Parents, protect your babies. 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, November 13, 2011

End Routine Infant Circumcision: Fundraising Against Circumcision
ERIC is seeking 3-6 minute long videos that are related to intactivism. For every video promoting genital integrity for children, ERIC will donate $3 to SavingSons.org for their circumcision information packs that are distributed to expecting parents. Help inform parents so they can make a better decision about circumcision.
 

Monday, November 14, 2011

Science Nordic: Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life
Circumcised men have more difficulties reaching orgasm, and their female partners experience more vaginal pains and an inferior sex life. The clear-cut conclusion of a new Danish research article is that if a man is circumcised, he faces an increased risk of experiencing delayed orgasm and his female partner has an increased risk of not feeling sexually fulfilled. “Circumcised men are three times as likely to experience a frequent inability to reach an orgasm,” says one of the researchers.

CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal: Whole again: The practice of foreskin restoration
An article on foreskin restoration. The information on methods and devices is dated, but it is refreshing to see a medical journal address non-surgical foreskin restoration. Too bad they call it "uncircumcision," which indicates that it is not the preferred condition.

Recent news is that Intact America has started a blog. Intact America is a strong advocate for genital integrity of all babies. Both male and female children have the right to bodily autonomy, that is, an intact body, free from unnecessary surgery such as circumcision. Intact America will use the blog to address the latest media coverage, ongoing topics and observations, essays, personal stories, and much more on their new blog.

Parents, protect your babies. 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, November 6, 2011

Foreskin Restoration: People > G.J.'s story
A comment from a man who was circumcised and noticed that he was different than his dad. GJ tells how his intact father listened to the doctor, who recommended that GJ be circumcised at 7 years of age.

Dr Momma Peaceful Parenting: Even When You Lose, You are Winning
A motivational post that those who speak out to protect children are really winning, even when it seems they are not.

YouTube EndRoutineInfantCirc: Non-therapeutic Infant Circumcision Is Abuse
A video recap on one man's thoughts about his infant circumcision. He was born premature, but the doctors still wanted to circumcise him.

Intactivist Blog: Circumcision Harm
The Global Survey on Circumcision Harm is a great resource to go to when researching the harm that circumcision does. A picture of a man's damaged penis is shown. If doctors would show parents a picture like this, no parent would have their infant son circumcised.

Parents, protect your babies. 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, October 30, 2011

Stop the Cut: AAP: Need to Re-Do Circumcision Rises, Reasons Unclear
An unexplained increase in the number of revision circumcisions has pediatric urologists wondering whether the finding is real and, if so, what caused it. What goes unsaid is that if baby boys were left intact, just as they were born, there would be no need to correct circumcision complications. Most parents do not realize that circumcision is an elective surgery and is unneeded for the boy to remain healthy.

Salem-News: CIRCUMCISION AND EXTERMINATION: The Shoah, 09.11, Palestine, Oslo: 'holy' wars around circumcision
Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux, an independent psychoanalysis researcher (Chercheur indépendant en psychanalyse) based in Paris, France, writes about circumcision and Freud, who noticed that some looked at circumcision as a form of castration.
 

Monday, October 31, 2011

Laurel of Leaves: Modern Circumcision is Not Necessary, Natural, or Biblical
A mother writes about male infant circumcision. She makes the case that male infant circumcision is not medically necessary. Infant circumcision is not needed for hygiene. The infant foreskin keeps the baby healthy and protects his delicate tissues from germs.  She also points out the risks and complications of male infant circumcision, which is unnecessary elective surgery.

Parents, protect your babies. 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, October 23, 2011

Psychology Today: What is the greatest danger for an uncircumcised boy?
If a baby boy escapes being circumcised in the United States, the next great danger he faces with respect to his penis is a well-baby visit. Many times the boy's primary care provider has no idea on the proper care and handling of an intact penis. These ill-informed doctors wrongly think that they should forcibly retract the foreskin while it is still fused to the glans. The foreskin should never be retracted by anyone other the owner until the foreskin becomes naturally retractable.

Brian Paget: Circumcision: suffer little children
A thoughtful blog about how male infant circumcision is indefensible, even as a religious ritual. Non-medical circumcision should be an adult’s decision over their own body. Circumcising children takes that basic right away from them and makes an irreparable change to a child’s body. Individual right to freedom requires that such physical abuse on those who can’t defend themselves from religion, culture or social convention should not be permitted in a civilised society. Non medical circumcision children should be banned.
 

Secret Penis is a new website according to Intactivist Blog. Secret Penis is a website about one man's journey to understanding and accepting his male organ, his penis. The site includes much information about the penis, a subject that concerns every man and should concern every woman.

For a long time I suffered unnecessary anxiety about various aspects of my penis such as being uncircumcised, worried about my size, worried about the curvature of my erection, having pearly penile papules, worrying about the volume of my ejaculate and my pre-ejaculatory fluid and others.

Parents, protect your babies. 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, October 16, 2011

Cookeville Herald-Citizen: Mom tells of heart defects in newborns
Baby boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome almost dies after circumcision. His condition was discovered after he crashed from his circumcision. It would have been much better to discover his birth defect during normal examinations instead of crashing from the trauma of elective surgery.

