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Against circumcision
Circumcision methods (with pictures of many circumcision instruments)
Pictures at a (forceps-guided) Circumcision [Entry warning]	[After entry warning] Pictures at a Circumcision
A Gallery of Circumcisions [Entry warnings] Skin bridges Skin tags Scarring Necrotising fasciitis (Galloping Gangrene) Varicose veins Unevenness Too much skin removed Malapposition Wound dehiscence (reopening)	[After entry warnings] A Gallery of Circumcisions Skin bridges Skin tags Scarring Necrotising fasciitis (Galloping Gangrene) Varicose veins Unevenness Too much skin removed Malapposition Wound dehiscence
[Entry warning] Side by side comparison of the appearance of (erect) intact and circumcised penises	[After entry warning] Appearance comparison
Complications of circumcision: meatal ulcer, meatal stenosis, haemorrhage, infection, ablation of the penis. Death	Autopsy report in a death from exsanguination (loss of blood).
	Complication references
Pain
Coercion - parents tell of being pressured to circumcise, and babies circumcised against their wishes
Circumcision Refusal Form A strongly worded form for parents-to-be who want their sons left intact.	Circumcision Refusal Form and stickers The same form, with a sheet of stickers for forms and the bassinet in Word or in .pdf format for downloading and printing out.
The Circumstitions A selection by category. 300 of them with sources, references and comments The Sand Myth (the claim that desert sand causes sub-preputial infection, as a reason to circumcise)
Circumsurdities (Absurd claims for circumcision)	"... when ... man ... was obliged to fly and leap over thorny briars and bramble-bushes" - Peter Remondino's original 1900 diatribe against the "outlaw" foreskin
Prejudice against intact men and their penises
More than 30 Reasons not to circumcise	The Lost List - what is lost to circumcision
	Wound tearing - one man's story
	Sheila Kitzinger's succinct condemnation
	Circumcision and breastfeeding Circumcision vs Breastfeeding in .pdf format
Why Christians need not be circumcised	Christianity and Circumcision The same information in brochure form as a Word document or in .pdf format for downloading and printing out.
	On Jesus' circumcision
	Mantegna's and Tura's "The Circumcision"
Why circumcision is not reguired by Islam.
The case for Brit without Milah   Brit Without Milah as a leaflet in .pdf format	The Rambam's full text, a questioning commentary and various other Jewish-oriented articles.
	A list of Brit Shalom celebrants.
	A speech at a Kol Nidre service by a celebrant.
What to say to people who say it's "not an issue"
Short answers
Phalluses and Fallacies - fallacious arguments for circumcision
Some famous men who resent/ed being circumcised
A circumcised man helps women understand men's vulnerability One woman's approach to women A mother-to-be wins her husband over. (Chatelaine) A woman who wishes she hadn't had her son circumcised. (Toronto Globe & Mail)
Advice for nurses questioning circumcision	Marilyn Milos' acceptance speech for a Nurseweek award for patient advocacy
"It's cleaner" - hygiene
"When they say 'It's not the money,' it's the money"	The International Coalition for Genital Integrity Medicaid Project's report outlining the true costs of circumcision
Frenulum breve - "tight banjostring" no reason to circumcise
Phimosis - non-retractable foreskin no reason to circumcise. Entry warning for pictures of happily phimosed adult	Pictures of happily phimosed adult
UTIs	UTI graph
Penile Cancer and cervical cancer in partners	cancer graph
	Critique of a claim in the New England Journal of Medicine the circumcision protects against Human Papilloma Virus and cervical cancer
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
H I V / AIDS	Issues with Auvert's Random Controlled Test in Orange Farm, South Africa
	A rebuttal of Auvert from the Pasteur Institute
	A sceptical view from the Terrence Higgins Trust
	A critique of Szabo and Short's BMJ paper
	Szabo and Short's HIV paper contrasted with Gerald Weiss's
	Rebuttal to a biased documentary linking HIV with intactness
A 1941 advice page: doctors did it without asking - and to prevent masturbation
The Eisenhower Medical Center's advice page analysed
The Mayo Clinic's advice page analysed, and its brochure for parents with misleading "before" and "after" pictures.
