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Contents 1 Anatomy 2 Articles 3 Books 4 Care 5 Cancer 6 Breast 7 Complications 8 Cultural 9 Damage 10 Board 11 Ethics 12 FGM 13 Films 14 Footbinding 15 Restoration 16 Intactivism 17 Legal 18 Medical 19 MGMFGM 20 Normal 21 Psychological 22 Rebuttal 23 UTI 24 Websites 25 Intact Men 26 What Is Lost 27 Miscellaneous

Anatomy

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• Anatomy & Mechanics of the Penis
  • Anatomy of the Penis, Mechanics of Intercourse
  • Human Prepuce: Some Aspects of Structure and Function
  • The Peripenic Muscle; Some Observations on the Anatomy of Phimosis

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Articles

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• Articles & Resources

• • "300 Circum-Stitions"
  • "35 Good Reasons Not to Circumcise"
  • A Medical or a Human Rights Issue?
  • Anatomy and Histology of the Penile and Clitoral Prepuce in Primates
  • Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans: Conservative Treatment Options
  • Circumcision: A Human Rights Violation
  • Circumcision = Genital Mutilation = Child Abuse
  • "Circumcision - Is It Necessary?"
  • Circumcision Links
  • "Circumcision ~ The Basic Facts"
  • "Circumcision: The Uniquely American Medical Enigma" by Edward Wallerstein
  • "Expert Medical Advice for Parents," by Paul M. Fleiss, MD
  • Historical Overview -- The Journal of Social History (1994)
  • Infant Circumcision: "What I Wish I Had Known" (Marilyn Milos)
  • Infant Male Circumcision is 'Torture'
  • Know to Say No
  • Male Circumcision (Part 2) – Much More Than The Mutilation of Sexual Pleasure (Jamie Glazov)
  • Male Neonatal Circumcision and Brain Damage
  • Mclean Researchers Document Brain Damage Linked To Child Abuse And Neglect
  • "The Case Against Circumcision," by Paul M. Fleiss, MD
  • "The Fragile Male"
  • "The Profoundly Disturbing and Explosive Facts"
  • "The Ridged Band"
  • "The Root of Misogyny" by Anne V. Pyterek
  • "The Sexual and Psychological Consequences of Infant Circumcision"
  • Video of Infant Male Circumcision
  • WebMD Transcript, 1/25/01
  • "What Better Way?" Wayne Hampton
  • What I Learned About Routine Infant Circumcision During My Pregnancy
  • What is the foreskin there for?
  • "Where Sex and Violence First Meet"
  • Why Do We Have Circumcision in the USA?
  • "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom" by Christiane Northrup, MD

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Books

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• Books
  • As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
  • Circumcision Exposed: Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition
  • Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma, by Ronald Goldman, PhD
  • Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma, by Rosemary Romberg
  • Male and Female Circumcision, by Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
  • Say No To Circumcision! By Thomas J. Ritter, MD
  • Sex As Nature Intended It by Kristen O'Hara
  • The Joy Of Uncircumcising, By Jim Bigelow
  • You Call This Love? By Lisa Bisque, LPN

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Care

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• Care of the Intact Penis
  • Conservative non-surgical treatment of penile problems
  • Contrary to Popular Myth Cleaning is Easy
  • Correct and incorrect Hygiene of the Baby's and Child's Intact (Non-Circumcised) Penis
  • Hygiene
  • Smegma is Beneficial Not Bad and Cleaning is Easy

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Cancer

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• Circumcision and Cancer
  • Carcinoma in Situ of the Penis in a 76-Year-Old Circumcised Man
  • Cervical Cancer and Partners' Circumcision Status
  • Circumcision and Cancer

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Breast

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• Circumcision: Interference With Breastfeeding
  • Breast Feeding & Urinary Tract Infection
  • Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk
  • Circumcision, Breastfeeding, and Maternal Bonding

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Complications

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• Complications
  • Complications of Circumcision
  • Complications of Circumcision by George W. Kaplan, M.D.
  • Complications of Circumcision by N. Williams and L. Kapila
  • Gallery of Circumcisions
  • Pictures of an Infant Circumcision
  • Side-Effects
  • Tuberculosis from Ritual Circumcision

