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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is for [[circumcised]] men who avoided [[adamant father syndrome]] and courageously broke the cycle of [[trauma]] and abuse to protect the [[genital integrity]] of a son. Such men grew up missing a normal body part, so they know little or nothing of the normal [[foreskin]] of their newborn [[intact]], [[foreskinned]] son. It is to these men that this page is addressed.
==Almost everything you thought you knew about the human foreskin and circumcision is probably wrong==
There is a massive [[circumcision industry]] that makes huge amounts of money<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://intactamerica.org/economics-of-circumcision/
 |title=The Economics of Circumcision: A Full Breakdown of This Penis Business
 |last=Garrett
 |first=Connor
 |init=
 |author-link=Connor Judson Garrett
 |publisher=Intact America
 |date=2023-12-23
 |accessdate=2025-06-04
}}</ref> by performing a harmful medically not indicated circumcision [[amputation]] to excise the healthy [[foreskin]] from a substantial percentage of the male infants born in the [[United States]].

Medical doctors have promoted this harmful operation and built the [[circumcision industry]] by lying to the American public for one and one-half centuries.<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://intactamerica.org/pros-and-cons-of-circumcision/
 |title=Pros and Cons of Circumcision (Spoiler: You’ve Been Lied to)
 |last=Garrett
 |first=Connor
 |init=
 |author-link=Connor Judson Garrett
 |publisher=Intact America
 |date=2023-11-10
 |accessdate=2025-06-04
}}</ref>  Doctors have ignored the [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| protective functions]] of the [[foreskin]] against [[infection]] that evolved over about a million years of evolution, while ignoring the danger of [[infection]] from an open circumcision wound.<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://intactamerica.org/circumcision-cleanliness-myth/
 |title=The Greatest PR Trick in Medical History: How Circumcision Got Rebranded as “Clean”
 |last=Alissa
 |first=Kristel
 |init=
 |author-link=Kristel Alissa
 |publisher=Intact America
 |date=2025-05-21
 |accessdate=2025-06-05
}}</ref>

Over decades, this has been caused much of the American public to become "brainwashed" and to believe the propaganda.<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://intactamerica.org/circumcision-trauma-gaslit-generation/
 |title=How Circumcision Gaslit an Entire Generation
 |last=Alissa
 |first=Kristel
 |init=
 |author-link=Kristel Alissa
 |publisher=Intact America
 |date=2025-05-21
 |accessdate=2025-06-05
}}</ref> Fortunately, this is now changing,<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVZQGTRl77/?igsh=MWV1aW90MzBpd2dzdA%3D%3D
 |title=Opposition to circumcision overtime.
 |last=Anonymous
 |first=
 |init=
 |author-link=
 |publisher=Intact America
 |date=2024
 |accessdate=2025-06-01
}}</ref> so more boys are enjoying a normal, [[foreskinned]] [[penis]].

==Your son's foreskin==
===Evolution===
[[Charles Darwin]] taught us that [[Evolution of the foreskin| evolution]] works because the fittest are more likely to survive, and this drives out the less fit. The presence of the foreskin makes us more likely to survive, so the foreskin has evolved over millions of years of evolution. The [[foreskin]] provides protection to boys against [[trauma]] and protection against [[infection]]. The trauma and infection protection work as long as the foreskin is in its proper place where it covers and protects its [[penis]], so evolution has provided two devices to keep a boy's foreskin in its proper place.
* The inner surface of the foreskin is fused with the underlying [[glans penis]] by a common [[synechia]], so it cannot be retracted.
* The tip of the [[foreskin]] is too narrow to retract over the wider [[glans penis]], so retraction is prevented.

===First foreskin retraction===
As your [[foreskinned]] son matures over a period of years, the synechia will dissolve and the tip of the [[foreskin]] will widen to permit retraction in adult life. The average age of first foreskin retraction has been found to be 10.4 years,<ref name="thorvaldsen2005">{{REFjournal
 |last=Thorvaldsen
 |init=MA
 |last2=Meyhoff
 |init2=H
 |title=Patologisk eller fysiologisk fimose?
 |trans-title=Pathological or physiological phimosis?
 |language=Danish
 |journal=Ugeskr Læger
 |volume=167
 |issue=17
 |pages=1858-62
 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/normal/thorvaldsen1/
 |quote=
 |pubmedID=15929334
 |pubmedCID=
 |DOI=
 |date=2005
 |accessdate=2025-05-17
}}</ref> but the age varies widely among boys from about 5 years of age to about 18 years of age. His [[foreskin]] may not retract until after puberty.

His [[foreskin]] must be left alone. It is NOT supposed to be retracted during infancy and early childhood. Retraction of the foreskin provides an opportunity for contaminants and pathogens to enter the [[preputial sac]]. Your son should be first person to retract his own foreskin,<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal
 |last=Wright
 |init=JE
 |title=Further to the "Further Fate of the Foreskin"
 |journal=Med J Aust
 |volume=160
 |issue=
 |pages=134-5
 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/normal/wright2/
 |quote=
 |pubmedID=8295581
 |pubmedCID=
 |DOI=
 |date=1994-02-07
 |accessdate=2019-10-17
}}</ref> which he will not do if it is painful or not mature enough to retract. 

