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The movement that advocates against routine infant circumcision (RIC)

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child - ARC

by Tally on November 26, 2009
Visit http://www.arclaw.org/

ARC, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, is an international network of attorneys and other supporters of child rights. ARC was founded by J. Steven Svoboda in 1997 and continues to strongly advocate for child rights.

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Book: Children's Genitals Under The Knife

by Tally on December 5, 2009
Visit https://www.createspace.com/3353032

Children's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And ShameChildren's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And Shame, By Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

The object of this book is to give voice to the multitudes of human beings who exist behind the statistics on genital surgery performed on them when they were non-consenting children, and who have long endured their suffering in silence, for reasons of suppression, desperation, or shame. I have endeavored to create an understanding of the connection between genital surgery perpetrated on infants and children too young to be capable of meaningful consent or effective protest, and of the frequently cataclysmic diminution in quality of life that they have suffered as a consequence.
 

To anyone not totally steeped in denial, or tyrannized by social custom, as most people in genitally mutilating societies certainly tend to be, whether we are talking about female genital cutting, inter-sex surgery or male foreskin ablation, it should be perfectly obvious that genital cutting of any sort is the kind of nightmarish event that makes the most cruel reality of a child's ultimate fears.

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Book: The Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA

by Tally on December 5, 2009
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The Rape of Innocence female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USAThe Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA, By Patricia Robinett

Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.

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Catholics Against Circumcision

by Tally on March 10, 2010
Visit http://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org/

Catholics Against Circumcision respects the bodily integrity rights of male and female children.  Children have a right to be free from unnecessary amputations (circumcision or genital mutilation) that cause pain, trauma, scarring, and loss to their perfect bodies. New Testament Scriptures teach us that the Old Testament Law that required circumcision was rescinded after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Circumcision Information Australia

by Tally on November 23, 2009
Visit http://www.circinfo.org/

Circumcision in Australia is a website presenting circumcision information. The site addresses news items, has a guide for parents, discusses the ethics of circumcision of infants, provides information on the statements of medical authorities, and discusses the failed claims to health benefits of circumcision.

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Circumcision Resource Center

by Tally on October 22, 2009
Visit http://www.circumcision.org/

The Circumcision Resource Center is a nonprofit educational organization with the purpose of informing the public and professionals about the practice of circumcision. It's mission is to raise awareness and facilitate healing.

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Doctors Opposing Circumcision D.O.C. (DOC)

by Tally on December 20, 2009
Visit http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/

Doctors Opposing Circumcision D.O.C. is an organization of physicians and others who are opposed to non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision. D.O.C. has members in 50 States, 12 Canadian Provinces and Territories, and in nations on six continents. DOC uses the tagline Physicians for Genital Integrity.

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Foreskin of the Day picture site

by Tally-admin on November 1, 2011
Visit http://www.CelebratingForeskin.com/

Foreskin of the Day is an intactivist site that celebrates the male foreskinNEW UPDATE! The Foreskin of the Day and Intact For Life websites are shutdown. For those wanting to see foreskin pictures, there are other websites. My favorite is Celebrating Foreskin on Tumblr.

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Old Update! The creator of the Foreskin of the Day website created a new website in March 2011. Intact for Life features information and pictures on intact men. The new site provides a positive view for being intact, as nature intended men to be. Intact for Life will continue the tradition of the Foreskin of the Day site by offering pictures of intact men in its blog section. Other sections of the site provide information for young men on what it means to be intact, including the care and handling of the foreskin.

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Old Breaking News! The Foreskin of the Day website is down! As of February 20, 2011, I have not been able to load the site. I have no idea when the site will return, if it ever does. In the mean time, you may want to check out Intact Men, 4skindelight, NORM: New England, Acroposthion, and Celebrating Foreskin on Tumblr for some good foreskin pictures of intact men. These Tumblr sites are NSFW.

I was circumcised at birth and looking at these pictures reminds me of what I lost by being circumcised. Fortunately, foreskin restoration is letting me enjoy some of the advantages of a foreskin.

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Old Post: Foreskin of the Day is an intactivist site that celebrates the male foreskin.

Every day a new picture is shown. The pictures are in the style of glamour shots, showing the beauty of the model and his intact equipment. As a man who was circumcised shortly after birth, I wish I still had my whole sex organ. These pictures remind me of what I lost.

Along with each featured picture is a comment, some information, tip, or advice relating to intactivism. The site hopes to debunk foreskin myths and educate as well as show all what a foreskin looks like. People may be surprised by what they learn.

Foreskin of the Day is explicit. The site asks how can a blog celebrate the foreskin if it can't show pictures of them? Anyone offended by nudity, should not visit the site.

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Foreskin Restoration / Intactivism Network

by Tally on October 22, 2009
Visit http://www.foreskin-restoration.net/forum/index.php

Foreskin Restoration / Intactivism Network is a popular forum with a wide assortment of topics available for discussion. The forum includes members who are very active in Intactivism.

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Gloria Lemay Blog (Intactivism category)

by Tally on October 26, 2009
Visit http://www.glorialemay.com/blog/?cat=3

Gloria Lemay is a childbirth activist who supports keeping baby boys intact. She often blogs about routine infant circumcision.

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Google Video: Dr. Dean Edell, MD: Circumcision? Make the informed decision

by Tally on October 26, 2009
Visit http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5395565256830319025

Video by Dr. Dean Edell, MD, titled Circumcision? Make the informed decision. The video covers topics including foreskin anatomy and function, the policy statements of the American Academy of Pediatrics, history of circumcision and other obsolete procedures, and how a circumcision is performed. Video is captioned in Spanish. See the video below:

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Intactivist.com Videos

by Tally-admin on November 3, 2010
Visit http://intactivist.com/video/

Int@ctivist.com Video: a site for intactivist videosInt@ctivist.com hosts a variety of intactivist videos. The site is small, but it includes some good videos worth watching.

 

 

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Male Circumcision and HIV: A Public Health Policy Weblog

by Tally on November 5, 2009
Visit http://www.circumcisionandhiv.com/

The Male Circumcision and HIV blog presents current information on policy decisions and various actions by organizations that can affect policy.

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Medical Fraud and the criminal assault of boys

by Tally on December 9, 2009
Visit http://www.med-fraud.org/

An anti-circumcision website that states, "There are plenty of excuses but no valid medical reasons for circumcision." The table of contents contains an assorted list of topics, including the Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision,

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Men Do Complain

by Tally on January 19, 2011
Visit http://www.mendocomplain.com/

Men circumcised as children (and therefore without their consent) often complain about their condition. Non-therapeutic genital cutting has significant physical and psychological consequences and has no proven benefits. Unfortunately, in today's culture, men who complain are consistently treated as having something wrong with them rather than being treated as having had something wrong done to them.

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National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers NOCIRC

by Tally on November 26, 2009
Visit http://www.nocirc.org/

NOCIRC, the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, provides information to expectant parents, healthcare professionals, educators, lawyers, ethicists, and concerned individuals about circumcision and genital cutting of male, female, and intersex infants and children, genital integrity, and human rights.

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National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM)

by Tally on October 29, 2009
Visit http://www.noharmm.org/

National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM)is a non-profit, educational, and direct-action men's network organized against circumcision of healthy male infants and children. Its mission is to raise public awareness about male genital cutting (MGC) practices and increase public understanding of genital integrity as a fundamental human right.

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Nebraska Circumcision Information Resource Center NeCIRC

by Tally on December 9, 2009
Visit http://www.nenocirc.org/

Nebraska Circumcision Information Resource Center (NeNoCIRC), a regional center of NoCirc.org, provides information about the medical facts, ethical considerations, and sexual implications of circumcision.

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no circumcision: Information about circumcision and foreskin in Canada And From The World

by Tally on October 24, 2009
Visit http://nocircumcision.blogspot.com/

Blog that republishes articles from around the world. The articles advocate or provide a viewpoint against routine infant circumcision.

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Nurses Speak Out Against Circumcision: U.S. Cited for Rampant Human Rights Violations

by Tally on October 14, 2010
Visit http://www.drcat.org/articles_interviews/html/NursesAgainstCircumcision.html

Cat Saunders writes about how male infant circumcision violates the human rights of baby boys.She believes that the continued circumcision of baby boys in the US is a violation of their human rights.

We Americans recoil in horror at reports of female circumcision in other countries, yet we refuse to see that brutal acts of genital mutilation are committed every day on baby boys in the United States.

—Cat Saunders

Dr. Cat interviews a group of nurses from St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These nurses felt ethically obligated to become conscientious objectors to circumcision. They took a stand and refuse to participate in infant circumcision at the hospital.

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Stop Infant Circumcision Society

by Tally on October 26, 2009
Visit http://www.stopinfantcircumcision.org/home.htm

Stop Infant Circumcision Society is an intactivist organization. The SICS sponsors an annual demonstration/march Against Infant Circumcision in Washington, DC, every Spring.

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The Intactivism Pages

by Tally on October 22, 2009
Visit http://www.circumstitions.com/

Circumstitions.com is a pro-intact website promoting genital integrity for all: male, female, and intersexed.

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The Intactivism Shop

by Tally on October 22, 2009
Visit http://www.cafepress.com/intactivism

Cafepress shop where you can buy goods to publicize the cause of Intactivism, protecting baby boys, girls and intersexed from genital cutting.

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The Truth About Circumcision and HIV

by Tally on December 9, 2009
Visit http://www.mothering.com/health/truth-about-circumcision-and-hiv

Gussie Fauntleroy writes The Truth About Circumcision and HIV in Mothering magazine.

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The Truth Seeker July/August 1989: Crimes of Genital Mutilation

by Tally on March 15, 2010
Visit http://mgmbill.org/crimesofgenitalmutilation.pdf

The July/August 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker, a Freethinker's Publication, deals entirely with genital mutilation. The publication provides very good articles and information on the harms of circumcision, both for infant boys and prepubescent girls.

The link is to a pdf file of the 68 page publication.

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THouGHt CRimE raDIo: Voices for the Human Rights of Babies

by Tally on November 26, 2009
Visit http://thoughtcrimeradio.blogspot.com/

Website for a community radio show:THouGHt CRimE raDIo: Voices for the Human Rights of Babies.  The site has links to archived shows.

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Video: CoolMom: No Circumcision

by Tally-admin on May 30, 2010
Visit http://coolmom.com/2008/12/11/no-circumcision/

A vlog by a mother-to-be who takes a stand against infant circumcision. The video blog is short, but she makes a very good presentation why infant circumcision should not be done.

She is dead set against circumcision. She admits that male infant circumcision is a controversial topic, but there is no reason to do. Cleaner is a bogus reason because women have no trouble keeping the vagina. Do it to match dad? That is a foolish reason.

She says if the choice is between looking like an anteater or Darth Vader, she thinks the anteater wins because the foreskin protects the glans. With a protected glans, the penis remains most sensitive. She wants to give the best to her children, and that includes them to be happy and have a good sex life.

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YouTube Video: Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital

by Tally on February 5, 2012
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceht-3xu84I

Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the HospitalChild Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital is a video by Ryan McAllister, PhD. McAllister presents a lecture for folks on all sides of the male circumcision debate. The video presentation covers circumcision history in the English-speaking world. He replaces the loaded words and terms surrounding the subject -- such as circumcised and uncircumcised -- with more neutral terms such as "genital cutting," and "intact."  McAllister presents a fresh look at circumcision. 

Today, many Americans think of circumcision as an outdated surgical procedure that is harmful for baby boys. Even still, neonatal male circumcision remains the most common operation carried out in the US today.

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YouTube video: CUT or UNCUT?

by Tally on November 24, 2010
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyZm6L6udSk

Laci Green makes some great YouTube videos. This one is sub-titled Circumcision 101. Laci Green is a woman who recognizes the value of an intact penis.

Laci Green discusses Hygiene, STDs, Religion, Pleasure, Ethics, and Culture with respect to male circumcision. She recognizes that circumcision is a sex-negative practice.

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YouTube: 2009 SF Pride Parade - Intactivists

by Tally on November 29, 2009
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKg63wmlozM

Video of intactivists marching in the 2009 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, California. An uplifting look at how the pro-intact message is being delivered.

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18 Dispelling Myths About Circumcision

by Tally on October 24, 2009
Visit http://pharmtips.com/2008/11/27/dispelling-myths-about-circumcision/

A November 2008 article discussing 18 common myths about routine infant circumcision.

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38 Good Reasons Not to Circumcise

by Tally on October 21, 2009
Visit http://www.circumstitions.com/reasonsnotto.html

Circumstitions' page on reasons not to circumcise.

"I always see more problems from a circumcision than from a foreskin."
                                                        - a paediatrician, quoted on America On Line.

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Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S. - Why the Difference?

by Tally on April 4, 2010
Visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=419&Itemid=177

An article in Advocates of Youth that compares data between Europe and the United States.

In France, Germany, and the Netherlands, two things create greater, easier access to sexual health information and services for all people, including teens. They are: 1) societal openness and comfort in dealing with sexuality, including teen sexuality; and 2) pragmatic governmental policies. The result - better sexual health outcomes for French, German, and Dutch teens when compared to U.S. teens.

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Book: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

by Tally on May 19, 2010
Visit http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226136450?ie=UTF8&tag=restotally-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226136450

Buy the book from Amazon: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in BritainThe book A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain is a critical look at why male infant circumcision became prevalent in Britian.

The Victorian era is examined, along with the medical establishment's idea at that time that the foreskin must be excised as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of A Surgical Temptation.

The author reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male sexuality. Many men in the US claim that their infant circumcision has not affected them in any way. Unfortunately, men cut at birth have no way of telling how their sexual pleasure has been affected by their infant circumcision. This book attempts to add a ray of light to the circumcision controversy.

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Circumcision and Footbinding: The parallels are astounding

by Tally on December 10, 2009
Visit http://www.circumstitions.com/Foot.html

A comparison between Chinese foot binding of women and routine infant circumcision of boys.  The Chinese stopped foot binding in the 20th Century with good results. Routine infant circumcision has yet to enjoy that result.

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Circumcision Information Australia

by Tally on November 23, 2009
Visit http://www.circinfo.org/

Circumcision in Australia is a website presenting circumcision information. The site addresses news items, has a guide for parents, discusses the ethics of circumcision of infants, provides information on the statements of medical authorities, and discusses the failed claims to health benefits of circumcision.

