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→Anatomy and development of the male genital organ: add link to Oster
The widening of the foreskin also depends on age. A child's foreskin may be too tight to be retracted all the way past the glans, even though it has already completely separated from the glans. This early foreskin tightness ([[phimosis]]) is a normal stage of development and vanishes with increasing age in most boys.
A study by the Danish paediatrician and school doctor, Jakob Øster, of 9,545 examinations of pupils, published in 1968, led to the following results<ref>Øster J. [https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/43/228/200.full.pdf |Further fate of the foreskin: incidence of preputial adhesions, [[phimosis]], and smegma among Danish Schoolboysschoolboys]. ''Arch Dis Child '' 1968;43:200-3.</ref>:
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