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Harry Styles
of One Direction
dumped his girlfriend
for nagging him to get circumcised.

My body belongs to me! Forced circumcision is wrong - for boys too

My body belongs to me!
Forced circumcision is
wrong - for boys too

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(For children's rights)

 

 

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December 21, 2012

LOUISVILLE, KY: Court finds for doctor who amputated penis during circumcision

December 31, 2012

BERLIN: Green candidate stood down for anti-circumcision poems

Mother of the Month

Jemima Kirke
Jemima Kirke of Girls
had a baby boy on December 3

"I don't like the idea of mutilating a baby. And that's what it is. Let's just call a spade a spade."

December 22, 2012

EASTERN CAPE: 300 botched circumcisions

December 24, 2012

SYDNEY: Imam condems female "mutilation" defends "circumcision"

December 23, 2012

JAKARTA: Govt told to stop female circumcision

December 22, 2012

BERLIN: Majority oppose new circumcision law

December 21, 2012

EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision deaths resume: 15 this season

December 20, 2012

UNITED NATIONS: Call for a world-wide ban on female cutting

December 18, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah non-warning defended as freedom of speech

December 14, 2012

MANCHESTER: Nurse guilty of manslaughter after circumcision death

December 12, 2012

BERLIN: Bundestag legalises circumcision, 100 oppose

December 12, 2012

SOUTH KOREA: Circumcision rate declining

December 7, 2012

MALAYSIA: Health Ministry wants "medical" female cutting

December 7, 2012

MANCHESTER: "Discredited" method used to circumcise baby who died

December 5, 2012

MANCHESTER: Nurse circumcised baby who died "culturally"

December 5, 2012

AUSTRIA: Charges filed against circumcisors by victims

November 30, 2012

WASHINGTON: PEPFAR targets babies

November 27, 2012

BERLIN: Paediatric Association condemns circumcision law

November 27, 2012

MANCHESTER: Midwife tried for circumcision death

The publisher of the Intactivism Pages suffered a computer outage from November 26 to December 4, 2012, during which news items were not posted and some mail was lost.

November 24, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Men don't want to be circumcised

November 23, 2012

LONDON: Plan to prosecute more for female cutting

November 23, 2012

INDIA: 7-year-old castrated in botched circumcision, fighting for life

November 22, 2012

BERLIN: Bundestag begins debating legal circumcision

November 20, 2012

UNITED NATIONS: Circumcision not important in preventing HIV

November 16, 2012

OTTAWA: DIY Circumciser loses his appeal

November 15, 2012

OTTAWA: DIY Circumciser to be heard by top court

November 13, 2012

GARRISON, NY: Western media hype female cutting

November 12, 2012

BERLIN: 50 Bundestag members against circumcision legalisation

November 10, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Sandy causes delay in hearing injunction

November 9, 2012

TEXAS: 4yo's Circumcision horribly botched

November 6, 2012

KENYA: When persuasion fails, try bribery - then force on babies

November 5, 2012

TANZANIA: Boys to boycott circumcision - until girls are cut too

November 5, 2012

KENYA: Infant circumcision "safe" - Bailey at work again

November 4, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Man wants his foreskin back

November 2, 2012

WARSAW: Hilton changes mind, allows 'rare" bris

October 31, 2012

Malawi: Circumcised men & sex workers throw caution to the winds

October 29, 2012

GHANA: Female genital cutting on the rise

October 19, 2012

NEW ORLEANS: Men do complain - Intact America press conference

Zimbabwe—more circumcised men had HIV in 2005 and still do
Click to enlarge

October 24, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Men not buying circumcision...

October 24, 2012

ZIMBABWE: ...so get them while they're babies

October 24, 2012

NEW ORLEANS: AAP session told "Listen to Intactivists": Message unchanged after 42 years

October 23, 2012

NEW ORLEANS: Intact America confronts AAP Convention: AAP tries to have them removed

October 22, 2012

BOTSWANA: Overcrowded inmates being circumcised

October 20, 2012

NEW ORLEANS: Intact America on streets at AAP Convention: Pediatrics publishes another self-citing Morris letter

Delayed: now due 2013 from Amazon:
Alan Cummings bookcover: May the Foreskin Be With You
May the Foreskin Be With You:
Why Circumcision Makes No Sense
and What You Can Do About it

by Alan Cummings
Patron of NORM-UK

October 17, 2012

EUROPE: Bill to promote tolerance of genital cutting, intolerance of foreign languages

October 16, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Rabbis granted delay in parental consent forms

October 12, 2012

ISRAEL: Why is circumcision allowed when corporal punishment banned?

October 11, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Rabbis file suit against parental consent forms

October 11, 2012

ILLINOIS: AAP bans Intact America booth from conference

October 11, 2012

BERLIN: Cabinet approves bill allowing unnecessary "medical" circumcision

October 8, 2012

UGANDA: "Most" circumcised men assume they are AIDS-proof

October 6, 2012

BOTSWANA: Men not buying circumcision campaign

October 3, 2012

HELSINKI: Symposium issues Declaration of Genital Autonomy

October 3, 2012

KENYA: Girls have alternative to cutting

October 2, 2012

SYDNEY: Nurse in court over female cutting

October 2, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Father, son, another in hospital after botched circumcisions

October 2, 2012

PERTH: Parents planned Bali trip fo 1yo girl's cutting

October 2, 2012

FINLAND: True Finns Party plans circumcision restriction

October 1, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Aid conditional on accepting circumcision

September 28, 2012

UGANDA: Women discourage men from getting circumcised

September 25, 2012

KOREA: Medical benefits of castration - longer life; AAP policy expected soon

September 26, 2012

SYDNEY: Couple deny cutting daughters

September 26, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Men aren't buying circumcision

September 24, 2012

BERLIN: How Germany plans to break its own Basic Law

September 25, 2012

KENYA: Funds for circumcision misused, cut

September 17, 2012

UNITED NATIONS: Humanists put circumcision on Human Rights Agenda

September 26, 2012

USA: Urologists may face more circumcision lawsuits

September 25, 2012

BERLIN: New law to require doctors for circumcision after 6 months

September 24, 2012

MALI: Link between FGC and abuse

September 21, 2012

DELAWARE: Spanking ruled "physical injury"

September 21, 2012

HELSINKI: Genital Autonomy symposium to be held

September 21, 2012

CLEVELAND: Forcible religion-based hair-cutting ruled "bodily injury" and "disfigurement"

September 19, 2012

SYDNEY: Four more women arrested for female cutting

September 17, 2012

ELK GROVE, IL: Demonstration at AAP HQ

September 14, 2012

KENYA: Girls seek refuge from cutting

September 12, 2012

BERLIN: Child-protectors present case against circumcision (video)

September 13, 2012

LIBERIA: Woman dies from cutting - secret societies condemned

September 13, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah; Board of Health unanimous - parents must be warned

September 13, 2012

SYDNEY: Four charged with cutting girls - may be more

September 11, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah - lawsuit against consent forms?

September 11, 2012

AUSTRALIA: "They don't know why they cut girls"

September 11, 2012

KENTUCKY: Man who lost whole penis appeals verdict

September 10, 2012

SEATTLE: AAP ethicist misrepresents role of circumcision in death

September 10, 2012

ILLINOIS: AAP's selective letter policy

September 10, 2012

BERLIN: Muslims, Jews demonstrate for male cutting

When slavery was a custom,every right minded person supported it. Nothing is as powerful a legitimizer as social custom,even more powerful than law. ...

I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine neonatal circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in a condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male. If the penile foreskin is not merely non functional but a biological disadvantage so severe as to justify its immediate surgical ablation, then surely, it must have atrophied by now.

- Thomas Szasz, April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012

September 7, 2012

PERTH, AUSTRALIA: Parents who took daugher to Bali for cutting charged

September 6, 2012

BERLIN: Jews denounce conditions of circumcision acceptance

September 6, 2012

EGYPT: Gynaecologists reject female cutting

September 3, 2012

FRANKFURT: Doctor's circumcision video backfires

September 3, 2012

BERLIN: Ritual circumcision conditionally permissible

September 3, 2012

ISRAEL: Rabbi annoys Muslims with circumcision comparison

September 3, 2012

ILLINOIS: 20% of taskforce member's work is circumcision repair

September 2, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Mohelim will defy "evil plan" to warn of risks

September 1, 2012

ILLINOIS: Three e-letters criticise circumcision policy in Pediatrics

September 1, 2012

KENYA: Traditional circumcision infringes rights

September 1, 2012

USA: AAP policy does not address non-consent

September 1, 2012

MICHIGAN: Group to protest AAP policy

August 31, 2012

BERLIN: Infant ear-piercing goes wrong, charges considered

August 31, 2012

ISRAEL: Knesset Speaker calls off circumcision-persuation trip to Berlin

August 30, 2012

BERLIN: Rabbi charged after vowing to keep circumcising

August 28, 2012

TEL AVIV: Dissenting voices in Israel

August 27, 2012

NEW YORK: The NY Times doesn't quite buy the AAP policy

August 26, 2012

DENMARK: Does circumcision violate the health code?

August 26, 2012

EDITORIAL: AAP policy unethical, dishonest

August 24, 2012

SWAZILAND: Fashion shows to lure mothers into circumcising

August 24, 2012

DENMARK: Enquiry into circumcision practice

August 23, 2012

BERLIN: "Ethics" council condones non-therapeutic cutting

August 23, 2012

DURBAN: Call for enquiry into TaraKLamp

August 22, 2012

Intactivist groups preact to AAP policy:

Next month (we wish!):

AAP Magazine Sept 2012 - we wish!
Click to embiggen

h/t to James Mac, inspired by Michelle Richardson

August 21, 2012

BERLIN: Israel's chief rabbi discussing law change

August 21, 2012

HESSE, GERMANY: Rabbi charged for circumcising

August 21, 2012

BALTIMORE: "Oh noes, leaving babies intact will cost billions!"

August 20, 2012

TASMANIA: Non-religious circumcision should be illegal

August 19, 2012

STOCKHOLM: Parents held after daughter cut

August 19, 2012

KENYA: Prisoners being circumcised

August 15, 2012

PUERTO RICO: No benefit from circumcision for HIV, STDS

August 14, 2012

IRAQ: Twin boys lose penises to gangrene

August 17, 2012

MALAWI: Circum-raped - to use foreskin for ritual?

August 17, 2012

KENYA: Men to be bribed, babies to "volunteer", for cut

August 16, 2012

AMSTERDAM: Doctors' ethicists rebuts rabbi

August 14, 2012

ILLINOIS: New AAP policy may lean toward cutting

August 13, 2012

ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA: Moisturising cream for circumcised men (implying harm)

August 13, 2012

ILLINOIS: New AAP male circumcision policy expected next month.

August 12, 2012

ZURICH: Hospital lifts male circumcision ban

August 10, 2012

ISRAEL: Paediatricians: "Stop sucking." Mohelim: "No."

August 9, 2012

SYDNEY: Don't offer circumcision - doctors' poll

July 31, 2012

SWITZERLAND: Ban religious circumcision - poll

August 6, 2012

NORWAY: Children's Ombudsman recommends Brit Shalom

August 5, 2012

VANCOUVER: Onlookers appreciate Foreskin Pride (video)

August 4, 2012

UGANDA/ZIMBABWE: More resistence to circumcision for HIV

August 3, 2012

VANCOUVER: Foreskin Pride parade wants stronger stand from doctors

August 2, 2012

SAUDI ARABIA: Boy in coma after circumcision

August 2, 2012

DENMARK: Paediatrician shows Chief Rabbi lied about complications (video, NSFW)

August 1, 2012

ZAMBIA: Yet More claims for circumcision

August 1, 2012

SWAZILAND: More claims for circumcision

Myra Breckingridge hardback cover

"I had been reminded of the promiscuous way in which American doctors circumcise males in childhood, a practice I highly disapprove of, agreeing ... that circumcision is necessary for only a very few men. For the rest it constitutes ... 'a rape of the penis.'" Myra Breckinridge (1968)

Gore Vidal 1925-2012

July 31, 2012

VIENNA: Doctors may circumcise for religious reasons

July 29, 2012

ZURICH: Swiss jurists disagree about hospital action

July 27, 2012

WASHINGTON DC: Circumcision for AIDS is a boondoggle - and read the small print!

July 26, 2012

BERLIN: Turkish Bundestag member opposes law-change

July 27, 2012

EASTERN CAPE: 42 Circumcision deaths in three weeks

July 27, 2012

AUSTRIA: Religions unite against circumcision age-restriction

July 25, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah - Bloomberg won't back down to mohelim

July 24, 2012

BERLIN: Circumcision age-restriction "could spread"

July 23, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah - mohelim object to informed consent forms

July 24, 2012

VIENNA: Hospitals to stop circumcising

July 24, 2012

WASHINGTON DC: Intactivists noticed at AIDS conference

July 23, 2012

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA: Foreskin immunlogically complete - hope for specific vaccine

July 22, 2012

GERMANY: Organisations support Cologne decision

July 22, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Health advisor rejects circumcision

July 23, 2012

HEIDELBERG: Germany-born US babies still at risk

July 22, 2012

UGANDA: "Circumcision not enough" - Museveni

July 20, 2012

BERLIN: Resolution "hasty"; law change not easy

July 20, 2012

DORTMUND: Anti-FGC group: "If boys cut, why not girls?"