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Circumcision Resource Center

by Tally on October 22, 2009
Visit http://www.circumcision.org/

The Circumcision Resource Center is a nonprofit educational organization with the purpose of informing the public and professionals about the practice of circumcision. It's mission is to raise awareness and facilitate healing.

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Circumcision Update 2009

by Tally on December 12, 2009
Visit http://www.femalepatient.com/html/arc/fea/articles/034_12_014.asp

The Female Patient feature article: Circumcision Update 2009. The article discusses benefits, risks, prevalence, and circumcision techniques. It concludes, "Neonatal circumcision has limited medical benefits as well as potential risks. Parents should be apprised of these prior to giving informed consent. Many American parents are uninformed of the risks and the limited benefits because of the universality of circumcision a generation ago."

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Circumcision's complications: what could go wrong?

by Tally on October 24, 2009
Visit http://www.examiner.com/x-26184-DC-Family-Health-Examiner~y2009m10d17-Circumcision-complications-parents-need-more-information

October 2009 Article in the Examiner describing what can go wrong during a routine infant circumcision. No organization tracks circumcision complications, so very little information is available.

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Circumcision, by Dr. John Dean

by Tally on October 28, 2009
Visit http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/menshealth/facts/circumcision.htm

Dr. John Dean writes about circumcision issues for netdoctor. The December 2005 article discusses how the foreskin in children is not retractable and addresses why circumcision occurs. He discusses why circumcision is not reasonable as a disease prevention measure. He also identifies the complications of circumcision.

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Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision

by Tally on October 26, 2009
Visit http://www.cutthefilm.com/

Cut is a documentary film by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon which examines the subject of male circumcision from a religious, scientific and ethical perspective. Using cutting-edge research, in addition to interview footage of rabbis, philosophers, and scientists, Cut challenges the viewer to confront their biases by asking difficult questions about this long-standing practice.

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Delicate decision (male infant circumcision)

by Tally-admin on May 3, 2010
Visit http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/31/health/he-circumcision31

Article from the LA Times published March 31, 2008. The news article reports various facts:

  • Penile cancer affects only 1 in 100,000 men
  • In the first year of life, 1 in 100 uncircumcised boys will develop a urinary tract infection. Only 1 in 1,000 circumcised boys will. "While that's a tenfold reduction, you have to keep in mind that the risk was only 1% to begin with," says Dr. Andrew Freedman, pediatric urologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Proper hygiene can prevent most infections.
  • In 1965, 85% of boys born in the United States were circumcised
  • as of 2005, 56% of newborn boys were circumcised, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • 75% of boys born in the Midwest were circumcised, 65% in the Northeast, 56% in the South and only 31% in the West
  • Worldwide, only 25% of males are circumcised, and that is mostly for religious or cultural reasons.
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Google Video: Mother, why was I circumcised? with Subtitles

by Tally on November 25, 2009
Visit http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7272603373993370309

Dutch journalist/filmmaker Michael Schaap's personal documentary. He learns from interviewing his own mother, circumcisers, politicians, Jews, Muslims, a restored British man, and some American intactivists.

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History of Circumcision

by Tally on October 29, 2009
Visit http://www.historyofcircumcision.org/

The site explores the varied history of circumcision around the world. The distinction is made between ritual and medical circumcision.

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Is infant male circumcision an abuse of the rights of the child? Yes

by Tally-admin on June 12, 2010
Visit http://www.bmj.com/content/335/7631/1180.full

Part of a debate published in BMJ, 2007;335:1180 (8 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39406.520498. Geoff Hinchley argues that the practice of male infant circumcision is harmful and should be stopped.

The unpalatable truth is that logic and the rights of the child play little part in determining the acceptability of male genital mutilation in our society. The profession needs to recognise this and champion the argument on behalf of boys that was so successful for girls.

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Jewish Circumcision Resource Center

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://www.jewishcircumcision.org/

The Jewish Circumcision Resource Center is a section of the Circumcision Resource Center. The Jewish Circumcision Resource Center represents Jews around the world who question circumcision (bris or brit milah). The primary intended audience is non-traditional Jews, those Jews who generally evaluate an idea not solely based on its conformance with the Torah, but also in light of its agreement with reason and experience. They believe that Jewish practice must be consistent with what they think and feel.

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Jews Against Circumcision

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org/

Jews Against Circumcision is a group of educated and enlightened Jews who realize that the barbaric, primitive, torturous, and mutilating practice of circumcision has no place in modern Judaism.

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Keratinization

by Tally on November 4, 2009
Visit http://www.noharmm.org/IDcirc.htm

National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM) page describing keratinization of the mucous membranes of the circumcised penis, namely the glans and inner foreskin remnant.

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mothering Forum : The Case Against Circumcision

by Tally on November 6, 2009
Visit http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=44

A pro-intact forum in which mothers and others describe their experiences regarding circumcision. The forum is very active with many posts each day.

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Mothers Against Circumcision

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://mothersagainstcirc.org/

Mothers Against Circumcision is an older website advocating against routine infant circumcision. The last update was apparently made in 2002.

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National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers NOCIRC

by Tally on November 26, 2009
Visit http://www.nocirc.org/

NOCIRC, the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, provides information to expectant parents, healthcare professionals, educators, lawyers, ethicists, and concerned individuals about circumcision and genital cutting of male, female, and intersex infants and children, genital integrity, and human rights.

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Neonatal (infant) circumcision

by Tally on October 1, 2011
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This is a YouTube video of a male infant circumcision showing the doctor informing the parents that infant circumcision is only cosmetic and has no medical benefits. For some reason, the parents still want to cut the sex organ of their baby boy. There there is the surgery in graphic detail. I cannot watch such videos. I cannot bear to hear the screams of a baby boy having the most sensitive part of his body being cut off.

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Protect Your Uncircumcised Son: Expert Medical Advice for Parents

by Tally on December 9, 2009
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Paul Fleiss article in Mothering magazine. The article identifies various statements provided by doctors who wish to circumcise an infant or young boy. These statements are analyzed and reasons why circumcision is not indicated are provided.

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Should newborns be circumcised? No

by Tally on October 26, 2009
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One half of a debate published in Can Fam Physician, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2007, pp.2097 - 2099. Deirdre Andres, MD CCFP, addresses historical reasons for circumcision, along with the small amount of health benefit relative to the risk of the surgery. See Should newborns be circumcised? Yes for the other half of the debate.

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Should newborns be circumcised? Yes

by Tally on October 26, 2009
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One half of a debate published in Can Fam Physician, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2007, pp.2096 - 2098. Edgar J. Schoen relies upon the protective benefits of circumcision to support his position. See Should newborns be circumcised? No for the other half of the debate.

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The Truth About Circumcision and HIV

by Tally on December 9, 2009
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Gussie Fauntleroy writes The Truth About Circumcision and HIV in Mothering magazine.

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Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and Circumcision

by Tally on October 29, 2009
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Dr. David Alwin, MD, discusses the reduced risk of male infant urinary tract infections (UTI) from circumcision. The decreased incidence is inconsequential, as he shows with his illustrations and analysis.

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Video: Routine Infant Circumcision

by Tally on December 11, 2009
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Routine Infant Circumcision video provided as an educational resource for healthcare professionals and parents/guardians who are interested in learning more about what circumcision entails. Actual surgery on a baby done by a doctor in a hospital is shown, so viewer discretion is advised.

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Whose Decision Is It?

by Tally on December 9, 2009
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Mothering magazine article about the decision on circumcision.

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Yahoo! Video: Birth As We Know It: Circumcision

by Tally on March 19, 2011
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An excerpt from the documentary, Birth As We Know It. The narrator describes the three functions of the foreskin: 1) to protect the internal mucosal tissue of the inner foreskin and the glans, 2) to provide sensory pleasure because the foreskin is erogenous tissue, and 3) to provide the gliding action during sex, which aids both the man and woman during intercourse. The video clip also shows a circumcision being performed on an infant boy.

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YouTube: Look just like Dad, by matching genitalia?

by Tally on March 28, 2010
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A news video about infant circumcision in the Untied States. The reporter documents that the infants feel pain during circumcision because doctors do not like to use general anesthesia and, instead, use a topical pain relief, which has been proven to be ineffective. The reporter concludes that infant circumcision is unnecessary because there is no medical reason to perform routine infant circumcision.

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YouTube: Q&A: Anger Over Circumcision

by Tally on January 25, 2010
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A YouTube Video by Dan and Jenn where they describe why infant circumcision, although widely practiced, violates the bodily integrity of the infant. Babies cannot give informed consent for genital alterations. If it was any other body part that was being altered, everyone would be upset.

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YouTube: The Circumcision Debate

by Tally on February 4, 2010
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A radio interview with Dr. Dean Edell with accompanying images. Dr. Edell describes the harm of circumcision and how circumcising men in Africa who consent to the surgery is different than circumcising infants. Dr. Edell also notes that there are no long term studies of the efficacy of circumcision with respect to preventing HIV. The Africa trials were short term studies.

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Adult Circumcision Outcomes Study: Effect on Erectile Function, Penile Sensitivity, Sexual Activity and Satisfaction

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Study published in the Journal of Urology, Volume 167, Issue 5, Pages 2113-2116 (May 2002).  The study's purpose was to determine the effect of the prepuce (foreskin) on sexual intercourse. The researchers examined sexual function outcomes in men who experienced sexual intercourse in the uncircumcised and circumcised states.

The study chose as subjects men who were circumcised for medical reasons. Only 7% of the men were circumcised as elective surgery. Even with such a large proportion of the subjects being circumcised for having problems with their foreskin, 38% reported that it was worse being circumcised.

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Circumcision in HIV-infected men and its effect on HIV transmission to female partners in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised controlled trial

by Tally on December 11, 2009
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9685, Pages 229 - 237, 18 July 2009. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60998-3.  The study assessed whether circumcision in HIV-infected men would reduce transmission of the virus to female sexual partners. Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months; longer-term effects could not be assessed. Condom use after male circumcision is essential for HIV prevention.  The results indicate that there is a probability of 21.7% HIV infection rate for female partners of circumcised HIV infected men, compared to 13.4% HIV infection rate for female partners of HIV infected men. Women with circumcised partners had more than a 50% increase in the infection rate of women compared to women with un-circumcised partners.

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Comparison of Ring Block, Dorsal Penile Nerve Block, and Topical Anesthesia for Neonatal Circumcision

by Tally on December 23, 2009
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Study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Volume 278 No. 24, pages 2157-2162, December 24/31, 1997. The study was a randomized controlled trial to compare various anesthesia methods for infant circumicison. Enrollment in the study was stopped after it was determined that the control group (babies not receiving any anesthesia) were in great distress from their circumcision.  "The results of this study suggest that an anesthetic should be administered to newborns prior to undergoing circumcision.

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Complications of circumcision in male neonates, infants and children: a systematic review

by Tally on February 19, 2010
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A study published in BMC Urology, 2010, 10:2 doi:10.1186/1471-2490-10-2 February 2010. The results showed: "Sixteen prospective studies evaluated complications following neonatal and infant circumcision. Most studies reported no severe adverse events (SAE), but two studies reported SAE frequency of 2%. The median frequency of any complication was 1.5% (range 0-16%). Child circumcision by medical providers tended to be associated with more complications (median frequency 6%; range 2-14%) than for neonates and infants. Traditional circumcision as a rite of passage is associated with substantially greater risks, more severe complications than medical circumcision or traditional circumcision among neonates."

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Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain response during subsequent routine vaccination

by Tally on November 12, 2009
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 349, Issue 9052, Pages 599 - 603, 1 March 1997.

The authors found, "There was a significant linear trend on all outcome measures, showing increasing pain scores from uncircumcised infants, to those circumcised with Emla, to those circumcised with placebo." Their interpretation was, "Circumcised infants showed a stronger pain response to subsequent routine vaccination than uncircumcised infants."

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Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain responses during vaccination in boys

by Tally-admin on November 27, 2010
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 345, Number 8945: Pages 291-292, 4 February 1995. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(95)90278-3

The study notes, "Circumcised babies have short-term alterations in behaviour, sleep patterns, frequency of feeding, crying, fussiness, and heart rate." For the longer term, the study notes,

Male circumcision . . . causes intense pain and measurable changes in behaviour that last up to 1 day. We found that circumcision status was associated with increased infant pain response to routine vaccination at 4-6 months. Circumcised boys had significantly longer crying bouts and higher pain scores. That both outcome measures, pain index, and cry duration, were influenced by circumcision lends credibility to our observations.

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Effects of male circumcision on female arousal and orgasm

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Article published in Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, September 12, 2003, Vol 116, No. 1181. Women reported that they are significantly more likely to experience vaginal dryness during sexual intercourse with circumcised men than with genitally intact men. The authors thought that the vaginal dryness becomes more apparent as women get older.

The authors concluded "Most likely, reported vaginal dryness and the related clinical designation female arousal disorder is but a normal female response to coitus with a man with an iatrogenically deficient penis." An iatrogenically deficient penis is one that has been circumcised.

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Feature: The pains of youth

by Tally-admin on July 7, 2010
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An article discussion the pain response of infants. Unlike adults, infants are not capable of inhibiting pain. Instead, the "brain actually enhances the pain inputs rather than suppressing them. It's a complete reverse of what happens in an adult," says Professor Fitzgerald. The fact that the infant nervous system is, in a sense, receiving more pain than in adults intensifies the need to look for better analgesics (pain-relieving drugs) for newborn babies.

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Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis (Sorrells)

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Study published in BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 99, Issue 4, Pages 864-869 (March 2007). This is the Sorrells study. The Sorrels study is remarkable because it used objective measurements to determine fine-touch sensitivity of various parts of the intact penis and the circumcumcised penis, showing that circumcision removes the most sensitive parts of the penis.

Watch a YouTube video of Dr. Sorrells discussing the study and his results.

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Incidence of Meatal Stenosis following Neonatal Circumcision in a Primary Care Setting

by Tally on January 14, 2010
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Study published in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 45, No. 1, 49-54 (2006). DOI: 10.1177/000992280604500108. Dr. Howe concluded, "Meatal stenosis may be the most common complication following neonatal circumcision. The frequency of this complication and the need for surgical correction need to be disclosed as part of the informed consent for neonatal circumcision." The study found 24 of 329 (7%) circumcised boys had meatal stenosis.

