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, October 17, 2010

Salem-News: Circumcision is a Real Killer in America
Salem-News.com is one of the few news agencies that ever writes about the dark side of the unnatural mutilation process known as infant circumcision. Non-circumcised males exist in a natural state. One third of the tissue that contains the nerves for sexual pleasure, is whacked off by a doctor's knife at birth in a circumcision. Infant circumcision is a painful, terribly cutting off process. That people allow this to happen to their newborn children is tragic. The medical community, on the other hand, profits from the mutilation of a baby's penis. That borders on criminal.

Sunday Standard: Circumcision: a lifelong condom?
Even circumcised men can get HIV. And that means circumcised men must use condoms too! Even though this is a recognized fact, they are still hung up on circumcision as a viable prevention strategy. Somebody drank the Koolaid.
 

Monday, October 18, 2010

The Tech: Love those turtlenecks
Restored foreskin or intact, they both are good. :) The author is a woman who likes guys with a foreskin. She answers a question of another woman about what to do with a foreskin during a sexual encounter. The answer is easy! Treat it like the erogenous organ that it is.

suite101.com: Dr Mercola Angers Fans by Announcing Plans to Sell Infant Formula
An article discussing Dr. Mercola's announcement of his new infant formula. The announcement raises the ire of many who support breastfeeding. The article also discusses Dr. Mercola's stance on male infant circumcision. In spite of Dr. Mercola being an advocate of alternative and healthy practices, he fails to recognise the harms of formula and infant circumcision.

Plus News: HIV/AIDS: Concurrency debate heats up
Details on an academic debate about the effect of concurrent sexual partners on HIV in Africa. The debate may have an impact on the circumcision campaign in Africa.
 

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Offbeat Momma: On having one circumcised and one uncircumcised son
A mother is concerned because her oldest son is circumcised and the younger son is intact. The second son was spared the surgery because he had a heart condition and she could not subject her son to additional pain.

Adventures of a Funky Heart!: Joshua
A man with Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) describes the troubles he has getting medical care because of his CHD. He points out that for some with CHD, like baby Joshua who died shortly after his routine infant circumcision, no medical procedure can be considered “routine.”

Bunky Bambino: Keep Your Boy Intact
A YouTube Video of Gloria LeMay asking "Will you keep your son intact?" Studies show that circumcision does not prevent AIDS or STDS.  Only safe sex and condoms can do that. The foreskin is a normal and functional body part, protecting the penis and aiding in adult sexual pleasure. Circumcision is painful, risky and unnecessary and unethical – babies are unable to consent.
 

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Elephant: A can of worms
A second post by a Jewish man. He tells of learning about intactivism. He describes the comments he received from his previous circumcision post.

International Coalition for Genital Integrity: Medical article disses circumcision as HIV preventive
In the years after the three Africa circumcision trials, studies show that male circumcision is not correlated with lower HIV prevalence in some sub-Saharan populations; circumcision is correlated with increased transmission of HIV to women; and male circumcision is not a cost-effective strategy. In other words, current information raises the question if mass circumcision is an ethical and safe public health choice, and the most cost-effective use of limited resources.

DrMomma Peaceful Parenting: A Letter to My Intact Son: Why I Kept You Whole
A teen mother writes a letter to her son. She tells him why he is intact and was not circumcised. Even though she is Jewish, she could not have her son circumcised and remove a valuable part of his body.

VICE UK: Regrowing Your Foreskin
An interview with Wayne Robb, the co-founder of NORM (National Organisation of Restoring Men). Wayne talks about circumcision and foreskin restoration.
 

Friday, October 22, 2010

Rant/Rave: Rant Infant Circumcision - The Last Acceptable Abuse
"Circumcision can be seen as a form of mutilation and a form of abuse when done to a child or baby against it's will and the systematic routine practise of this disgusts me. . . . It is not a normal act to lob off a piece of skin and flesh from a baby."

Inside Bay Area: Piedmont woman pens book on circumcision
A Jewish mother, motivated by the regret of circumcising her sons, writes a book on circumcision. The main character is a Jewish physician who denounces and wages a campaign against the practice of circumcision.