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'''Intact-friendly''' and '''foreskin-friendly''' are interchangable interchangeable terms used in the [[United States]], where non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys has been generally practiced, to describe health-care providers who are knowledgeable regarding care of the [[intact]] 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
|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!
Ignorant doctors are likely to confuse a normal healthy developmentally non-retractable boy's [[foreskin]] with [[phimosis]] and recommend an unnecessary [[circumcision]].
Parents need to be especially wary at their [[intact]] son's visit to a doctor for any reason.<ref>{{REFjournal
This information illustrates the need for parents to be certain that their [[intact]] son's healthcare provider is intact-friendly.
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* [[Development of retractable foreskin]]
* [[Forced foreskin retraction]]
* [[Foreskin Care for Boys]]
* [[United States of America]]
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