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==Warning to parents== | ==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 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]]. | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||
* [[Development of retractable foreskin]] | * [[Development of retractable foreskin]] | ||