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Late complications of newborn circumcision: a common and avoidable problem

by Tally on February 19, 2010
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Study published in Pediatric Surgery International, doi 10.1007/s00383-010-2566-9. The authors studied later complications of children who had neonatal circumcisions. Penile adhesions, skin bridges, meatal stenosis, redundant foreskin (incomplete circumcision with uncircumcised appearance), recurrent phimosis, buried penis and penile rotation were the most frequent complications treated after the original circumcision had healed.

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Lost Boys: An Estimate of U.S. Circumcision-Related Infant Deaths

by Tally-admin on April 26, 2010
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Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies: Lost Boys: An Estimate of U.S. Circumcision-Related Infant DeathsArticle published in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 / Spring 2010. doi 10.3149/thy.0401.78.

Author Dan Bollinger presents a study regarding circumcision deaths. Baby boys can and do succumb as a result of having their foreskin removed by circumcision. Circumcision-related mortality rates are not known with certainty; this study estimates the scale of this problem. This study finds that approximately 117 neonatal circumcision-related deaths (9.01/100,000) occur annually in the United States, about 1.3% of male neonatal deaths from all causes. Because infant circumcision is elective, all of these circumcision deaths are avoidable. This study also identifies reasons why accurate data on these deaths are not available, some of the obstacles to preventing these deaths, and some solutions to overcome them.

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Male Circumcision: Pain, Trauma and Psychosexual Sequelae

by Tally on January 20, 2010
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Study published in Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 3, 329-343 (2002). DOI: 10.1177/135910530200700310. The abstract states, "Infant male circumcision continues despite growing questions about its medical justification. As usually performed without analgesia or anaesthetic, circumcision is observably painful. It is likely that genital cutting has physical, sexual and psychological consequences too. Some studies link involuntary male circumcision with a range of negative emotions and even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some circumcised men have described their current feelings in the language of violation, torture, mutilation and sexual assault."

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Outpatient Management of Phimosis Following Newborn Circumcision

by Tally on January 20, 2010
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Study published in The Journal of Urology, Volume 169, Issue 6, Pages 2332-2334 (June 2003). Doctors at a clinic reviewed their experience in treating patients with a trapped penis due to phimosis following newborn circumcision. The infants were circumcised with a Gomco device. Fifteen of 521 circumcised boys (2.9%) developed phimosis after circumcision.  Three boys had recurrence of phimosis after treatment.

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Penile injuries from proximal migration of the Plastibell circumcision ring

by Tally on September 11, 2010
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A study of Pastibell caused penile injuries published in Journal of Pediatric Urology, Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 23-27 (February 2010). Male infant circumcision has risks and complications. The Plastibell in particular is subject to complications because the plastic bell is left on the penis for an extended period with no doctor supervision or monitoring. Complications include extensive skin loss, urethrocutaneous fistulae, and partial necrosis of the glans penis.

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Penile Sensitivity and Sexual Satisfaction after Circumcision: Are We Informing Men Correctly?

by Tally on February 8, 2010
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A study published in Urologia Internationalis, Vol. 75, No. 1, 2005 (Urol Int 2005;75:62-66) (DOI: 10.1159/000085930). The authors assessed the effect of circumcision on sexually active men and the relative impact this may have on informed consent prior to surgery. 

The male subjects were circumcised for a benign desease. Penile sensation got worse for 18% of the men who got an adult circumcision. Only 61% of the men were satisfied with their adult circumcision. Considering that circumcision was for a disease, it is significant that not more men were satisfied with the cure.

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Safety and Efficacy of Nontherapeutic Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review

by Tally on January 11, 2010
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Study published in Annals of Family Medicine, 8:64-72 (2010). doi: 10.1370/afm.1073. A meta analysis of the literature from 1997 through 2008 regarding male circumcision. The study found, "There is little evidence showing clinical benefit from nontherapeutic male circumcision." The implications were stated: "Patients who request circumcision for clinical reasons should be informed of the lack of consensus surrounding the procedure, the lack of strong evidence regarding its benefits, and the potential medical and psychosocial harms of the procedure."

The study concluded:

The role of adult nontherapeutic male circumcision in preventing sexually transmitted infections, urinary tract infections, and penile cancer remains unclear. Current evidence fails to recommend widespread neonatal circumcision for these purposes.

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Shirly's Wellness Cafe: Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma

by Tally-admin on April 25, 2010
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Shirley's Wellness Cafe is an educational website that promotes holistic health for humans and their animals.

The circcumcision page describes the harm of infant circumcision. The surgical procedure of infant circumcision is described, in detail. Various authorities are quoted regarding the pain of infant circumcision.

The circumcision information page includes links to various organizations and other sources that provide information on infant circumcision.

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Tachycardia and heart failure after ritual circumcision

by Tally-admin on May 10, 2010
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Research article published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol. 62, Issue 1, pp. 80-81, 1987. doi:10.1136/adc.62.1.80 

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Four newborn babies developed acute heart failure a few hours after circumcision at 8 days. During this procedure, a sponge soaked in epinephrine was applied to the circumcision site and left there for several hours. Treatment was with digoxin and diuretics and signs of heart failure disappeared within 24-72 hours.

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The effect of male circumcision on sexuality

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Study published in the BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages 619-622 (March 2007). The study showed that there was a loss of sexual pleasure and enjoyment for a significant percentage of men.

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The effect of male circumcision on the sexual enjoyment of the female partner

by Tally on October 23, 2009
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Paper published in BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 83, Suppl. 1, pages 79–84, (1999), and authored by K. O'Hara & J. O'Hara. The authors surveyed women having sexual experience with both circumcised and anatomically complete partners to determine if there were any differences in sexual enjoyment. They determined that circumcision results in a less satisfying sexual experience.

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The five-flap technique for the correction of post-circumcision peno-scrotal webbing

by Tally on February 22, 2010
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The Jerusalem Post reports on a new technique to lengthen the shaft skin for a man with a botched circumcision. Too much skin was removed during circumcision. It sounds like the man had a severe case of turkey neck and the doctors found a way of grafting skin to make that part of the outer skin longer to reduce the turkey neck. I don't know if the surgery technique would work to make a foreskin, but it may bear further investigation.

The doctors wrote up their results and published it in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, Volume 63, Issue 3, Pages e325-e326 (March 2010), titled: The five-flap technique for the correction of post-circumcision peno-scrotal webbing. The journal article is a pay-to-view article and the cost is $31.50 US.

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The meatal/urethral width in healthy uncircumcised boys

by Tally on December 17, 2009
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Study published in Journal of Pediatric Urology, 2009 Aug 7. doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2009.07.007. "Knowledge of normal meatal/urethral width in a growing boy is important to create a neourethra of adequate size to correct hypospadias. Thus far, normal size values have been based on the study of circumcised, awake boys. The aim of this study was to measure normal urethral width in healthy uncircumcised boys under general anesthesia to provide a tool to create a neourethra of adequate size."

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The Vulnerability of Men

by Tally on November 5, 2009
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The Vulnerability of Men is a thoughtful article by an intact man describing why a circumcised father would want to circumcise his son. The author, Vincent Bach, describes the typical stages a cut man goes through when first confronted with the question of whether his son should be circumcised.

Vincent believes that the driving force behind circumcision in the United States is circumcised men. Many circumcised men feel cornered because they had their penis reduced by circumcision without their consent. His sexual well-being is based on how he perceives himself, and that includes seeing himself with a circumcised penis. To allow his son to remain intact would be to admit that he has less than a full, complete sex organ.

The page was also reproduced at Circumstitions. The content has since moved.
Edited October 28, 2018

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Traditional circumcision raises risk of infection, study shows

by Tally on April 2, 2010
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HAARETZ.com reports in a 2008 article that traditional circumcision results in an increased rate of urinary tract infections (UTIs) for male infants. "Circumcision as performed by mohels, men whose profession is performing the Jewish ritual of brit milah, leads to a high rate of urinary tract infections among babies, according to a report released recently by physicians at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva."

The article reports that the researchers "found urinary tract infections to be far more common among babies who had undergone circumcision by a mohel rather than a physician." One researcher said, "Without appropriate and intensive treatment, the bacteria could reach the blood, possibly even causing death." The researchers believe the infections are caused by the bandage left on the penis after circumcision.

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A Cost-Utility Analysis of Neonatal Circumcision

by Tally on October 26, 2009
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Paper published in Medical Decision Making, Vol. 24, No. 6, 584-601 (2004). The author, Robert S. Van Howe, MD, MS, FAAP, determined that it was more costly to circumcise than to leave baby boys intact. The study concludes, "Neonatal circumcision is not good health policy, and support for it as a medical procedure cannot be justified financially or medically."

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A costly covenant: ritual circumcision and urinary tract infection

by Tally on February 3, 2011
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A study in the Journal of the Israel Medical Association found that a significant percentage of boys had a UTI shortly after their Bris.

Isr Med Assoc J. 2010 May;12(5):262-5 by Toker O, Schwartz S, Segal G, Godovitch N, Schlesinger Y, Raveh D. Department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

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BACKGROUND: Ritual circumcision in neonates may cause a urinary tract infection within 2 weeks of the procedure.

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A covenant with the status quo? Male circumcision and the new BMA guidance to doctors

by Tally-admin on June 7, 2010
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Article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 31, Issue 8, 2005;31:463-469 doi:10.1136/jme.2004.009340. The authors conclude that "it is ethically inappropriate to subject children—male or female—to the acknowledged risks of circumcision and contend that there is no compelling legal authority for the common view that male circumcision is lawful."

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A practice for all seasons: male circumcision and the prevention of HIV transmission

by Tally on February 27, 2010
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Article published in The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, Vol 2, No 05, 2008 Oct 1;2(5):328-34. The full text of the article is available as a pdf file.  The authors cannot say enough good things about male circumcision as a way to reduce HIV in Africa. The article does not address the finding that male circumcision increases the HIV rate for the male to female vector.

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Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S. - Why the Difference?

by Tally on April 4, 2010
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An article in Advocates of Youth that compares data between Europe and the United States.

In France, Germany, and the Netherlands, two things create greater, easier access to sexual health information and services for all people, including teens. They are: 1) societal openness and comfort in dealing with sexuality, including teen sexuality; and 2) pragmatic governmental policies. The result - better sexual health outcomes for French, German, and Dutch teens when compared to U.S. teens.

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Adult Circumcision Outcomes Study: Effect on Erectile Function, Penile Sensitivity, Sexual Activity and Satisfaction

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Study published in the Journal of Urology, Volume 167, Issue 5, Pages 2113-2116 (May 2002).  The study's purpose was to determine the effect of the prepuce (foreskin) on sexual intercourse. The researchers examined sexual function outcomes in men who experienced sexual intercourse in the uncircumcised and circumcised states.

The study chose as subjects men who were circumcised for medical reasons. Only 7% of the men were circumcised as elective surgery. Even with such a large proportion of the subjects being circumcised for having problems with their foreskin, 38% reported that it was worse being circumcised.

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Alexithymia and Circumcision Trauma: A Preliminary Investigation

by Tally on September 24, 2011
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Study published in International Journal of Men's Health, Volume 10, Number 2 / July 2011. DOI10.3149/jmh.1002.184. In the first study of its kind,  Dan Bollinger and Robert S. Van Howe, M.D., M.S., FAAP, look at the link between circumcision and the personality trait disorder alexithymia. The study found that circumcised men are 60% more likely to suffer from alexithymia.

Alexithymia is the inability to process emotions. People suffering from alexithymia have difficulty identifying and expressing their feelings. The disorder translates into not being able to imagine what others are feeling and leading to an inability to respond to others’ needs. If acquired at an early age, the disorder might limit access to language and interfere with the socialization process that begins early in life. Moderate to high alexithymia can interfere with personal relationships and hinder therapy. Impulsive behavior is a key symptom of alexithymia, and impulsivity is a precursor to violence.

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Case number and the financial impact of circumcision in reducing prostate cancer

by Tally-admin on April 14, 2010
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A paper published BJU International, Vol. 100, Issue 1, pp 5-6 (April 2007).  Three avid pro-circumcision advocates wrote a paper justifying male circumcision as a preventative against prostate cancer. The authors claim that lack of circumcision is a risk factor of prostate cancer.

Dr. Van Howe responded to the Morris paper in the BJU International, Vol. 100, Issue 5, pp. 1193-94 (2007). Dr. Van Howe identified faults and unsubstantiated assumptions in the original paper. He states, "The concept of using circumcision to reduce prostate cancer risk has no biological or epidemiological foundation. Even if one is willing to depart from reality and use the most extreme assumptions as put forth by Morris et al., circumcision of infants is not cost-effective."

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Circumcision among men who have sex with men in Scotland: limited potential for HIV prevention

by Tally-admin on July 8, 2010
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A study published Sexually Transmitted Infections, doi:10.1136/sti.2010.042895, determined that there was no association between circumcision and HIV for men having sex with men. The researchers concluded that circumcision is unlikely to be a feasible HIV prevention strategy for gay men in the UK.

This study supports other studies that found no link between circumcision status and HIV infection rates among homosexual men.

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Circumcision and Acquisition of Human Papillomavirus Infection in Young Men

by Tally on September 10, 2011
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Study published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 22 August 2011,doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31822e60cb.

Methods: Male university students (aged 18-20 years) were recruited from 2003 to 2009 and followed up triannually. Shaft/scrotum, glans, and urine samples were tested for 37 [alpha] human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes.

Results: In 477 men, rates of acquiring clinically relevant HPV types (high-risk types plus types 6 and 11) did not differ significantly by circumcision status.

Conclusions:Although the likelihood of HPV acquisition did not differ by circumcision status, uncircumcised men were more likely than circumcised men to have infections detected at multiple genital sites, which may have implications for HPV transmission.

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Circumcision and cervical cancer

by Tally on December 21, 2009
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Critical Appraisal published in Canadian Family Physician, Vol. 49, 1096-97, September 2003. The author attempts to answer the question if circumcision is warranted as a preventative measure against HPV and cervical cancer. Using only 7 case-control studies, the author's results were ambiguous and and apparently tied to other factors. "If both male and female partners were at low risk of infection, the women's risk of cervical cancer was similar whether their partners were circumcised or uncircumcised."

