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→Intact penis: Add paragraph on phimosis.
Prolonged and/or vigorous masturbation occasionally causes [[lymphoedema]] of the foreskin , which causes swelling of the foreskin. The condition is painless and harmless. It usually resolves within about 24 hours.
Beaugé (1997) states that adult [[phimosis]] is caused by unusual methods of masturbation that fail to stretch the narrow foreskin of childhood.<ref name="beauge1997">{{REFjournal
|last=Beaugé
|first=Michel
|init=M
|author-link=
|title=The causes of adolescent phimosis
|journal=Brit J Sex Med
|date=1997-9
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=26
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/beauge2/
|accessdate=2021-05-30
}}</ref> According to Beaugé, the condition may be treated by changing one's method of masturbation.
===Circumcised penis===