Parents, protect your babies. Support intactivism. The following list includes blogs, articles, and websites of interest to Intactivists that were published in the past week. This is a running tally of the ones I found interesting.
 

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what the muck!: Sex and the Circumcised
This post from 2008 is by a woman who says the secret to pleasing a woman is a foreskin, either natural or restored. She describes why sex is more pleasurable when there is a foreskin involved. She also describes how foreskin restoration helps. This s one woman who enjoys an intact man and thinks it is terrible that men are deprived of erogenous tissue by infant circumcision.
 

Sunday, November 28, 2010

AIDS Statistics and the circumcision model: The circumcision and HIV model
Commentary on the model used for infection rates for HIV in South Africa. The author points out that women have a greater rate of HIV infections when their partner is circumcised. A call is made for proper studies of HIV infection rates that include women, not just men.

Trey Givens: Male Genital Mutilation Again
A child’s right to his body is sacrosanct and parents do not have the right to violate it. As stewards of their children’s bodies, parents are not only obliged to provide their children with the things and conditions necessary for the children to be healthy and grow, they’re also forbidden from doing things that harm the child — or even things that irrevocably alter the child’s body unless failing to do so would constitute harm to the child.
 

Monday, November 29, 2010

International Coalition for Genital Integrity: San Francisco might ban infant circumcision
Schofield and like-minded advocates who call themselves “intactivists” seek to make it “unlawful to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis” of anyone 17 or younger in San Francisco. The law, if it becomes a bill, will be voted on next November. Dogs are protected from circumcision. We think boys deserve just as much protection as the family pet.
 

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Child of the Nature Isle: Keeping Our Boys Intact: Why Say No to Circumcision?
A mother of a young boy never contemplated circumcision as she trusted that nature had everything designed to perfection – yes even foreskin! Circumcision is not endorsed as necessary or effective by many medical associations around the world.

Anktangle: Dr. Oz on Circumcision
A well written report on Dr. Oz's show where he advocated infant circumcision for bogus health and cosmetic reasons. He has others on the show that supported his position. Unfortunately, Dr. Oz is not advocating science-based medicine when it comes to male infant circumcision.. Perhaps it his culture that colors his opinion. He is a Turkish man who is most likely circumcised himself.
 

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

4skin FTW: Operation Tuli
The Philippines has a long, strange, and confusing history with pagtutuli (circumcision). It has been a traditional custom performed at the age of 12 as a rite of manhood. More recently, it has been medicalized and even commercialized with clinics selling circumcisions for adolescent boys. The page has graphic images of circumcision in the Philippines.

San Francisco Chronicle: Dr. Dean Edell retiring as KGO-AM radio show host
Sad news. Dr. Dean Edell, a strong advocate for genital integrity, is retiring. I hope he continues to speak out for genital integrity and against circumcision. His advocacy for genital integrity and for stopping senseles infant circumcision has contributed to the decreasing circumcision rate in the US.
 

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Stir CafeMom Blog: I Miss My Foreskin Sometimes
A father describes the reasons that, if he were to have a son, he would not circumcise his son. He says, "you should always opt for fewer knives and more body parts." Parents who cut so their kid will look 'normal' are way off the mark.

DrMomma Peaceful Parenting: Foreskin: It's Not 'Icky'
A mother writes about her discovery of why she should not have circumcised her son. Too late she learned that circumcision harms the man her son grows up to be and his future partner. She writes, "The functions of the foreskin are already making their way into American consciousness. By the time they are adults, boys who were circumcised at birth today will understand what they are missing. And so will their partners.'

Coffee and Kids: Oh wow! What I just saw!
A mother shows distress at seeing pictures of boys being circumcised. She answers the question of why worry about a penis that is attached to someone she is not related to. She says that male genital mutilation affects everyone, including her sons when they encounter circumcision.

Boulder Weekly: Letters | Questioning circumcision
A well written letter by Gillian Longley, RN, and an advocate at Colorado NOCIRC.  She says that circumcision affect sexual pleasure. When the foreskin is lost to circumcision, sex is irrevocably altered. Nature designed the penis to have a foreskin to facilitate pleasurable and comfortable sex for both partners. This is thanks to the foreskin’s exquisite fine-touch sensory capacities and the mechanical advantages of the penis having a mobile skin sheath, instead of the taut, static covering of the circumcised penis.
 

Friday, December 3, 2010

The Active Intactivis - The WHOLE Network:  Circumcision: A Jewish Mother Has a Change of Heart
A mother wonders why it was not ok to ask a grown man (her intact husband) to get circumcised when it was his choice, but it was entirely ok to make the circumcision decision for a defenseless baby?