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Circumcision and its potential impact on the spread of HIV among gay and bisexual men

by Tally on December 22, 2009
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Banner logo for CATIE-News: Bite-sized HIV/AIDS news bulletins published by Canadian AIDS Treatement Information Exchange.CATIE-News: Bite-sized HIV/AIDS news bulletins published by Canadian AIDS Treatement Information Exchange. The page addresses many of the current studies and meta-analysis for HIV and the gay man. The results of the various studies and meta-analysis are consistent and show that there is little to no benefit in circumcising gay men to reduce HIV.

Researchers studying the increase and spread of HIV have concluded in several studies that increases in high-risk sex have overwhelmed any decrease in infectivity due to HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). This does not mean that current HIV prevention efforts have failedwithout these efforts, rates of new cases of HIV and STIs might be much higher. This environment of high-risk sex and STIs must be taken into account when considering the potential impact and rollout of new prevention interventions--such as male circumcision, microbicides or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)--in gay and bisexual men in high-income countries.

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Circumcision and Risk of Sexually Transmissible Infections in a Community‐Based Cohort of HIV‐Negative Homosexual Men in Sydney, Australia

by Tally on November 14, 2009
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Study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2009; 200:000–000. DOI: 10.1086/648376. The authors found a correlation of reduced incidence of syphilis among men who reported predominantly insertive unprotected anal intercourse.

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Circumcision and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections in a Birth Cohort

by Tally on November 11, 2009
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Study published in The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 152, Issue 3, Pages 383-387 (March 2008). The study's objective was to determine the impact of early childhood circumcision on sexually transmitted infection (STI) acquisition to age 32 years.  "Overall, up to age 32 years, the incidence rates for all STIs were not statistically significantly different . . . for the uncircumcised and circumcised men, respectively. This was not affected by adjusting for any of the socioeconomic or sexual behavior characteristics."

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Circumcision Doesn't Reduce Sexual Satisfaction And Performance, Says Study Of 4,500 Men

by Tally on October 24, 2009
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Study published in the BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 101, Issue 1, Pages 65-70 (January 2008). The study determinded that for men in Uganda, there were no differences between intact men and men circumcised after 24 months.

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Circumcision for phimosis and other medical indications in Western Australian boys

by Tally on September 8, 2010
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A paper published in The Medical Journal of Australia, MJA 2003 178 (4): 155-158. The authors conclude that the rate of circumcision to treat phimosis in boys aged less than 15 years is seven times the expected incidence rate for phimosis. Many boys are circumcised before reaching five years of age, despite phimosis being rare in this age group. Phimosis appears to be a false diagnoses to justify circumcision when the surgery is not truly medically necessary.

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Circumcision for phimosis and other medical indications in Western Australian boys

by Tally on December 22, 2009
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Study published in MJA, Vol. 178, 155-58, February 2003. The study was to investigate the incidence rate of circumcision for phimosis and other medically indicated reasons in Western Australian boys. The authors found that as the national rate of routine circumcision decreased, the rate of medically indicated circumcisions increased for boys aged less than 15 years. More than half of the boys circumcised for phimosis were under the age of 5. Pathological phimosis is rare in that age group. The authors attributed the high rate of circumcision to physicians mistaking normal penile development for pathological phimosis.

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Circumcision in Australia: further evidence on its effects on sexual health and wellbeing

by Tally on April 14, 2010
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Study published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol. 34 Issue 2, Pages 160 - 164 (April 2010).  The study concluded that "Circumcision appears to have minimal protective effects on sexual health in Australia." Translated into English, "Circumcised men do not have any additional protection against sexually transmitted diseases."

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Circumcision in HIV-infected men and its effect on HIV transmission to female partners in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised controlled trial

by Tally on December 11, 2009
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9685, Pages 229 - 237, 18 July 2009. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60998-3.  The study assessed whether circumcision in HIV-infected men would reduce transmission of the virus to female sexual partners. Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months; longer-term effects could not be assessed. Condom use after male circumcision is essential for HIV prevention.  The results indicate that there is a probability of 21.7% HIV infection rate for female partners of circumcised HIV infected men, compared to 13.4% HIV infection rate for female partners of HIV infected men. Women with circumcised partners had more than a 50% increase in the infection rate of women compared to women with un-circumcised partners.

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Circumcision in the United States: Prevalence, Prophylactic Effects, and Sexual Practice

by Tally on February 5, 2010
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Study published in JAMA, 1997; 277(13): 1052-1057. The objective was to assess the prevalence of circumcision across various social groups and examine the health and sexual outcomes of circumcision. The authors analyzed the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) data to determine the effects of circumcision. The results indicate, "We find no significant differences between circumcised and uncircumcised men in their likelihood of contracting sexually transmitted diseases." 

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Circumcision policy: A psychosocial perspective

by Tally-admin on May 6, 2010
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An article by Ronald Goldman, PhD, published in Paediatrics & Chid Health, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 630-33 (November 2003).  The article provides a very good overview of the current social standing of male infant circumcision. The author makes the point that the current reluctance to confront the religious issue undermines the core values (e.g., the health of the patient is paramount) and ethics (e.g., first, do no harm) that drive medical decision-making.

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Circumcision Status and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infection in Young Adult Males: An Analysis of a Longitudinal Birth Cohort

by Tally on October 26, 2009
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Published in Pediatrics, Vol. 118 No. 5 November 2006, pp. 1971-1977 (doi:10.1542/peds.2006-1175). The authors conclude that their "findings suggest that uncircumcised males are at greater risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infection than circumcised males. Male circumcision may reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infection acquisition and transmission by up to one half, suggesting substantial benefits accruing from routine neonatal circumcision."

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Circumcision: A Medical or a Human Rights Issue?

by Tally on September 17, 2011
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Article published in Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, Volume 37, Number 2 (Suppl.): Pages 87S-96S, March/April 1992. Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, and Donna Macris, CNM, MSN, describe the procedure and outcomes of male infant circumcision. The authors discuss the American double standard of the acceptance of circumcision for males but not for women. They also address the many myths that have arisen about male infant circumcision and they debunk them all.

Consider further: The foreskin is normal, healthy, functioning tissue. Circumcision has inherent risks, including hemorrhage, infection, mutilation, and death. Circumcision is painful, even when an anesthetic is used. Circumcision causes both physical and psychological scars. Most importantly, every human being has an inherent, inalienable right to his own body.

 

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Cohort study on circumcision of newborn boys and subsequent risk of urinary-tract infection

by Tally on November 18, 2009
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 352, Issue 9143, Pages 1813-16, 5 December 1998. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(98)02392-7. The authors interpreted their findings to "support the notion that circumcision may protect boys from UTI, [although] the magnitude of this effect may be less than previously estimated." The study found that "195 circumcisions would be needed to prevent one hospital admission for UTI in the first year of life."

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Comparison of Ring Block, Dorsal Penile Nerve Block, and Topical Anesthesia for Neonatal Circumcision

by Tally on December 23, 2009
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Study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Volume 278 No. 24, pages 2157-2162, December 24/31, 1997. The study was a randomized controlled trial to compare various anesthesia methods for infant circumicison. Enrollment in the study was stopped after it was determined that the control group (babies not receiving any anesthesia) were in great distress from their circumcision.  "The results of this study suggest that an anesthetic should be administered to newborns prior to undergoing circumcision.

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Complications of circumcision in male neonates, infants and children: a systematic review

by Tally on February 19, 2010
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A study published in BMC Urology, 2010, 10:2 doi:10.1186/1471-2490-10-2 February 2010. The results showed: "Sixteen prospective studies evaluated complications following neonatal and infant circumcision. Most studies reported no severe adverse events (SAE), but two studies reported SAE frequency of 2%. The median frequency of any complication was 1.5% (range 0-16%). Child circumcision by medical providers tended to be associated with more complications (median frequency 6%; range 2-14%) than for neonates and infants. Traditional circumcision as a rite of passage is associated with substantially greater risks, more severe complications than medical circumcision or traditional circumcision among neonates."

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Cutting through red tape: non-therapeutic circumcision and unethical guidelines

by Tally on December 5, 2009
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Paper published in Clinical Ethics, 2009;4:181-186.  doi:10.1258/ce.2009.009029. David Shaw, Faculty of Medicine and Centre for Applied Ethics & Legal Philosophy, University of Glasgow, writes that the current General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines are flawed in stating that any doctor who does not wish to carry out a non-therapeutic circumcision (NTC) on a boy must invoke conscientious objection.

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Does the use of EMLA cream decrease the pain of circumcision in newborn boys?

by Tally on July 14, 2011
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A HelpDesk Answer published in Evidence-Based Practice, March 2010. Dr. Julia Fashner updates the February 2004 Clinical Inquiry in American Family Physician, 2004; 69(4):909–910.  Dr. Fashner answers the question posed:

Yes. The use of EMLA cream does decrease pain, but it is likely that a dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB) does an even better job. Neither will completely eliminate the discomfort of the procedure [infant circumcision].

 

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Dorsal penile nerves and primary premature ejaculation

by Tally on August 24, 2011
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Study in Chinese Medical Journal, 2009, Vol. 122 No. 24:3017-3019 describing the dorsal penil nerve and how it affects premature ejaculation. The penis has highly variable innervation with between 1 and 7 branches of the dorsal penile nerve, In some cases branches continue the way round to the ventral aspect. The nerve topology could possibly explain the highly variable subjective outcome for circumcision. The study states, "the anatomic distribution of penile dorsal neural variation may account for the disadvantages of circumcision."

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Effect of circumcision on urinary tract infection (UTI) after successful antireflux surgery

by Tally on November 18, 2009
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Study published in BJU International, Volume 94, Issue 4, Pages 627-629 (Aug. 25, 2004).  The authors concluded "that circumcision during antireflux surgery has no effect on the incidence of postoperative UTI."

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Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain response during subsequent routine vaccination

by Tally on November 12, 2009
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 349, Issue 9052, Pages 599 - 603, 1 March 1997.

The authors found, "There was a significant linear trend on all outcome measures, showing increasing pain scores from uncircumcised infants, to those circumcised with Emla, to those circumcised with placebo." Their interpretation was, "Circumcised infants showed a stronger pain response to subsequent routine vaccination than uncircumcised infants."

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Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain responses during vaccination in boys

by Tally-admin on November 27, 2010
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 345, Number 8945: Pages 291-292, 4 February 1995. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(95)90278-3

The study notes, "Circumcised babies have short-term alterations in behaviour, sleep patterns, frequency of feeding, crying, fussiness, and heart rate." For the longer term, the study notes,

Male circumcision . . . causes intense pain and measurable changes in behaviour that last up to 1 day. We found that circumcision status was associated with increased infant pain response to routine vaccination at 4-6 months. Circumcised boys had significantly longer crying bouts and higher pain scores. That both outcome measures, pain index, and cry duration, were influenced by circumcision lends credibility to our observations.

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Effect of neonatal circumcision on penile neurologic sensation.

by Tally on November 10, 2009
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Study published in Urology, April 2005, 65(4):773-77. The objective was to evaluate penile sensory thresholds in neonatally circumcised and uncircumcised men. The authors evaluated 125 patients, splitting them into functional and dysfunctional groups based on a questionaire. In the dysfunctional group, circumcised men were significantly younger than the intact men (7 year mean difference). The sample size was small, and when attempting to control for age, hypertension, and diabetes, all t-test significance was lost.

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Effects of male circumcision on female arousal and orgasm

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Article published in Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, September 12, 2003, Vol 116, No. 1181. Women reported that they are significantly more likely to experience vaginal dryness during sexual intercourse with circumcised men than with genitally intact men. The authors thought that the vaginal dryness becomes more apparent as women get older.

The authors concluded "Most likely, reported vaginal dryness and the related clinical designation female arousal disorder is but a normal female response to coitus with a man with an iatrogenically deficient penis." An iatrogenically deficient penis is one that has been circumcised.

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Evidence sketchy on circumcision and cervical cancer link

by Tally on December 21, 2009
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Letters published in Canadian Family Physician, Vol. 49, 1591-92, December 2003, are critical of the Circumcision and cervical cancer article. 

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External Genital Human Papillomavirus Prevalence and Associated Factors Among Heterosexual Men on 5 Continents

by Tally on July 12, 2011
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Study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 203, Issue1, pp. 58-65, (2011). doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiq015. The authors examined the baseline prevalence of penile, scrotal, and perineal/perianal human papillomavirus (HPV) in heterosexual men (HM).

Results. Having >3 lifetime female sexual partners had the greatest impact on HPV prevalence. . . . Neither condom usage nor circumcision was associated with HPV DNA prevalence.
 
Conclusion. Genital-HPV DNA detection is common in young, sexually active HM. We found HPV to be most prevalent in African men and least prevalent in men from the Asia-Pacific region. Increased numbers of sexual partners was an important risk factor for HPV DNA prevalence.

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Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis (Sorrells)

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Study published in BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 99, Issue 4, Pages 864-869 (March 2007). This is the Sorrells study. The Sorrels study is remarkable because it used objective measurements to determine fine-touch sensitivity of various parts of the intact penis and the circumcumcised penis, showing that circumcision removes the most sensitive parts of the penis.

Watch a YouTube video of Dr. Sorrells discussing the study and his results.

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Future HIV Therapy: Male circumcision is not the HIV ‘vaccine’ we have been waiting for!

by Tally on June 1, 2010
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Article published in Future Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 193-199 , May 2008. DOI 10.2217/17469600.2.3.193 The authors examine the three randomized clinical trials (RCTs) conducted in Africa and find them wanting. A recent commentary claims that circumcision is "at least as good as the HIV vaccine we have been waiting for, praying for and hoping to see in our lifetimes." The article provides an analysis that refutes that statement.

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Genital Integrity and Genital Equity

by Tally-admin on April 26, 2010
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Article published in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 / Spring 2010. doi 10.3149/thy.0401.71.

Author J. Steven Svoboda discusses how genital integrity advocates struggle to safeguard all children from genital cutting. Gender equity activists promote true equality of men and women. Commonalities and differences between the two movements are very illuminating. Three words relevant to genital integrity are: exceptional, muddle, and discomfort.

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HIV-1 Interactions and Infection in Adult Male Foreskin Explant Cultures

by Tally on December 6, 2009
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Paper from 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (2009).  A pdf file of the paper is available on the website.

