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The age at which the [[foreskin]] can easily retract varies widely: some boys are retractable in their late toddler years, but many are well into teen years before the membrane dissolves fully. Virtually all medical practicioners in countries that do not practice [[RIC|routine infant circumcision]] understand this process and know that to force back the [[foreskin]] before it is ready HURTS, opens the [[penis]] to infection, and can damage the [[foreskin]] itself, causing a lifetime of woe.
In the [[United States]], many healthcare workers are ignorant of these facts. Indeed, due to the prevalence of [[circumcision]] in decades of the past, healthcare providers have lost a generation of knowledge regarding proper care of the natural [[penis]]. As a result, scores of young boys have been traumatized and injured by those very professionals pledged to protect them. Some professionals remain stubbornly blind to the facts of proper penile care, and some are merely uninformed. Either way, as caregivers to an [[intact ]] boys, we must continue to promote correct standard of care."<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingforcibleretraction.org/
|title=Doctors Opposing Forcible Retraction
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Wright (1994) advises that the first person to retract a child's [[foreskin ]] should be the child himself.<ref name="wright1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Wright
|init=JE