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The common and harmless condition of phimosis explained for your edification.

Phimosis, an inability to retract the foreskin fully, is common and harmless in infants and pre-pubescent males, with only about 44 percent of boys having a fully retractable foreskin by age 10. Minimal treatment in the teenage years involves waiting, stretching as in normal masturbation (by emulating thrusting with hand movements, so the foreskin moves over the glans and is gently stretched over time - the Beaug� method (http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/beauge2/)) or application of steroids. This normal situation is sometimes called preputial adhesions or physiological phimosis. True phimosis involves irritation, dysuria, bleeding, acute or chronic urinary retention and non-retractability. It affects about 1.5% of uncircumcised males by age 17.