, a vast variety of methods has been developed to remove the [[foreskin]]. A multitude of clamps and tools is available to ease the work of the circumciser, to improve the chance for visually symmetrical results and to prevent injuries to the [[Glans penis|glans]] from inexpert cuts. I will introduce some of the most widely spread variants. | ||
====Restraint==== | |||
When infant boys are circumcised, it is usual practice to immobilize the infant by securely tying his limbs to a board specially made for that purpose. The infant then is preventing from fighting or fleeing. The infant thus is placed in the trauma-producing situation of "inescapable shock", described as a "physical condition in which the organism cannot do anything to affect the inevitable."<ref name="vanderkolk2014">{{REFbook | |||
|last=van der Kolk | |||
|first=Bessel | |||
|year=2014 | |||
|title=The Body Keeps the Score | |||
|url= | |||
|pages=76 | |||
|isbn=978-0-14-312774-1 | |||
|accessdate=2021-08-09 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
==== Freehand-techniques ==== | ==== Freehand-techniques ==== | ||