The drkoop.com advice page analysed
A page from Harvard analysed
Midwifery and circumcision with particular reference to Varney's Midwifery
Royal Australasian College of Physicians's 2002 policy analysed	Royal Australasian College of Physicians's brochure analysed
The American Association of Family Physicans' 2002 circumcision policy analysed.	The AAFP's 1996 policy statement analysed
The American Urological Association's circumcision policy analysed.
The American Academy of Pediatrician's 2001 brochure for parents and their 2003 "factsheet" for parents analysed	The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists's brochure for parents analysed
The AMA's (2000) policy analysed	AMA references
The AAP's 1999 policy analysed	An article in Parenting magazine's BabyTalk, that relies heavily on the AAP's 1999 policy, rebutted.
Circumcision in the United States of America	From unknown to nearly universal: the strange case of circumcision in South Korea.
	Pagtutuli: circumcision in the Philippines, formerly traditional, now pseudo-medical.
Tribal circumcision.	Circumcision in the Pacific
	Circumcision in the Yemen (1921) - flaying
Circumcision and the Law	Comparable abuses and the law Entry warning to a shocking example. A shocking example (after entry warning). A Shocking Example in flyer form as a .pdf document for downloading and printing out.
	Judgement against circumcision where parents disagree
	Judgement against circumcision of a New Jersey three-year-old
	An Australian successfully sues for a botched job
	Flatt vs. Kantak: was consent well-enough informed?
Ethics of Circumcision	Circumcision and Human Rights
	British Medical Association's 2003 ethical guidelines
	Ethicist Margaret Somerville on the ethics of circumcision
	Feminist Wendy McElroy queries the ethics of circumcision for Fox News
	Rebuttal to a flawed article defending the ethics of circumcising
The Psychology of Circumcising
The sociobiology of circumcising - Circumcision as a Memeplex
"Rape of the Cock" (poem)	Edgar Schoen's pro-cutting verses
Some relevant quotations
A pro-circumcision essay, Medical Benefits of Circumcision
A pro-circumcision scientific paper on women's preferences in sexual partners
The erratic and contradictory treatment of circumcision in the movies
The extraordinary amount of coverage of, and support for, circumcision on TV sitcoms, talk and game shows "That Thing" - a paper about portrayal of the foreskin and circumcision in popular media	Soundbites from "Sex and the City": 'Tootsie-pop'; '85%' A soundbite from "The Simpsons" Voices from "South Park" - text
Multimedia	A voice from The Wizard of Oz - text and a New Zealand documentary, "The Naked Penis" - text The "Cir-clock", the "Circ-dirge", a cartoon, "A boy should look like his father" and a Logo also in Swedish
Campaign resources: Tee-shirt designs for downloading, printing and ironing on Bumperstickers for downloading, printing and sticking on The Intactivism Shop for T-shirts, mugs, other products.
Scientific References	An excerpt from Y: the Descent of Men by Steve Jones
Books	An excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke's 3001
	Literature, including excerpts from E Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain Irvine Walsh's Glue James Brown's Lucky Town Gore Vidal'ss Live from Golgotha Augusten Burroughs' Sellevision Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife Stephen Spender's The Temple Tim Flannery's Throwim Way Leg
A chapter from Edward Wallerstein's "Circumcision: an American health fallacy"	A fable of Æsop
"Miscellaneous" page ("Shakespearean" articles, infections vs inflammations, , diabetes and balanitis, permanently retracted foreskin, whether babies remember being circumcised, other underrated organs - the appendix and Jacobson's organ, circumcision and royalty,sociobiology and "to look like dad")
For intactness (more than 40 more pages)