Many Christian parents inflict circumcision on their young sons with rationalizations that "it is in the Bible" and "Jesus was circumcised." Nothing could be further from the Christian doctrine,...

If you are a member of the Boomer, GenX-er, or even Millenial generation, there may be a reason why V-day and romance in general has cooled off: you or your male partner is missing an important piece...

A first-person report by one of the participants:

"The protests at the AAP Convention 2016 took place October 22nd-25th. I was only able to attend one day but I wanted to thank the many that...

More Than 10,000 People Sign Intact America’s #EndThePain Petition to Stop Circumcising Baby Boys after AAP Reports Pain Harms Newborn Development

October 22, 2016
At a crowded press conference...

The Fall Equinox and its associated astrological sign, Libra, are all about equality and balanced scales of justice. All humans have a fundamental human right to bodily autonomy, regardless of their...

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Unlike most of the recent mass killers, UC Santa Barbara spree killer Elliot Rodger used both knives and guns. His first three victims where his male Chinese-American roommates; he stabbed them to...

From Intact America's March 2014 newsletter:

MUTILATION IS MUTILATION.
We've all heard the argument before: "Male circumcision isn't nearly as bad as female genital mutilation." When the American...

The good news: more and more people are asking this question.
The bad news: we are well into the 21st century and we still have not answered this simple, obvious question.

The baby was not...

From our colleagues Bay Area Intactivists. This type of thing happens with disturbing frequency because most American medical practitioners are uninformed or misinformed about the care and...

On October 3, 2013, more than fifty people gathered with me outside Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio to protest a circumcision clamp study taking place there. We were thrilled that...

Great news out of Europe and Scandinavia in the past few weeks! It is looking like one of the Scandinavian countries, probably Denmark, will break the proverbial ice and ban all forms of...

Intact America, an organization devoted to ending unnecessary circumcision on babies who cannot consent, has launched a campaign to stop a study being conducted at Good Samaritan Hospital in...

By Georgeanne Chapin
August 15, 2013

I can’t count the times I’ve heard people say that female genital mutilation (FGM) is “much worse” than routine infant male circumcision. And frankly, I’m...

It will be a great day when the question "will the new prince get circumcised?" is in the same nutty category as "will the new princess get circumcised?"

In the early 20th century the United...

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Now that the Supreme Court has figured out that treating same-sex couples differently than opposite-sex couples is a violation of their rights and...

"The incident happened about an hour after the circumcision, during a party held in celebration of the event. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel also conducted an investigation in order to clarify the...

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21290From a recent event in Washington, DC:
An example of genital cutting on children doing what it was intended to do, namely break the bond of trust between parent and child. On male children...

New Article Finds Fault With Pediatric Organization’s Support for Circumcision, Provoking a Formal Response
Human rights attorney J. Steven Svoboda and pediatrician Robert S. Van Howe,...

In the first known circumcision death in Northern California for 2013, 11-day-old baby boy Brayden F. died on 8 March 2013 from blood loss following non-therapeutic (i.e., cosmetic) circumcision...

Gore Vidal was also an early intactivist, although that term had not yet been invented. In his 1968 novel Myra Breckinridge (made into a campy movie in 1970), he described the bizarre American 20th...

Anytime you hear the phrase "social justice" associated with a proposal involving legislation or use of public funds, it should be interpreted as "underhanded red-herring tactic to protect a racket"...

Nice to hear from you Star Man!

Re: the term "female circumcision": what you describe is commonly-held disinformation that has been actively marketed by those with financial and/or psychological...

Vancouver intactivists led by performance artist Glen Callender, founder of Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP), protested Oprah Winfrey's appearance at Rogers Area on January 24, 2013. ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision granting American women the "right to choose" to end an pregnancy and to have control over their bodies, here are some interviews...

Thursday, December 27, 2012 The Circumcision Blame Game

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The...

If a person is a doctor, this automatically means that s/he:

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You might want to rethink that!

Need to re-do [neonatal] circumcision rises, reason unclear (17 Oct 2011)

"My greatest regret" a young mother describes her son's experience and complications...

Handy info-graphic for human-rights nerds

a compilation of musings and reflections related to the Thanksgiving holiday --

From Georgeanne Chapin of Intact America (blog entry posted 21 Nov 2012):


... To the American Academy of...

The AAP's recently released "technical report on male circumcision" makes it clear what the AAP, pediatrics and the for-profit medical industry is really about: money.

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Thank you everyone for your input and observations on this post and related issue.

Not wanting to be visually assaulted while browsing the Wacco digest is very understandable, and the "slippery...

Some observations on this post and issue:

1. The function of a headline or subject line is to get the reader's interest and induce him/her to read the rest of the copy. On the other hand, it...

From Boys Deserve Better:

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the "mold" shown above is a Circumstraint(tm), a "neonatal restraint device" made by Olympic Medical. Here's a charming description of the Circumstraint and its...

A lesser-known part of the genital integrity aka anti-genital-cutting movement is protecting the right of intersex children from gender assignment surgery and hormone treatments to force their bodies...

Joe Rogan (and co-hosts) discuss the social misconstruction of male anatomy.

Great response to the question about "uncircumcised" man-parts in porn flicks.

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This was posted on Facebook on October 15th by an intactivist named Shelley who is located in Maryland. At least once per week she takes her "intactivist info wagon" to the beach boardwalk nearby and...

yes indeed... another barrier to quantitative data collection!

Or take a cue from Archimedes and dunk them in a graduated beaker of warm water... now there's a research project! :thinking:

Amputating the foreskin removes 30-50% of the skin of the whole...

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Left to right:
Glenn Ochal, born in Philadelphia PA 01mar1986
Henrik Rummel, born in Copenhagen on 26sep1987 and moved to the US when he was 12
Charlie Cole born in NYC on 21jun1986...

When (alleged) adults resort to name-calling and other behavior typical of school-yard bullies, it is one of the cardinal signs that their racket being threatened -- and they are desperately trying...

Great summary and legal interpretation by the Executive Director of Intact America, who is also an attorney.

As my third grade teacher was fond of saying, "your right to throw a punch ends where...

As Georganne Chapin points out, these unethical "African studies" are the epitome of medical imperialism. They also say a lot about what the people who are funding and promoting them, such as Bill...

Certainly one could say that, and it would be true for a certain demographic for reasons previously described.

But what women prefer is not really the issue. Whether or not it is acceptable to...

I'll be "tired" of it when boys and girls have equal protection and equal rights to make their own decisions about the configuration of their bodies, especially their genitalia.

As Bear pointed...

You did indicate that it was a choice made rather than having it made for you by parent/guardian, so you must not have been a young child. It did indeed *sound* like you had it done as an adult.

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This presentation from April 2012 discusses the effects of male circumcision on women's sexual and physical health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSHLyVWlzTY

The presenter is the first man...

sy52's experience is not rare at all. It is typical of circumcisions/genital mutilations done on infants.

Bear, you need to understand that you made a choice as an adult to have this procedure...