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How the circumcision solution in Africa will increase HIV infections

by Tally on April 18, 2011
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Journal of Public Health in Africa: How the circumcision solution in Africa will increase HIV infectionsPaper published in Journal of Public Health in Africa,  Vol 2, No 1 (2011); 2:e4. doi:10.4081/jphia.2011.e4

The article was authored by Dr. Robert S. Van Howe, a pediatrician who has studied the harmful effects of infant circumcision. In this paper, Dr. Van Howe examines the oft-cited randomized clinical trials (RCTs) performed in Africa.

Based on the evidence collected in the RCTs and presented in the numerous studies based on the RCTs, Dr. Van Howe determined that the published results are overstated and unsupported by the evidence. He concludes that the "circumcision solution is a wasteful distraction that takes resources away from more effective, less expensive, less invasive alternatives. By diverting attention away from more effective interventions, circumcision programs will likely increase the number of HIV infections."

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Incidence of Meatal Stenosis following Neonatal Circumcision in a Primary Care Setting

by Tally on January 14, 2010
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Study published in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 45, No. 1, 49-54 (2006). DOI: 10.1177/000992280604500108. Dr. Howe concluded, "Meatal stenosis may be the most common complication following neonatal circumcision. The frequency of this complication and the need for surgical correction need to be disclosed as part of the informed consent for neonatal circumcision." The study found 24 of 329 (7%) circumcised boys had meatal stenosis.

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Is infant male circumcision an abuse of the rights of the child? Yes

by Tally-admin on June 12, 2010
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Part of a debate published in BMJ, 2007;335:1180 (8 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39406.520498. Geoff Hinchley argues that the practice of male infant circumcision is harmful and should be stopped.

The unpalatable truth is that logic and the rights of the child play little part in determining the acceptability of male genital mutilation in our society. The profession needs to recognise this and champion the argument on behalf of boys that was so successful for girls.

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Keratinization of the adult male foreskin and implications for male circumcision

by Tally on January 29, 2010
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A small study published in AIDS, January 21, 2010. Researchers at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA, examined the foreskins removed by circumcision of 16 men. The researchers found that there was no significant differences in the thickness of the keratin layers of the inner foreskin and the outer skin. The authors concluded: "Keratin layers alone are unlikely to explain why uncircumcised men are at higher risk for HIV infection."

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Late complications of newborn circumcision: a common and avoidable problem

by Tally on February 19, 2010
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Study published in Pediatric Surgery International, doi 10.1007/s00383-010-2566-9. The authors studied later complications of children who had neonatal circumcisions. Penile adhesions, skin bridges, meatal stenosis, redundant foreskin (incomplete circumcision with uncircumcised appearance), recurrent phimosis, buried penis and penile rotation were the most frequent complications treated after the original circumcision had healed.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

by Tally-admin on October 17, 2010
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An article in The Atlantic chronicles the research of John Ioannidis. He has made it his life's work to investigate the accuracy of medical research. He has published and spoken extensively on how much medical research is biased and that that bias effects the results of studies.

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Lost Boys: An Estimate of U.S. Circumcision-Related Infant Deaths

by Tally-admin on April 26, 2010
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Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies: Lost Boys: An Estimate of U.S. Circumcision-Related Infant DeathsArticle published in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 / Spring 2010. doi 10.3149/thy.0401.78.

Author Dan Bollinger presents a study regarding circumcision deaths. Baby boys can and do succumb as a result of having their foreskin removed by circumcision. Circumcision-related mortality rates are not known with certainty; this study estimates the scale of this problem. This study finds that approximately 117 neonatal circumcision-related deaths (9.01/100,000) occur annually in the United States, about 1.3% of male neonatal deaths from all causes. Because infant circumcision is elective, all of these circumcision deaths are avoidable. This study also identifies reasons why accurate data on these deaths are not available, some of the obstacles to preventing these deaths, and some solutions to overcome them.

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Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Insufficient Evidence and Neglected External Validity

by Tally on June 12, 2011
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Article in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 479-482, November 2010. The authors discuss the "external validity" of the three African randomized control trials that examined circumcision as a preventive measure for HIV infection. The nutshell version of this discussion is that clinical conditions that show promise do not necessarily translate into a real world net benefit.

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Male circumcision and sexual function in men and women: a survey-based, cross-sectional study in Denmark

by Tally on June 18, 2011
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Study published in International Journal of Epidemiology, April 2011. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr104

Background One-third of the world’s men are circumcised, but little is known about possible sexual consequences of male circumcision. In Denmark (∼5% circumcised), we examined associations of male circumcision with a range of sexual measures in both sexes.
  
Results . . . circumcised men reported more partners and were more likely to report frequent orgasm difficulties after adjustment for potential confounding factors, and women with circumcised spouses more often reported incomplete sexual needs fulfilment and frequent sexual function difficulties overall, notably orgasm difficulties and dyspareunia.
  
Conclusions Circumcision was associated with frequent orgasm difficulties in Danish men and with a range of frequent sexual difficulties in women, notably orgasm difficulties, dyspareunia and a sense of incomplete sexual needs fulfilment.

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Male Circumcision for the Prevention of Acquisition and Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections

by Tally on January 5, 2010
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Article published in Archive of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Jan. 2010; Vol. 164, No.

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Male Circumcision: Pain, Trauma and Psychosexual Sequelae

by Tally on January 20, 2010
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Study published in Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 3, 329-343 (2002). DOI: 10.1177/135910530200700310. The abstract states, "Infant male circumcision continues despite growing questions about its medical justification. As usually performed without analgesia or anaesthetic, circumcision is observably painful. It is likely that genital cutting has physical, sexual and psychological consequences too. Some studies link involuntary male circumcision with a range of negative emotions and even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some circumcised men have described their current feelings in the language of violation, torture, mutilation and sexual assault."

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Male genital mutilation: Beyond the tolerable?

by Tally-admin on August 22, 2010
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Paper published in Ethnicities, June 2010 vol. 10 no. 2 181-207. doi: 10.1177/1468796810361654. The author argues that the assumption that there is no harm and, consequently, no reason to intervene against male circumcision, is an erroneous assumption. He highlights evidence that suggests that, according to the criteria of sexual diminution, pain and coercion employed to criticize FGM, circumcision can be viewed as a harmful act of Male Genital Mutilation (MGM).

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Minimal impact of circumcision on HIV acquisition in men who have sex with men

by Tally-admin on November 10, 2010
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Paper published in Sexual Health, 7(4) 463–470, November 2010. doi:10.1071/SH09080. The authors developed a mathematical model to simulate HIV propagation within a MSM population. Conclusions: "The results of these calculations suggest that circumcision as a public health intervention will not produce a substantial decrease in HIV prevalence or incidence among MSM in the near future, and only modest reductions are achievable in the long-term."

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Neonatal circumcision: Effects on breastfeeding and outcomes associated with breastfeeding

by Tally on November 26, 2009
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Study published in Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Volume 44 Issue 1-2, Pages 44 - 49, 4 Sep 2007. The study documents a longitudinal study of over 1000 individuals born in Christchurch New Zealand in mid 1977. The authors concluded, "There was no evidence of an association between neonatal circumcision status and breastfeeding outcomes, or between circumcision status and health and cognitive ability outcomes associated with breastfeeding, and the findings do not support the view that neonatal circumcision disrupts breastfeeding."

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Not a surgical vaccine: there is no case for boosting infant male circumcision to combat heterosexual transmission of HIV in Australia

by Tally on October 15, 2011
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Not a surgical vaccine: there is no case for boosting infant male circumcision to combat heterosexual transmission of HIV in AustraliaAn article published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 35, Issue 5, pages 459–465, October 2011. DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00761.x

Objective: To conduct a critical review of recent proposals that widespread circumcision of male infants be introduced in Australia as a means of combating heterosexually transmitted HIV infection.
 

Approach: These arguments are evaluated in terms of their logic, coherence and fidelity to the principles of evidence-based medicine; the extent to which they take account of the evidence for circumcision having a protective effect against HIV and the practicality of circumcision as an HIV control strategy; the extent of its applicability to the specifics of Australia's HIV epidemic; the benefits, harms and risks of circumcision; and the associated human rights, bioethical and legal issues.
 

Conclusion: Our conclusion is that such proposals ignore doubts about the robustness of the evidence from the African random-controlled trials as to the protective effect of circumcision and the practical value of circumcision as a means of HIV control; misrepresent the nature of Australia's HIV epidemic and exaggerate the relevance of the African random-controlled trials findings to it; underestimate the risks and harm of circumcision; and ignore questions of medical ethics and human rights. The notion of circumcision as a ‘surgical vaccine’ is criticised as polemical and unscientific.

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Oral Glucose Solution for Analgesia in Infant Circumcision

by Tally on January 20, 2011
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The Journal of Family Practice, September 2001 · Vol. 50, No. 9

OBJECTIVE: Our objectives were to determine if a 50% dextrose solution would reduce the percentage of circumcision procedure time a neonate spent crying by 50%, compared with water, and whether it would be similar to a dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB).

STUDY DESIGN: This was a randomized placebo-controlled blinded clinical trial.

POPULATION: We included 71 patients who were recruited from the inpatient nursery of a military community hospital over a 5-month period.

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Outpatient Management of Phimosis Following Newborn Circumcision

by Tally on January 20, 2010
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Study published in The Journal of Urology, Volume 169, Issue 6, Pages 2332-2334 (June 2003). Doctors at a clinic reviewed their experience in treating patients with a trapped penis due to phimosis following newborn circumcision. The infants were circumcised with a Gomco device. Fifteen of 521 circumcised boys (2.9%) developed phimosis after circumcision.  Three boys had recurrence of phimosis after treatment.

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pdf: The Potential Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Tally on November 5, 2009
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A pdf file of the report of the trial investigating the effects of circumcision on Africans with respect to HIV infections.

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) has shown that male circumcision (MC) reduces sexual transmission of HIV from women to men by 60% (32% - 76%; 95% CI) offering an intervention of proven efficacy for reducing the sexual spread of HIV. We explore the implications of this finding for the promotion of MC as a public health intervention to control HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

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Penile injuries from proximal migration of the Plastibell circumcision ring

by Tally on September 11, 2010
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A study of Pastibell caused penile injuries published in Journal of Pediatric Urology, Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 23-27 (February 2010). Male infant circumcision has risks and complications. The Plastibell in particular is subject to complications because the plastic bell is left on the penis for an extended period with no doctor supervision or monitoring. Complications include extensive skin loss, urethrocutaneous fistulae, and partial necrosis of the glans penis.

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Penile Sensitivity and Sexual Satisfaction after Circumcision: Are We Informing Men Correctly?

by Tally on February 8, 2010
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A study published in Urologia Internationalis, Vol. 75, No. 1, 2005 (Urol Int 2005;75:62-66) (DOI: 10.1159/000085930). The authors assessed the effect of circumcision on sexually active men and the relative impact this may have on informed consent prior to surgery. 

The male subjects were circumcised for a benign desease. Penile sensation got worse for 18% of the men who got an adult circumcision. Only 61% of the men were satisfied with their adult circumcision. Considering that circumcision was for a disease, it is significant that not more men were satisfied with the cure.

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Population-based seroprevalence of HSV-2 and syphilis in Andhra Pradesh state of India

by Tally on March 9, 2010
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A study published in BMC Infectious Diseases, 2010, 10:59doi:10.1186/1471-2334-10-59. The authors determined that male circumcision was positively associated with HSV-2 infection.

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Prevalence of male circumcision and its association with HIV and sexually transmitted infections in a U.S. navy population

by Tally on September 10, 2011
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Study published in International Conference on AIDS, 15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand, July 11-16: abstract no. TuPeC4861. The Naval Health Research Center conducted a study of men assigned to aircraft carriers. The results showed that "lack of circumcision was not found to be a risk factor for HIV."

Conclusion: Male circumcision "is not associated with HIV or STI prevention in this U. S. military population."

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Residency Training in Neonatal Circumcision: A Pilot Study and Needs Assessment

by Tally-admin on November 28, 2010
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A study published in The Journal of Urology, Volume 184, Issue 4, Supplement, Pages 1754-1757 (October 2010). doi:10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.077 The authors performed a needs assessment to evaluate obstetric-gynecology residency training in neonatal circumcision. They identified that many OB/GYN residents are not qualified to identify when circumcision should not be performed.

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Routine circumcision: the opposing view

by Tally-admin on May 6, 2010
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Article by Dr. Andrew E. MacNeily, FRCSC, FAAP, published in Canada Urological Association Journal: Can Urol Assoc J. 2007 November; 1(4): 395397. Dr. MacNeily addresses the common myths that male infant cicrumcision has medical benefits. Using evidence based analysis, he disputes various claims and gives sound reasons why there is no benefit sufficient to justify infant circumcision.

Unfortunately, Dr. MacNeily does not address the current evidence that refutes many previous studies and information. For example, he says that penile cancer is reduced compared with uncircumcised men, although the American Cancer Society states that other factors contribute to penile cancer.

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Safety and Efficacy of Nontherapeutic Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review

by Tally on January 11, 2010
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Study published in Annals of Family Medicine, 8:64-72 (2010). doi: 10.1370/afm.1073. A meta analysis of the literature from 1997 through 2008 regarding male circumcision. The study found, "There is little evidence showing clinical benefit from nontherapeutic male circumcision." The implications were stated: "Patients who request circumcision for clinical reasons should be informed of the lack of consensus surrounding the procedure, the lack of strong evidence regarding its benefits, and the potential medical and psychosocial harms of the procedure."

The study concluded:

The role of adult nontherapeutic male circumcision in preventing sexually transmitted infections, urinary tract infections, and penile cancer remains unclear. Current evidence fails to recommend widespread neonatal circumcision for these purposes.

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Scarification and Male Circumcision Associated with HIV Infection in Mozambican Children and Youth

by Tally on September 25, 2011
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A study published in WebmedCentral Epidemiology, 2011;2(9):WMC002206, by Dr. Devon D Brewer. The study examined the association between male circumcision, scarification, and HIV infection in Mozambican children and youth with data from the 2009 Mozambique AIDS Indicator Survey. The study provides compelling evidence that male circumcision of infants and children, even if done in a medical setting, results in a higher rate of HIV infection for the males than if they remain intact. The study also calls into question studies that do not apply rigorous standards for controlling for other causes of HIV infection.

