April 2012

Intactivism: Week in Review April 28, 2012

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

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Beyond the Bris: Questioning Jewish Circumcision: Choosing Brit Shalom Over Brit Milah
A Jewish mother tells of holding a Brit Shalom for her son. She and her husband decided against circumcising their son. Her son grew up happy to have his whole penis. He is actively involved with Judaism and has not been held back because he was not circumcised.

Solutions: Lawmakers reconsider circumcision for babies on Medicaid
An amendment adding circumcision payments to Medicaid was voted down in the Colorado Senate last week. This week a senate subcommittee voted to move the bill forward. Huh? It seems like some in Colorado really want to cut the sex organs of baby boys.

Salem-News: CIRCUMCISION: Culture-Bound and Culture-Specific Syndromes with Shared Psychotic Disorder
An article discussing the cultural aspects of circumcision.

sitfu.com: Circumcision – Male Genital Mutilation
sitfu questions why male genital mutilation is so accepted as a societal custom. "’s like, after the baby boy is born, as if that’s not traumatic enough, he is then forced to suffer the excruciating pain and shock of having a very important piece of his body cut off … from the most sensitive part of his body, no less!"

Planetary Vision: Infant male circumcision is genital mutilation
A plea to parents to leave their sons whole and uncut. Do not circumcise your baby boy.
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Intactivism: Week in Review April 21, 2012

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

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Sage Beginnings: On Circumcision
Dr Momma's peaceful parenting post on The Circumcision Decision: Who Made You The Decider? is quoted by a Houston, Texas, doula and educator. Male circumcision is a cultural practice that is slowly going away.
 

Monday, April 16, 2012

barrels of oranges: For the Modern parent and the Circumcision Decision
A mother gives 8 reasons why modern parents should leave their sons whole and intact. It is important to remember that circumcision is a euphemism for genital cutting, for a permanent, irreversible body modification of a baby. Every human has a right to their whole body.
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Intactivism: Week in Review April 14, 2012

HART - Happy Aardvark Restoration ToolsA new foreskin restoration device was introduced this week. Happy Aardvark Restoration Tools or HART is a dual tension tugging device made by a foreskin restorer for other restorers. He is selling the devices on his Happy Aardvark Restoration Tools website.

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

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Moralogous: When your husband wants to circumcise
In a YouTube video, the author discusses how she and her husband decided not to circumcise their first child. It was not an easy decision because the two disagreed. Fortunately, the mother prevailed and the father let his son keep all of his body parts.

LiveJournal: circumcised vs uncircumcised (Not working: Page removed from web)
A woman describes the difference between sex with a circumcised man and one who is intact. She says that circumcised men seem to get less pleasure from sex than intact men. She believes that circumcision greatly affects their sex life, and not in a good way.
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Intactivism: Week in Review April 7, 2012

Children's Rights not Parents' RitesParents, protect your babies. Support intactivism. The following list includes blogs, articles, and websites of interest to Intactivists that were published in the past week. This is a running tally of the ones I found interesting.
 

Sunday, April 1, 2012

barrels of oranges: How I became an Intactivist
A mother of one son writes about how she became an intactivist, fighting for the rights of baby boys to keep their body whole and intact. She and her husband were of the same mind about not circumcising before their son was born. It was only later that she found how infant circumcisions were performed by watching a circumcision video. That was the clincher for being an intactivist. No child should have to go through a painful circumcision and live with only part of his penis.

Men Do Complain: Budget debate protest 22nd March 2012
In the UK, 6,000,000 pounds are spent on male circumcisions, supposedly for medical reasons. The rate of male circumcisions for medical reasons is much lower in other European countries. Hence, a protest against NHS in the UK.
 

Monday, April 2, 2012

the full moxie: Circumcision: No longer the norm?
After letting her first son be circumcised, this mother reconsidered and left her second son whole and intact. She learned that intact son number two was much easier to care for than the circumcised son.

Medical Journal: Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital
Ryan McAllister filmed a class where he taught about genital cutting, including male infant circumcision. His video, Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital, presents the facts about genital cutting in a very thorough and understanding manner. This is a video well worth watching. He explains what infant circumcision is, how it is performed, and the effect it has on the physiology of the male.
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