[[Forced foreskin retraction]] by parents or other caregivers must be avoided.<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://intactamerica.org/the-daycare-risk-for-intact-uncircumcised-babies-and-boys-forcible-foreskin-retraction/
 |title=The Daycare Risk for Intact, Uncircumcised Babies and Boys: Forcible Foreskin Retraction
 |last=Ashford
 |first=Jeannie
 |init=
 |author-link=
 |publisher=Intact America
 |date=2024-09-12
 |accessdate=2025-06-05
}}</ref>

==Care needed by the foreskinned boy's penis==
Humans and their predecessors did not live in modern air-conditioned houses with hot and cold running water. They actually lived in such places as tents in the desert, jungle huts, igloos, and even caves. The [[foreskin]] evolved to provide protection in all of these circumstances. There is little for caregivers to do. The [[foreskinned]] boy only needs to have the outside of his [[foreskin]] washed as one would wash a finger.

===Smegma===
Although [[smegma]] has a very bad reputation, it actually is nothing more than a mixture of exfoliated skin, moisture, and skin oil that may collect in your son's [[preputial sac]]. It is normal, natural, harmless, and beneficial because of the skin oil that moisturizes the [[glans penis]]. The smegma may collect into lumps (sometimes called "pearls") under his [[foreskin]]. They are harmless and may be left alone until they work themselves out at the tip of the foreskin.

==The danger of visiting an American doctor==
Female physicians do not have a [[penis]] at all and the male American physicians come from the general population, which is mostly [[circumcised]], so most male American doctors have no experience of having a [[foreskin]]. They receive little training on this normal body part and seem only to learn that it is to excised in infancy. There are many cases reported of [[forced foreskin retraction]] by American doctors and nurses. One cannot overemphasize the need to protect the [[foreskin]] of an [[intact]] boy at the doctor's office.<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://www.yourwholebaby.org/forced-retraction
 |title=Protecting Children From Forced Foreskin Retraction
 |last=
 |first=
 |init=
 |author-link=
 |publisher=Your Whole Baby
 |date=
 |accessdate=2025-05-17
}}</ref> <ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-parents/help-with-forcible-foreskin-retraction/
 |title=Help for Wrongful Foreskin Retraction
 |last=Anonymous
 |first=
 |init=
 |author-link=
 |publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
 |date=2023-09
 |accessdate=2025-05-17
}}</ref>

==Stretching the foreskin==
Some [[foreskinned]] boys will need to [[Stretching| stretch their foreskin in puberty]] to widen the tip and help it become retractable.

==Should boys look like their dads?==
Some claim that boys should resemble their fathers. They claim if the father is [[circumcised]], then the boy should be circumcised also. If one believes that, then it would be better for fathers to undertake [[foreskin restoration]], so that they can, in time, resemble their [[intact]] son.

Fathers who chose to undertake foreskin restoration will, as restoration progresses:

* End pain caused by [[erection]].
* Relieve penile skin tightness.
* Develop [[gliding action]].
* Cover and protect their [[glans penis]].
* Restore moisture and oil to the glans penis.
* Start [[dekeratinization]] of the glans penis.
* Improve [[Erogenous sensation of the foreskin| sensation]].
* Restore normal, [[foreskinned]] appearance.
==Video==
===Two "circumcised" dads of intact ("uncircumcised") sons chat===
<youtube>v=psNODgxShzI&t=296s</youtube>

==Conclusion==
Due to your thoughtful protection of your son from harmful [[circumcision]], your [[intact]] son may expect to have only one-third of the [[penis]] issues as compared with [[circumcised]] boys.<ref name=fendereski2024">{{REFjournal
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 |last5=Shaeffer
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 |etal=no
 |title=Comparing Penile Problems in Circumcised vs. Uncircumcised Boys: Insights From a Large Commercial Claims Database With a Focus on Provider Type Performing Circumcision 
 |trans-title=
 |language=
 |journal=J Pediatr Surg
 |date=2024-11
 |volume=59
 |issue=11
 |article=161614
 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002234682400407X
 |archived=
 |quote=
 |pubmedID=39084960
 |pubmedCID=11486584
 |DOI=10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2024.06.022 
 |accessdate=2025-05-18
}}</ref> Your son will not experience the [[pain]] and [[trauma]]. which cause [[Psychosexual Effects of Circumcision| sexual and psychological issues]] that trouble many [[circumcised]] boys in later life. Your son's future sexual partner will likely have a better sex life because of his [[intactness]].<ref>{{REFjournal
 |last=Bensley
 |first=Gillian A.
 |init=GA
 |author-link=
 |last2=Boyle
 |first2=Gregory J.
 |init2=GJ
 |author2-link=Gregory J. Boyle
 |etal=no
 |title=Effects of male circumcision on female arousal and orgasm
 |journal=N Z Med J 
 |date=2003-09-12
 |volume=116
 |issue=1181
 |pages=595-6
 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/bensley1/
 |quote=
 |pubmedID=14581975
 |pubmedCID=
 |DOI=
 |accessdate=2025-05-18
}}</ref>

When other men become aware of your happy, healthy, [[foreskinned]] son, they are likely to be encouraged to similarly protect any future son from the certain harm and losses of [[circumcision]].

{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Care of intact, foreskinned boys]]
* [[Cut (circumcised) dads with intact sons]]
* [[Intact versus Circumcised Baby Care]]
* [[John Adkinson]]
* [[Regret dad]]
* [[Regret men]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFweb
 |url=https://www.noharmm.org/raising.htm
 |title=Raising Our Sons Intact
 |last=Anonymous
 |first=
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 |author-link=
 |publisher=NOHARMM
 |date=2020-02-22
 |accessdate=2025-05-18
}}

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