Other Intactivist Resources

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Intactness and normal penile anatomy

The ridged band has its own website. So does the acroposthion.
the-penis.com, a wide-ranging site (e.g. sex positions for fat people) by an individual. Partly commercial (AdultCheck required) with an emphasis on penis size and enlargement.
An excellent Australian summary.
A woman's fansite for the intact penis, sex-oriented but not pornographic.
Grey's Anatomy

Intact celebrities
The most comprehensive list of intact celebrities has been compiled by

The online version dates from 1996. The accuracy of many entries has been challenged, however.
Part of a database of male actors who appear nude in films.

Male Genital Cutting

General
The only country where routine (as distinct from ritual) infant circumcision is still prevalent is the USA. The best sites for information about this are

• CIRP, the Circumcision Information Resource Pages
• NOCIRC, the National Organisation of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, in conjuction with local groups holds a two-yearly International Symposium on Genital Integrity
• A national umbrella group, Intact America.
• An activist group, Intaction.
• NOHARMM, the National Organisation to Halt the Routine Abuse and Mutilation of Males
• The Case Against Circumcision discussion site.
• The Circumcision Resource Center raises awareness and facilitates healing from a psychological perspective.
• Regional US
  • For people in the Northwestern US, a Yahoo group is available, the Northwest Intactivist Network.
  • For people in San Diego, there ia a Yahoo group.
  • Bay Area Intactivists is a genital integrity activism group for people in the San Francisco Bay area.
• Two areas in larger sites include links to issues not yet considered here:
  • Peaceful Beginnings, mainly for new parents, includes conservative Christian viewpoints
  • the dmoz Open Directory has excellent resources, including gay and lesbian circumcision issues.
• Notjustskin.org
• Lucky Stiff
• Circumcision: Science, Politics, Ethics and Religion
• The Circumcision Forum "takes an antagonistic approach to involuntary male circumcision and routine neonatal circumcision." It has not been very busy.

Internationally there is an umbrella group, the International Coalition for Genital Integrity

Circumcision has become uncommon in the British Commonwealth over the last few few decades, but it still done at a troublesome rate.

• A British-based umbrealla group is Genital Autonomy.
• The basic UK site for male circumcision is NORM-UK
• A Canadian group, Intact, has released a video of a circumcision for downloading.
• A new Canadian group, the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project is, as the name implies, more foreskin-focussed
• NOCIRC South Africa
• Nearly one Australian boy baby in five is still circumcised. A new but growing site (circinfo.org) will focus on that. (Whereas circinfo.net is a pro-circ site, run for the egregious Professor Brian Morris.)
• A private Australian site offers some interesting speculations on the motivations of circumcisors.

Action
You can endorse the Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide, a Petition to the World Court, the Hague.
Reform Jews especially are invited to sign an online petition calling on the Leadership of the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis "to demonstrate leadership by now educating its Rabbis to recognize the medical and ethical shortcomings of religious circumcision, and to both sanction and promote alternative ceremonies, like the Brit Shalom, [and] to support those that do so."

Care2 has two petitions running, one to the Centers for Disease Control, the other to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The MGM Bill is a proposed measure to outlaw Male Genital Cutting.

Blogs
Blogs, podcasts, videos, Facebook pages and essays are now together on one page.

Mothers

• Mothers Against Circumcision.
• Mothering.com has a forum for mother who regretted circumcising their sons.
• Susan Peer, the author of the thought-experiment mentioned on the index page, has a site for Parents of Intact Sons, including care information, etc.
• The Whole Baby Revolution is addressed to all parents.
• Another is more specifically for the mothers of intact sons.
• One mother, after being browbeaten, investigated "informed consent" further and has published her findings.
• Another, Laura Prowicz, offers a variety of resources, including her own experience.
• The Lactivist-Intactivist site unites the campaigns for breast-feeding and against circumcision.

Fathers
Circumcised fathers considering leaving their sons intact now have a special page on the NOHARMM site where they may contact a circumcised father of an intact son in their area.

The Whole Network has contact details for foreskin-friendly doctors, sorted by state.

Sexuality
Cat Saunders is a counsellor, shamanistic practitioner and minister who explains why she regrets never having had an intact lover.
The Goofyfoot Press, publishers of "The Guide to Getting It On", have a page of first-hand accounts of sex by and with intact men.

Students
In September of 2002, San Francisco State University became the first college campus to have a student organization specifically focused on ending all forms of genital mutilations. Since the formation of Students for Genital Integrity (http://www.studentsforgenitalintegrity.org), other students around the country have expressed interest in starting similar organizations. A moderated Yahoo e-group for students only has been created as a means to help that happen. There are currently chapters of Students for Genital Integrity in Iowa and Florida, and two are forming in Washington DC and one in Arizona.

