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The word '''hygiene''' comes from Greek==Victorian usage== Victorian doctors falsely believed that thinking immoral or impure thoughts could cause neurological disorders such as feeblemindedness or epilepsy. They also believed that masturbation would cause one to think immoral or impure thoughts that would cause brain damage. Therefore, and it means "the protection foreskin and promotion of healthmasturbation were viewed as unhygenic." Keeping the body clean is only part So when a Victorian doctor spoke of what it takes to be healthful. In some casescircumcision being hygienic, he meant mental hygiene, excessive washing can actually cause health problemsnot physical cleanliness.

Misinformation abounds regarding the hygiene of the intact penis. In the United States, especially, doctors tend to be ignorant, misinformed, or simply uninformed concerning the hygenic hygienic care of intact men and children, and this happens for a variety of reasons. As of yet, America is primarily country where circumcision is prevalent, and thus intact male genitals are unfamiliarto many Americans. Many American medical doctors, are ignorant of the subject because they are themselves circumcised, wives to circumcised men, and/or mothers to circumcised children. Additionally, care of the intact male genitals is rarely mentioned in medical school. The foreskin and the proper care for intact genitals tends to be absent in pediatric literature.<refname="osborn1981">{{REFjournal |last=Osborn |first=LM |author-link= |last2=Metcalf |first2=TJ |author2-link= |last3=Mariani |first3=EM |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Hygienic care in uncircumcised infants |trans-title= |language= |journal=Pediatrics |location= |date=1981-03 |volume=67 |issue= |pages=365-7 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/hygiene/osborn1/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=7243473 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2020-06-07}}Osborn LM, Metcalf TJ, Mariani EM. [http://www.cirp.org/library/hygiene/osborn1/ Hygienic care in uncircumcised infants]. ''Pediatrics'' 1981;67:365-7.</ref>

One of the most common justifactions justifications cited for non-theraputic therapeutic circumcision of a boy 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".<refname="aap1999">American Academy of {{REFjournal |last=Task Force on Circumcision |first= |author-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcision Policy Statement |trans-title= |language= |journal=Pediatrics: [ |location= |date=1999-03 |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=686-93 |url=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). |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=10049981 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=}}</ref>

}}</ref> Warm water is sufficient for cleaning, which should not be done to excess.