Against genital cutting
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Circumcision methods
(with pictures of many circumcision instruments)
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Pictures at a
(forceps-guided) Circumcision
[Entry warning]
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[After entry warning]
Pictures at a Circumcision
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A Gallery of Circumcisions
[Entry warnings]
Skin bridges
Skin tags
Scarring
Necrotising fasciitis
(Galloping Gangrene)
Varicose veins
Unevenness
Too much skin
removed
Malapposition
Wound dehiscence
(reopening)
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[After entry warnings]
A Gallery of Circumcisions
Skin bridges
Skin tags
Scarring
Necrotising fasciitis (Galloping Gangrene)
Varicose veins
Unevenness
Too much skin removed
Malapposition
Wound dehiscence
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[Entry warning] Side by side comparison of the
appearance of (erect) intact and circumcised penises
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[After entry warning] Appearance comparison
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Complications
of circumcision:
meatal ulcer, meatal stenosis, haemorrhage, infection, ablation
of the
penis.
Death
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Autopsy report in a death
from exsanguination (loss of blood).
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Complication
references
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Pain
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Coercion
- parents tell of being pressured to circumcise,
and babies circumcised
against their wishes
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Regret
- parents tell why they wish they had not circumcised, and men cut as
adults tell why they wish they had not consented to it.
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Circumcision
Refusal Form
and stickers
The same form, with a sheet of stickers for forms and the bassinet in Word or in .pdf format for
downloading and printing out.
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The Circumstitions
A selection
by category. The full list
with sources, references and comments
The Sand Myth (the claim
that desert sand causes sub-preputial infection, as a reason to
circumcise)
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Circumsurdities
(Absurd claims for circumcision)
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"... when ... man ... was obliged to fly and leap
over thorny briars and bramble-bushes"
- Peter Remondino's original 1900 diatribe
against the "outlaw" foreskin
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Genital cutting and racism - original documents, including more of Peter Remondino |
Prejudice
against intact men and their penises
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Bad analogies
for male genital cutting
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More than
30 Reasons not to circumcise
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The Lost List
- what is lost to circumcision
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Wound tearing - one
man's story
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Sheila
Kitzinger's succinct condemnation
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Circumcision and breastfeeding
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Why Christians need
not be circumcised
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Christianity
and
Circumcision
The same information in brochure form as a Word
document or in .pdf format
for downloading and printing out.
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On Jesus'
circumcision
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Mantegna's
and Tura's "The
Circumcision"
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Why circumcision
is not reguired by Islam.
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The case for
Brit without Milah
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The Rambam's full text, a questioning commentary
and various other Jewish-oriented
articles.
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A list of Brit
Shalom celebrants.
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A speech at a Kol
Nidre service by a celebrant.
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What to say to people who say it's "not an issue"
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"If you can't
spell it...."
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Short
answers
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Phalluses
and Fallacies - fallacious arguments for circumcision
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Hundreds of first-person accounts by men who resent
being circumcised. |
Famous men who resent/ed
being circumcised
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A circumcised man helps women understand men's vulnerability
One woman's approach to
women
A mother-to-be wins
her husband over. (Chatelaine)
A woman who wishes she hadn't had
her son circumcised. (Toronto
Globe & Mail)
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Advice for
nurses questioning circumcision
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Marilyn Milos' acceptance
speech for a Nurseweek award for patient advocacy
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"It's cleaner" - hygiene
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"When they say 'It's not the money,'
it's the money"
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The International Coalition for Genital Integrity
Medicaid Project's report
outlining the true costs of circumcision
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Frenulum breve
- "tight banjostring" no reason to circumcise
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Hypospadias - urinary opening
under the penis; no reason to circumcise |
Phimosis
- non-retractable foreskin no reason to circumcise. Entry warning for
pictures of happily phimosed adult
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Pictures of happily phimosed adult
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UTIs
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UTI graph
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Penile Cancer,
prostate cancer
and cervical cancer
in partners
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cancer graph |
Critique of a claim in the New England Journal of
Medicine the circumcision protects against Human Papilloma Virus and
cervical cancer
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Sexually
Transmitted Diseases
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H I V / AIDS
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Issues with Auvert's
Random Controlled Test in Orange Farm, South Africa
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A rebuttal of Auvert from the Pasteur Institute
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A sceptical view from the
Terrence Higgins Trust
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A critique of Szabo
and Short's BMJ paper
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Szabo and Short's HIV paper contrasted with Gerald Weiss's
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Rebuttal to a
biased documentary linking HIV with intactness
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A 1941
advice page: doctors did it without asking - and to prevent masturbation
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The Eisenhower
Medical Center's advice page analysed
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The Mayo Clinic's
advice page analysed, and its brochure
for parents with misleading "before"
and "after" pictures.