Other languages:

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A site in Korean: http://cafe.naver.com/nocircum

El Trastorno por Estrés Postraumático (PTSD) de Larga Duración como Resultado de la Cirugía Genital de los Menores por Gregory J. Boyle, Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Bond, Australia

Blog: México Intacto

En français, il y a le site de l'Association Contre La Mutilation Des Enfants (A.M.E.®).

La bande striée du prépuce a son propre site.

Sites canadiens:
INFO-CIRCONCISION
L'Association pour l'intégrité génitale

METHODE de RESTAURATION du PREPUCE:
(un peu de technique . . . avec la pratique !
préparation, fabrication et pose du ruban T.tape)

beschneidung von jungen.de
NOCIRC of Germany hat eine website. Sie enthält auch eine FAQ-Seite speziell für junge Menschen.

intaktiv e.V.

Er is ook een nederlands versie.

Een Nederlandse video (with English subtitles)

Dansk:

NEJ TIL OMSKÆRING AF BØRN - BÅDE PIGER OG DRENGE - JA TIL SEKSUEL INTEGRITET !!!.

Other Scandinavian resources, the memorable site www.circumcision.no

Romanian Gardian - Pentru Protectia Genitala A Baietilor

???? ?? ????????? A Hindi translation of Pictures at a Circumcision
A page in Farsi (Persian)

The Dr Recommend site - an excellent reference source for circumcision information - offers computerised translations into French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Brit Milah
Jewish circumcision has a very different motivation. It is considered from a Jewish perspective at

• the Jewish Circumcision Resource Center represents Jews around the world who question circumcision.
• Jews Against Circumcision
• Beyond the Bris, "a web-based multimedia project that puts real faces and voices to the current Jewish movement against male infant circumcision"

A Jewish blogger, The Kvetcher, criticises circumcision.

In Israel, the Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation is at

Kahal is an Israeli parents' group that promotes intactness.
e-mail
phone: +972-3-5299246

A Reform Jew has opened an online petition calling on the Leadership of the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis "to demonstrate leadership by now educating its Rabbis to recognize the medical and ethical shortcomings of religious circumcision, and to both sanction and promote alternative ceremonies, like the Brit Shalom, [and] to support those that do so."

Free Bris, a Facebook page "Offering empowerment & support to Jews who choose to leave their sons Intact (not circumcising)."

Two sites in Hebrew:

• Gonnen (Protect Your Child) and
• a forum at Tapuz (Giving up Brit Milah)

Islam
Circumcision is not mentioned in the Qur'an, but more Muslim boys are circumcised than any other single group. An Islamic site with anti-circumcision information is http://www.quran.org/khatne.htm (also http://www.quran.org/CIRCUMCISION.HTM), part of the Virtual Mosque. Another, FreeMinds.Org, has a page against Islamic circumcision.

The QuranicPath website includes some finely detailed argument.

The Revival follows "the Original teachings of Qur'an".

A Facebook page (in Arabic: ?????? ????? ???? ??????? ... ??? ??? ??????) calling for male circumcision to be banned.

Another Facebook page, Circumcision in Islam ???? ?? ???????.

Zobaida refused to have her son circumcised and blogs about it at Al Haramlek (in Arabic).

Christians
Catholics Against Circumcision have published a leaflet for Catholic parents-to-be.
The personal site Circumcision and Restoration takes a specifically Christian position.

Doctors
Doctors Opposing Circumcision (DOC) have a website, which includes a video about the structure and function of the prepuce. It is clear and comprehensive, but being aimed at doctors, uses medical terminology. DOC has members throughtout the US and in Canada and Australia.

A list of foreskin-friendly doctors on a women's message board.

The Whole Network has contact details for foreskin-friendly doctors, sorted by state.

An individual's site, medical fraud, offers a $1000 reward to anyone who can prove that infant circumcision is medically ethical.

Nurses and Midwives
Nurses for the Rights of the Child is for nurses and midwives who conscientiously object to circumcision. They have a website, or you can email them.

Foreskin restoration
Some thousands of circumcised men worldwide are regaining some of the function and much of the appearance of a foreskin by encouraging growth through tension. They keep contact via:

• NORM, the National Organisation of Restoring Men and its branches in many states and countries notably:
  • Phoenix, Arizona
  • Southern California (cited for "Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community")
  • Illinois
  • Michigan (which sells T-tape)
  • New England
  • New Mexico
  • New York (meets monthly, generally on the first Tuesday, in Midtown Manhattan. Email Mitch for the address and to go on the mailing list.)
  • North Carolina
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Fox cities, Wisconson (meets on the second Sunday of every month)
    
    
  • NORM-UK is the central Intactivism site in Britain
• Restoring Foreskin.org, a "how-to" site with an active community of members
• Foreskin Restoration Webring
• the dmoz Open Directory foreskin restoration resources.
• the restore-list mailing list. To subscribe, send any message with "subscribe" as the subject.
• One restorer has compiled a variety of restoration devices and aids, many home-made, on files downloadable as pdfs.
• Another has compiled a colour-coded comparison chart of different methods, their advantages and disadvantages.
• Here is a further list of foreskin restoration sites (offsite).
• The FORESKIN RESTORATION site includes a variety of home-made devices, jokes and art.

