I believe the issue can be looked at like this:
forcefully retract:
benefits: no chance of adhesions if performed vigilantly and application of vaseline or the like esp in early months
risks/non benefits:
-You need to constantly do this, which leads to constant penal manipulation. YOu will need to retract even past infancy- adhesions can even still form into the second year or life and beyond. That is a lot of penis manipulation.
-if you are not diligent, you still get adhesions and all the penis manipulation you are doing was just a big waste of time
-can be painful and cause infection and bleeding
Leave it alone:
Benefits:
- studies show that most will break on their own, even on children who have been circumcised. (see my posted link above)
-no penis manipulation involved
-no pain
-ones that do not break on their own can be done at a doctor's office with pain relief
Risks:
-small possibility of ones not breaking on own (again, see link in post above) these need to be broken in doc office with pain relief
- need to be diligent about doctors not retracting
- if there is an adhesion that does not release on its own and you do not have a doctor do it with pain relief, then you might end up with a skin bridge. (this is also a risk, IMO, either way since if you do forcefully retract but are not diligent through the months and possibly years, then you can end up with the same problem.)
Adhesions involving the circumcision line, however, should be done in a doctor's office with pain relief as they can be problematic. (again, see link above)