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The drkoop.com
advice page analysed
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A page from Harvard
analysed
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Midwifery
and circumcision with particular reference to Varney's
Midwifery
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Royal
Australasian College of Physicians's 2002 policy analysed
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Royal
Australasian College of Physicians's brochure analysed
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The American
Association of Family Physicans' 2002 circumcision policy
analysed.
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The AAFP's 1996
policy statement analysed
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The American
Urological Association's circumcision policy analysed.
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The American Academy of Pediatrician's 2012
"factsheet" for parents rebutted
(The AAP's 2001 brochure for
parents and their 2003
"factsheet" for parents analysed)
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The American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists's brochure for
parents analysed
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The AMA's (2000)
policy analysed
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AMA references
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The AAP's 2012 policy annotated
(The AAP's 1999 policy
analysed)
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An article in Parenting magazine's BabyTalk, that relies heavily
on the AAP's 1999 policy, rebutted.
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Circumcision
in the
United States of America
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From unknown to nearly universal: the strange case
of circumcision in South Korea.
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Pagtutuli: circumcision in the Philippines, formerly
traditional, now pseudo-medical.
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Tribal
circumcision.
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Circumcision in the
Pacific
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Circumcision in the Yemen
(1921) - flaying
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Circumcision and
the Law
Contents of
Circumcision and
the Law
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Comparable
abuses and the law
Entry warning to a
shocking example.
A shocking example (after entry warning).
A Shocking
Example
in flyer form as a .pdf
document for downloading and printing out.
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Judgement against
circumcision
where parents disagree
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Judgement
against
circumcision
where a boy and girl are both at risk
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Judgement
against
circumcision
where the children's interests are considered
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Judgement against
circumcision of a New Jersey three-year-old
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An Australian
successfully sues for a botched job
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Flatt vs. Kantak:
was consent well-enough informed?
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Ethics
of Circumcision
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Circumcision and Human
Rights
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British
Medical Association's 2003 ethical guidelines
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Ethicist Margaret
Somerville on the ethics
of circumcision
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Feminist Wendy McElroy queries
the ethics of circumcision for Fox News
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Rebuttal to a
flawed article defending the ethics of circumcising
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The
Psychology of Circumcising
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Circumfetishism |
the Adamant Parent syndrome |
The sociobiology of circumcising - Circumcision as a Memeplex
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"Rape of the Cock"
(poem)
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Edgar Schoen's pro-cutting
verses
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Some relevant quotations
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A pro-circumcision essay, Medical
Benefits of Circumcision
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A pro-circumcision scientific paper on women's preferences in sexual partners
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The erratic and contradictory treatment of circumcision in the movies
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The extraordinary amount of coverage of, and
support for, circumcision on TV
sitcoms, talk and game shows
"That Thing" - a
paper about portrayal of the foreskin and circumcision in popular media
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Soundbites from "Sex and the City": 'Tootsie-pop'; '85%'
A soundbite from "The
Simpsons"
Voices from "South Park"
- text
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Silly (negative) analogies for the foreskin | |
Multimedia
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A voice from The
Wizard of Oz - text
and a New Zealand documentary,
"The Naked Penis" - text
The "Cir-clock",
the "Circ-dirge",
a cartoon, "A boy
should look like his father"
and a Logo also in Swedish
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Campaign resources:
- Tee-shirt
designs for downloading, printing and ironing on
- Bumperstickers
for downloading, printing and sticking on
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Scientific References
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An excerpt from Y:
the Descent of Men by Steve Jones
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Books
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An excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke's 3001
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Literature,
including excerpts from
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A chapter from Edward Wallerstein's "Circumcision: an American health fallacy"
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A fable of Ęsop
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"Miscellaneous"
page ("Shakespearean" articles, infections vs inflammations, , diabetes
and balanitis, permanently retracted foreskin, whether babies remember
being circumcised, other underrated organs - the appendix and
Jacobson's organ, circumcision and royalty,sociobiology and "to look
like dad")
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