July 21, 2012

IVORY COAST: Nine women imprisoned for female cutting

July 20, 2012

SOUTH AFRICA: Number of dead approaches 50

July 20, 2012

DENMARK: Majority of parliament would vote against circumcision

July 20, 2012

BERLIN: Child-protection organisations want delay in law

July 20, 2012

ZURICH: Two Swiss hospitals stop circumcising

July 19, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Infants to be circumcised - despite adult failure

July 19, 2012

UGANDA: HIV campaign confused with circum-rape: no effect on HIV rate

July 19, 2012

BERLIN: Resolution passed - no legal effect

July 17, 2012

BERLIN: Human rights to be thrown out this year

July 3, 2012

NORWAY: "We can't go first" - Minister

July 17, 2012

MUNICH: "Wait until he's older" - paediatricians

"For the right to cut/circumcise little boys"

(to the original)
Cartoon by Jacques Tilly in giordano bruno stiftung

July 17, 2012

BERLIN: Cross party support to legalise cuting (male) baby genitals

July 16, 2012

MARYLAND: FDA approves HIV drug

July 14, 2012

FRANKFURT: "Not just bleeding" in test-case circumcision

July 16, 2012

SWAZILAND: Pastor condemns circumcision - sort of

July 16, 2012

BERLIN: "Germany a laughing-stock" - Merkel

July 14, 2012

BERLIN: "Law change could open door to worse practices"

July 14, 2012

BIRMINGHAM: Two circumcision botches weekly, a life at risk monthly

July 13, 2012

NEW YORK: Demonstration in support of German ruling / GERMANY: €-millions promised to fight it

June 21, 2012

MASSACHUSETTS: Parents win $700,000 for their emotional distress at botched circumcision

July 13, 2012

BERLIN: Merkel promises to curtail human rights

July 12, 2012

BERLIN: Doctors - "Stop cutting!"; Rabbis - "Keep cutting!"

July 14, 2012

CANADA: Live chat on circumcision ethics

July 11, 2012

ZIMBABWE: 6 years for kidnapping, forced circumcision

July 12, 2012

MELBOURNE: Man risks law if he circumcises 8-year-old [Amended]

July 11, 2012

ZIMBABWE: "Most" cut men think they're immune: condoms poorly tested

July 10, 2012

ISRAEL: "Little we can do" - German ambassador

July 10, 2012

ISRAEL: Circumcision promoted for secular Jews

July 10, 2012

MONTREAL: Study of natural infant phimosis and UTIs spun to promote circumcision

July 8, 2012

ZIMBABWE: More circumcised men have HIV; victims blamed

July 5, 2012

FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA: Four more circumcision deaths

July 4, 2012

SOUTH AFRICA: "Time to stop this practice"

July 6, 2012

LONDON: 11 babies had circumcision complications in one hospital in one year

July 5, 2012

SWAZILAND: Bullying fails, so target babies

July 4, 2012

LIBERA: Chiefs rebuke Councillor who condemns female cutting

July 3, 2012

KENYA: Propaganda campaign intensifies

July 5, 2012

LONDON: "GMC should come off the fence"

June 29, 2012

PASSAU, GERMANY: "I'd be naïve to expect rationality" - Putzke

July 4, 2012

ROTTERDAM: Amicable exchange of views

July 3, 2012

EASTERN CAPE: 20 circumcision deaths

Quotation from Holm Putzke: After the knee-jerk indignation, hopefully a discussion about religious violence...

- Dominion Post, Wellington, New Zealand
July 2, 2012

July 2, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Mohelim resist waiver

July 2, 2012

KENYA: Parents can be talked into accepting infant circumcision - Dr Robert Bailey, one man, many hats

July 1, 2012

SWITZERLAND: Stricter law against female cutting

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June 30, 2012

UGANDA: Forced circumcision campaign stopped

June 29, 2012

BERLIN: Jewish hosptial suspends circumcision

June 29, 2012

PASSAU, GERMANY: "This is not aimed at the Jews" - Jurist

June 26, 2012

PASSAU, GERMANY: "The judgement is final" - Jurist

June 26, 2012

GERMANY: Predictible outrage at legal ruling

June 25, 2012

NEW YORK: Another baby gets herpes

June 25, 2012

GERMANY: Non-therapeutic circumcision is illegal

June 25, 2012

SEATTLE: DOC's Mad Nurse, Scared Cock, Wow Crowd

June 25, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO: Two Intactivist Groups in Pride: Commentators tongue-tied

June 22, 2012

BRISTOL: BMA urged to ban non-therapeutic circumcision

June 22, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Some MPs get circumcised

June 22, 2012

LONDON: Baby bleeds to death two days after circumcision

June 21, 2012

KENYA: Government blamed for female cutting continuing

June 21, 2012

LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA: Taxi driver kidnapped and forcibly circumcised

June 20, 2012

UGANDA: 220 men forcibly circumcised

June 19, 2012

LIBERIA: Campaign against female cutting is fiercely opposed

June 14, 2012

ISRAEL: More Jews not circumcising

June 14, 2012

SAN DIEGO: Universal circumcision not cost-effective

June 14, 2012

SYDNEY: Prof. Morris still can't get all the Quaintness off his website

June 14, 2012

BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG: EU Parliament calls for outright female cutting ban

June 13, 2012

NORWAY: Ban ritual circumcision of boys: Centre Party

June 12, 2012

LONDON: Circumcision turned into porn by Catholic paedophile [NB: petition]

June 12, 2012

NEW YORK: Parents to sign consent for metzitzah?

June 10, 2012

GALVESTON: Symposium on circumcision lacks Intactive voice

June 8, 2012

BOTSWANA: "Health Minister couldn't infect me, he's circumcised"

June 7, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah; hospitals to warn parents

June 6, 2012

SOUTH DAKOTA: Inmate loses suit against his circumcision

June 2, 2012

ZAMBIA: Men are not buying mass-circumcision

June 1, 2012

ISRAEL: Another baby has penis cut off

June 1, 2012

FRANCE: Couple jailed for having daughters cut

May 30, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC: Circumcision studies to be re-checked

May 28, 2012

FINLAND: Greens vote to end circumcision; no law yet either way

May 27, 2012

FRANCE: Couple face trial after two girls cut

May 27, 2012

INDIA: Boy needing ear surgery circumcised instead

May 25, 2012

KENYA: Law Society calls for stronger FGC laws

May 24, 2012

IRELAND: Circumcision "unnecessary" - surgeon

May 23, 2012

MIAMI: Circumcision more botched than usual, parents sue

May 22, 2012

KAZAKHSTAN: Boy loses glans

May 21, 2012

BOTSWANA: Men not buying circumcision hype

May 21, 2012

BOTSWANA: Kickback to advocate circumcision?

May 18, 2012

SWAZILAND: Circumcised "because he's in a wheelchair"

May 18, 2012

MINNESOTA: Mayo loses pro-FGC doctor

May 18, 2012

ZIMBABWE: 175 MPs to be circumcised - one, 65, demurs

May 15, 2012

TASMANIA: Circumcision legallity decision due

May 17, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Youths bribed with soccer to get circumcised

May 17, 2012

SOUTH AFRICA: Still in pain 4 years after botched circumcision

May 16, 2012

KENYA: Circumcision forced on men and women - boy dies for refusing

May 14, 2012

UGANDA: Free male circumcision gets priority over life-saving obstetrics and gynaecology

May 14, 2012

EGYPT: Medical convoys promote Female Cutting

May 14, 2012

BOTSWANA, LESOTHO, SWAZILAND, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE: Men resising circumcision

May 12, 2012

ZIMBABWE: Female cutting suggested (among other nutty proposals) to reduce HIV

May 12, 2012

NORWAY: Ban considered after circumcision death

May 10, 2012

AFRICA: No money for HIV programmes that work, only circumcision

May 10, 2012

KENYA: Men not volunteering to be cut, so boys targetted

May 10, 2012

SHANGHAI: Botched circumcision takes man's whole penis

May 7, 2012

MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE: Civilians unwilling? US urges Africa to circumcise military

May 5, 2012

DENVER: Colorado Medicaid will not resume funding circumcision

May 4, 2012

EGYPT: Women's group sues pro-FGC MP

May 4, 2012

BIRMINGHAM, UK: Two men arrested under FGC law

May 3, 2012

LIBERIA: 750 girls flee school for circumcision

May 2, 2012

UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA: Two boys die from circumcision

May 1, 2012

UGANDA: Pretty women entrap intact men for enforced circumcision

April 30, 2012

COLOMBIA: Girl dies of FGC

April 30, 2012

UGANDA: Target of 4.2 million men circumcised

April 20, 2012

U S A: Pediatrician recommends Female Cutting

April 29, 2012

BRISTOL: Imam says to cheat FGC law by taking girls abroad

April 26, 2012

INDIANA: Ryan White was circumcised then tested for haemophilia

April 26, 2012

VANCOUVER: Supreme Court to try DIY circumcising father

April 25, 2012

KENYA: Circumcised youths have unsafe sex

April 26, 2012

LONDON: Baby Geldof will stay intact

April 25, 2012

LONDON: Church rocked by Quaintance cover-up

April 26, 2012

SYDNEY: Brian Morris fails to erase Gilgal from his procirc leaflets UPDATE: Gilgal still advertises Morris

April 26, 2012

CAPE TOWN: Health Minister wants every man circumcised

April 26, 2012

DENVER: Medicaid circumcision cover amendment moves forward

April 24, 2012

KENYA: Married women forcibly circumcised

April 23, 2012

NEW DELHI: Online campaign against FGC

April 21, 2012

LONDON: Girls "at risk" of FGC in UK

April 21, 2012

ISRAEL: Tweeting mohel digs himself in deeper; botch outcome doubtful

April 21, 2012

CROYDON, UK: Prominient circumcision advocate convicted for child porn UPDATE: Many advocates linked to Gilgal

April 19, 2012

MANCHESTER: Midwife committed for trial after circumcision death - more unreported?

April 19, 2012

DENVER: Move to restore Medicaid circumcision funding fails UPDATE: move to require Medicaid-funded circumcision still on table

April 19, 2012

BOTSWANA: US heavily funds circumcision

April 18, 2012

ISRAEL: Mohel mocks baby; advocates brit b'li periah

April 18, 2012

ISRAEL: Baby loses 1/3 of penis in worse-than-usual circumcision

April 18, 2012

STOCKHOLM: Row over FGC represented by cake-cutting

April 16, 2012

PAKISTAN: Baby dies after injection for circumcision

April 16, 2012

SOUTH DAKOTA: Prisoner sues for wrongful infant circumcision

April 16, 2012

MANCHESTER, UK: Midwife charged after circumcision death

April 13, 2012

LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Rally against forced conversion, circumcision, marriage

April 12, 2012

VICTORIA, B.C.: Rally against private circumcision clinic[Update: video]

April 12, 2012

WINNIPEG: The Holy Atheist gently deals to circumcision

April 12, 2012

UGANDA: Bishop condemns circumcision again

April 12, 2012

SWAZILAND: Men refuse, so babies circumcised

April 5, 2012

UGANDA: Bishop condemns circumcision - for "encouraging promiscuity"

April 5, 2012

KENYA: Men bribed to be circumcised

March 30, 2012

UGANDA: Circumcision campagns failing, clergy enlisted

March 29, 2012

UGANDA: Overworked doctors circumcise men ahead of caring for HIV babies

March 28, 2012

SEATTLE: Another flaw in prostate study - undetected cancer in controls

March 23, 2012

SOWETO: Musician escaped circumcision after friend's death

March 23, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR: 14-year-old sues over botched circumcision

March 19, 2012

AMSTERDAM: Priests castrated 10 boys in 1950s

March 20, 2012

KWAZULU NATAL: Dodgy TaraKLamp rolled out despite questions

March 20, 2012

LIBERIA: Reporter threatened for FGC story

March 19, 2012

SWAZILAND: Circumcised men think they are immune; girls "keep virginity" through anal sex

March 18, 2012

NEW JERSEY: Metzitzah: Another baby with herpes

March 17, 2012

UGANDA: Men not buying circumcision hype

March 16, 2012

NEW JERSEY: Metzitzah: Two more babies with herpes

March [15], 2012

ZIMBABWE: Boys kidnap and botch circumcision of 8-year-old

March 14, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah death: Fischer still cutting

March 10, 2012

SEATTLE: Circumcision does NOT reduce prostate cancer - data heavily massaged to make it seem to

March 10, 2012

AUCKLAND: Paediatric surgeon pwns Morris

March 8, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah death: mouthwash protocol silently axed in 2007; Fischer infected another baby

March 7, 2012

SYDNEY: Morris again: NSW AIDS Council unimpressed

March 7, 2012

HELSINKI: Finns Party proposes circumcision ban

March 7, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah death: only one of many

March 6, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah death: family stonewalling, mohel related

March 6, 2012

SYDNEY: Morris again: paediatricians unimpressed

March 5, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah death: same rabbi as before being investigated

March 6, 2012

NEW YORK: Metzitzah death: DA investigating

March 5, 2012

FLORIDA: Metzitzah death: mohel blames antisemitism

March 3, 2012

NEW YORK: Another baby dies of herpes after metzitzah

March 2, 2012

U S A: Circumcision rate reaches new low

March 2, 2012

KENYA: Men not buying circumcision hype

February 25, 2012

SAMOA: Man remanded for 23 botched circumcisions

February 23, 2012

NIGERIA: Girl flees cutting after sister's death

February 20, 2012

INDONESIA: Papua men not to be be forcibly circumcised

February 16, 2012

NORTH CAROLINA: Diaper "full of blood"

February 14, 2012

NIGERIA: Varying outcomes to FGC

February 14, 2012

SAMOA: Amateur botches 28 circumcisions

February 13, 2012

SLOVENIA: Catholic Church condemns Ombudsman, human rights [UPDATE]

February 10, 2012

KENYA: Justice promised for election violence victims

February 9, 2012

MALAWI: Bishops promote circumcision, condemn condoms - a muderous combination

February 8, 2012

SUDAN: 3m girls at risk of FGC

February 8, 2012

MOZAMIQUE: Woman raped for walking too near circumcision ritual

February 8, 2012

KENYA: 16 percent fall in FGC since 2003

February 7, 2012

COLORADO: Circumcising prevents spina bifida! - Senator [Updated: hidden agenda]

February 7, 2012

SLOVENIA: Circumcision violates children's rights - ombudsman [update-text of decision]

February 6, 2012

KENYA: 1/3 of circumcised men resume sex too soon

February 6, 2012

INDONESIA: Papua men to be be forcibly circumcised

February 3, 2012

TANZANIA: Circumcised men think they're immune

February 2, 2012

COLORADO: Senate committee votes 6-3 to restore Medicaid circumcision coverage

February 1, 2012

COLORADO: Circumcision benefit "insignificant"

January 31, 2012

ZAMBIA: Cut men resume unsafe sex early with multiple partners, risking more HIV

January 30, 2012

TANZANIA: Little girl cut because she couldn't walk

January 30, 2012

LIBERIA: Botched circumcision repair "most complicated" surgery

January 30, 2012

KENYA: Forced circumcsion a form of abuse

January 30, 2012

TANZANIA: Stabbed to death over choice of circumcision venue

January 29, 2012

ISRAEL: Circumcision adds to trauma of Ethiopian immigrants

January 24, 2012

KENYA: Cut men take more risks

January 24, 2012

UGANDA: four babies die of circumcision

January 23, 2012

KENYA: Women think circumcised men HIV-free, abandon condoms

January 21, 2012

SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA: ACLU opposed "divisive" circumcision age-restriction

January 22, 2012

JOHANNESBURG: Doctor gets 10 years for circumcision death

January 19, 2012

DENVER: Colorado Medicaid to fund circumcision again?