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Sensation and Sexual Arousal in Circumcised and Uncircumcised Men

by Tally-admin on April 5, 2010
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The study was published in Journal of Sexual Medicine, Vol. 4 Issue 3, Pages 667 - 674, May 2007. The researchers had 20 intact men and 20 circumcised men watch erotic films before they were tested for touch sensitivity. The researchers tested a spot on the glans, the penile shaft, and the forearm of each subject. The researchers found no significant difference in glans sensitivity between the subjects. Surprisingly, the intact men were less sensitive to touch on the forearm than the circumcised men.

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Sexual satisfaction of women partners of circumcised men in a randomized trial of male circumcision in Rakai, Uganda

by Tally on December 17, 2009
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Study published in the BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 104, Issue 11, Pages 1698-1701 (2009). The study determinded that for women in Uganda who had partners that were circumcised, 57.3% reported the same level of sexual satisfaction for before and after the circumcision, 39.8% reported more sexual satisfaction, and 2.9% reported less satisfaction.

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Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

by Tally on May 1, 2013
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ISRN Urology, Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 109846, 42 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/109846 Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

An article by Robert S. Van Howe of the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He performed a systematic review and meta-analyses of studies to determine the effects of male circumcision on various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). From the Abstract:

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and human papillomavirus are not significantly impacted by circumcision. Syphilis showed mixed results with studies of prevalence suggesting intact men were at great risk and studies of incidence suggesting the opposite. Intact men appear to be of greater risk for genital ulcerative disease while at lower risk for genital discharge syndrome, nonspecific urethritis, genital warts, and the overall risk of any sexually transmitted infection. In studies of general populations, there is no clear or consistent positive impact of circumcision on the risk of individual sexually transmitted infections. Consequently, the prevention of sexually transmitted infections cannot rationally be interpreted as a benefit of circumcision, and any policy of circumcision for the general population to prevent sexually transmitted infections is not supported by the evidence in the medical literature.

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Size Matters: The Number of Prostitutes and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

by Tally on November 17, 2009
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A study published at PLoS ONE 2(6): e543. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000543. "This paper provides strong evidence that when conducted properly, cross country regression data does not support the theory that male circumcision is the key to slowing the AIDS epidemic. Rather, it is the number of infected prostitutes in a country that is highly significant and robust in explaining HIV prevalence levels across countries." The article received several critical comments, including one by Halperin. The article's author John R. Talbott provides a very good rebuttal attacking the Africa trials' statistical analysis methodology.

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Sutureless prepuceplasty with wound healing by second intention: An alternative surgical approach in children's phimosis treatment

by Tally-admin on August 3, 2010
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A study published in BMC Urology 2008, 8:6 doi:10.1186/1471-2490-8-6. Children aged from 2 to 14 were diagnosed with phimoses, in addition to other ailments. The phimosis was treated with sutureless prepuceplasty with good results. A longitudinal dorsal slit is healed by second intention, that is, the wound is allowed to close naturally without sutures.

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Tachycardia and heart failure after ritual circumcision

by Tally-admin on May 10, 2010
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Research article published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol. 62, Issue 1, pp. 80-81, 1987. doi:10.1136/adc.62.1.80 

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Four newborn babies developed acute heart failure a few hours after circumcision at 8 days. During this procedure, a sponge soaked in epinephrine was applied to the circumcision site and left there for several hours. Treatment was with digoxin and diuretics and signs of heart failure disappeared within 24-72 hours.

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The effect of male circumcision on sexuality

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Study published in the BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages 619-622 (March 2007). The study showed that there was a loss of sexual pleasure and enjoyment for a significant percentage of men.

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The effect of male circumcision on the sexual enjoyment of the female partner

by Tally on October 23, 2009
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Paper published in BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), Volume 83, Suppl. 1, pages 79–84, (1999), and authored by K. O'Hara & J. O'Hara. The authors surveyed women having sexual experience with both circumcised and anatomically complete partners to determine if there were any differences in sexual enjoyment. They determined that circumcision results in a less satisfying sexual experience.

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The Effects of Circumcision on the Penis Microbiome

by Tally on January 8, 2010
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Study published in PLoS ONE, 5(1): e8422. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008422. The authors determined that there is a difference in the microbiota between circumcised and intact men.  Circumcision was associated with a significant change in the overall microbiota  and with a significant decrease in putative anaerobic bacterial families.

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The meatal/urethral width in healthy uncircumcised boys

by Tally on December 17, 2009
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Study published in Journal of Pediatric Urology, 2009 Aug 7. doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2009.07.007. "Knowledge of normal meatal/urethral width in a growing boy is important to create a neourethra of adequate size to correct hypospadias. Thus far, normal size values have been based on the study of circumcised, awake boys. The aim of this study was to measure normal urethral width in healthy uncircumcised boys under general anesthesia to provide a tool to create a neourethra of adequate size."

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The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision (Taylor)

by Tally on October 3, 2011
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The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision published in BJUI - British Journal of UrologyThe Taylor study was published in the British Journal of Urology (BJUI), Volume 77, Issue 2, pages 291–295, February 1996. DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410X.1996.85023.x A copy of the Taylor study is available at the The Circumcision Reference Libarary. Wiley Online Library maintains the journal copy of the study.

The authors, Taylor and Cold, dissected cadavers to thoroughly study the male prepuce (foreskin). They documented the innervation ofthe ridged band at the opening of the foreskin. The objective of the study was to assess the type and amount of tissue missing from the adult circumcised penis.

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The Professional Imperative for Obstetrician-Gynecologists to Discontinue Newborn Male Circumcision

by Tally on July 14, 2011
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Paper published in the American Journal of Perinatology, 01 February 2011, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 125-28 (2011). doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1263294. The author, Dr. James F. Smith, is chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) at the Creighton University School of Medicine, a maternal/fetal medicine specialist with Creighton Medical Associates, and a professor of OB/GYN with Creighton University School of Medicine. Dr. Smith calls on obstetricians and gynecologists to stop performing male circumcisions because the male genital surgery is outside the area of expertise of obstetricians and gynecologists.

Popular in the United States, it [male infant circumcision] has persisted in the scope of practice of obstetrics and gynecology, a field specializing in the opposite gender. To excel in women's reproductive health, we should no longer passively accept or actively maintain this procedure in our specialty. Steps are suggested to remove the residual and improper inclusion of circumcision from the scope of practice of obstetrics and gynecology.

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Traditional circumcision raises risk of infection, study shows

by Tally on April 2, 2010
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HAARETZ.com reports in a 2008 article that traditional circumcision results in an increased rate of urinary tract infections (UTIs) for male infants. "Circumcision as performed by mohels, men whose profession is performing the Jewish ritual of brit milah, leads to a high rate of urinary tract infections among babies, according to a report released recently by physicians at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva."

The article reports that the researchers "found urinary tract infections to be far more common among babies who had undergone circumcision by a mohel rather than a physician." One researcher said, "Without appropriate and intensive treatment, the bacteria could reach the blood, possibly even causing death." The researchers believe the infections are caused by the bandage left on the penis after circumcision.

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Circumcision Video (2)

Videos showing male infant circumcision

Neonatal (infant) circumcision

by Tally on October 1, 2011
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXVFFI76ff0

This is a YouTube video of a male infant circumcision showing the doctor informing the parents that infant circumcision is only cosmetic and has no medical benefits. For some reason, the parents still want to cut the sex organ of their baby boy. There there is the surgery in graphic detail. I cannot watch such videos. I cannot bear to hear the screams of a baby boy having the most sensitive part of his body being cut off.

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YouTube Video: Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital

by Tally on February 5, 2012
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceht-3xu84I

Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the HospitalChild Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital is a video by Ryan McAllister, PhD. McAllister presents a lecture for folks on all sides of the male circumcision debate. The video presentation covers circumcision history in the English-speaking world. He replaces the loaded words and terms surrounding the subject -- such as circumcised and uncircumcised -- with more neutral terms such as "genital cutting," and "intact."  McAllister presents a fresh look at circumcision. 

Today, many Americans think of circumcision as an outdated surgical procedure that is harmful for baby boys. Even still, neonatal male circumcision remains the most common operation carried out in the US today.

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Ethics (7)

A covenant with the status quo? Male circumcision and the new BMA guidance to doctors

by Tally-admin on June 7, 2010
Visit http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/8/463.abstract?sid=d83f1735-3009-4464-9e24-ca94c3140d1a

Article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 31, Issue 8, 2005;31:463-469 doi:10.1136/jme.2004.009340. The authors conclude that "it is ethically inappropriate to subject children—male or female—to the acknowledged risks of circumcision and contend that there is no compelling legal authority for the common view that male circumcision is lawful."

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Circumcision and the Code of Ethics

by Tally on February 23, 2010
Visit http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/denniston/

Article published in Humane Health Care International, Volume 12, Number 2: Pages 78-80, April 1996. Circumcision is the act of one person removing a part of the penis of another person.

  • Infant circumcision violates the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (Many pro-circ advocates say it is necessary to circumcise infants because adults will not want it done).
  • Infant circumcision violates a major tenet of medical practice: First do no harm.
  • Infant circumcision violates all seven Principles of Medical Ethics.
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Circumcision policy: A psychosocial perspective

by Tally-admin on May 6, 2010
Visit http://www.circumcision.org/policy.htm

An article by Ronald Goldman, PhD, published in Paediatrics & Chid Health, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 630-33 (November 2003).  The article provides a very good overview of the current social standing of male infant circumcision. The author makes the point that the current reluctance to confront the religious issue undermines the core values (e.g., the health of the patient is paramount) and ethics (e.g., first, do no harm) that drive medical decision-making.

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Cutting through red tape: non-therapeutic circumcision and unethical guidelines

by Tally on December 5, 2009
Visit http://ce.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/4/181

Paper published in Clinical Ethics, 2009;4:181-186.  doi:10.1258/ce.2009.009029. David Shaw, Faculty of Medicine and Centre for Applied Ethics & Legal Philosophy, University of Glasgow, writes that the current General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines are flawed in stating that any doctor who does not wish to carry out a non-therapeutic circumcision (NTC) on a boy must invoke conscientious objection.

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Male genital mutilation: Beyond the tolerable?

by Tally-admin on August 22, 2010
Visit http://etn.sagepub.com/content/10/2/181.abstract

Paper published in Ethnicities, June 2010 vol. 10 no. 2 181-207. doi: 10.1177/1468796810361654. The author argues that the assumption that there is no harm and, consequently, no reason to intervene against male circumcision, is an erroneous assumption. He highlights evidence that suggests that, according to the criteria of sexual diminution, pain and coercion employed to criticize FGM, circumcision can be viewed as a harmful act of Male Genital Mutilation (MGM).

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The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision

by Tally on November 6, 2009
Visit http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2009/11/06/the-ethics-of-neonatal-circumcision/

Gender Across Borders, a global feminist blog, discusses the ethics of infant circumcision. The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision considers personal autonomy. The person undergoing routine infant circumcision is an infant who has not consented to the surgery, which lacks a clear medical need.

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The law and ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors

by Tally on November 6, 2009
Visit http://www.bma.org.uk/ethics/consent_and_capacity/malecircumcision2006.jsp

British Medical Association page from November 2007 discussing the Law and ethics of male circumcision. The paper states that routine infant circumcision is permitted by UK law. The BMA discusses ethics without declaring if routine infant circumcision is ethical or not.

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Genital Integrity (20)

Association for Genital Integrity

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://www.courtchallenge.com/

The Association for Genital Integrity is a Canadian group committed to raising public awareness of the issues surrounding infant male circumcision. The Association seeks to promote the right of every child to bodily integrity. The site includes Canadian statistics. 

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Attorneys for the Rights of the Child - ARC

by Tally on November 26, 2009
Visit http://www.arclaw.org/

ARC, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, is an international network of attorneys and other supporters of child rights. ARC was founded by J. Steven Svoboda in 1997 and continues to strongly advocate for child rights.

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BIID Info: The most comprehensive source of information about Body Integrity Identity Disorder

by Tally on November 7, 2009
Visit http://biid-info.org/Main_Page

The BIID site aims to inform people about a relatively unknown and misunderstood condition which leads people to need an impairment of some sort. The most often sought impairments are: amputation, paraplegia, blindness, deafness. 

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Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)

by Tally on November 7, 2009
Visit http://www.biid.org/

The Body Integrity Identity Disorder site seeks to increase the knowledge about the disorder. BIID is a psychological condition in which a person seeks an elective amputation. "Individuals with this condition experience the persistent desire to have their body physically match the idealized image they have of themselves." The site includes links to various papers and reports.

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Book: Children's Genitals Under The Knife

by Tally on December 5, 2009
Visit https://www.createspace.com/3353032

Children's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And ShameChildren's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And Shame, By Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

The object of this book is to give voice to the multitudes of human beings who exist behind the statistics on genital surgery performed on them when they were non-consenting children, and who have long endured their suffering in silence, for reasons of suppression, desperation, or shame. I have endeavored to create an understanding of the connection between genital surgery perpetrated on infants and children too young to be capable of meaningful consent or effective protest, and of the frequently cataclysmic diminution in quality of life that they have suffered as a consequence.
 

To anyone not totally steeped in denial, or tyrannized by social custom, as most people in genitally mutilating societies certainly tend to be, whether we are talking about female genital cutting, inter-sex surgery or male foreskin ablation, it should be perfectly obvious that genital cutting of any sort is the kind of nightmarish event that makes the most cruel reality of a child's ultimate fears.

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Book: The Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA

by Tally on December 5, 2009
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The Rape of Innocence female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USAThe Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA, By Patricia Robinett

Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.

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BoysToo®

by Tally on October 22, 2009
Visit http://www.boystoo.com/

BoysToo®  is dedicated to equal rights to genital integrity for both boys and girls.

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International Coalition for Genital Integrity

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://www.icgi.org/

The International Coalition for Genital Integrity is an alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the normal anatomy of males, females and the intersexed, and supporter of the Genital Integrity Resolution. ICGI was formed to coalesce the many activist organizations, each with a specific focus, into one, common voice.

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Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)

by Tally on October 29, 2009
Visit http://www.isna.org/

The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female. The site has guidelines, tips for parents, a teaching kit, and a FAQ for disorders of sex development (DSDs).

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MGMbill.org Publications

by Tally on October 28, 2009
Visit http://www.mgmbill.org/publications.htm

MGMbill.org offers various publications, including a Human Rights Report,  Male Genital Mutilation Policy Statement (2006),  The Truth Seeker: Crimes of Genital Mutilation, and miscellaneous flyers and fact sheets.