Intact News: Doctors' Circumcision Recommendations Influenced By Personal Factors, Study Finds
A study published in the Journal of Men's Health has found that primary care physicians are most significantly influenced by their own circumcision status in their recommendations for routine infant circumcision. The circumcision status of their sons was also found to be significant. Go figure. Doctors who were circumcised advocate circumcising infants. Most circumcised men strongly defend their circumcised status. The exception are men who are restoring their foreskin. These men typically hate that they were circumcised.
 

I am not the person I used to be. At 56 years of age, I know that I am vastly different than the person I was 30, 20, even 10 years ago. I noticed that many of the emotional changes came after I started restoring my foreskin. I do not know if that is the reason for the change or just a trigger that caused me to be a different person.

One manifestation of my change is empathy. This empathy allows me to feel the shared pain and the shared elation of others. I feel the pain of the 99 percent. It does not matter that I am one of the 99%. I am human. That is all that should be necessary to care for humanity.

While reading Occupy Wall Street Tumblr posts, I discovered the following video. The Great Dictator was released before the United States entered the Second World War. It was a daring movie, considering the times. It was also Charlie Chaplin's first talkie and the last film appearance of Chaplin's Little Tramp character. The video shows the climatic monologue where Chaplin, as the Jewish barber playing the dictator, addresses the world.

Each time I watch the video, I get goose bumps.

Parents, protect your babies. 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, October 9, 2011

NY Daily News: End the barbaric cutting of baby boys
Georganne Chapin of Intact America responds to California Governor Brown's signing of the anti-anti-circumcision law. She points out the different treatment between sexes: it is OK to cut the genitals of boys but not girls. Sure there are differences between the sexes, but both involve altering the sex organs of children. Neither is right.

Dr Momma - Peaceful Parenting: Circumcision: I Changed My Mind
I mother, who did not want to have her newborn son circumcised, gave in to her husband's wishes. Her son was circumcised. When she had her second son, she put her foot down, but her husband did not insist on cutting his second son. Too bad she did not allow her mama bear instinct to protect her first son.

…and Baby Makes Five…: Labor Day, truly a labor of love…
A mother tells of how she wanted to have her newborn son circumcised, but her husband was against infant circumcision. He convinced her to research male infant circumcision. After looking into it, there was no way she was going to circumcise her son.
 

“Although uncircumcised, I am a very proud Jew, with a very strong sense of Jewish identity, and never hesitate to affirm my Jewish identity, to Jew and non-Jew alike, but particularly to myself. I can assure you that having a foreskin has not made me less of a Jew than those without one…”
- Alan Altmann, Circumcision Questions, California Jewish Bulletin, May 31, 1985.

"It's not a parental choice. There's an ethical problem with making this a parental choice, namely that you're not taking into account the wishes upon whom the surgery is being performed."
- Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, Georgetown University, September 22, 2011.
The Cut Tour: Washington DC Q&A with Ryan McAllister & Rabbi Binyamin Biber Podcast
 

Jewish Intactivism, the Foreskin and Human Rights

• Jewish Intactivists, the Foreskin, and Human Rights Part 1.
• Jewish Intactivists, the Foreskin, and Human Rights Part 2.
• Jewish Intactivists, the Foreskin, and Human Rights Part 3.

“There are tens of thousands of intact Jewish boys and men around the world who thank their lucky stars they were not circumcised.”
- Brian Levitt, Jewish Intactivist, co-founder of Jews for the Rights of the Child
Testimony at the California Senate Judiciary Committee Public Hearing on Circumcision.
 

In news this week the medical industry comes out and says that intactivists should stop fighting male infant circumcision. I guess intactivists are cutting into the easy profits of the medical industry. It must be nice to have patients that cannot complain. *sigh*

Parents, protect your babies. 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, October 2, 2011

Awesatious: All infant circumcision is child abuse and needs to stop!
Any removal or alteration of a baby’s genitals is mutilation and child abuse.  If you ask most people from civilized societies, they will immediately say that FGM (female genital mutilation) is barbaric and worthy of being against the law, and it is.  If you mention MGM (male genital mutiliation AKA circumcision) to the same group of people, you get mixed results. For some reason, the sex of the child makes a difference when it comes to genital cutting.

The WHOLE Network: Penis Reduction Surgery: Does Size Not Matter?
Suppose we call male infant circumcision penis reduction surgery? The foreskin comprises a substantial portion of the outer tissues of the male penis. Removing the foreskin, removes that substantial amount of tissue from the penis. Girth, in particular, is affected. After restoring my foreskin, my penis gained girth. Even my partner noticed it.

The Walrus Speaks: Male Circumcision OK, Female Circumcision Not OK
Hector points out the double standard of protecting girls from genital cutting but not protecting boys from genital cutting. He disses California's Governor Brown who just signed the anti-anti-circumcision bill. Hector thinks, like many others who think about it, that males should have the choice to decide if part of their penis is to be cut off.
 

Parents, protect your babies. 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, September 25, 2011

Psychology Today: Circumcision Ethics and Economics
Part 4 of a 4-part series addressing male infant circumcision. Part 4 opens with "Infant circumcision is an ethical issue that has lifelong effects on the child and societal costs." From there the author provides quotes from various medical associations that do not recommend male infant circumcision. She continues with other reasons why male infant circumcision is unethical and should stop.

Empowered News: Dutch Doctors Want to Stop Male Circumcision
Dutch doctors speak out against male infant circumcision because they say infant circumcision is a "painful and harmful ritual" and a violation of children's rights.