January 17, 2012

KENYA: Girls taken to Tanzania for FGC

January 16, 2012

UGANDA: Men promise to make up for lost time after circumcision

January 16, 2012

NEW ZEALAND: Immigrant girls "at risk" of FGC

January 15, 2012

MARINA, CALIFORNIA: Protestors picket ACLU

January 13, 2012

IRAQ: FGC causes PTSD

January 11, 2012

UGANDA: Circumcision rate unknown

January 10, 2012

SWAZILAND: "Circumcise and Conquer" fails

January 7, 2012

SWAZILAND: "Circumcise and Conquer" ends on ambiguity

January 4, 2012

LIBERIA: Girl, 17, dies from female cutting

January 3, 2012

GAMBIA: Female cutting "is not a religious obligation"

January 3, 2012

HELSINKI: Parents and circumciser penalised; legality of circumcision in question

December 28, 2011

DURBAN: No action against doctor who cut off 7yo's penis

December 28, 2011

KARACHI: FGC hidden

December 28, 2011

ZIMBAWE: Circumcision campaign "a waste of money"

December 25, 2011

NEW YORK: Man confronts his circumciser

December 19, 2011

CAPE TOWN: HIV only 7% lower in circumcised men

December 22, 2011

IOWA: Doctor who botched circumcision gets off

December 23, 2011

UGANDA: Men resist being circumcised

December 22, 2011

VANCOUVER: DIY circumcisor faces up to 14 years

December 15, 2011

ZIMBABAWE: Circumcised men abandoning condoms; babies to be cut

December 22, 2011

EASTERN CAPE: Hospitals overflowing with botched circumcisions

December 21, 2011

FINLAND: Parents charged for letting amateur circumcise

December 20, 2011

STUTTGART: Foreskin cells used as "humane" alternative to animal testing

December 19, 2011

TANZANIA: More men shamed for "wrong" circumcision

December 20, 2011

FINLAND: No circumcision law yet

"If anyone wants to saw off bits of their genitalia they should do it when they're grown up and have made the decision for themselves."

Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011

Hitchens on circumcision: a video compilation

December 13, 2011

EASTERN CAPE: Another death

December 13, 2011

PUNTLAND, SOMALIA: Sunni circumcision of women "not FGM"

December 11, 2011

TANZANIA: Men shamed for "wrong" circumcision

December 11, 2011

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Research uncovers horror penile modification trend

December 7, 2011

KENYA: Villagers in FGC "frenzy"

December 7, 2011

QUEENSLAND: New review slams circumcision-HIV trials

December 5, 2011

UGANDA: All boy babies in district hospitals being circumcised

December 3, 2011

SWAZILAND: Businessman proposes blackmail - get circumcised or no jobs, scholarships

December 2, 2011

SOUTH AFRICA: Three die at initiation schools

November 27, 2011

UGANDA: Circumcision funding cut

December 5, 2011

INDIA: Female cutting continues

November 23, 2011

EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA: Chiefs reject infant circumcision

November 23, 2011

SOUTH AFRICA: Medical Journal challenges circumcision-HIV link

November 22, 2011

KENYA: Hundreds of girls flee FGC

November 22, 2011

KENYA: Cult blamed for growth in FGC

November 19, 2011

GHANA: Vision-impaired circumcisor cuts off penis

November 15, 2011

NEW ORLEANS: AMA votes for infant genital cutting

November 14, 2011

DENMARK: More about how circumcision harms sex

November 11, 2011

SPAIN: Prehistoric men circumcised for health? (Yeah, right.)

November 11, 2011

NAMIBIA: Circumcision? No thanks!

November 8, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 spent to defend genital cutting

November 8, 2011

FLORIDA: Art is (int)activism for Jupiter sculptor

November 7, 2011

AMSTERDAM: Chief Rabbi unfazed by doctors' stand against circumcision

November 3, 2011

USA: Did circumcision make you soft?

November 3, 2011

AMSTERDAM: Muslims, Jews unite to go on cutting genitals

November 1, 2011

OMAHA: AAP, CDC "will not recommend circumcision"

October 30, 2011

MALDIVES: Female cutting on the rise?

October 29, 2011

CAIRO: Female cutting back after Mubarak

October 28, 2011

FLORIDA: Petition for balance in circumcision reporting

October 22, 2011

IRELAND: Penis partially dies: doctor cleared

October 22, 2011

JAKARTA: Female circumcision "not mutilation"

October 17, 2011

QUEBEC: Origins of the AIDS epidemic - not heterosex

October 17, 2011

Boston: Re-circumcision rising - scientists baffled

October 10, 2011

KWA-ZULU NATAL: Risky Tara KLamp salesman gave the King a car

October 10, 2011

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA: Circumcision "no vaccine"

October 10, 2011

NETHERLANDS: Lawyer slammed for proposing token FGC

October 7, 2011

INDIANA: No damages for non-consented circumcision

October 4, 2011

GENEVA: W.H.O. reform called for

October 4, 2011

INDIANA: Doctor sued for non-consented circumcision

October 2, 2011

SACRAMENTO: Governor Brown signs boxcutter circumcision bill

September 30, 2011

GEORGETOWN: Circumcision not cost-effective against HIV

September 26, 2011

LOS ANGELES: Another Mogen Clamp botch

September 23, 2011

LONDON: Men who have sex with men don't want to be circumcised (and it wouldn't do any good)

September 19, 2011

INDIANA: Doctor sued for circumcising against parents' wishes

September 14, 2011

NETHERLANDS: Medical association campaigns againt circumcision

September 6, 2011

KENYA: Female genital cutting outlawed

September 9, 2011

LONDON: Babies feel pain two weeks pre-term

September 6, 2011

SACRAMENTO: Senate passes boxcutter circumcision law: Governor to sign

September 5, 2011

NYERI, KENYA: Mob forces man to be circumcised

September 4, 2011

MELBOURNE: Sailor sues for forced circumcision

September 1, 2011

ZIMBABWE: MPs shun circumcision

September 1, 2011

ATLANTA: Circumcision rates falling - CDC

September 1, 2011

NORWAY: Ombudsman wants minimum circumcision age

August 30, 2011

SACRAMENTO: Senate passes boxcutter circumcision law

August 28, 2011

ALGIERS: More botches during Ramadan

August 28, 2011

KENYA: Men bribed wih $US 1.07 to be circumcised

August 24, 2011

SHELBYVILLE, KY: Circumcised -and then some: case lost

August 23, 2011

SACRAMENTO: Judiciary Committee unanimously passes AB768 to deregulate circumcision

August 22, 2011

SACRAMENTO: California Medical Association backs circumcision free-for-all

August 21, 2011

SOUTH AFRICA: Experts divided over baby circumcision plan

August 17, 2011

LOUISVILLE, KY: Circumcised -and then some: trial begins

August 15, 2011

IRAQ: FGC is "an obligation" - mullah

August 15, 2011

OREGON: Probation for mother who botched DIY circumcision

August 13, 2011

BURBANK: Richard Branson's too-tight circumcision

August 12, 2011

SENEGAL: How to end female cutting

August 10, 2011

LONDON: Doctors who circumcise 'are breaking the law'

August 8, 2011

JOHANNESBURG: Babies circumcised (contrary to law), foreskins to be sold?

August 8, 2011

LIMPOPO: Two circumcision deaths

August 2, 2011

LOS ANGELES: Not only circumcision opponents celebrate Brit Shalom

August 1, 2011

KENYA: International Criminal court struggles with concept of forced circumcision as sexual violence

July 28, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Judge orders MGM Bill struck from ballot

July 28, 2011

NEW YORK: Increasingly a ritual is bypassed

July 27, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Judge plans to order MGM Bill struck from ballot

July 26, 2011

CHICAGO: New anti-smegmatic cartoon strip

July 26, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: "Never mind the planet, save circumcision!"

July 25, 2011

ROME: W.H.O. endorses glans-slicing Mogen clamp

July 24, 2011

RWANDA: "Elastrator" circumcision touted

July 21, 2011

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Mixed views on FGC

July 20, 2011

ROME: More incredible circumcision findings

July 20, 2011

FRESNO: Bill to enshrine amateur circumcision in California

July 18, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: ACLU comes down against children, democracy

July 18, 2011

LOS ANGELES: $4.6 million for Mogen botch

July 17, 2011

NEW YORK: OB/GYNs should stop circumcising

July 13, 2011

KENYA: Persuasion works against female cutting

July 13, 2011

ISTANBUL: "Free" circumcision has its price

July 12, 2011

ATLANTA: Circumcision does not protect US men who have sex with men

July 12, 2011

JAKARTA: FGC edict puts girls at risk

June 24, 2011

WASHINGTON DC: The Defence of Circumcision (with Boxcutters) Bill

July 8, 2011

NAMIBIA: Male circumcision to be pursued aggressively

July 7, 2011

WASHINGTON DC: Congress to enshrine circumcision?

June 27, 2011

INDIA: Call for check on sex-change surgeries

July 5, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Jewish foes of circumcision sit out attempts to ban it

July 4, 2011

EASTERN CAPE: Exploitation, mutilation, death

June 29, 2011

PITTSBURGH: It's about circumcision

July 3, 2011

UGANDA: Museveni warns against circumcision

July 1, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: City Attorney's office files brief to block circumcision initaitive

July 1, 2011

LOS ANGELES: "Blood Sweat & Tears singer protests circumcision

July 1, 2011

LONDON: Screening of "Abandon the Knife" raises almost £600

July 1, 2011

LIMPOPO: First circumcision death

June 28, 2011

SAN FRANSICO: Foreskin activist performs feats with fruit

June 28, 2011

SAN DIEGO: Foreskin Man #3 gets more involved

June 26, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: MGMBill in Gay Pride parade [video]

June 27, 2011

JOHANNESBURG: Initiate flees forced circumcision

June 23, 2011

SOUTH AFRICA: Medical Ethics committee agrees: circumcision of babies is unethical

June 27, 2011

CARDIFF: Doctors urged to debate circumcision ethics

June 26, 2011

SWAZILAND: Women want forced circumcisions

Swaziland

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

21.8%

Intact men

19.5%

Source: www.measuredhs.com

June 26, 2011

LONDON: Sacked for writing anti-circumcision article

June 24, 2011

EASTERN CAPE: Seven initiates die

June 21, 2011

DENVER: Medicaid coverage of circumcision ending: age-restriction coming?

June 22, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Court challenge to circumcision ballot

June 14, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Circumcision ban poll

June 18, 2011

EASTERN CAPE: First circumcision death of season

June 20, 2011

BOSTON: Statement from the Jewish Circumcision Resource Center

June 17, 2011

DENMARK: Circumcision impairs sex

June 15, 2011

PENNSYLVANIA: Piercing cats is cruelty, judges rule

June 14, 2011

SHERMAN OAKS, California: Federal Law to allow circumcision proposed

June 14, 2011

LONDON: Time to end circumcision?

June 11, 2011

ITALY: Russell Crowe calls circumcision "barbaric", apologises

June 10, 2011

"Foreskin Man" and antisemitism

June 7, 2011

DUBLIN: Senator calls for circumcision ban

June 7, 2011

CORNELL: Circumcision Ban Could Lead to Religious Freedom Ruling

June 6, 2011

SANTA MONICA: Circumcision ballot petition withdrawn

Van Lewis in 2006
William Van Brunt (Van) Lewis
in 2006

Van Lewis died in Tallahassee, Florida on Monday June 6, 2011 at 12.15 of pancreatic cancer. He was 68.

Van was the earliest known Intactivist. On December 16, 1970, he and his brother Ben carried signs saying "Infant Circumcision is a Sex Crime. Abolish it." "Sex Criminals for Hire? Inquire Within." "Abolish Infant Circumcision." and "Men's Liberation" outside the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Tallahassee, Florida, and were arrested. They were charged with disturbing the peace and spent a day in the cells. Van took an active part in the movement until mid-April this year, when his last messages were a list of circumcision deaths.

"You can catch more flies with honey AND vinegar
than you can with either one alone"

- Van Lewis

June 5, 2011

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA: Activist nears end

June 4, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Jewish Council launches anti-MGM-BIll campaign

June 2, 2011

SEATTLE: Gates, USA Army give $US millions to HIV Vaccine Development

May 27, 2011

KENYA: Circumcisors scramble for money

May 27, 2011

SWAZILAND: Men not buiying circumcision hype

May 27, 2011

LONDON: Debate between SF Bill leader and rabbi

May 27, 2011

MANILA: Dentist botches circumcisions

May 17, 2011

INNESBRUCK: HPV found in phimotic foreskins

May 23, 2011

HOUSTON: Debate on San Francisco ban - quite even-handed - from Fox!

