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White panels link to pages written by others. Green panels link to pages dealing with pro-circumcision material. Blue boxes link to downloadable documents.
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Care of the Intact Penis |
| The AAP's "Care of the Uncircumcised Penis" analysed | |
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Functions of the foreskin |
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An animated postcard demonstrating why the foreskin is not just "a flap of skin" and others illustrating the size and the number of nerves |
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The Foreskin, Circumcision and Sexuality - with a full rebuttal of Masters & Johnson |
2000 years of awareness that the foreskin itself gives pleasure. |
Tantric sex for the intact penis. |
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An excerpt from "Horse Heaven" by Jane Smiley |
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An excerpt from "Further Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin |
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A Gallery of Intact Men and their Penises in Art | A Gallery of Intact Men and their Penises [Entry Warning] |
[After Entry Warning:] A Gallery of Intact Men and their Penises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | |
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A Gallery of Famous Intact Men - |
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A Gallery of Very-Probably-Intact Men |
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Foreskin restoration |
A (restoring) father on having an intact son. | ||
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From very rare to nearly universal: the rise of intactness in New Zealand: a presentation and a newspaper article. |
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From very rare to more than four in five (and more than 19 in 20 in some states): The ambiguous status of intactness in Australia. |
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan warns its members (minimally) against circumcising. |
Sweden is the first country to regulate (minimally) infant and child circumcision. | Finland is now (halfheartedly) starting to question it. |
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Pictures at a Circumcision |
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A Gallery of Circumcisions |
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| [Entry warning] Side by side comparison of the appearance of (erect) intact and circumcised penises | [After entry warning] Appearance comparison | ||
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Complications of circumcision: |
Autopsy report in a death from exsanguination (loss of blood). | ||
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The Circumstitions |
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Circumsurdities (Absurd claims for circumcision) |
"... when ... man ... was obliged to fly and leap over thorny briars and bramble-bushes" |
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Prejudice against intact men and their penises |
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| The Lost List - what is lost to circumcision | Wound tearing - one man's story | Sheila Kitzinger's succinct condemnation | Circumcision and breastfeeding
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| On Jesus' circumcision | Mantegna's and Tura's "The Circumcision" | |
| Why circumcision is not reguired by Islam. | |||
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The case for Brit without Milah
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The Rambam's full text, a questioning commentary and various other Jewish-oriented articles. | A list of Bris Shalom celebrants. | A speech at a Kol Nidre service by a celebrant. |
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What to say to people who say it's "not an issue" |
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Phalluses and Fallacies - fallacious arguments for circumcision |
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Some famous men who resent/ed being circumcised | .
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A circumcised man helps women understand men's vulnerability |
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Marilyn Milos' acceptance speech for a Nurseweek award for patient advocacy |
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"It's cleaner" - hygiene |
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"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 |
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Frenulum breve - "tight banjostring" no reason to circumcise |
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Phimosis - non-retractable foreskin no reason to circumcise. Entry warning for pictures of happily phimosed adult |
Pictures of happily phimosed adult | ||
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UTI graph |
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Penile Cancer and cervical cancer in partners
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cancer graph | ||
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Critique of a claim in the New England Journal of Medicine the circumcision protects against Human Papilloma Virus and cervical cancer |
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| 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 |
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A 1941 advice page: doctors did it without asking - and to prevent masturbation |
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The Eisenhower Medical Center's advice page analysed |
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The Mayo Clinic's advice page analysed, and its brochure for parents with misleading "before" and "after" pictures. |
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The drkoop.com advice page analysed |
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A page from Harvard analysed |
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Midwifery and circumcision with particular reference to Varney's Midwifery |
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Royal Australasian College of Physicians's 2002 policy analysed |
Royal Australasian College of Physicians's brochure analysed |
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The American Association of Family Physicans' 2002 circumcision policy analysed. | The AAFP's 1996 policy statement analysed | ||
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The American Urological Association's circumcision policy analysed. |
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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 |
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| 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. |
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Pagtutuli: circumcision in the Philippines, formerly traditional, now pseudo-medical. |
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Circumcision in the Pacific | Circumcision in the Yemen (1921) - flaying | ||
| Comparable abuses and the law
Entry warning to a shocking example. A shocking example (after entry warning).
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| Judgement against circumcision where parents disagree |
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| 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? | |||
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Ethics of Circumcision |
Circumcision and Human Rights |
British Medical Association's 2003 ethical guidelines |
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Feminist Wendy McElroy queries the ethics of circumcision for Fox News | Rebuttal to a flawed article defending the ethics of circumcising |
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The sociobiology of circumcising - Circumcision as a Memeplex |
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"Rape of the Cock" (poem) |
Edgar Schoen's pro-cutting verses |
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Some relevant quotations |
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A pro-circumcision essay, Medical Benefits of Circumcision |
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A pro-circumcision scientific paper on women's preferences in sexual partners |
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The erratic and contradictory treatment of circumcision in the movies |
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The extraordinary amount of coverage of, and support for, circumcision on TV sitcoms, talk and game shows | Soundbites from "Sex and the City": 'Tootsie-pop'; '85%'
A soundbite from "The Simpsons" Voices from "South Park" |
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A voice from The Wizard of Oz |
South Park voice text |
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Campaign resources:
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Scientific References | An excerpt from Y: the Descent of Men by Steve Jones | ||
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An excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 |
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Excerpts from
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A fable of Æsop |
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"Miscellaneous" page ("Shakespearean" articles, circumcision in Shakespeare, 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", circumcision as a meme) |
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