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The [[preputial mucosa]] of the [[foreskin]] is fused with the [[glans]] penis by the [[synechia]] in infancy and childhood so the foreskin cannot be retracted. No attempt to retract the foreskin should be made. Forcible retraction is harmful. Wright (1994) advises that the first person to retract the boy’s foreskin should be the boy himself.<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal

|last=Wright

|title=Further to the "Further Fate of the Foreskin"

|journal=Med J Aust

Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) conducted a survey of 4,000 boys in Denmark. They report that the mean age of first [[foreskin]] retraction is 10.4 years in Denmark.<ref name="Thorvaldsen-meyhoff2005">{{REFjournal

|last=Thorvaldsen

|last2=Meyhoff

|title=Patologisk eller fysiologisk fimose?

|trans-title=Pathological or physiological phimosis?

|last=Simpson

|first=Errol T.

|author-link=

|last2=Baraclough

|first2=Phillip

|author2-link=

|etal=no