May 23, 2011

UGANDA: Church opposes circumcision - for the wrong reason

May 22, 2011

SANTA MONICA: Petition to outlaw circumcision filed

May 19, 2011

KENYA: Police can search without warrants for FGC dens

May 18, 2011

SAUDI ARABIA: Boy circumcised, penis falls off

May 17, 2011

RICHMOND, VA: >13% of circumcisions require re-op [video]

May 17, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: City says enough valid signatures for circumcision ban vote

May 17, 2011

MALOLOS, Philippines: "Credibility in journalism" group holds mass circumcision!

May 10, 2011

CHICAGO: Outlawing circumcision: good for the Jews?

May 10, 2011

DUBLIN: Enquiry into "incomplete" (necrotic) circumcision by trainee

May 10, 2011

LONDON: Guinness Book will not recognise circumcision record attempt

May 6, 2011

MARYLAND: Promising new HIV vaccine

May 6, 2011

NEW YORK: Hospital tries to buy family off

May 5, 2011

NEW YORK: Another circumcision death

Jamaal Coleson

May 5, 2011

UGANDA: Most country people think circumcision protects completely

May 2, 2011

NORWAY: Circumcision age-limit proposed

May 2, 2011

MANILLA: A circumcision record attempt

May 2, 2011

WASHINGTON: [advert] "ACOG: Put Down the Knife!"

April 27, 2011

NORWAY: Ritual circumcision to be regulated?

April 27, 2011

TAIWAN: Botched circumcision halved the size

April 25, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Circumcision ban has enough signatures for vote

April 25, 2011

USA: "Put Down the Knife!" campaign launched

April 25, 2011

KENYA: "Forced circumcision is sexual violence"

April 21, 2011

LAS VEGAS: Student to take Intactivism internationally

April 21, 2011

SWAZILAND: Disatrous circumcision campaign

April 25, 2011

JERUSALEM: AAP circumision policy expcted late 2011 or early 2012

April 2011

MICHIGAN: Important further rebuttal of HIV claims

March 16, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Circumision ban would be constitutional

March 16, 2011

TURKANA, KENYA: Men resist circumcision

April 8, 2011

PORTLAND, OREGON: Woman charged after DIY circumcision

April 2, 2011

SOUTH DAKOTA: Boy bleeds to death - $230,000 for parents

April 5, 2011

TANZANIA: Deaths from FGC and MGC

April 2, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC: Video of Genital Integrity March on White House

April 2, 2011

SWAZILAND: Circumcision prevents use of penis-cap

April 1, 2011

CHICAGO: Foreskin restoration presented straightforwardly! On Fox News!

March 31, 2011

HELSINKI: Charges against parents struck down

March 30, 2011

LONDON: Government abolishes FGC prevention post

March 29, 2011

ST LOUIS: Adverse circumcision data suppressed?

March 28, 2011

SWAZILAND: Women want to be circumcised

March 25, 2011

BIRMINGHAM (UK): Ban extended on doctor who botched circumcision

March 21, 2011

KENYA: Doubts about mass circumcision

March 7, 2011

PRETORIA: 8 years on - No word on fatal circumcisions

March 7, 2011

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: Circumcision left boy with "a disfigured fragment"

March 3, 2011

SWAZILAND: Quota of circumcisions "must" be carried out

February 28, 2011

UGANDA: De Cock admits circumcision trials are agenda-driven

February 28, 2011

TAMPA, FLORIDA: Half of men have HPV, circumcision "little benefit"

February 20, 2011

SUDAN: "Salima" - whole, healthy and intact

February 20, 2011

SWAZILAND: Circumcision because "it's nice to have sex without condoms"

February 19, 2011

SEATTLE: Gates Foundation compromising media

February 18, 2011

USA: Jesus and Mo nail circumcision down

February 15, 2011

LONDON: FGC and MGC - why the double standard?

February 15, 2011

RWANDA: Elastrator-like circumcision device being tested

February 10, 2011

RWANDA: Pro-life group attacks mass vasectomy (and circumcision)

Rwanda

HIV Rates: Circumcised men3.8%
Intact men2.1%

UNAIDS

February 6, 2011

NETHERLANDS: Reversing FGC is taboo

February 5, 2011

KURDISTAN: FGC "forbidden" in sharia law

February 6, 2011

SENEGAL: Africa winning war against FGC?

February 4, 2011

GENEVA: FGC spreading to West

January 22, 2011

KENYA: Circumcision does not protect against HIV or STI

January 23, 2011

CAPE TOWN: Hired-murder accused wanted money to get circumcised

January 21, 2011

NEW JERSEY: Girl, 7, made to eat living chicken heart

January 18, 2011

MAURITANIA: Fatwa against FGC

January 13, 2011

KENTUCKY: Man sues for loss of penis

January 17, 2011

SYDNEY: Circumcision row erupts

January 10, 2011

KENYA: Circumcised boys drop out of school

January 11, 2011

SAN DIEGO: Nationwide push to outlaw non-therapeutic circumcision

January 10, 2011

UGANDA: Circumcision for HPV in women - Wawer again

January 8, 2011

VANCOUVER: Family seeks refuge from FGC

January 4, 2011

SWAZILAND: Youths blackmailed into circumcision through pool

Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2010:
55
+ 2 by fire
2009 Total: 91

December 30, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Fleeing youth speared, another death

December 28, 2010

SWAZILAND: Youths blackmailed into circumcision through football

December 24, 2010

GALVESTON, TEXAS: Billboards denounce circumcision

December 24, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: 54 circumcision deaths this year

December 22, 2010

KENYA: Parents held, female-circumciser escapes

December 20, 2010

SOUTH CAROLINA: Medicaid cuts circumcision funding - the least of their worries

December 21, 2010

KENYA: 100 girls saved from FGC

December 17, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: 14 circumcision deaths

December 18, 2010

KISIMU, KENYA: Circumcised men at no less risk from HIV

December 17, 2010

KENYA: 2500 boys and girls circumcised

December 17, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: 13 circumcision deaths

December 14, 2010

STOCKHOLM: First imprisonment for circumcising boys

December 14, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Six dead in new circumcision season

December 13, 2010

AFRICA: Report shows male circumcision disempowers women

December 10, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC: "Aggressive" scale-up of circumcision recommended

December 8, 2010

HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS: Father cut daughter "with scissors"

December 8, 2010

KURDISTAN: FGC "recommended by Islam"

December 7, 2010

KENYA: Mothers among girls cut

December 7, 2010

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa withdraws Tara KLamp

December 7, 2010

DURBAN: Never mind the law, cut babies

December 7, 2010

LIMA: (Yet again) Circumcision does not protect gay men

December 7, 2010

KWAZULU-NATAL: Circumcised men honoured, to see bull killed

December 5, 2010

ZAMBIA: Wife divorced for circumcising sons

December 2, 2010

UGANDA: 200 girls circumcised despite law

December 2, 2010

TRANSKEI: Re-circumcision revenge for botches

September 4, 2010

FRESNO, CA: Father who tattooed son gets 6 years

December 1, 2010

SAN DIEGO: Foreskin Man #2 comic targets milah

December 1, 2010

VIRGINIA: Foreskin cells sell for $559/ml

December 1, 2010

SWAZILAND: Circumcised men plan unprotected sex

November 25, 2010

SENEGAL: 700 villages abandon female circumcision

November 25, 2010

BOGOTÁ: One girl dies, tribe bans female cutting

November 23, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: 77 circumcision deaths last year

November 13, 2010

ZAMBIA: Boys see circumcision as licence for unprotected sex

November 12, 2010

MELBOURNE: Doctor who botched circumcision still working

November 10, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO: Petition to put circumcision ban on 2011 ballot

November 6, 2010

UGANDA: 200 girls to be circumcised

November 5, 2010

KWAZULU-NATAL: 17,700 men circumcised; HIV rate proves nothing

October 30, 2010

BELGIUM: Thousands of girls at risk of cutting

November 2, 2010

KENYA: unsafe sex after circumcision

October 31, 2010

KENYA: Dirt dressings in slum circumcisions

November 2, 2010

DURBAN: More Tara KLamp shenanigans

October 29, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: Prisoners to be circumcised

Dr. John R. Taylor died peacefully on October 27, 2010, in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr Taylor's 1996 paper on the anatomy of the prepuce forms one of the cornerstones of the genital integrity movement.

November , 2010

IOANNINA, GREECE: How medical science is fudged

October 27, 2010

FINLAND: No Law on Male Circumcision After All

October 26, 2010

OREGON: Mother botches DIY circumcision

October 25, 2010

ZAMBIA: Interpol searching for corrupt Tara KLamp provider

October 25, 2010

JOHANNESBURG: Media brainwashed about circumcision for HIV

October 22, 2010

WYOMING: prison for death of one son, DIY circumcision of another

October 20, 2010

GAMBIA: Anti-FGC activists out on bail

October 13, 2010

BIRMINNGHAM: Circumcision doctor struck off

October 11, 2010

CAPE TOWN: YouTube pulls anti-circumcision rap video

October 11, 2010

GAMBIA: Leading anti-FGC campaigner arrested

October 7, 2010

CONNECTICUT: Doctor who botched circumcision wheedles records from current doc

October 3, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: Rapper sings of fearing circumcision

October 3, 2010

JERUSALEM: Hundreds face re-circumcision to be kosher

October 1, 2010

SYDNEY: College of Physicians disavows "routine" circumcision

September 29, 2010

MELBOURNE: Clinic to undo FGC opens

September 28, 2010

KENYA: Traditional circumcision increases HIV risk

September 28, 2010

BRISBANE: Pilot "obsessed with circumcision" avoids conviction

September 25, 2010

BANGLADESH: 6 year old dies before circumcision

September 22, 2010

NEW YORK: Challenges to abolishing FGC

September 22, 2010

SWAZILAND: 9-year-old bully "circumcises" 7-year old

September 22, 2010

CHICAGO: Restraining order against circumcision

September 21, 2010

ZIMBABWE: Anger at singer's "not a man" comments

September 21, 2010

SYDNEY: RACP confirms recommendation against circumcision

September 18, 2010

VANCOUVER: Foreskin activist calls for genital awareness

September 19, 2010

SWAZILAND: More circumcised men have HIV (Who knew?)

September 15, 2010

MIAMI: Mother wants law change: hospital's poor record

September 11, 2010

MIAMI: Mother repeatedly said "No" to circumcision

September 10, 2010

MIAMI: Boy circumcised in intensive care against parents' wishes

September 10, 2010

KENYA: Infants targeted - with Mogen clamps

September 8, 2010

JERUSALEM: Treatment selectively destroys HIV-infected cells

September 8, 2010

SWAZILAND: Circumcised men spurn condoms, get STDs

September 3, 2010

JOHANNESBURG: Murky dealings in circumcision KLamp tender

September 2, 2010

SWAZILAND: PSI abandons four youths after circumcision

September 1, 2010

LONDON: Sugar doesn't relieve neonatal pain

Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2010:
47
+ 2 by fire
2009 Total: 91

August 30, 2010

ZIMBABWE: Death threats for refusing circumcision

August 23, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Boys seek manhood, lose it all

August 23, 2010

LONDON: Doctor suspected of practising FGC

August 21, 2010

MALAWI: Bishop forcibly circumcised for preaching salvation by faith

August 20, 2010

EGYPT: Doctor charged after circumcised girl dies

August 6, 2010

NORWAY: Circumcision ban called for
(- Omskjæring av smågutter er et overgrep og bør forbys)

August 6, 2010

ESSEX: Boys get 12 months reprieve from botching doctor

July  22, 2010

VIENNA: No sign of fall in US circumcision rate: complications underestimated

July 31, 2010

BERKELEY, CA: International Symposium on Genital Integrity

July 29, 2010

BERKELEY, CA: Recent events give focus to symposium

July 22, 2010

PITTSBURG: Circumcision useless at preventing HIV in USA

July 25, 2010

VANCOUVER: Comedian pushes foreskin education

July 22, 2010

PITTSBURG: Circumcision useless at preventing HIV in USA

July 22, 2010

DURBAN: Botch - charges dropped

July 22, 2010

Time to halt the UNAIDS gravy train

July 21, 2010

SAN DIEGO: Foreskin Man comic launched

July 18, 2010

NEW YORK: $10.7M for partal amputation by Mogen clamp - Mogen closing

July 17, 2010

VIENNA: Circumcision "a dangerous mistake"

July 14, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Deaths remind man how he lost his penis

July 9, 2010

GENEVA: World Bank AIDS chief hails circumcision, misunderstands month of abstinence

July 9, 2010

KWAZULU NATAL: Health Dept will go on using Tara KLamp

July 9, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: Promoters refuse to withdraw Tara KLamp

July 8, 2010

NAMBIBIA: Illegal circumcision goes horribly wrong

July 8, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: Call for withdrawal of Tara KLamp

July 7, 2010

JAKARTA: Women challenge male FGC edict

July 6, 2010

MELBOURNE: Chidren free to choose own religion - judge

July 5, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Parents not told of son's death or burial

July 2, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: "Sacred" rite will continue despite deaths

June 28, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll rising

June 27, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Cousins die on same day

June 27, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO: New slogan in Gay Pride parade

June 16, 2010

IRAQ: Human Rights Watch urges Kurdish FGC ban

June 25, 2010

ISRAEL: Boy loses 1/3 of blood

June 24, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: One more circumcision death

June 24, 2010

SWAZILAND: PM wants all MPs circumcised

Swaziland

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

21.8%

Intact men

19.5%

Source: www.measuredhs.com

June 24, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Two more circumcision deaths

June 22, 2010

SPARTA, MICH: Amateur circumcisor - more victims?

