What's new on the Intactivism Pages


August26, 2018Genital cutting and racism added
April 7, 2017Labia elongation ("pulling") added
October, 2016Two new law cases, re B&G and re L&B, added
May 15, 2016Haemorrhage (bleeding) moved to its own page
December 22, 2015Index page revised to be more mobile-friendly. Basics, Background, News, Policy, Take Action assigned their own pages.

August 28, 2015

Bad analogies for the foreskin added.

July 18, 2015

Illustrated page in Farsi (Persian) added.

December 2, 2014

Ordinary men who resent their circumcision separated from celebrities who resent theirs.

November 19, 2014

Circumcised men discussing their sexuality removed to its own page.

November 18, 2014

Men who regret having themselves circumcised moved to the regret page.

September 28, 2014

Hypospadias page added.

May 20, 2014

"If you can't spell it..." and adamant parents moved to their own pages.

April 5, 2014

Circumcision regret page added.

March 19, 2014

Obligatory entry warnings added to all restricted pages.

February 9, 2014

Brian Morris pages revamped.

July 16, 2013

Circumfetishism added.

October 1, 2012

Permissible analogies for circumcision added.

September 13, 2012

AAP parental guide annotated.

August 27, 2012

AAP circumcision policy annotated.

June 6, 2012

Uvulectomy page added.

April 30, 2012

10th Gallery page (World Naked Cycle Ride) added.
Annotated RACP Brochure added.

March 15, 2012

Prostate cancer page added.

November 8, 2010

Parody, How to write about circumcision added.

November 6, 2010

Wound dehiscence (reopening) added to botch pages.

October 25, 2010

Methods page added.

May 24, 2010

Female circumstitions added.

February 11, 2010

Tribal circumcision added, including Nelson Mandela's first-hand account.

February 7, 2010

Links to podcasts, blogs and essays moved to their own page.

January 29, 2010

Parody of the circumcisionist bananas added. (Removed late February 2010)

October 4, 2009

Front page revamped. Offsite links integrated into main region. Papyrus consigned to Chronology. Quick links improved

July 4, 2009

Chapter 18 of Wallerstein's "Circumcision: an American health fallacy" added.

November 29, 2008

Circumcision in literature reorganised, with the addition of Vidal's Live from Golgotha.

November 23, 2008

"That Thing" - a paper about portrayal of the foreskin and circumcision in popular media added.

~June, 2008

"Coercion page added.

March 12, 2008

Abbreviated URLs added to selected pages:

HIV
Sexuality
"Why Is Mine Different?"

circumstitions.com/hiv
circumstitions.com/sex
circumstitions.com/why

February 14, 2008

Excerpt from Y: the Descent of Men added.
Press release from the Tasmanian Children's Commissioner added.

October 24, 2007

die Vorhaut-Restoration (Foreskin restoration in German) added.

October 17, 2007

Intactivism lite (www.circumstitions.com/aol/) pages taken down.

July 1, 2007

index page made more compact, cascading style sheets added.

November 18, 2006

Prejudice in Masters & Johnson's "Sex in Human Loving" added.

November 14, 2006

Critique of Fergusson STI study added.

October 25, 2006

Pictures of multiple botches added.

September 14, 2006

A sceptical view of the HIV-circumcision link from the Terrence Higgins Trust added.

September 12, 2006

Excerpt from Peter Remondino's 1900 diatribe against the foreskin added.

August 9, 2006

Breast-ironing added.

May 4, 2006

Circumcision as a Memeplex added
Phimosis added, linking to pictures of a trouble-free adult phimosis.

April 5, 2006

Critique of the Mayo Clinic's brochure for parents and its anodyne "before" and "after" pictures added.

September 3, 2005

Famous non-US intact men divided into three parts.

August 7, 2005

Issues with Auvert's Random Controlled Test of circumcision to prevent HIV added.

June 19, 2005

The Intactivism Shop opened at Cafepress.com.

June 18, 2005

Critique of Royal Australasian College of Physicians' brochure added.

May 17, 2005

Episiotomy added.

April 5, 2005

Circumcision and Islam added.

April 3, 2005

Sheila Kitzinger's wholehearted condemnation of infant circumcision added.

July 21, 2005

Circumcision in Australia added. Circumcision in the Movies broken into two parts with a contents page, and "Kinsey" and "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (apparently unique in mentioning a foreskin without mentioning circumcision) added.

January 9, 2005

The International Coalition for Genital Integrity Medicaid Project's report outlining the true costs of circumcision added.

January 7, 2005

The Interfaith Clergy Network, comprising some 10 rabbis in four states, added to the list of Brit Shalom Celebrants.

January 4, 2005

Third feedback page added.

December 8, 2004

Movie pages divided into A-L and M-Z. (Page text and picture sizes are ideally kept under 50 KB)

September 22, 2004

Mysterious spike of 13,335 visits. (Monthly average, 4,667)
These may represent no more than a flurry of news items, and hence searches, about some intact celebrity.

August 20, 2004

Mysterious spike of 11,293 visits. (Monthly average, 4,458)

June 17, 2004

Mysterious spike of 19,133 visits. (Monthly average, 6,026)

June 12, 2004

Tantric sex page added.

May 11, 2004

Mysterious spike of 15,237 visits. (Monthly average, 5,493)

March 5, 2004

Webmaster's computer dies. Replaced April 10

March 1, 2004

Mysterious spike of 11,164 visits. (Monthly average, 6,263)

February 4, 2004

Death separated from Complications, and the autopsy report on Ryleigh McWillis added

January 29, 2004

www.circumstitions.com domain expires and site becomes unreachable. Restored February 2, 2004

January 24, 2004

Number of visits/day mysteriously leaps from ~3000 to ~5000.

January 3, 2004

A rebuttal to the Benetars' article about ethics of circumcision added.
Pain studies detached from pain in general.

What was new October 7, 1998 - December 31, 2003 is now on another page.

 

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