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Professor Allan's main point is that the authors of these works work very hard to make all boys feel good about their penis whether it is [[foreskinned]] or [[intact]]. The authors attempt to minimize the obvious very clear differences between the two. According to Professor Allan:
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While these puberty manuals remain a largely unstudied aspect of growing up and maturation, they do provide important information to readers (be they preadolescent, adolescent, or adult). In these books, the debates about circumcision are present, but they each work to treat all penises as normal penises. Even though there are undoubtedly differences, which are visual, as well as cultural/national and religious, the authors work to reassure the reader that their penis will work just as well as any other penis. In a world where boys are anxious about their penis, not just its size but also its look, these books do the work of trying to reassure a reader that he, like the boys in his class, his friends, and so on, are all normal. …<ref name="allan2023"/>
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