June 21, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: 40% adverse effects with KLamp

June 21, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Four more circumcision deaths + 2 by fire

June 18, 2010

EAST LONDON: Circumcision suspended: death toll 22

June 18, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll 20

June 17, 2010

SWAZILAND: Circumcised men preferred as blood donors!

Swaziland

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

21.8%

Intact men

19.5%

Source: www.measuredhs.com

June 17, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: 13th death: intact father not allowed to rescue him

June 17, 2010

TRANSKEI: 35 rescued from illegal circumcision schools: "We can't listen to boys"

June 16, 2010

NEW YORK: "Nerve-sparing" clitoral reduction and testing provokes outrage

June 16, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Nurses traumatised by circumcision cases [9 deaths]

June 14, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Leaders meet over [7] circumcision deaths

June 14, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: First circumcision death

June 13, 2010

JERUSALEM: Brit method increases UTIs

June 12, 2010

EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA: Destitute 15 year old circumcises for money (2009 death toll: 91)

June 12, 2010

KWAZULU NATAL,SOUTH AFRICA: Target of 47,000 neonatal circumcisions

June 10, 2010

SPARTA, MICHIGAN: Probation for illegal circumcision

June 9, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR: 72% of HIV cases are Muslim

June 9, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Three with gangrenous penises, nine amputations

June 9, 2010

BAHRAIN: Father who had daughter circumcised gets custody

June 4, 2010

TRANSKEI, SOUTH AFRICA: 14-year-old circumcised friends

June 4, 2010

KENYA: Circumcised men 11% less likely to report sex-injuries

June 3, 2010

FRESNO, CA: Jury considering tattooed-child case

May 30, 2010

ZIMBABWE: Donors shun circumcision programme

Zimbabwe 2005-6

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

20%

Intact men

19%

May 29, 2010

LOS ANGELES: "Nick" runs counter to universal right to stewardship of one's body

May 28, 2010

SYDNEY: Ob/gyns do NOT consider "ritual nick" FGC

May 27, 2010

UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS: Doctors consider MGC ban

May 26, 2010

CHICAGO: AAP statement reversing its stand on FGC

May 26, 2010

UK: Woman may be forced to have cancer operation

May 26, 2010

CHICAGO: AAP reverses its stand on FGC

May 26, 2010

TATARSTAN: Five-year-old boy dies after circumcision

May 23, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: 25 boys in hospital after circumcision

May 16, 2010

JOHANNESBURG: Teens held for illegal circumcisons: 2009 death toll 90

May 13, 2010

LONDON: Two UK Medical Colleges condemn AAP's "ritual nick" FGC

May 13, 2010

WASHINGTON: Father brands children: defence counsel compares to circumcision

May 7, 2010

NEW YORK: Group Backs Ritual 'Nick' as Female Circumcision Option

May 5, 2010

ASWAN, EGYPT: FGC - a hard habit to break

May 4, 2010

UGANDA: Battle against FGC hits snag

May 1, 2010

DAKAR: African states push for UN ban on female circumcision

May 1, 2010

PROVENCE, FRANCE: Pioneer opponent of circumcisioin Alice Miller dies

April 30, 2010

LONDON: Genital autonomy charity condemns AAP position on FGC

April 29, 2010

SWEDEN: Doctors refuse to perform circumcisions

April 28, 2010

HOLLYWOOD: Actress circumcises "perfect" adopted son

April 26, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC: Bill to outlaw travel for FGC introduced

April 26, 2010

CHICAGO: New AAP reccomendations give girls less protection from FGC

April 26, 2010

U S A: Infant circumcision causes 100 deaths each year

April 21, 2010

LONDON: Leaving baby to cry could damage brain development

April 15, 2010

HELSINKI: Finnish circumcision law stalled

April 13, 2010

MALAWI: Circumcision "a hard sell"

Malawi

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

13.2%

Intact men

9.5%

Source: www.measuredhs.com

April 12, 2010

JOHANNESBURG: Men in a hurry not to get circumcised

April 12, 2010

KAMPALA: Uganda bans FGC

April 12, 2010

SYDNEY: Circumcision doubles Non-Specific Urethritis risk

April 1, 2010

CAPE TOWN: South African boys get better protection

March 23, 2010

HAMILTON, ONTARIO: Early Termination of Clinical Trials May Overestimate Treatment Effects

March 4, 2010

SPARTA: Mich: Accused quack circumciser a fetishist, ex-lover says

March 26, 2010

BURLINGTON, Vermont: Passer-by complains of trash outside Intactivist house

March 26, 2010

VANCOUVER: DIY-circumcising father gets 1 year

March 25, 2010

VANCOUVER: Sentencing of circumcision-botching father begins

March 23, 2010

NEW YORK: Celebrity Intactivists sought

March 22, 2010

KENYA: Public humiliation and forced circumcision

March 19, 2010

BOSTON: Bill to outlaw non-therapeutic circumcision of minors defeated

March 18, 2010

NEWCASTLE: Prison visitor hid drugs under his foreskin

March 18, 2010

DURBAN: Circumcision drive in a financial fix

March 17, 2010

DURBAN: 700M Rand [$US 95.8M] wanted for circumcision

March 17, 2010

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH: Sparta man accused of performing circumcisions offered plea deal

March 13, 2010

ZIMBABWE: 1.2m men targeted for circumcision

March 12, 2010

GEORGIA: Mother charged with FGC of baby

March 9, 2010

NEW YORK: Circumcision may not cut HIV spread among gay men

March 9, 2010

DURBAN: Tackling a taboo culture

March 8, 2010

CAIRO: FGC Still Widespread: report

March 7, 2010

SPARTA, MICHIGAN: Amateur charged over circumcision

March 6, 2010

EASTERN CAPE: Man circumcised by vengeful lovers

March 3, 2010

BOSTON: Massachusetts Senate Committee Hears Bill To Outlaw Infant Circumcision

February 24, 2010

USA: AIDS Epidemic in Some US Cities Worse Than Global Hot Spots

February 24, 2010

HELSINKI: Court orders parents to pay son for painful circumcision

February 23, 2010

JERUSALEM: Heroic repair of botched circumcision

February 21, 2010

SAN DIEGO: Anti-retrovirals could halt Aids spread in five years

February 15, 2010

NEW YORK: Judge rules that cutting penis is torture

February 11, 2010

LEEDS: Parents angry that son circumcised while in care

February 6, 2010

EVERETT, WA: Grandmother tries to stop man circumcising son

February 6, 2010

MELBOURNE: Female Genital Cutting happening in Australia

February 2, 2010

KENYA: 90,000 men circumcised

February 1, 2010

LOS ANGELES: National Coalition For Men urges AAP to consider boys' rights

January 18, 2010

MAURITANIA: Fatwa against FGC

January 29, 2010

FRESNO, CA: Father who tattooed son faces aggravated mayhem charge again

January 29, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: 15% believe circumcised men don't need to use condoms

January 27, 2010

BRISBANE: Man took photos in circumcision dispute

January 26, 2010

MALAWI: Shaba says Malawi cannot follow Rwanda on circumcision to fight Aids

January 20, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO: Urologists form Circumcision Task Force

January 17, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcision will lift flagging sprirt sales

January 17, 2010

ZAMBIA: Botched circumcision leaves man in pain

January 17, 2010

ZULULAND: Thousands face agony and/or death after king's circumcision decree

January 16, 2010

WYOMING: Alleged killer, filet-knife circumciser, pleads mental deficiency

January 14, 2010

SOUTH AFRICA: "More initiates will die"

January 12, 2010

SAN DIEGO: Bill to outlaw circumcision submitted

January 12, 2010

ADELAIDE: Circumcision has no benefit: study

January 11, 2010

TENNANT CREEK (NT) AUSTRALIA: Three youths severely lacerated in botched traditional circumcision

January 10, 2010

DARWIN: Three aboriginal boys mutilated

January 5, 2010

GEORGIA: Parents charged for tattooing 6 children

Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2009:
80

December 23, 2009

WESTERN CAPE: Police investigate first circumcision death

December 25, 2009

ZULULAND: Reintroduced circumcision is colonial

December 22, 2009

KENYA: Circumcised youths have unsafe sex

December 22, 2009

KENYA: Daughter circumcised; father suicides

December 16, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Boys dying to become men

December 14, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Four more deaths - season total now 21

December 14, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Two more deaths - season total now 17

December 11, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Two more deaths - 17-year-old circumcises 18-year-olds

December 11, 2009

UGANDA: MPs vote to outlaw FGC

December 10, 2009

VANCOUVER: Proscuters want 2 years for botching father

December 8, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: 9 circumcision-related deaths this week - law change called for

December 8, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: 2 more deaths

December 8, 2009

CHRISTCHURCH, NZ: 4-year-old held down "like a wild animal" to be circumcised

December 7, 2009

KENYA: Pregnant girls circumcised

December 6, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: 18 youths rescued from circumcision schools

December 8, 2009

LONDON: Doctor who hospitalised 5 boys did not meet standards

December 6, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: King of Zulus follows lemmings

November 30, 2009

KENYA: Bizarre beliefs about the effect of circumcision

December 4, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR: Political party woos voters with circumcisionn

December 3, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: Men seek circumcision for unprotected sex

December 2, 2009

WYOMING: Man charged with smothering one son had circumcised another with a filet knife

December 1, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Department flooded with circumcision complaints

November 30, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Man held after illegal circumcision

November 27, 2009

PHILADELPHIA: Circumcision led to removal of half of brain

November 27, 2009

LONDON: Circumcising boys for religious reasons "could breach Human Rights Act"

November 20, 2009

ESSEX: 5 boys hospitalised - circumcisions "not botched"

November 18, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Another circumcision death

November 17, 2009

LONDON: Ritual circumcision "illegal"

November 15, 2009

OMAHA: Researchers use foreskin tissue in stemcell research "to avoid ethical issues"

November 12, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Initiate's death blamed on "dehydration"

November 9, 2009

ONLINE: Less biased discussion of circumcision

November 9, 2009

JERUSALEM: Mohel botches bris - gets community service

November 7, 2009

LOS ANGELES: Three cities race vets to outlaw cat declawing

October 26, 2009

ESSEX: Circumcisions 'left boys in agony'

October 19, 2009

WASHINGTON, D C: Intact America's open letter to the AAP

October 18, 2009

FRESNO, CA: DA re-files mayhem charge against men who tattooed boy

October 14, 2009

JOHANNESBERG: Court decision welcomed

October 14, 2009

VANCOUVER: Father circumcises son using horse-coagulant

October 14, 2009

BHISHO, SOUTH AFRICA: Non-consensual circumcision ruled unconsitutional

October 14, 2009

UGANDA: Bigger foreskin "greater HIV risk"

October 13, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC: Intactivists to picket AAP Conference

October 12, 2009

SACRAMENTO: Cow tail docking outlawed

October 7, 2009

BHISHO, SOUTH AFRICA: Elder sorry for forced circumcision; father not

October 3, 2009

FRESNO, CA: Tattooing 7-year-old not mayhem, could be "cruel and inhumane"

October 2, 2009

NORTH CAROLINA: Father gets 150 days for DIY circumcision

October 2, 2009

BROOKLYN: Baby dies after circumcision

October 1, 2009

FRESNO, CA: Judge considers life for tattooing 7-year-old

September 2009

VANCOUVER: BC Physicans recommend against circumcision

September 30, 2009

NORTH CAROLINA: "God said circumcise my sons with box cutter" - polygamist

September 30, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Initiate's body found

September 29, 2009

NORTH CAROLINA: Polygamist circumcises sons with boxcutters

September 28, 2009

ATLANTA: Neonatal pain alters adult reactions

September 28, 2009

PORT ELIZABETH (SOUTH AFRICA): DIY circumcisions go wrong

September 26, 2009

KENYA: HIV rising faster where men are circumcised

September 24, 2009

BANGKOK: Vaccine reduces HIV

September 18, 2009

SOUTH DAKOTA: Boy dies, parents sue government

September 14, 2009

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian women abandon FGC

September 11, 2009

SYDNEY: RACP replies - Morris pwned!

September 9, 2009

NEW YORK: Israeli-trained circumcisers to cut America?

September 11, 2009

SYDNEY: Physicians discourage circumcision, Morris - surprise! - demurs

September 9, 2009

LONDON: Verdict; baby died of 'natural causes' after circumcision

September 8, 2009

LONDON: More than two boys a week nearly die of circumcision

September 8, 2009

LONDON: Baby did not die "immediately" after circumcision

September 7, 2009

LONDON: "Highly likely" baby died within minutes of circumcision, inquest told

September 5, 2009

NEW YORK: Women's health leader queries circumcision

September 3, 2009

VENICE: "Desert Flower" FGC film screens

September 3, 2009

LONDON: Circumcision-death inquest to begin

September 3, 2009

CHICAGO: HIV vaccine hope

August 29, 2009

JOHANNESBERG: Elders vow to "get rid of" circumcison opponents

August 27, 2009

SYDNEY: Australian physicians move one small step towards completely voluntary circumcison

August 27, 2009

ATLANTA: Circumcision will be 'completely voluntary' - CDC (Hooray!)

August 26, 2009

BLOG: Parenting author speaks out

August 25, 2009

BLOG: Circumcision hasn't protected blacks

August 24, 2009

ATLANTA: Circumcision doesn't protect Men who have Sex with Men (Surprise!)

