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The information provided by supposed authorities regarding when the foreskin of a boy becomes retractable is usually wrong. The foreskin may be become retractable after a few years, but it usually does not. Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) conducted a survey of young men in Denmark where boys are preserved intact. They found that the average age of first foreskin retraction is 10.4 years.<ref name="thorvaldsen2005">{{REFjournal
|last=Thorvaldsen
|first=M A
|author-link=
|last2=Meyhoff
|first2=H
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|etal=no
|title=Patologisk eller fysiologisk fimose?
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|language=Danish
|journal=Ugeskr Læger
|location=
|date=2005-04-25
|volume=167
|issue=17
|pages= 1858-62
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/thorvaldsen1/
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|quote=
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}}</ref> This means that many boy's foreskins become retractable even later.
==Penile care for adolescents and teens==