The Truth Seeker July/August 1989: Crimes of Genital Mutilation
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.
The publication contains the following articles. Very little has changed in the years since the publication was issued. The articles are just a relevant today, more than 20 years later, as they were when first published.
Table of Contents:
FEATURE ARTICLES
Religious-Psychological Perspectives:
Infant Circumcision: "What I Wish I Had Known": Marilyn Fayre Milos
Religious Traditions and Circumcision: Gerald A. Larue
The Geography of Genital Mutilations: James Demeo
Genital Pain vs Genital Pleasure: Why The One and Not The Other?: James W. Prescott
Social-Cultural Perspectives:
Female Genital Mutilation Strategies For Eradication: Fran P. Hosken
Epidemiology of Female Sexual Castration in Cairo, Egypt: Mohamed Badawi
Medical Perspectives:
First, Do No Harm: George C. Denniston
The Problem of Circumcision in America: James L. Snyder
Cultural Bias and the Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) circumcision Controversy: Martin Altschul
Letters: Paul M. Fleiss; David S. Bate & John A. Erickson
Legal Perspectives:
The First Circumcision Case: Richard W. Morris
Newborn Circumcision Resolution: John W. Hardebeck
PHILOSOPHICAL/SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Testimony Against Circumcision: James L. Snyder
Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision
Circumcision Nightmare: A Case Report
Universal Declaration on Circumcision, Excision and Incision: Resolution of the First International Symposium on Circumcision
An Act to Prohibit Genital Mutilations: A Citizen's Petition
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