August 24, 2009

ATLANTA: Universal US circumcision proposed

August 18, 2009

HOUSTON: 99 years for mutilating mother

August 18, 2009

KAMPALA: Circumcision "hysteria"

August 17, 2009

BIRMINGHAM: Doctor rapped for circumcision without proper consent

August 5, 2009

STOCKHOLM: Omskärelse inte riskfritt - läkarna / Circumcision not risk-free - doctors

August 15, 2009

HOUSTON: Mother who wanted circumcision convicted for castration

August 15, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Officials traumatised by circumcisions botched by 14-year-olds

August 15, 2009

CAIRO: First arrest for FGC

August 12, 2009

BERKELEY: $429,000 for loss of glans

August 10, 2009

HOUSTON: Mother wanted circumcision, boy castrated

August 10, 2009

MALAWI: Teenager dies

August 10, 2009

UGANDA: Doctors want compulsory circumcision of soldiers

August 8, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Son takes parents to court

August 5, 2009

INDIA: Three sons forcibly circumcised

August 5, 2009

MALAWI: Pastor forcibly circumcised

August 4, 2009

OREGON: Dogs' ears to be protected

August 3, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Two on the run after fatal circumcision

August 2, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Risk to women gives pause

August 1, 2009

KENYA: Circumcision does not prevent 3 common STIs

July 30, 2009

OREGON: Judge's ruling in the case of "Mischa"

July 29, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Boy sent back to finish near-fatal initiation

July 28, 2009

SUDAN: Women's secret anti-FGC signal in henna

July 25, 2009

STOCKHOLM: 2/3 of doctors say circumcision is "assault"

July 25, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcision was not part of dead initiate's custom

July 23, 2009

VANCOUVER: Circumcision less effective than condoms, ART

July 21, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Homosexual activitty underreported

July 17, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: More deaths

July 16, 2009

UGANDA: Women at up to 50% more HIV risk from circumcised men

July 14, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Community must act - death toll 43

July 14, 2009

ZIMBABWE: Boys forcibly circumcised in South Africa

July 12, 2009

SEATTLE: Vets keep dogs' ears safer than baby foreskins

July 9, 2009

CAPE TOWN: Promoting circumcision a mistake

July 10, 2009

UGANDA: Mandatory neonatal circumcision planned

July 10, 2009

CAIRO: Support for FGC falling

July 9, 2009

PRETORIA: E Cape circumcision toll tops 40
[and 140 in hospital]

July 7, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: E Cape circumcision death toll rises

July 6, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll now 36

July 5, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: 33 die from circumcision

July 4, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: 31 die from circumcision

July 2, 2009

UGANDA: Museveni condemns FGC

July 1, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll now 24

July 1, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Under-age boy dies from circumcision

July 12, 2009

SEATTLE: Vets keep dogs' ears safer than baby foreskins

July 9, 2009

CAPE TOWN: Promoting circumcision a mistake

July 10, 2009

UGANDA: Mandatory neonatal circumcision planned

July 10, 2009

CAIRO: Support for FGC falling

July 9, 2009

PRETORIA: E Cape circumcision toll tops 40
[and 140 in hospital]

July 7, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: E Cape circumcision death toll rises

July 6, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll now 36

July 5, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: 33 die from circumcision

July 4, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: 31 die from circumcision

July 2, 2009

UGANDA: Museveni condemns FGC

July 1, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll now 24

July 1, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Under-age boy dies from circumcision

June 30, 2009

HERTS*, U K: Man circumcises himself with nail-clippers
*Where else?

June 24, 2009

BOTSWANA: Men reject circumcision

June 28, 2009

JOHANNESBERG: Culture a lame excuse for outdated initiation

June 25, 2009

EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll rises to 12

June 22, 2009

NEW YORK: Anti-FGC campaigner spreads her net to change US mindset

June 22, 2009

UGANDA: Anti-FGM bill to be tabled in parliament

June 19, 2009

TRANSKEI: Boy in hospital with rotting penis

June 18, 2009

ZAMBIA: Police to circumcise all male recruits

June 18, 2009

TRANSKEI: Winter circumcision death toll now three

June 14, 2009

JOHANNESBURG: Another circumcision death

June 11, 2009

ZIMBABWE: Circumcision clinics open

Zimbabwe

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men aged 20-49

20%

Intact men aged 20-49

19%

Source: www.measuredhs.com

June 10, 2009

SWAZILAND, ZAMBIA: Circumcision begins

Swaziland

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

21.8%

Intact men

19.5%

Source: www.measuredhs.com
Figures for Zambia not available.

June 8, 2009

CAMEROON: "Circumcision is a red herring"

June 7, 2009

MELBOURNE: College of Physicians tipped to stand by its policy against circumcision

June 2, 2009

TASMANIA: Law on circumcision "unclear"

June 2, 2009

TASMANIA: Law reform institute calls for submissions

May 27, 2009

ALBERTA: How to make boys hate music

May 28, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Eight youths die from one circumcision school

May 24, 2009

SYDNEY: Arch-circumcisionist Morris calls for compulsory circumcision

May 27, 2009

ZIMBABWE: One razor used to circumcise 15 boys

May 12, 2009

NORTH CAROLINA: Bigamist who circumcised sons to be charged (but what with?)

May 7, 2009

BOTSWANA: Mass circumcision plan - 77 doctor-years to be wasted

April 24, 2009

NAIROBI, KENYA: Man forcibly circumcised: betrayed after years of blackmail

April 22, 2009

FRESNO, CA: Father who tattooed son, 7, faces six charges

April 23, 2009

SASKATOON: No more circumcisions at main childbirth hospital

April 22, 2009

OREGON: Court rules 14-year-old need not be circumcised

April 19, 2009

UGANDA: Circumcision should not replace more effective HIV prevention

April 19, 2009

STOCKHOLM: Boys injured more than usual by delisted circumcisor

April 15, 2009

CHICAGO: Another botched circumcision

April 13, 2009

CHICAGO: Medical research subject to bias

April 12, 2009

JERUSALEM: Browbeaten to be circumcised again - at 87

April 11, 2009

BOSTON: Circumcised boys get MRSA

April 11, 2009

PAKISTAN: Muslim men not circumcised

April 8, 2009

DETROIT: Parents saying no to circumcision

April 8, 2009

NIGER: Ten villages reject Female Genital Cutting

March 31, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC: Hunger strikers at Genital Integrity rally

March 27, 2009

ATLANTA: $2,300,000 verdict for botched circumcision

March 26, 2009

UGANDA: Recycled HIV study generates HSV-, HPV-circumcision propaganda

March 13, 2009

KENYA: Church offers girls FGC substitute

March 16, 2009

LONDON: Thousands of girls mutilated in Britain

March 5, 2009

CANADA: Topical anaesthetic EMLA linked to serious side effects

March 14, 2009

SYDNEY: Infant circumcision not justified in Australia

March 12, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Youth loses leg, toes after botched circumcision

March 3, 2009

UGANDA: Health Ministry sceptical of circumcision-HIV connection

March 2, 2009

NEW YORK: New Web Site Promotes Myths About Circumcision and HIV

February 26, 2009

INDIANA: Circumcision denounced

February 13, 2009

WASHINGTON DC: African women defend FGC by comparison with MGC

February , 2009

KENYA: "Being circumcised means never having to wear a condom"

February 13, 2009

WINDSOR, UK: Baby bleeds to death after circumcision

February 12, 2009

RWANDA: "Invisible condom" myth thrives

Rwanda

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

3.8%

Intact men

2.1%

Women

3.6%

2005 Demographic and Health Survey (p 10/17)

February 11, 2009

SIERRA LEONE: Women degraded for questioning FGC

February 8, 2009

KHARTOUM: Sudanese government backs down from full FGC ban

February 4, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO: Doctors want baby to keep all 24 digits

January 30, 2009

ARIZONA: Circumcision does not affect HPV acquistion

January 27, 2009

KENYA: Female genital cutting "prevents HIV"

January 23, 2009

THAILAND: Nurse let off after mistaken circumcision

January 23, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Man dies in fight over 'real' circumcision

January 22, 2009

KENTUCKY: Penis-removal during circumcision - out of court settlement

December 19 2008

MALAYSIA: Pictures [disturbing] of boy about to be forcibly circumcised

January 12 2009

BENIN: Another death from circumstition

January 6 2009

KENYA: Another forced circumcision

December 29 2008

GERMANY: The debate simmers

December 24 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: More deaths - parents refusing medical care

December 25 2008

LOUISIANA: Man kills himself after botched circumcision

December 21 2008

BALTIMORE: Circumcision fails to protect vast majority of black men

December 21 2008

UGANDA: Columnist scoffs at circumcision

December 20 2008

NIGERIA: Circumcision ban considered

December 19 2008

ISRAEL: Secular Jews not circumcising

December 18 2008

KENYA: Circumcision fails to convince

December 18 2008

PENNSYLVANIA: Pierced kittens rescued - "unbelievable"

December 5 2008

HELSINKI: Tighter regulation advocated

December 5 2008

CAPE TOWN: Two more circumcision deaths

December 5 2008

KENYA: Girls flee from genital cutting

December 5 2008

ISRAEL: Ritual circumcision causes urinary tract infections

November 24 2008

HUDSON, NY: New Intactivist organisation formed

December 1 2008

ZAMBIA: Youth believes hype, circumcises himself

November 28 2008

PHILADELPHIA: Gentiles hire mohel for "holistic" circumcision (but it's genital cutting all the same)

November 27 2008

SOWETO: Forums to promote circumcision making selective use of science

November 26 2008

BALTIMORE: "Pain is okay" - mohel

November 26 2008

LONDON: Mass HIV testing and treatment "a human rights issue"

November 24 2008

KENYA: Women to be persuaded to promote circumcision of husbands

October 31 2008

GERMANY: Circumcision "could be an offence of criminal injury" / Beschneidung: Strafbare Körperverletzung?

November 22 2008

IRAQ: Kurdish areas to ban FGC

November 17 2008

DENMARK: Male circumcision "objectionable and ethically indefensible" / Flere kræver omskæring af drengebørn forbudt

November 8 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Xhosa activist slams tribal circumcision

November 8 2008

PRAGUE: Foreplay is overrated, researchers claim [or rather: Intactness prolongs intercourse]

November 8 2008

LOS ANGELES: Comedian suggests banning circumcision instead of gay marriage

November 6 2008

EASTERN CAPE: Special wards for botched circumcision victims

Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2008:
24

October 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: South African Medical Journal slams circumcision campaigns

October 29 2008

UGANDA: Circumcision-HIV link to be studied

October 27 2008

KENYA: "I wanted FGC - till I saw it being done"

October 22 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Doctor tells of many botched circumcisions

October 21 2008

FINLAND: Circumcision of 4-year-old "not criminal"
One-third of Finnish doctors think it should be

October 15 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Traditional ritual questioned

October 15 2008

UGANDA: District outlaws FGC

October 15 2008

UGANDA: Policy makers not told of circumcision trials

October 15 2008

KENYA: Bands of youths forcibly circumcising

October 12 2008

OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): West African First Ladies to join fight against FGC

October 12 2008

KENYA: Luo elder: "arm twisted" to promote circumcision, claims featherbedding

October 7 2008

CAPE TOWN: No circumcision-HIV link in survey of 3000 men

October 7 2008

JERUSALEM: One third of former-soviet immigrants choose to stay intact

October 7 2008

WASHINGTON: Circumcision doesn't protect men who have sex with men

October 6, 2008

WASHINGTON: Supreme Court declines to stop Oregon court from asking boy what he wants

October  2008

ISRAEL: Circumcision causes Urinary Tract Infections

October  2008

HOBART: Tasmanian Law Institue to review circumcision's legality

September 29, 2008

KENYA: Rethink Male Cut Campaign in the War Against Aids

September 26, 2008

KENYA: Hospitals ill-equipped to cope with circumcision

September 24, 2008

KENYA: Circumcision drive "could be disastrous"

September 22, 2008

KENYA: 66 y.o. celibate gets circumcised "to prevent HIV"

September 21, 2008

EGYPT: Female cuting common in Egypt despite ban

September 2008

IRELAND: Doctors divided on cultural circumcision

September 25, 2008

KENTUCKY: Not just a snip - doctor took the lot

September 22, 2008

ONLINE: workshops on the foreskin and circumcision

September 13, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: ANC exec forcibly circumcised

September 13, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Editors "trained" to support circumcision

September 5, 2008

ENGLAND: Health trusts break NHS guidelines to ritually circumcise

September 5, 2008

LONDON: More on the shocking complication rate

September 5, 2008

TASMANIA: Circumcision ban an option for Physicians' review

September 4, 2008

KEELE, UK: Religious circumcision should wait for consent

September 3, 2008

KENYA: More men circumcised by force

September 3, 2008

LONDON: Male and female cutting jointly condemned

September 1, 2008

GENEVA: "Shocking" rate of circumcision complications

August  2008

COPENHAGEN: Circumcision caveats

August 20, 2008

NAMIBIA: Circumcision "not yet"

August 18, 2008

MEXICO CITY: Women challenge value of circumcision:
"like a cheap condom that breaks 40% of the time"

August 15, 2008

NAIROBI: Kenyans not all buying circumcision hype

August 14, 2008

LONDON: Intact gay men no more likely to have HIV

August 13, 2008

SYDNEY: Adult-circumcised gay men more likely to be receptive

August 13, 2008

UGANDA: "Circumcised men can't get AIDS"

August 7, 2008

TANZANIA: Do Not Cloud Message

August 5, 2008

MEXICO: AIDS 2008 Officials Ignore Opposing Views on Circumcision and HIV

August 5, 2008

PHILIPPINES: Boy dies of tetanus

August 4, 2008

MEXICO: Condoms much more cost-effective than circumcision

August 3, 2008

MEXICO: Circumcision a dangerous distraction in HIV battle

August 2, 2008

KENYA: Another circumcision injury

July 31, 2008

LONDON: No FGC prosecutions yet

July 31, 2008

SWAZILAND: Circumcision used as excuse not to use condoms

July 31, 2008

FINLAND: government considers legalising male circumcision

July 22, 2008

BARI, ITALY: Baby dies after home circumcision

July 19, 2008

CAPE TOWN: Circumcision causes mental illness

July 18, 2008

EASTERN CAPE: Another victim

July 18, 2008

KENYA: Luo elders reject circumcision plan

July 14, 2008

EAST LONDON: Initiation schools banned

July 11, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Youths beaten for not being circumcised

July 11, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: 53 initiates rushed to hospital

July 8, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll rises

July 5, 2008

AFRICA: A risky social experiment?