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Nurses for the Rights of the Child

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://nurses.cirp.org/

Nurses for the Rights of the Child is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity. The group seeks to protect unconsenting infants and children from surgical alterations of their healthy genitals.

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Nurses Speak Out Against Circumcision: U.S. Cited for Rampant Human Rights Violations

by Tally on October 14, 2010
Visit http://www.drcat.org/articles_interviews/html/NursesAgainstCircumcision.html

Cat Saunders writes about how male infant circumcision violates the human rights of baby boys.She believes that the continued circumcision of baby boys in the US is a violation of their human rights.

We Americans recoil in horror at reports of female circumcision in other countries, yet we refuse to see that brutal acts of genital mutilation are committed every day on baby boys in the United States.

—Cat Saunders

Dr. Cat interviews a group of nurses from St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These nurses felt ethically obligated to become conscientious objectors to circumcision. They took a stand and refuse to participate in infant circumcision at the hospital.

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Students for Genital Integrity (SGI)

by Tally on October 29, 2009
Visit http://www.studentsforgenitalintegrity.org/

Students for Genital Integrity (SGI) is group committed to ending the pratice of forced genital cutting; a human rights abuse perpetuated on children by adults. This abuse is often done in order to conform the body to a particular society's concepts of aesthetics and normality.

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The Ashley Montagu Campaign Against the Torture and Mutilation of Children

by Tally on November 2, 2009
Visit http://www.montagunocircpetition.org/index.pg

The Ashley Montagu Resolution and Petition website advocates against the ritual mutiation of genitals of both male and female children.

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The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision

by Tally on November 6, 2009
Visit http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2009/11/06/the-ethics-of-neonatal-circumcision/

Gender Across Borders, a global feminist blog, discusses the ethics of infant circumcision. The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision considers personal autonomy. The person undergoing routine infant circumcision is an infant who has not consented to the surgery, which lacks a clear medical need.

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The law and ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors

by Tally on November 6, 2009
Visit http://www.bma.org.uk/ethics/consent_and_capacity/malecircumcision2006.jsp

British Medical Association page from November 2007 discussing the Law and ethics of male circumcision. The paper states that routine infant circumcision is permitted by UK law. The BMA discusses ethics without declaring if routine infant circumcision is ethical or not.

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The Seattle Compromise: Multicultural Sensitivity and Americanization

by Tally on February 19, 2010
Visit http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?47+Duke+L.+J.+717

An article published in the Duke Law Journal, 47 Duke L.J. 717 (February 1999). The article discusses the attempt by a Seattle, Washington, hospital to perform a symbolic sunna (female circumcision) on the daughters of Somali immigrants. The Somalis threatened to have a traditional circumcision performed on the girls if the hospital did not do something.

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The Truth Seeker July/August 1989: Crimes of Genital Mutilation

by Tally on March 15, 2010
Visit http://mgmbill.org/crimesofgenitalmutilation.pdf

The July/August 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker, a Freethinker's Publication, deals entirely with genital mutilation. The publication provides very good articles and information on the harms of circumcision, both for infant boys and prepubescent girls.

The link is to a pdf file of the 68 page publication.

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What if Its (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?

by Tally-admin on July 8, 2010
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24intersexkids.html

A New York Times article from September 24, 2006, about Cheryl Chase. Cheryl was born with a large clitorus that was removed as a child. She became a strong advocate for intersexed people and formed Intersex Society of North America.

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YouTube: 2009 SF Pride Parade - Intactivists

by Tally on November 29, 2009
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKg63wmlozM

Video of intactivists marching in the 2009 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, California. An uplifting look at how the pro-intact message is being delivered.

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Myths of Circ (4)

18 Dispelling Myths About Circumcision

by Tally on October 24, 2009
Visit http://pharmtips.com/2008/11/27/dispelling-myths-about-circumcision/

A November 2008 article discussing 18 common myths about routine infant circumcision.

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Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision

by Tally on October 26, 2009
Visit http://www.cutthefilm.com/

Cut is a documentary film by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon which examines the subject of male circumcision from a religious, scientific and ethical perspective. Using cutting-edge research, in addition to interview footage of rabbis, philosophers, and scientists, Cut challenges the viewer to confront their biases by asking difficult questions about this long-standing practice.

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Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women: An interview with Fuambai S. Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder

by Tally on January 21, 2010
Visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00699.x/pdf

An interview published in Anthropology Today, Volume 25, Issue 6 (p 14-17). DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00699.x  Fuambai S. Ahmadu is both a professional anthropologist and an initiated member of the Bondo society of Sierra Leone. She said that she is confident that she gets all the satisfaction of anyone when she makes love. "According to her [Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, the author of Prisoners of ritual] five-year research, 94% of circumcised women reported sexual satisfaction and orgasm and many said they had sex three or four times a week."

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Does Circumcision Prevent Cervical Cancer?

by Tally-admin on April 13, 2010
Visit http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/148237/does_circumcision_prevent_cervical.html?cat=70

A 2007 article in AssociatedContent Health and Wellness regarding the myth of male circumcision preventing cervical cancer. The article describes the history of research on circumcision and cervical cancer. The various studies are consdered and flaws are pointed out that make the results questionable. It is significant that the American Cancer Society does not identify circumcision status as a risk factor for cervical cancer.

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Parental Decision (5)

NotJustSkin

by Tally on October 23, 2009
Visit http://www.notjustskin.org/

NotJustSkin is an educational charity that is not associated with the government or any private corporation. "Our mission is to support the physical health, emotional wellness, and quality of relationships of children, parents, and others."  People are not just skin. The site has a circumcision FAQ.

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The Vulnerability of Men

by Tally on November 5, 2009
Visit http://amygilliland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Vulnerability_of_Men-copy.pdf

The Vulnerability of Men is a thoughtful article by an intact man describing why a circumcised father would want to circumcise his son. The author, Vincent Bach, describes the typical stages a cut man goes through when first confronted with the question of whether his son should be circumcised.

Vincent believes that the driving force behind circumcision in the United States is circumcised men. Many circumcised men feel cornered because they had their penis reduced by circumcision without their consent. His sexual well-being is based on how he perceives himself, and that includes seeing himself with a circumcised penis. To allow his son to remain intact would be to admit that he has less than a full, complete sex organ.

The page was also reproduced at Circumstitions. The content has since moved.
Edited October 28, 2018

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What if Its (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?

by Tally-admin on July 8, 2010
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24intersexkids.html

A New York Times article from September 24, 2006, about Cheryl Chase. Cheryl was born with a large clitorus that was removed as a child. She became a strong advocate for intersexed people and formed Intersex Society of North America.

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Whose Decision Is It?

by Tally on December 9, 2009
Visit http://www.mothering.com/health/whose-decision-is-it

Mothering magazine article about the decision on circumcision.

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YouTube: Look just like Dad, by matching genitalia?

by Tally on March 28, 2010
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcIf6xRFPpw

A news video about infant circumcision in the Untied States. The reporter documents that the infants feel pain during circumcision because doctors do not like to use general anesthesia and, instead, use a topical pain relief, which has been proven to be ineffective. The reporter concludes that infant circumcision is unnecessary because there is no medical reason to perform routine infant circumcision.

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Religion (4)

Religious viewpoints regarding circumcision

Brit Shalom Celebrants

by Tally on November 12, 2009
Visit http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html

Animated Brit Shalom logo from Circumstitions.comBrit Shalom is a non-cutting naming ceremony that replaces Brit Milah (ritual circumcision) for newborn Jewish boys. Brit shalom can be similar to the naming ceremony traditionally used for baby girls. It may be performed by a Rabbi or other experienced lay leader.

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Catholics Against Circumcision

by Tally on March 10, 2010
Visit http://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org/

Catholics Against Circumcision respects the bodily integrity rights of male and female children.  Children have a right to be free from unnecessary amputations (circumcision or genital mutilation) that cause pain, trauma, scarring, and loss to their perfect bodies. New Testament Scriptures teach us that the Old Testament Law that required circumcision was rescinded after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Circumcision - Does the Qur'an Approve it?

by Tally on January 17, 2010
Visit http://www.quranicpath.com/misconceptions/circumcision.html

Circumcision in Islam - a webpage for Muslims

Circumcision - Does the Qur'an Approve it?

   ختان‎    -    Khitan  -  Khatna  -  Sunat  -  Musolmani  -  Tuli  -  Urkwtha  -  Tahara  -  Touhur  -  Sünnet  -  Koran  -  Quran

A webpage describing circumcision and Islam. The page describes circumcision and what is removed from the penis. The Qur'an is quoted to show that Allah created human beings perfectly. Circumcision is not needed nor is it in the Qur'an.

The page provides a very good discussion on how Male Circumcision adversely affects the mechanics of sexual intercourse and why many circumcised men do not complain.

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YouTube: Cutting with Tradition Part 1 (Jewish Circumcision)

by Tally on November 12, 2009
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAhU5_xO8A

A 3-part video of the decision regarding with Jewish tradition of brit milah, the covenent of circumcision, the infant boy. "Two couple's touching stories, one from Israel and one from the US, are interwoven as they thoughtfully ponder what they are going to do."

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Female Circumcision (FGM) (8)

Book: Children's Genitals Under The Knife

by Tally on December 5, 2009
Visit https://www.createspace.com/3353032

Children's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And ShameChildren's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And Shame, By Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

The object of this book is to give voice to the multitudes of human beings who exist behind the statistics on genital surgery performed on them when they were non-consenting children, and who have long endured their suffering in silence, for reasons of suppression, desperation, or shame. I have endeavored to create an understanding of the connection between genital surgery perpetrated on infants and children too young to be capable of meaningful consent or effective protest, and of the frequently cataclysmic diminution in quality of life that they have suffered as a consequence.
 

To anyone not totally steeped in denial, or tyrannized by social custom, as most people in genitally mutilating societies certainly tend to be, whether we are talking about female genital cutting, inter-sex surgery or male foreskin ablation, it should be perfectly obvious that genital cutting of any sort is the kind of nightmarish event that makes the most cruel reality of a child's ultimate fears.

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Book: The Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA

by Tally on December 5, 2009
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The Rape of Innocence female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USAThe Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA, By Patricia Robinett

Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.

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Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women: An interview with Fuambai S. Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder

by Tally on January 21, 2010
Visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00699.x/pdf

An interview published in Anthropology Today, Volume 25, Issue 6 (p 14-17). DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00699.x  Fuambai S. Ahmadu is both a professional anthropologist and an initiated member of the Bondo society of Sierra Leone. She said that she is confident that she gets all the satisfaction of anyone when she makes love. "According to her [Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, the author of Prisoners of ritual] five-year research, 94% of circumcised women reported sexual satisfaction and orgasm and many said they had sex three or four times a week."

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Pleasure and Orgasm in Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

by Tally on December 15, 2009
Visit http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118496293/abstract

Study published in Journal of Sexual Medicine, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 1666-78 (Oct. 23, 2007). The study found that significant percentages of women still experience orgasms after genital mutilation.

Results. The group of 137 women, affected by different types of FGM/C, reported orgasm in almost 86%, always 69.23%; 58 mutilated young women reported orgasm in 91.43%, always 8.57%; after defibulation 14 out of 15 infibulated women reported orgasm; the group of 57 infibulated women investigated with the FSFI questionnaire showed significant differences between group of study and an equivalent group of control in desire, arousal, orgasm, and satisfaction with mean scores higher in the group of mutilated women. No significant differences were observed between the two groups in lubrication and pain.

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Prevalence and Risk Determinants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (HIV-2) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) in West African Female Prostitutes

by Tally on January 2, 2010
Visit http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/136/7/895.abstract

Study published in American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 136, No. 7: 895-907 (1992). The authors found that "a history of excision and BCG vaccinations decreased the risk of HIV-2 infection." That is, women who had undergone female genital cutting had reduced risk of HIV infection.

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Statement by African Women Are Free to Choose (AWA-FC), Washington DC, USA

by Tally on December 23, 2010
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NOTE: The Patriotic Vanguard website is off-line. The Wayback Machine has a copy of Statement by African Women Are Free to Choose (AWA-FC), Washington DC, USA. Other copies can be found on the net by searching for "Statement by African Women Are Free to Choose."

A statement by African Women Are Free to Choose (AWA-FC) published in The Patriotic Vanguard on February 20, 2009. Western culture abhors female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision (FC), although the culture accepts and endorses male genital mutatilation (MGM), commonly called male circumcision. The African Women Are Free to Choose organization asks Westerners to leave their female cutting culture alone. The AWA-FC claim that female circumcision is not mutilation.

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The Seattle Compromise: Multicultural Sensitivity and Americanization

by Tally on February 19, 2010
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An article published in the Duke Law Journal, 47 Duke L.J. 717 (February 1999). The article discusses the attempt by a Seattle, Washington, hospital to perform a symbolic sunna (female circumcision) on the daughters of Somali immigrants. The Somalis threatened to have a traditional circumcision performed on the girls if the hospital did not do something.

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The Truth Seeker July/August 1989: Crimes of Genital Mutilation

by Tally on March 15, 2010
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The July/August 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker, a Freethinker's Publication, deals entirely with genital mutilation. The publication provides very good articles and information on the harms of circumcision, both for infant boys and prepubescent girls.

The link is to a pdf file of the 68 page publication.

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Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S. - Why the Difference?

by Tally on April 4, 2010
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An article in Advocates of Youth that compares data between Europe and the United States.

In France, Germany, and the Netherlands, two things create greater, easier access to sexual health information and services for all people, including teens. They are: 1) societal openness and comfort in dealing with sexuality, including teen sexuality; and 2) pragmatic governmental policies. The result - better sexual health outcomes for French, German, and Dutch teens when compared to U.S. teens.

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Circumcision among men who have sex with men in Scotland: limited potential for HIV prevention

by Tally-admin on July 8, 2010
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A study published Sexually Transmitted Infections, doi:10.1136/sti.2010.042895, determined that there was no association between circumcision and HIV for men having sex with men. The researchers concluded that circumcision is unlikely to be a feasible HIV prevention strategy for gay men in the UK.

This study supports other studies that found no link between circumcision status and HIV infection rates among homosexual men.

