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'''Intact-friend''' and '''foreskin-friendly''' are terms used in the [[United States]], where non-therapeutic male of boys [[circumcision]] has been generally practiced, to describe health-care providers who are knowledgeable regarding care of the natural [[penis]] with a [[foreskin]].
The extraordinary ignorance of many American health-care providers regarding the human foreskin, a natural body part, makes these terms necessary.<ref>{{REFjournal
|pages=
|accessdate=2022-09-09
}}</ref> It is said that the only thing doctors learn in medical school about the human foreskin is that it is to be cut off!
Parents need to be especially wary at their [[intact]] son's visit to a doctor for any reason.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Narvaez
|first=Darcia
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Geisheker
|init2=JV
|author2-link=John V. Geisheker
|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201110/what-is-the-greatest-danger-uncircumcised-boy
|title=What Is the Greatest Danger for an Uncircumcised Boy?
|journal=Psychology Today
|date=2011-10-23
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=
|accessdate=2022-09-09
}}</ref>
It is very common for American doctors to forcibly retract a young boys non-retractile foreskin, thereby causing great injury and [[pain]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-parents/help-with-forcible-foreskin-retraction/