July 4, 2008

YEMEN: Women favour female genital cutting

July 4, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Dangers of circumcision

July 3, 2008

RWANDA: military to "volunteer" for circumcision

Rwanda

HIV Rates

Circumcised men

3.8%

Intact men

2.1%

(Women

3.6%)

2005 Demographic and Health Survey (p 10/17)

July 3, 2008

CAPE TOWN: E Cape circumcision toll rises

July 2, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Another boy dies from circumcision

July 2, 2008

PAKISTAN: Baby dies from blood loss

July 2, 2008

UGANDA: Even death is no escape

June 30, 2008

UGANDA: MPs want FGC ban

July 2, 2008

MOSCOW: Boy dies

July 1, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Death toll now 14

July 1, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Boy Dies from circumcision by his brother

June 28, 2008

NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CHICAGO: Intactivism in Pride parades

NY Gay Pride 08

June 28, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Ten boys die from circumcision

June 27, 2008

KAMPALA: Forcible circumcision condemned

June 26, 2008

SWITZERLAND: Parents convicted of circumcising daughter

June 26, 2008

LONDON: Why is circumcision so common?

June 25, 2008

KAMPALA: Elderly man forcibly circumcised

June 24, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Father abducted for circumcision

June 25, 2008

KAMPALA: Elderly man forcibly circumcised

June 24, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Father abducted for circumcision

June 19, 2008

KENYA: Circumcision campaign begins

June 17, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Girl, 5, circumcises boy, 5

June 17, 2008

Côte St. Luc, CANADA: Rabbi speeding to bleeding baby, gets off

June 14, 2008

HAMBURG: Doctor in court over painful circumcision

June 11, 2008

SWITZERLAND: Sentence for circumcision of sister in Somalia

June 15, 2008

ENFIELD, UK: Doctor who botched circumcision suspended

June 14, 2008

NEW DELHI: New device

June 14, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Police seek "bogus" surgeon after youth's death

June 11, 2008

NEW YORK: Intact men no more likely to have genital herpes

June 11, 2008

ENFIELD, UK: Circumcision botched - "no glans"

June 9, 2008

CAIRO: New Egyptian FGC law criticised

June 9, 2008

FLORIDA: Urologists debate circumcision: "risky" "little medical indication"

June 7, 2008

CAIRO: Egypt passes law againt FGC

June 7, 2008

OSLO: Gambian man charged with FGC of five daughters

June 4, 2008

MELBOURNE: Oestrogen on the foreskin prevents HIV (2003: Lemon juice in the vagina prevents HIV / 2000: the foreskin attracts HIV)

June 2, 2008

KENYA: Circumcising HIV+ men to protect them from contracting HIV is madness safe

May 31, 2008

SEATTLE: Genital Integrity policy announced

May 29, 2008

PHILIPPINES: Doctors question circumcision

May 27, 2008

AMSTERDAM: Doctor suggests token Female Genital Cut

May 25, 2008

KAMPALA: Museveni refuses to ride the circumcision juggernaut

May 22, 2008

CAPE TOWN: Young Communists call for circumcision; others urge caution

May 19, 2008

WITWATERSRAND: Circumcision programes "put into question"

May 7, 2008

NETHERLANDS: Circumcising father "not guilty"

May, 2008

MIDWEST: Doctor too keen to circumcise: $1,052,000

May 6, 2008

INDIANA: Circumcision is not a vaccine

May 5, 2008

FLORIDA: Flacks wax ecstatic: jock docks dicks

May 5, 2008

SWAZILAND: Billboards promise circumcised "pride", "benefits"

April 30, 2008

UGANDA: Muslims offer to circumcise infidels

April 28, 2008

CAPE TOWN: TV Head censors circumcision documentary

April 20, 2008

PHILIPPINES: Doctor claims circumcision record

April 16, 2008

YEMEN: Parliament upholds female circumcision

April 10, 2008

KENYA: Role of anal sex in HIV underestimated

April 10, 2008

KENYA: Circumcision becomes offical policy

April 8, 2008

SRI LANKA: Circumcised men at more risk of genital warts

April 2, 2008

Manila: Man circumcised on Big Brother; another refuses

March26, 2008

UGANDA: Gov't Drafts Policy On Male Circumcision

March 19, 2008

(Belated reportage) NEW ZEALAND: Circumcision doesn't prevent STDs

March 7, 2008

GHANA: AIDS conference recommends circumcision

Ghana

HIV rates

Circumcised men

1.6%

Intact men

1.4%

(Women

3.2%)

Circumcision rate

95%

2003 Demographic and Health Survey (p 13/15)

March 4, 2008

NEW YORK: Margaret Sanger's grandson is skeptical

March 1, 2008

PARIS: Death of anti-FGC activist probably accidental

March, 2008

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Circumcision does not protect against Sexually Transmitted Diseases

February 28, 2008

UNITED NATIONS: Push to end (female) circumcision

February 27, 2008

PHILIPPINES: US troops on medical mission circumcise men instead

February 22, 2008

UGANDA: Death penalty if (female) circumcision fatal

February 22, 2008

USA: FDA warns firm over safety pins for circumcision

February 21, 2008

AFRICA: Doubts and dissent over circumcision

February 22, 2008

OXFORD: NHS "should pay for adult circumcision of African men"

February 18, 2008

GLASGOW: Girls risk rendition home for circumcision

February 13, 2008

RWANDA: Men seek circumcision so they can abandon condoms

February 10, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Many men "not circumcised enough"

February 8, 2008

FGM: Slow progress in three countries

February 8, 2008

BRISBANE: Australian and New Zealand physicians won't soften their stand against infant circumcision

February 7, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Health Minister doubt's utility of circumcision against HIV

February 6, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS: Court: Mom Can't Sue Over Circumcision

February 6, 2008

BOSTON: Vaccine knocks out foreskin's immune response

February 6, 2008

LOS ANGELES: Christina Aguilera celebrates circumcision with penis balloons

February 6, 2008

NORTH CAROLINA: Bigamous father of 12 circumcised his own sons

February 3, 2008

UGANDA: Circumcising men may increase HIV risk to women

January 31, 2008

SYDNEY: Circumcision advocate accepted uncritically

January 31, 2008

VICTORIA, B.C.: More parents choosing to skip circumcision

January 30, 2008

SWITZERLAND: HIV+ men on retrovirals not infectious - CDC hurries to pooh-pooh

January 30, 2008

KENYA: Forced circumcision a weapon of tribal warfare

December 13, 2007

AMSTERDAM: Imams condemn female cutting

January 25, 2008

OREGON: Court rules 12-year-old may not be circumcised - in the meantime

January 23, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Young man takes father, tribal elders to court over forced circumcision

January 22, 2008

RWANDA: Govt launches mass circumcision campaign despite evidence of futility:

Rwanda

HIV Rates

Circumcised men

3.8%

Intact men

2.1%

(Women

3.6%)

2005 Demographic and Health Survey (p 10/17)

January 20, 2008

INDONESIA: Female Genital Cutting medicalised

January 19, 2008

USA: Fewer than 1 in 3 boys circumcised in the West

January 15, 2008

NAIROBI: Men "circumcised to death"

January 13, 2008

CAPE TOWN: One independent doctor welcomes sexuality finding, others critique it

January 9, 2008

SAN DIEGO: Call for circumcision to be adults-only

January 8, 2008

TORONTO: Whats wrong with research on circumcision and sexuality?

January 8, 2008

KENYA: More forcible circumcisions

January 7, 2008

EAST AFRICA: More qualms about circumcision to prevent HIV

January 6, 2008

UGANDA: Study fails to detect sexual dysfunction

January 5, 2008

KENYA: Does intactness prevent herpes?

January 4, 2008

IRAQ: Moves to outlaw FGC in the Middle East

January 3, 2008

FIJI: Doctor botches 18 circumcisions

January 1, 2008

KENYA: 20 men forcibly circumcised - five die

December 31, 2007

SUDAN: Female genital cutting outlawed

December 26, 2007

NEW YORK: Mohels cut gentile babies

December 21, 2007

TEXAS: MRSA kills more than AIDS

December 18, 2007

UGANDA: Ebola cancels traditional circumcision

December 16, 2007

AFRICA: Gates donations put healthcare at risk

December 16, 2007

CAIRO: Islamic scholar opposes female circumcision ban

December 15, 2007

US: No correlation between HIV and circumcision in Latino, Black Men who have Sex with Men paper news

December 14, 2007

KENYA: Boy dies / girls' defenders stoned

December 9, 2007

HOBART: Doctors back call for circumcision ban

December 7, 2007

UGANDA: Campaign to circumcise without testing

December 4, 2007

CAPE TOWN: Circumcised again - by force

December 3, 2007

LUSAKA: Reporter has himself circumcised

November 29, 2007

BEIJING: Health Minister cautious about mass circumcision

November 22, 2007

SPAIN: Baby bleeds to death after botched circumcision

November 20, 2007

KYOTO/WISCONSIN: Skin cells made as versatile as embryo cells

November 19, 2007

INDIA: Circumcision death - doctors blame family!

November 19, 2007

U N: Extent of AIDS epidemic overstated

November 18, 2007

NEW YORK: An urgent appeal to help protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

November 4, 2007

LONDON: Cutting comments: the foreskin debate

November 12, 2007

ADELAIDE: "Cosmetic" circumcision banned in South Australian hospitals

November 12, 2007

UGANDA: Circumcision may not help

November 8, 2007

UGANDA: President Cautions Youth On Circumcision

November 7, 2007

OREGON: Court Mulls Circumcision Case î

November 5, 2007

UGANDA: ABC, not circumcision, gives best defence against HIV

November 1, 2007

UGANDA: Don't Impose Circumcision On Natives!

October 30, 2007

BRISBANE: Queensland Gov't considers teen surgery ban

October 29, 2007

SOUTH AFRICA: Grassroots resistance to mass cutting

October 23, 2007

RWANDA: Homosexual transmission of HIV underreported (confounding circumcision studies)

October 22, 2007

SWAZILAND: Israeli doctors circumcising

October 19, 2007

UGANDA: Stick to the ABC Strategy

October 16, 2007

CHICAGO: Staph Infections Deadlier Than AIDS?

October 12, 2007

HONG KONG: Aids expert sceptical about benefits of male circumcision

October 10, 2007

SYDNEY: Circumcision offers gay men no protection from HIV

October 7, 2007

ESSEX: Mother wants disabled daugher hysterectomised

October 4, 2007

CHICAGO: Doctors don't feel (your) pain

October 5, 2007

TURKEY / KENYA: "First Joy" / "A White Wedding"

October 5, 2007

PERTH: Elder cuts penis in tribal ceremony

October 3, 2007

NEW YORK: Jewish Intactivists stop circumcising

September 16, 2007

FRANKFURT: Court finds circumcision an unlawful personal injury

September 16, 2007

ZAMBIA: Understaffed clinics offer circumcision with inadequate counselling

September 12, 2007

OREGON: Jewish group weighs in against child's freedom from circumcision î

September 12, 2007

HELSINKI: Muslim party wants sharia law, circumcision, animal sacrifice

September 11, 2007

PRETORIA: Trial results "unfolding" not "overwhelming"

September 6, 2007

KENYA: Flaws in HIV studies noted

September 5, 2007

PORT MORESBY: Doctors differ over circumcision

August 31, 2007

CHICAGO: Women urged to shun trendy genital surgery

August 26, 2007

PARIS: Voices of sanity emerge

August 20, 2007

TRINIDAD: "Repeated study visits and intensive behavioural counselling" of circumcised men in trials

August 20, 2007

JOHANNESBURG: US Anti-AIDS Program To Fund Circumcision in Africa

August 13, 2007

HOBART: Tasmania's Children's Commissioner wants circumcision ban

August 13, 2007

ADELAIDE: Circumcision review

August 12, 2007

MELBOURNE: Circumcision banned in public hospitals - 'not worth the cost'

August 11, 2007

EGYPT: Second girl dies during circumcision

August 10, 2007

NEW ZEALAND: Academic calls for circumcision at public expense

August 10, 2007

SENEGAL: Experts Concerned About Effect of Male Circumcision Studies on Sexual Behavior of Men who have Sex with Men

August 8/10, 2007

NORWAY/SWEDEN: Fe/Male Genital Cutting Opposed/Supported

August 7, 2007

SEATTLE: Circumcision Status Does Not Affect Women's STI Risk (might actually increase it, but we'll ignore that)

August 1, 2007

U S: Circumcision debate cuts deep

July 26, 2007

MONTREAL: Circumcision May Not Impact Sensitivity (If You Ignore The Foreskin)

July 23, 2007

AUSTRALIA: Male circumcision has no role in the Australian HIV epidemic

July 16, 2007

ZIMBABWE: Inflation helps curb AIDS rate - men can't afford prostitutes, vindicating alternative to circumcision claim

July 18, 2007

MATTOON, ILLINOIS: Another boy's glans sliced off

July 10, 2007

LONDON: Police plea on [female] genital mutilation

July 2, 2007

PAKISTAN: Another death

June 28, 2007

NEW YORK: Talbott findings "drivel" - circumcision advocates - Talbott replies

June 28, 2007

FRANCE: Circumcision for HIV needs follow-up

June 27, 2007

SEATTLE: Use of Federal Funds for Medicaid Non-Therapeutic Circumcision is Unlawful

June 25, 2007

SOUTH AFRICA: Five boys die; witchcraft blamed

June 28, 2007

EGYPT: Girl dies; circumcision outlawed

June 24, 2007

LONDON: Gimme Some Skin

June 24, 2007

EGYPT: Mufti says female circumcision forbidden

June 22, 2007

OREGON: High court takes up boy's circumcision

June 19, 2007

NEW YORK: Circumcision: Health-conscious procedure or unnecessary sexual amputation?

