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=== Techniques and instruments ===
Over time, a vast variety of methods has been developed to remove the [[foreskin]]. A multitude of clamps and tools is available to ease the work of the circumciser, to improve the chance for visually symmetrical results and to prevent injuries to the [[Glans penis|glans]] from inexpert cuts. I will introduce some of the most widely spread variants.
====Restraint====
When infant boys are circumcised, it is usual practice to immobilize the infant by securely tying his limbs to a board specially made for that purpose. The infant then is preventing from fighting or fleeing. The infant thus is placed in the trauma-producing situation of "inescapable shock", described as a "physical condition in which the organism cannot do anything to affect the inevitable."<ref name="vanderkolk2014">{{REFbook
|last=van der Kolk
|first=Bessel
|year=2014
|title=The Body Keeps the Score
|url=
|pages=76
|isbn=978-0-14-312774-1
|accessdate=2021-08-09
}}</ref>
==== Freehand-techniques ====