Artificial foreskin

A company in Salisbury, England, Viafin-Atlas, makes an "undergarment" called a "Senslip" out of latex and rayon that acts as an artificial foreskin, even retracting like one for urination (not intercourse). The idea is to restore the sensitivity of the glans. The need for such a device is itself an indictment of circumcision. Their website has a video with a strong pro-intact message and some good graphics, but a rather confused message about the innervation and role of the foreskin.

Law
Men who want to take legal action on account of botched, non-consensual or unnecessary circumcision (and lawyers who want to help with such action) should contact Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC).

Here is a link for information about lawsuits against doctors and medical boards.

A lawyer who specialises in botched and wrongful circumcisions.

Here is one to resources on medical malpractice.

Men who object to having been circumcised are invited to join the class action at SueEasy.com

Art
Photographer Sherwin Carlquist has a web site of his black and white photographs of natural men (intact and with no tattoos, tanlines or shaved bodies, either) in natural landscapes.

Angela's Men is a gallery of treated photographs of intact men, many closeups. Treatment is commonly a metallic finish, such as copper. The images are large, suitable for printing.

Videos
The groundbreaking British documentary It's a Boy! is now available on DVD. Trailer at the website.
"Circumcision? Intact Facts" An important short video. It doesn't show the whole circumcision procedure, but it shows enough, the baby first screaming and then traumatized. It is dramatically evident that the pain and trauma of circumcision cause a dissociative state.
18 mins VHS. $44.05 InJoy Productions, 3970 Broadway, Suite B-4, Boulder, CO 80304 USA. ph: 800-326-2082

Here is a list of sites offering videos (offsite).

Movie

"American Secret" is a proposed documentary about circumcision. Here is its pitch reel.

Musicians!
And why not? Musicians have supported many good causes in the past - think of Live Aid. There's now a website for Musicians United to Stop Infant Circumcision
Country & Western singer Mark Weigle has songs supporting genital integrity.
A song on a CD by Dennis Payne and Charles Bieker has the refrain, "I Am Not Circumcised." Over the melody and the sung words "I am not circumcised," Dennis reads from Chuck Thompson's list of famous intact men. A copy is $10 ppd from:

Opera!
"Opera is for when the emotions are too big for words" so Betty Katz Sperlich R.N. and Nurses for the Rights of the Child have enlisted Ron "Dadou" Romanovsky (formerly of Romanofsky and Philips) to create "It's a Boy!, a circus opera", using puppets, musicians, dancers, a trapeze artist and a knife-juggler. A concert version has been performed at the Santa Fe Playhouse and at the Ninth International Symposium on Genital Integrity in Seattle. The CD is available from Fresh Fruit Records, 369 Montezuma Ave, #209, Santa Fe, 87501 USA.

T-shirts, Bumperstickers, Mugs, Badges, Fridge-magnets, etc

The Questioning Circumcision website has a range of blinkies, small changing messages to post to message boards:

More links
A very comprehensive directory of circumcision resources.

Female Genital Cutting

For more information about FGC. Some of these sites include disturbing and Not Suitable For Work pictures.

• The Female Genital Cutting Eduction and Networking Project
• Uganda: This article has many facts, including the benefits to cutters and the staggering number of girls that are cut
• FGC in Sudan
• Huge archive on FGC
• How FGM is widespread in the black communities in Britain
• Article with images of FGM, how, why, where
• Semi-satriical anti-Islamic blog by a man has many disturbing images of the results of FGM
• Wikipedia article with diagrams. Detail about Type III, infibulation. Complicity of hospitals
• Diagrams and advice for health officials in Australia
• A description of infibulation
• Facts, figures and reasons given for performing FGM
• Condemnation of extreme FGM by a Muslim doctor and of FGM in general
• FGC: strategies for elimination, including a map of where FGC is done and some images
• Interview about FGM in Africa with before and after photos
• Pictures: 1 2

Involuntary Sexual (Re)assignment

• The Intersex Society of North America has closed. There is, however, an important farewell message at its website.
• Its work is continuing at the Accord Alliance.
• Organisation Intersex International (OII) "the largest grassroots intersex organisation in the world"
• STOP Intersex Genital Mutilations in Children's Clinics! is an activist website with many links
• Interact, Advocates for Intersex Youth
• Australia has a branch of OII and the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia
• in New Zealand:
  
  • the Intersex Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand at
  www.ianz.org.nz
  ph +64 4 381 2221
  PO Box 9196
  Wellington 6141
  New Zealand
  • Intersex Youth Aotearoa (IYA);
    

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