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→AAP‘s pamphlet on intact care: Add section.
<blockquote>The function of the foreskin and the glans at birth is delicate and easily irritated by urine and feces. The foreskin shields the glans. With circumcision this protection is lost. In such cases, the glans and especially the urinary opening (meatus) may become irritated or infected, causing ulcers, meatitis (inflammation of the meatus) and meatal stenosis (a narrowing of the urinary opening.) Such problems virtually never occur in [[uncircumcised]] penises. The foreskin protects the glans throughout life.</blockquote>
*1990 - The AAP removed the above with no explanation.
==The AAP and premature forcible retraction of the foreskin==
It is now self-evident that many, perhaps most, of America's child care doctors, including pediatricians and family doctors, do not know how to care of a boy's intact penis. The foreskin an an infant boy is non-retractable by design. An attempt to forcibly retract a non-retractable foreskin of a boy can only lead to a painful injury to the boy. There are frequent reports of attempts by ignorant physicians to retract a boy's foreskin.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Geisheker
|first=John V.
|init=JV
|author-link=John V. Geisheker |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201110/doctor-ignorance-male-anatomy-harms-boys
|title=Doctor ignorance of male anatomy harms boys: What you can do to protect boys from medical interference
|journal=Psychology Today
|date=2011-10-20
}}</ref>
The AAP is the nation's leading child care organization, but it has taken no action to educate its pediatrician members and other doctors on the proper care of the infant foreskin.
== American Academy of Pediatrics Lawsuit ==