Say no to circumcision - support intactivism. The following list includes blogs, articles, and websites of interest to Intactivists that were published in the past week. This is a running tally of the ones I found interesting. This week has been a light week for interesting articles discussing the harms of circumcision.
 

Sunday, January 30, 2010

Associated Content: Health and Wellness: Circumcision Debate Continues Anew
A resonably well balanced article describing the circumcision debate. The author states that current evidence fails to recommend widespread neonatal circumcision, but includes some inaccuracies about penile cancer and UTIs.

One of the indicators of prostate problems is having to get up at night and go to the bathroom. Frequent urination is something that many men learn to live with as they get older.

I have been working too many hours lately. I have been lucky to get 4, maybe 5, hours of sleep a night. With only 4 to 5 hours in bed it is not difficult to make it through the night without having to get up.

For the last several days I got a break at work. I was able to leave work early for several days in a row. I was even able to get more than 8 hours of sleep every night. That was a welcome change.

On the second morning I was in the bathroom taking care of business. I stood in front of the toilet and it just kept flowing. I then realized I had made it through the night without getting up to urinate. I remembered that i slept through the night the night before, too.

It was not that long ago when I was getting up a couple times a night to go to the bathroom. Before my HoLAP surgery 18 months ago, I never slept the whole night through. I don't miss those nights at all.

After almost 18 months after my prostate surgery, I am thankful for the benefits of the surgery.  

Say no to circumcision - support intactivism. The following list includes blogs, articles, and websites of interest to Intactivists that were published in the past week. This is a running tally of the ones I found interesting.
 

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Male Circumcision and HIV: INTERVIEW: Stephen Svoboda of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child talks about HIV and infant circumcision
J. Stephen Svodboda of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child discusses the current campaign for circumcsion as an HIV preventative measure. He makes that point that infant circumcision to prevent HIV is lunacy because infants do not get HIV from sex. It will be many years later, when the infant grows into a man, before he needs to be concerned with HIV protection. Condoms prevents AIDS, circumcision does not.
 

I spend too much time surfing the 'net. And, as an intactivist, I read a lot of blogs related to circumcision. I frequently come across a comment that the person has never met a circumcised man who was unhappy with his circumcision. Hello. Now you have met one. I hate my circumcision.

I was circumcised more than 50 years ago. It was something that was done to most infant boys at the time. For most of my life, I never thought about my circumcision status. My penis worked, at least, I thought it did. I know it gave me lots of pleasure. At least it did when I was younger.

I remember in my twenties when I ejaculated I could not bear to have my glans touched because it was hypersensitive at that time. As I reached my late thirties and early forties, I noticed that my glans did not have the hypersensitivity after ejaculation. As my forties flew by I noticed it became more and more difficult to ejaculate during sex. My glans was getting leathery. I had much less sensitivity in my glans and penis. There was only one small spot on my corona where there was any sensitivity. The rest of my glans was less sensitive than a finger.

Say no to circumcision - support intactivism. The following list includes blogs, articles, and websites of interest to Intactivists that were published in the past week. This is a running tally of the ones I found interesting.

This has been another busy week for intactivists. The number of pro-intact blogs and articles seems to be increasing. Hopefully, this trend will continue and the circumcision debate will have a wider audience. I can only believe that as more people learn about circumcision, the more that people will realize what an obsolete and barbaric practice it is.
 

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Male Circumcision and HIV: VIDEO: Correcting Stephen Lewis
A discussion of Stephen Lewis campaign for circumcsion and two videos that offer a critique of Stephen's circumcision advocacy.

They Belong To Us: Why I Didnt Circumcise My Boys
One mother writes about how she came to decide to leave her two sons intact. She decided her sons were perfect as born and circumcision was unnecessary.

Say no to circumcision - support intactivism Blogs, articles, and websites of interest to Intactivists that were published in the past week. This is a running tally of the ones I found interesting.

This has been a good week for some good, educational posts on the harms of infant circumcision.
 

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Lay Scientist: Circumcision and HIV/AIDS - I
A critical look at the circumcision campaign and how it includes partners who actively work against promoting condom use. The agenda of the campaign partners may explain the unreasonable push for circumcision in view of the weak evidence supporting it as a means to control HIV.

Yesterday, Science Tanslational Medicine published the article Uncovering Residual Effects of Chronic Sleep Loss on Human Performance. Researchers determined that, after an extended period of sleep loss (working too much for too long), one night of catch-up sleep offers only marginal benefit. The researchers determined that for a few hours after waking from the catch-up sleep, a person performed well. But, after a few hours, the effects of the cumulative sleep loss contributed to lower performance.

A common question by those starting foreskin restoration is what is the best way to restore a foreskin?  Which one of the numerous methods and/or devices is best?