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Cultural

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• Cultural Issues
  • Af-Mila NewsLetters
  • Being Rational About Circumcision and Jewish Observance
  • Circumcision: A Source of Jewish Pain
  • Circumcision and Religion
  • Circumcision and the Christian Parent
  • Christianity and Circumcision
  • Cultural and Religious Issues
  • Genital Mutilation American Style: A Father's Story
  • Jewish Issues - Male Circumcision
  • "Look Like Dad"
  • One Rabbis' Thoughts on Circumcision
  • Open Letter from Dr. Jenny Goodman
  • Questioning Jewish Circumcision
  • The Case for Brit without Milah
  • The Holy Bible, Circumcision, False Prophets, and Christian Parents
  • The Roman Catholic Church and Non-therapeutic Circumcision
  • To Mutilate in the Name of Jehovah or Allah
  • What the Bible Really Says About Routine Infant Circumcision

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Damage

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• Damage & Deaths Due to Circumcision
  • "Boy Dies, Two Girls Hospitalized" (Pan African News)
  • Boy's Death to be Probed: Physician is Suspended
  • Dustin Evans, Jr., age three weeks, RIP
  • "No Trivial Matter" (The Calgary Herald, Letter by Dr. John Taylor)
  • "Genital Pain Vs. Genital Pleasure" (James W. Prescott, PhD)
  • Not a "Snip," But 15 Square Inches
  • Not "just a flap of skin"

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Board

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• Electronic Message Boards
  • Anti Circumcision Board

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Ethics

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• Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
  • Altering Baby Boys' Bodies: The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
  • Circumcision and the Code of Ethics
  • Informed Consent
  • The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit
    • Sources

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FGM

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• Female Genital Mutilation
  • Circumcision of the Female
  • Female Circumcision Defended
  • Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique (1959)
  • Female Mutilation Claims Lives
  • FGM defended on the same grounds as MGM
  • In Africa, The Middle East & Far East
  • Just say "NO" to Unkind Cuts

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Films

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• Films & Videos
  • Circumcision Video
  • "They Cut Babies, Don't They?"
  • Video of Infant Male Circumcision
  • "Whose Body, Whose Rights?" Award-Winning Video Production

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Footbinding

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• Foot-Binding
  • Circumcision and Footbinding

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Restoration

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• Foreskin Restoration
  • Non-Surgical Foreskin Restoration
  • Undoing the Effects of an Ancient Practice in a Modern World
  • Uncircumcision: A Historical Review of Preputial Restoration

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Intactivism

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• Intactivism
  • The Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide
  • Dr. Dean Edell
  • Intactivists
  • Miscellaneous Letters by John A. Erickson
  • Short answers on Circumcision

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Legal

• Legal Issues
  • A Crime Against Humanity
  • A Legal Affront
  • Call It What It Is: Child Abuse
  • Circumcision as Child Abuse: The Legal and Constitutional Issues
  • Circumcision in Law
  • Circumcision of Healthy Boys: Criminal Assault?
  • Compelled medical procedures involving minors and incompetents and Missapplication of the Substituted Judgement Doctrine
  • Do parents have the legal authority to consent to the surgical amputation of Normal, Healthy Tissue from their Infant Children?
  • How to Bring Criminal Charges Against Your Circumcisers
  • Intact's Class-action Lawsuit
  • Involuntary Circumcision: The Legal Issues
  • Legal Information about non-therapeutic male circumcision for Canada
  • Male Non-therapeutic Circumcision

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Medical

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• Medical Associations & Organizations
  • American Academy of Pediatrics - Newborns: Care of the Uncircumcised Penis
    • American Academy of Pediatrics - Critical Analysis of Statement
    • Letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • American Medical Association - Neonatal Circumcision
  • American Medical Association - Neonatal Circumcision
    • American Medical Association - Circumcision Statement Analysed
  • American Urological Association - Circumcision Policy Analysed

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MGMFGM

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• MGM and FGM Comparisons
  • Common Denominators between Male & Female "Circumcision"
  • Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying FGM & MGM
  • Is There a Difference
  • Similarities in Attitudes and Misconceptions

