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* [[Retraction of the foreskin]]{{LINKS}}
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'''Forced Foreskin Retraction''' means that someone retracts the [[foreskin]] of a young male, using force, when the foreskin is still fused to the [[Glans penis|glans]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013_08_01_archive.html
|title=The balanopreputial synechiae conspiration - or when medicine reverses 150 years thanks to a committee
|date=2013-08-27
|accessdate=2020-12-30
}}</ref> Forcible foreskin retraction is extremely painful to the child.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Romberg
|first=Rosemary
|init=
|author-link=Rosemary_Romberg
|year=2021
|title=Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma
|url=
|work=
|editor=Ulf Dunkel
|edition=Second, Revised
|volume=
|chapter=Care of the Intact Penis
|scope=
|page=452
|pages=
|location=
|publisher=Kindle
|ISBN=23:979-8683021252
|quote=
|accessdate=2023-08-30
|note=
}}</ref>
The age at which the [[foreskin]] can easily retract varies widely: some boys are retractable in their late toddler years, but many are well into teen years before the membrane dissolves fully. Virtually all medical practicioners in countries that do not practice [[RIC|routine infant circumcision]] understand this process and know that to force back the [[foreskin]] before it is ready HURTS, opens the [[penis]] to infection, and can damage the [[foreskin]] itself, causing a lifetime of woe.
In the [[United States]], many healthcare workers are ignorant of these facts. Indeed, due to the prevalence of [[circumcision]] in decades of the past, healthcare providers have lost a generation of knowledge regarding proper care of the natural [[penis]]. As a result, scores of young boys have been [[Trauma| traumatized ]] and injured by those very professionals pledged to protect them. Some professionals remain stubbornly blind to the facts of proper penile care, and some are merely uninformed. Either way, as caregivers to an [[intact ]] boys, we must continue to promote correct standard of care."<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingforcibleretraction.org/
|title=Doctors Opposing Forcible Retraction
</blockquote>
Wright (1994) advises that the first person to retract a child's [[foreskin ]] should be the child himself.<ref name="wright1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Wright
|init=JE
|accessdate=2020-01-25
}}</ref>
==Help for Wrongful Foreskin Retraction==
[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] offers a very helpful page regarding premature forcible foreskin retraction (PFFR). The page provides information on:
* First aid
* Helpful articles on forcible foreskin retraction
* Filing a complaint<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-parents/help-with-forcible-foreskin-retraction/
|title=Wrongful Foreskin Retraction
|last=Geisheker
|first=John V.
|init=
|author-link=John V. Geisheker
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
|date=2016-04
|accessdate=2023-02-18
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[Foreskin Care for Boys]]
* [[Development of retractable foreskin]]
* {{LINKSREFdocument |title=When Your Baby Boy is Not Circumcised |url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/w/images/1982-02_Wallerstein-WhenYourBabyBoyIsNotCircumcised.pdf |language=English |last=Wallerstein |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Wallerstein |publisher=Pennypress |location=Seattle |format=Four-page pamphlet |date=1982-02 |accessdate=2021-05-14}}
* {{REFdocument
|date=2007-09-01
|accessdate=2019-12-20
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.intactamerica.org/parents-beware-medical-professionals-want-to-forcibly-retract-your-sons-foreskin/
|title=Parents, Beware! Medical Professionals Want to Forcibly Retract Your Son’s Foreskin!
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|init=
|author-link=Georganne_Chapin_-_Intact_America
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2018-02-11
|accessdate=2023-02-18
}}
This link provide a photo of the [[lymphoedema]] that can happen after a premature forcible foreskin retraction (PFFR), followed by [[paraphimosis]].
* {{REFweb
|url=https://tlctugger.com/wp-content/uploads/ForcibleRetractionPresentation-PFFR.pdf
|title=Premature forcible foreskin retraction
|last=Low
|first=Ron
|init=
|website=TLC tugger
|date=
|accessdate=2022-09-13
}}
{{REF}}