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|accessdate=2019-11-14
}}</ref> [[Jakob Øster| Øster]] (1968) reported that some boys will not develop retractable [[foreskin]] until after puberty.<ref name="Øster1968">{{OesterJ 1968}}</ref>
==Visiting the doctor==
After a century or more of relentless promotion of unnecessary, non medically indicated [[circumcision]], many American healthcare providers are ill-trained in the care of the natural, normal, healthy [[foreskin]] and are likely to harm the [[penis]] of a boy by [[Forced foreskin retraction| premature forcible retraction]] of his protective non-retractile foreskin. Parents must be alert and on guard, ready to aggressively jump in to protect a boy's foreskin during the examination by the doctor.<ref name="saltalamacchia2019">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.yourwholebaby.org/common-sense
|title=What's Okay and What's Not
|last=Saltalamacchia
|first=Angela
|init=
|author-link=Angela Saltalamacchia
|publisher=Your Whole Baby
|date=2019-11-06
|accessdate=2025-04-05
}}</ref>
==Behavior of young intact boys==