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Normal

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• Normal Functions of the Foreskin
  • 17 Functions of the Foreskin
  • Foreskin Sexual Function/Circumcision Sexual Dysfunction
  • How the Foreskin Works
  • Immunological Functions of the Human Prepuce
  • Normal Development of the Prepuce: Birth Through Age 18
  • "The Animal Kingdom Would Probably Cease to Exist Without Smegma"

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Psychological

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• Psychological Impact of Circumcision
  • Babies Remember Pain
  • "Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries"
  • Circumcision study halted due to trauma
  • Effect of Neonatal Circumcision on Pain Response
  • In Memory of the Sexually Mutilated Child
  • Neonatal Circumcision Reconsidered
  • Physiologic Stress Reduction by a Local Anesthetic
  • Psychological Impacts of Male Circumcision
  • The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma
  • The Psychological Impact of Circumcision (R. Goldman)
  • "What Babies Are Teaching Us About Violence"

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Rebuttal

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• Rebuttal of Alleged Medical Benefits
  • American Academy of Pediatrics - Critical Analysis of Statement
  • American Medical Association - Circumcision Statement Analysed
  • Cutting the Arguments Short
  • Letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Medical Benefits From Circumcision
  • The Foreskin, Circumcision and Sexuality

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UTI

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• Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) & STDs
  • Circumcision and HIV Infection: Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis
  • Circumcision and Urinary Tract Infection
  • Circumcision and Urinary Tract Infection-CIRP
  • Hygiene, Disease, and Circumcision
  • Prevalence, Prophylactic Effects, and Sexual Practice
  • Summary of Evidence that the Foreskin and Lysozyme May Protect Against HIV Infection
  • Syphilis down, gonorrhea up in U.S., study finds
  • UTIs

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Websites

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• Websites
  • Anticircmom
  • Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
  • BoysToo
  • Doctors Opposing Circumcision
  • Children's Integrity Network
  • Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
  • Circumcision Resource Center
  • Circumcision Web
  • Earlham College Online Safe Space
  • Fight Sexual Mutilation WebRing
  • Friends of Uncut Entertainment
  • "Historical Medical Quotes on Circumcision"
  • "Info-circ" (French and English)
  • Intact
  • International Coalition for Genital Integrity
  • Mothers Against Circumcision
  • National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)
  • NOHARMM
  • Nurses for the Rights of the Child
  • The Origins of Peace and Violence
  • wicKed eNvy

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Intact Men

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• Well-Known Intact Men
  • 449 Famous Males With Foreskins
  • Uncut Celebrities

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What Is Lost

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• What Is Lost?
  • Specialized Mucosa of the Penis and its Loss to Circumcision
  • The Lost List
  • The Prepuce
  • What Is Lost?
  • This is What is Lost -- FOREVER

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Miscellaneous

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• Intact has, amongst other things, a "video of a circumcision that any parent considering circumcision for their child should see first."
• InformedConsent.Org
• Circumcision Information and Resource Pages, a vast library website that hosts and comments on hundreds of articles and studies on various aspects of circumcision.
• Musicians United To Stop Infant Circumcision
• National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
• National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine
• Discuss & debate circumcisionMutilation of Males]
• Mothers Against Circumcision
• Doctors Opposing Circumcision
• Boys Too
• Association for Genital Integrity
• Info-circumcision
• Circumcision Information Australia
• NORM-UK
• The Intactivism Pages
• Acts 15 — Christians for Wholeness
• Catholics Against Circumcision
• Jews Against Circumcision
• Circumcision Resource Center
• History of Circumcision
• International Coalition for Genital Integrity
• Students for Genital Integrity
• The Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide
• A fifteen minute movie in Application/Vnd.Rn-Realmedia (RealVideo of RealNetworks) about Intactivists marching on Washington DC in 2001
• MGMbill.org
• The mailing list for the book Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma — Rosemary M. Romberg Wiener
• ARC: Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, J. Steven Svoboda, Esq., Executive Director

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From Encyclopædia WikiPedia.Org licensed under the GFDL from the article Genital Integrity 2005-02-23

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