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Circumcision and its potential impact on the spread of HIV among gay and bisexual men

by Tally on December 22, 2009
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Banner logo for CATIE-News: Bite-sized HIV/AIDS news bulletins published by Canadian AIDS Treatement Information Exchange.CATIE-News: Bite-sized HIV/AIDS news bulletins published by Canadian AIDS Treatement Information Exchange. The page addresses many of the current studies and meta-analysis for HIV and the gay man. The results of the various studies and meta-analysis are consistent and show that there is little to no benefit in circumcising gay men to reduce HIV.

Researchers studying the increase and spread of HIV have concluded in several studies that increases in high-risk sex have overwhelmed any decrease in infectivity due to HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). This does not mean that current HIV prevention efforts have failedwithout these efforts, rates of new cases of HIV and STIs might be much higher. This environment of high-risk sex and STIs must be taken into account when considering the potential impact and rollout of new prevention interventions--such as male circumcision, microbicides or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)--in gay and bisexual men in high-income countries.

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Circumcision and Risk of Sexually Transmissible Infections in a Community‐Based Cohort of HIV‐Negative Homosexual Men in Sydney, Australia

by Tally on November 14, 2009
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Study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2009; 200:000–000. DOI: 10.1086/648376. The authors found a correlation of reduced incidence of syphilis among men who reported predominantly insertive unprotected anal intercourse.

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Circumcision in Australia: further evidence on its effects on sexual health and wellbeing

by Tally on April 14, 2010
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Study published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol. 34 Issue 2, Pages 160 - 164 (April 2010).  The study concluded that "Circumcision appears to have minimal protective effects on sexual health in Australia." Translated into English, "Circumcised men do not have any additional protection against sexually transmitted diseases."

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Circumcision in HIV-infected men and its effect on HIV transmission to female partners in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised controlled trial

by Tally on December 11, 2009
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Study published in The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9685, Pages 229 - 237, 18 July 2009. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60998-3.  The study assessed whether circumcision in HIV-infected men would reduce transmission of the virus to female sexual partners. Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months; longer-term effects could not be assessed. Condom use after male circumcision is essential for HIV prevention.  The results indicate that there is a probability of 21.7% HIV infection rate for female partners of circumcised HIV infected men, compared to 13.4% HIV infection rate for female partners of HIV infected men. Women with circumcised partners had more than a 50% increase in the infection rate of women compared to women with un-circumcised partners.

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Circumcision in the United States: Prevalence, Prophylactic Effects, and Sexual Practice

by Tally on February 5, 2010
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Study published in JAMA, 1997; 277(13): 1052-1057. The objective was to assess the prevalence of circumcision across various social groups and examine the health and sexual outcomes of circumcision. The authors analyzed the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) data to determine the effects of circumcision. The results indicate, "We find no significant differences between circumcised and uncircumcised men in their likelihood of contracting sexually transmitted diseases." 

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Circumcision not enough to stop HIV, experts warn experts

by Tally on October 25, 2009
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The Daily Nation, a Kenyan news site, reports on September 26, 2009, that recent findings show an increase in HIV infection in regions where most males are circumcised.

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Future HIV Therapy: Male circumcision is not the HIV ‘vaccine’ we have been waiting for!

by Tally on June 1, 2010
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Article published in Future Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 193-199 , May 2008. DOI 10.2217/17469600.2.3.193 The authors examine the three randomized clinical trials (RCTs) conducted in Africa and find them wanting. A recent commentary claims that circumcision is "at least as good as the HIV vaccine we have been waiting for, praying for and hoping to see in our lifetimes." The article provides an analysis that refutes that statement.

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HIV infection and circumcision: cutting through the hyperbole

by Tally on October 26, 2009
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Published in The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 125, No. 6, 259-265 (2005) (DOI: 10.1177/146642400512500607). The authors conclude, "Even if effective, mass circumcision as a preventive measure for HIV in developed countries is difficult to justify."

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HIV-1 Interactions and Infection in Adult Male Foreskin Explant Cultures

by Tally on December 6, 2009
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Paper from 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (2009).  A pdf file of the paper is available on the website.

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How the circumcision solution in Africa will increase HIV infections

by Tally on April 18, 2011
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Journal of Public Health in Africa: How the circumcision solution in Africa will increase HIV infectionsPaper published in Journal of Public Health in Africa,  Vol 2, No 1 (2011); 2:e4. doi:10.4081/jphia.2011.e4

The article was authored by Dr. Robert S. Van Howe, a pediatrician who has studied the harmful effects of infant circumcision. In this paper, Dr. Van Howe examines the oft-cited randomized clinical trials (RCTs) performed in Africa.

Based on the evidence collected in the RCTs and presented in the numerous studies based on the RCTs, Dr. Van Howe determined that the published results are overstated and unsupported by the evidence. He concludes that the "circumcision solution is a wasteful distraction that takes resources away from more effective, less expensive, less invasive alternatives. By diverting attention away from more effective interventions, circumcision programs will likely increase the number of HIV infections."

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Langerhans cells limit HIV invasion

by Tally on November 27, 2009
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Note published in The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 177, No. 1, 5 (March 2007), doi:10.1083/jcb.1771rr5, refers to de Witte* study in Nat. Med. doi:10.1038/nm1541. Further research shows that a suspected entry route for HIV is a dead end. Langerhans cells, rather than transmitting the virus to T cells, trap HIV-1 and thus act as a barrier to infection. The foreskin of the male penis has Langerhans cells, but they are removed, along with the foreskin, during circumcision.

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Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Insufficient Evidence and Neglected External Validity

by Tally on June 12, 2011
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Article in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 479-482, November 2010. The authors discuss the "external validity" of the three African randomized control trials that examined circumcision as a preventive measure for HIV infection. The nutshell version of this discussion is that clinical conditions that show promise do not necessarily translate into a real world net benefit.

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Male Circumcision and HIV: A Public Health Policy Weblog

by Tally on November 5, 2009
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The Male Circumcision and HIV blog presents current information on policy decisions and various actions by organizations that can affect policy.

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Michael Fumento: The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS - A Nine-Year Retrospective of Fear and (Mostly) Loathing

by Tally on April 14, 2010
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A well-researched article by Michael Fumento describing the transmission vectors of AIDS, as backed up by statistics. The author notes that much dis-information is promulgated regarding heterosexual AIDS. Citing statistics, Fumento notes that there are few cases of heterosexual AIDS that withstand scrutiny.

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Minimal impact of circumcision on HIV acquisition in men who have sex with men

by Tally-admin on November 10, 2010
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Paper published in Sexual Health, 7(4) 463–470, November 2010. doi:10.1071/SH09080. The authors developed a mathematical model to simulate HIV propagation within a MSM population. Conclusions: "The results of these calculations suggest that circumcision as a public health intervention will not produce a substantial decrease in HIV prevalence or incidence among MSM in the near future, and only modest reductions are achievable in the long-term."

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Not a surgical vaccine: there is no case for boosting infant male circumcision to combat heterosexual transmission of HIV in Australia

by Tally on October 15, 2011
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Not a surgical vaccine: there is no case for boosting infant male circumcision to combat heterosexual transmission of HIV in AustraliaAn article published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 35, Issue 5, pages 459–465, October 2011. DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00761.x

Objective: To conduct a critical review of recent proposals that widespread circumcision of male infants be introduced in Australia as a means of combating heterosexually transmitted HIV infection.
 

Approach: These arguments are evaluated in terms of their logic, coherence and fidelity to the principles of evidence-based medicine; the extent to which they take account of the evidence for circumcision having a protective effect against HIV and the practicality of circumcision as an HIV control strategy; the extent of its applicability to the specifics of Australia's HIV epidemic; the benefits, harms and risks of circumcision; and the associated human rights, bioethical and legal issues.
 

Conclusion: Our conclusion is that such proposals ignore doubts about the robustness of the evidence from the African random-controlled trials as to the protective effect of circumcision and the practical value of circumcision as a means of HIV control; misrepresent the nature of Australia's HIV epidemic and exaggerate the relevance of the African random-controlled trials findings to it; underestimate the risks and harm of circumcision; and ignore questions of medical ethics and human rights. The notion of circumcision as a ‘surgical vaccine’ is criticised as polemical and unscientific.

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Prevalence and Risk Determinants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (HIV-2) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) in West African Female Prostitutes

by Tally on January 2, 2010
Visit http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/136/7/895.abstract

Study published in American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 136, No. 7: 895-907 (1992). The authors found that "a history of excision and BCG vaccinations decreased the risk of HIV-2 infection." That is, women who had undergone female genital cutting had reduced risk of HIV infection.

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Prevalence of male circumcision and its association with HIV and sexually transmitted infections in a U.S. navy population

by Tally on September 10, 2011
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Study published in International Conference on AIDS, 15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand, July 11-16: abstract no. TuPeC4861. The Naval Health Research Center conducted a study of men assigned to aircraft carriers. The results showed that "lack of circumcision was not found to be a risk factor for HIV."

Conclusion: Male circumcision "is not associated with HIV or STI prevention in this U. S. military population."

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Scarification and Male Circumcision Associated with HIV Infection in Mozambican Children and Youth

by Tally on September 25, 2011
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A study published in WebmedCentral Epidemiology, 2011;2(9):WMC002206, by Dr. Devon D Brewer. The study examined the association between male circumcision, scarification, and HIV infection in Mozambican children and youth with data from the 2009 Mozambique AIDS Indicator Survey. The study provides compelling evidence that male circumcision of infants and children, even if done in a medical setting, results in a higher rate of HIV infection for the males than if they remain intact. The study also calls into question studies that do not apply rigorous standards for controlling for other causes of HIV infection.

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Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

by Tally on May 1, 2013
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ISRN Urology, Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 109846, 42 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/109846 Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

An article by Robert S. Van Howe of the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He performed a systematic review and meta-analyses of studies to determine the effects of male circumcision on various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). From the Abstract:

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and human papillomavirus are not significantly impacted by circumcision. Syphilis showed mixed results with studies of prevalence suggesting intact men were at great risk and studies of incidence suggesting the opposite. Intact men appear to be of greater risk for genital ulcerative disease while at lower risk for genital discharge syndrome, nonspecific urethritis, genital warts, and the overall risk of any sexually transmitted infection. In studies of general populations, there is no clear or consistent positive impact of circumcision on the risk of individual sexually transmitted infections. Consequently, the prevention of sexually transmitted infections cannot rationally be interpreted as a benefit of circumcision, and any policy of circumcision for the general population to prevent sexually transmitted infections is not supported by the evidence in the medical literature.

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Size Matters: The Number of Prostitutes and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

by Tally on November 17, 2009
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A study published at PLoS ONE 2(6): e543. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000543. "This paper provides strong evidence that when conducted properly, cross country regression data does not support the theory that male circumcision is the key to slowing the AIDS epidemic. Rather, it is the number of infected prostitutes in a country that is highly significant and robust in explaining HIV prevalence levels across countries." The article received several critical comments, including one by Halperin. The article's author John R. Talbott provides a very good rebuttal attacking the Africa trials' statistical analysis methodology.

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YouTube: Dr. Dean Edell AIDS - Circumcision Fallacy

by Tally on October 22, 2009
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Dr. Dean Edell discusses the misleading and unsound arguments in the current drive to circumcise Africa. See the video below.

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Circumcision and Acquisition of Human Papillomavirus Infection in Young Men

by Tally on September 10, 2011
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Study published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 22 August 2011,doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31822e60cb.

Methods: Male university students (aged 18-20 years) were recruited from 2003 to 2009 and followed up triannually. Shaft/scrotum, glans, and urine samples were tested for 37 [alpha] human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes.

Results: In 477 men, rates of acquiring clinically relevant HPV types (high-risk types plus types 6 and 11) did not differ significantly by circumcision status.

Conclusions:Although the likelihood of HPV acquisition did not differ by circumcision status, uncircumcised men were more likely than circumcised men to have infections detected at multiple genital sites, which may have implications for HPV transmission.

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Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

by Tally on May 1, 2013
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ISRN Urology, Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 109846, 42 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/109846 Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

An article by Robert S. Van Howe of the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He performed a systematic review and meta-analyses of studies to determine the effects of male circumcision on various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). From the Abstract:

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and human papillomavirus are not significantly impacted by circumcision. Syphilis showed mixed results with studies of prevalence suggesting intact men were at great risk and studies of incidence suggesting the opposite. Intact men appear to be of greater risk for genital ulcerative disease while at lower risk for genital discharge syndrome, nonspecific urethritis, genital warts, and the overall risk of any sexually transmitted infection. In studies of general populations, there is no clear or consistent positive impact of circumcision on the risk of individual sexually transmitted infections. Consequently, the prevention of sexually transmitted infections cannot rationally be interpreted as a benefit of circumcision, and any policy of circumcision for the general population to prevent sexually transmitted infections is not supported by the evidence in the medical literature.

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Book: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

by Tally on May 19, 2010
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Buy the book from Amazon: A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in BritainThe book A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain is a critical look at why male infant circumcision became prevalent in Britian.

The Victorian era is examined, along with the medical establishment's idea at that time that the foreskin must be excised as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of A Surgical Temptation.

The author reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male sexuality. Many men in the US claim that their infant circumcision has not affected them in any way. Unfortunately, men cut at birth have no way of telling how their sexual pleasure has been affected by their infant circumcision. This book attempts to add a ray of light to the circumcision controversy.

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Edgar Schoen does not represent the North American view of male circumcision

by Tally on October 21, 2009
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Article from Arch Dis Child (Archives of Disease in Childhood), 2006 January; 91(1): 92. The authors "dispute the claim that Schoen represents the North American view. We think that he represents only his personal view and that of a few disciples."

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Information on @Circinfo

by Tally on October 27, 2009
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Circinfo is a Twitter user who incessantly posts a pro-circ stream of tweets. This May 2009 blog discusses his tweets and his tactics.

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    Hello. I'm a 33-year old Finn, who was circumcised 10 days ago due to medical reasons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
    a grateful Finn (not verified) - 6:08pm Sat, Apr 5, 2014
  • Cheaper What?
    ^^ hookah silicon grommet ^^ Wow, the geometry is not the same but the basic idea is similar.  I wonder how...
    TLCTugger (not verified) - 11:01am Mon, Mar 31, 2014
  • Cheaper
    You can get a hookah silicon grommet and its cheaper than the tlc and its the same material and same shape.
    Anonymous (not verified) - 3:24am Mon, Mar 31, 2014
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