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One of the most common alibis cited for non-theraputic circumcision is that it is supposed to facilitate hygiene. However, according the "Circumcision Policy Statement" produced by the "Task Force on Circumcision" appointed by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], which was published in ''Pediatrics'' in 1999 and reaffirmed on September 1, 2005, "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimal penile hygiene".<ref>American Academy of Pediatrics: [http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/ Circumcision Policy Statement]; Task Force on Circumcision" ''Pediatrics'' Vol 103 No.3 March 1999, pp.686-693. (Statement Reaffirmed Sept. 1, 2005).</ref>
==Care of newborn, infants, toddlers, and boys==
Boys are born with a non-retractable [[foreskin]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Simpson
|first=Errol T
|author-link=
|last2=Barraclough
|first2=Phillip
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=The management of the paediatric foreskin
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Aust Fam Physician
|location=
|date=1998
|volume=27
|issue=5
|pages=382-3
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/hygiene/simpson1/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=9613002
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2020-05-28
}}</ref> Retraction cannot be done because the tip of the foreskin is too narrow to pass over the [[glans penis]] and/or the inner foreskin is fused with the glans penis by a [[synechia]]. No attempt should be made to retract a boy's foreskin. Attempts to retract a non-retractile foreskin will injure the boy. Caregivers should wash the outside of the penis as one might wash a finger.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-parents/care-of-the-intact-penis/
|archived=
|title=Care of the intact penis
|trans-title=
|language=English
|last=Geisheker
|first=John V.
|author-link=John V. Geisheker
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
|website=
|date=2016-03
|accessdate=2020-05-28
|format=
|quote=
}}</ref> The foreskin is self-cleaning, so no further cleaning is necessary. The first person to retract a boy's foreskin should be the boy himself.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wright
|first=J E
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Further to "the further fate of the foreskin"
|trans-title=
|language=English
|journal=Med J Aust
|location=
|date=1994-02-07
|volume=160
|issue=
|pages=134-5
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/wright2/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=8295581
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb126559.x
|accessdate=2020-05-28
}}</ref>
==Penile care for adolescents and teens==
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Retraction of the foreskin]]
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