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The foreskin consists of the outer foreskin, an extension of the shaft skin from the back of the sulcus to the foreskin opening, not attached nor part of any other structure which makes the underside of the outer foreskin unique from any other skin found on the body, turns beneath itself at the mucocutaneous juncture where the [[preputial mucosa| inner foreskin]] begins. The inner foreskin mucosa begins at the mucocutaneous junction and is specialized and separate tissue which continues from this junction, traveling between the outer foreskin and the glans, attaching to the penis at the back of the sulcus beneath the end of the shaft skin and beginning of the outer foreskin at the top of the penis (about 10mm to 25mm, 3/8 to 1 inch, behind the back of the glans). The inner foreskin continues toward the [[glans]] at the sides and transitions into the frenulum toward the bottom.<ref name="taylor1996">{{REFjournal

|last=Taylor

|author-link=John R. Taylor

|last2=Lockwood

|last3=Taylor

|title=The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision

|journal=Br J Urol

At birth the infant boy's foreskin is almost always [[synechia| fused]] to his [[glans]] as his penis is not fully developed and one function of the foreskin is to keep feces and other foreign substances from the meatal opening and the urinary tract of the infant and toddler. That is why the only care for the intact penis is to leave it alone, completely alone. No doctor, nurse, parent or any other care provider should ever investigate, probe or examine his foreskin, especially any forced retraction which will tear foreskin from glans. The undisturbed glans and inner foreskin [[preputial mucosa| mucosa]] is uncontaminated and any such trespasses may introduce that which the foreskin is designed to keep out.<ref name="fleiss-hodges-vanhowe1998">{{REFjournal

|last=Fleiss

|author-link=Paul M. Fleiss

|last2=Hodges

|author2-link=Frederick M. Hodges

|last3=Van Howe

|author3-link=Robert S. Van Howe

|title=Immunological functions of the human prepuce

}}</ref> His foreskin will naturally separate from his glans and he should be the only one to touch or retract it. When it separates, he will know and he will be retracting his own foreskin. No other person should interfere with this natural process.<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal

|last=Wright

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

|journal=Med J Aust