June 20, 2007

NEW YORK: Circumcision overstated as AIDS preventative: prostitutes the key

June 13, 2007

OTTAWA: Boy dies from PlastiBellTM circumcision

June 11, 2007

LONDON: X-Man Nixes Circs!

June 8, 2007

SIERRA LEONE: Parliament bans child brides, not FGM

June 7, 2007

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: Doctors call for mass circumcision of babies to prevent some AIDS some day

May 22, 2007LONDON: BMJ blasts "designer vagina" craze
May 18, 2007BELARUS: Government rejects mass circumcision
May 18, 2007CAPE TOWN: Male circumcision 'no silver bullet' against Aids

May 13, 2007

JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision is not the solution in HIV battle

May 10, 2007KENYA: US Government funds circumcision campaign
May 10, 2007SYDNEY: Health lecturer slams circumcision
May 7, 2007OREGON: Case of 12yo "Misha" reaches Newsweek
May 2, 2007MINNESOTA: Hospital denies need for informed consent
April 27, 2007OREGON: Divorced parents disagree - father wants 12yo circumcised
April 26, 2007NEW SCIENTIST: Does circumcision harm your sex life?
April 27, 2007OREGON: Divorced parents disagree - father wants 12yo circumcised
April 26, 2007NEW SCIENTIST: Does circumcision harm your sex life?
April 18, 2007WEST VIRGINIA: Parents sue for botched circumcision
April 10, 2007UGANDA: Circumcision isn't enough
April 3, 2007NEW YORK: Health Commissioner: "I was misrepresented"
April 3, 2007BRAZIL: Brazil rejects circumcision
March 31, 2007KENYA: Luo elders reject circumcision
March 7, 2007SWITZERLAND: Male circumcision may raise HIV risk for women
March 5, 2007AMSTERDAM: Langerhans cells don't invite HIV, they protect
February 26, 2007AFRICA: FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
August 16, 2006TORONTO: Circumcision "may not protect"
February 15, 2007LONDON: Baby dies after circumcision
January 22, 2007CANADA: Prince Edward Island circumcision rate abnormally high
February 12, 2007KENYA: Headmaster who sent uncircumcised boys home suspended
February 12, 2007KENYA: Uncircumcised boys sent home from school
February 6, 2007WASHINGTON: Deaths from skin-numbing creams
February 5, 2007UNITED NATIONS: Parents Turn to Clinics for Genital Mutilation
December 31, 2006SEOUL: Circumcision reduces sexual satisfaction: study
December 22, 2006UGANDA: President rejects Circumcision/HIV conclusion
December 19, 2006NEW DELHI: Circumcision can kill: UNAIDS Head
December 19, 2006NEW DELHI: UNAIDS Head urges infant circumcision to prevent AIDS
December 16, 2006UGANDA: HIV Claim Slammed
December 13, 2006UGANDA: Incomplete study claimed to find HIV protection
November 21, 2006MALAYSIA: Yet another unnecessary botch
November 21, 2006CAIRO: Muslim scholars rule FGM un-Islamic
November 21, 2006CHRISTCHURCH: Criticisms of STI research taken on board
November 21, 2006MOPUTU: HIV claim continues despite evidence
November 21, 2006CAMEROON: Traditional practices spread HIV
November 22, 2006CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND: Scientists withdraw STI-circumcision claim
November 18, 2006ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA: Hundreds demonstrate against US FGM conviction
November 18, 2006DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Researchers slam STI study
November 14, 2006SWAZILAND: Mass circumcisions "to prevent HIV"
October 25, 2006GEORGIA: Man convicted for circumcising daughter
October 25, 2006SYDNEY: Bar Mitzvah moved: boy not circumcised enough
October 24, 2006CHICAGO: Judge rules against boy's circumcision
October 19, 2006DENMARK: Law against FGM prevents elective adult genital operations
October 18, 2006TURIN: Hospital offers ritual circumcision - but doctors object
October 17, 2006DUSSELDORF: Turkish ritual circumcisor fined
October 14, 2006UNITED NATIONS: Report on violence against children condemns it all, except....
October 13, 2006JOHANNESBURG: Bush administration cuts funds for circumcisions in Swaziland
October 11, 2006JERUSALEM: Teens seduced into being circumcised
September 17, 2006BANGLADESH: Eight-year-old boy dies, doctor jailed for three years
August 17, 2006TORONTO: More doubt cast on circumcision-HIV prevention link
August 16, 2006CHICAGO: Boy loses testicle in circumcision parents didn't ask for
August 7, 2006HELSINKI: Court rules circumcision of four-year-old boy illegal
July 21, 2006OTTAWA: Canadian Governent ends circumcision funding
June 6, 2006SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA: Doubts raised over circumcision-HIV utility
July 21, 2006WINNIPEG: Doctor wristslapped for circumcising wrong baby
July 20, 2006WWW: New weblog for first-person genital cutting stories
July 20, 2006CANADA: Hospital circumcision rate halves in 10 years
July 5, 2006TORONTO: Government pays for surgical restoration
June 15, 2006NEW YORK: Mohels allowed to suck babies' penises - with Listerine
June 9, 2006DEAR ABBY: Grandmother thinks circumcision will "cure" homosexuality
May 18, 2006WINNIPEG: St Boniface hospital cuts circumcision / Plus de circoncision sur les nouveaux nés
April 10, 2006GLASGOW: Ritual circumcisions clog hospital waiting lists
March 31, 2006NORTH CAROLINA: Three men charged for consensual adult castrations
February 23, 2006SWAZILAND: "Circumcision no AIDS cure"
February 18, 2006CHICAGO: Court to rule on disputed circumcision of eight-year-old
February 15, 2006PRETORIA: South African Chilren's Act limits circumcision, sort of
February 8, 2006UGANDA: Circumcision protects female partners from HIV - NOT
December 26, 2005SWAZILAND: Campaign to circumcise "against AIDS" begins
December 19, 2005KENYA: Presbyterians medicalise circumcision rite
November 30, 2005LOS ANGELES: Statistician faults circumcision-AIDS study conclusion
November 11, 2005LONDON: Ethicist condemns (some) infant circumcision
October 17, 2005MELBOURNE: Babies feel pain more than adults: study
October 14, 2005NEW YORK: Jewish doctors condemn metzitzah
October 10, 2005WASHINGTON: Resistant staph on the rise - cut babies at risk
October 7, 2005IRELAND: Man goes free after circumcision death
September 17, 2005NEW YORK: Mohel agrees to stop metzitzah
August 26, 2005NEW YORK: City uses kid gloves after metzitzah death and two other herpes cases
August 9, 2005WELLINGTON: NZ AIDS Foundation concerned at reports
August 5, 2005LAGOS: UNAIDS urges caution on HIV-circumcision findings
July 27, 2005RIO DE JANEIRO: Male circumcision "lowers AIDS risk" Abstract and discussion
June 16, 2005LONDON: Female circumcision "is not persecution" - barrister
June 16, 2005PRETORIA: Bill makes circumcision an assault
May 21, 2005NORTH DAKOTA: Influenced by infant's cries, man wants ban on circumcision
May 5, 2005SAN FRANCISCO: Human Rights Commission slams unnecessary genital surgery of intersex children
May 3, 2005LEWES, ENGLAND: Estranged father charged with assault for having son circumcised
April 13, 2005BOISE: Idaho cuts Medicaid funding for circumcision
April 13, 2005FEZ: Prince of Morocco circumcised, 50,000 other boys also in "show of support"
March 23, 2005CAPE TOWN: Wife held after forced circumcision of husband
March 23, 2005CONNECTICUT: Lawsuit claims circumcision botched
March 19, 2005ONTARIO: Doctors accused of circumcising for the money
March 18, 2005SIERRA LEONE: Minister of Women's Affairs threates FGM opponents
March, 2005INDIANA: US Circumcision rate falls
March 11, 2005SAN FRANSISCO: Genital mutilation [except of males] is persecution, court rules
February 11, 2005KATHMANDU: Father loses second son to circumcision, ready to sacrifice third
February 2, 2005NEW YORK: Mohel practising metzitzah may have given babies herpes: one dies
January 8, 2005CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: More initiates die - conditions "shocking"
January 3, 2005PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA: Young initiands kill circumcision nurse
December 23, 2004NEW YORK: Dustin Hoffman ambivalent about circumcision
December 14, 2004AMSTERDAM: Dutch Government cuts financial support for circumcision
December 15, 2004WASHINGTON: Father gets three years for more-amateur-than-usual circumcision
December 14, 2004ISRAEL: Mohel convicted for botched circumcision
October 22, 2004NEW ZEALAND: Dog-tail docking ban passes first hurdle in Parliament:
Dockers compare it with circumcision
October 9, 2004SAN FRANCISCO: Parents found to give spurious grounds for circumcision
July 15, 2004KANSAS: Mother tries to protect 3-year-old - but fails
July 14, 2004BRITISH COLOMBIA: Doctors take stand against circumcision
July 12, 2004SCOTLAND: "he was covered in blood"
July 8, 2004SOUTH AFRICA: Another circumcision school initiate dies
July 7, 2004SWEDEN: Illegal circumcision reported to police after septicaemia
July 4, 2004CAPE TOWN: Rastafarian circumcised against his will then further abused by police
June 16, 2004MOSCOW: Russia's women and gay men to be shown incomplete penises
June 8, 2004NAIROBI: Female circumcisors repent
June 6, 2004BOSTON: Sensitive treatment of FGM survivors
May 12, 2004NORTH DAKOTA: Lawyer says parents not briefed on risks of circumcising infant
May 10, 2004WINNIPEG: Botched circumcision (and human experimentation) leads to premature death of David Reimer
March 25, 2004ATLANTA: Georgia outlaws ALL [even adult consensual] female genital piercing
April 13, 2004LEBANON: French-Syrian's anti-circumcision comic strip
April 13, 2004SYDNEY: Dog-tail docking compared with circumcision
February 26, 2004NOTTINGHAM, UK: Not tested on animals - on humans instead!
February 19, 2004SOUTH AFRICA: 20 die from circumcision
February 16, 2004SYDNEY: HIV claim debunked
February 13, 2004LONDON: Museum of pain includes circumcision
February 2, 2004ISTANBUL: Circumcision slows ejaculation (Duh!)
February 12, 2004FLORENCE: Doctor proposes FGM substitute
February 11, 2004B. C.: Parents of dead boy want others warned
January 10, 2004LOS ANGELES: Couple charged with agreeing to circumcise girls
October 16, 2003ETHIOPIA: Circumcision dropped to prevent HIV
December 17, 2003MALAYSIA: Cross-cultural circumcision mooted
December 5, 2003NORWAY: Court rules circumcision causes damage
December 5, 2003DENMARK: National Council for Children calls for ban
November 21, 2003SCOTLAND: "Appalling" child porn images include circumcision
November 20, 2003SEATTLE: Scientist suspended for cutting mouse tail tips
November 14, 2003PARIS: French law "would outlaw circumcision"
October 30, 2003LONDON: Circumcising "doctor" acquitted - regulation mooted
October 23, 2003SOUTH AFRICA: Botched circumcision: traditional circumcisor gaoled
October 14, 2003KAMPALA: Uganda's president proposes banning circumcision
October 9, 2003LONG ISLAND: Four cut boys get staph. in one hospital
October 9, 2003SAN DIEGO: Another HIV correlation study of high-risk men
September 11, 2003GHANA: Woman gets five years for FGM
September 11, 2003SOUTH AFRICA: US to help fund circumcision village
September 7, 2003QUEENSLAND: Youth nipple piercing ban
August 22, 2003DUBLIN: Boy dies after circumcision
August 4, 2003BROOKLYN: $25,000,000 non-consent suit
July 19, 2003GEORGIA: First US prosecution for Female Genital Mutilation
June 26, 2003NORWAY: Children's Ombudsman critical of circumcision of boys
July 18, 2003CAPE TOWN: Circumcision does not prevent HIV
July 17, 2003MISSISSIPPI: Circumcision rate plummets when charged for
May 19, 2003MASSACHUSETTS: $725,000 damages for loss of glans-tip
May 6, 2003SEATTLE: Intactivists march
April 29, 2003NEW YORK: Sensitivity test ignores the obvious
April 25, 2003NEW YORK: Out-of-court settlement for infant circumcision
April 25, 2003WASHINGTON: USAID to push circumcision as "protection" against HIV
April 21, 2003PHILIPPINES: Doctors make a stand against male circumcision
April 4, 2003 FINLAND: Circumcision law considered
April 2, 2003NEW SOUTH WALES: Hospitals stop circumcising newborns
April 8, 2003JAPAN: Conmen circumcise innocent youth
April 8, 2003WEST HOLLYWOOD: Cat declawing outlawed
April 4, 2003LONDON: BMA ethical guidelines condemn routine infant circumcision
April 1, 2003WASHINGTON DC: Intactivists march on the Capitol
February 20, 2003AFRICA: Much HIV not sexually transmitted
February 18, 2003CALIFORNIA: Lesbian sperm bank protects babies
February 17, 2003AUSTRALIA: Many circumcisions unnecessary
February 7, 2003KENYA: Hundreds of girls run away to evade FGM
February 3, 2003Zambia: Female Genital Mutilation defended - "not violent"
January 21, 2003Benin: Female Genital Mutilation outlawed
January 23, 2003New York: A feature in the New York Times is quite balanced
January 12, 2003West Hollywood: Call to outlaw declawing of cats
January 20, 2002Yemen: Conference on Female Genital Mutilation
January 15, 2003Boston: Judge rules consent required for hair-cutting
December 26, 2002Kenya: Doubts about circumcision-HIV study
December 23, 2002California: Body-modifier arrested for performing FGM
December 21, 2002Montana: Medicaid stops funding circumcision
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