Circumcision

[Warning: Many links contain or link to medically graphic images and videos (* = graphic drawing, ** =  graphic photo]
Routine Infant Circumcision (RIC) Information:
Are You Fully Informed?
The Case Against Circumcision
What Dr. Sears Says
American Academy of Pediatrics: Policy on Circumcision
Circumcision Decision Maker
Medical Studies On Circumcision

How Circumcision is Done:
Neonatal Circumcision [video]**
Plastibell Circumcision
The Plastibell Lie
The Gomco Clamp Method*
Mogen Clamp**

Videos:
Video: Watch one Before You Think About Doing It**
CUT: Jewish Documentary
Daytime Talkshow Disaster
Penn and Teller: A Circumcision Documentary
Gloria Lemay: Will you keep your son intact?
How Foreskin Moves and Why We Cut It Off
The Circumcision Decision
Penis Sensitivity Studies
Circumcision Myths and Facts by Mama Natural [witty]

But isn't circumcision more hygienic?
How the foreskin protects against UTIs

What About Circumcision and AIDs/HIV?

Won't he have problems if he is left intact?
The Phony Phimosis Diagnosis
Frenulum Breve Affects 5% of Males
Forced Retraction Causes Many Problems
About Premature (Forced) Retraction
Risks of Circumcision:
Caring for Circumcised Penis: Post-op/Later Complications
Complications of Circumcision
Hypospadias and Circumcision
Death From Circumcision
Massive Infection Caused by Circumcision
Circumcision Affects Women Too
Penis Sensitivity Studies [Video]
Semi-Comatose Shock
Circumcision Death Case Settles for $230,000
More baby boys die in the US from Circumcision than suffocation or car accidents!
Circumcision Causes Lifelong Harm
Increased Risk of Autism

Shouldn't he look like his daddy?
Matching Penises: Stop the Insanity [Video]
Daddy, Why Do You Look Different?
Circumcision Myths & Facts by Mama Natural [witty Video]

But newborns don't feel pain, do they?
Babies DO Feel Pain
MRI Studies: Brain Permanently Altered From Infant Circumcision
Infant Pain Impacts Adult Sensitivity
Circumcised Men Treat Their Bodies Differently
Babies Remember Circumcision Pain
Psychological Consequences
Mothers Who Observed Circumcision
Sugar Does Not Relieve Pain

Isn't Everyone Doing It?
Circumcision Rate Falls to 32%
CDC Reports a Steep Decline
Circumcision Myths and Facts by Mama Natural [witty Video]

Circumcision of the Bible:
Biblical Circumcision
Circumcision in Antiquity

Christianity and Circumcision:
Baptism, not Circumcision
Christianity and Circumcision Resources
What the Bible Really Says About RIC
A Call to Christian Action
Circumcision and the Christian Parent

History of Circumcision:

Circumcision Interrupts Breastfeeding Relationship:
Breastfeeding and Circumcision
Increases Breastfeeding Complications

Male Circumcision Affects Women and Normal Sexual Function:
How Circumcision May Be Affecting Your Love Life
Effects of Male Circumcision on Female Arousal and Orgasm

How to care for an intact penis:
Only Clean What Is Seen
Foreskin Friendly Doctors
American Academy of Pediatrics: How to Clean
How to Care for Your Intact Son
Doctors Opposing Circumcision: Do Not Forcefully Retract

Anatomy of the intact penis:
Sex Ed 101 [Video]
Functions of the Foreskin

Men are speaking out (and some are angry):
Men Ask "Why?"
A Child's Cry
Circumcision Secret
CUT Documentary [video]
Doctors Opposing Circumcision
Men Do Complain
Confessions of An Intact Teen
Confessions of a Circumcised Man
Confessions of a Circumcised Son
I Am A Circumcised Man Who Hates His Circumcision
Circumcised Been Do Complain (Facebook page)
A 10 yo Asks About His Circumcision

Some are even restoring:
The Joy of Uncircumcising
NORM
Restore Yourself

Circumci$ion is a billion dollar indu$try:
Foreskins in Oprah's Facecream
Foreskins For Sale
Where Have All The Foreskins Gone?
The Cost of Circumcision

What About Female Circumcision:
Female Circumcision Genital Mutilation is ILLEGAL in the U.S.
FGM/MGM: Similar Attitudes & Misconceptions
Are the two really different? A Photo Essay
FGM Documentary [Video] - shows how culturally ingrained FGM is even among Jews and Christians in Egypt
The Cut: Female Genital Mutilation in Africa Documentary [Video]

Foreskin Friendly Doctors:



Circumcision in the News:
Medicaid will stop covering circumcisions in Colorado
UK Medics Urge to Ban Circumcision
Germany Bans Routine Infant Circumcision
Austrian Province Bans Circumcisions
Swiss Follow German Circumcision Ban
Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) to discourage non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors
Compilation of Circumcision Tragedies
Newborn dies after contracting herpes from circumcision
Some Australian Hospitals End Circumcision


To Be Organized:
http://www.circumstitions.com/Cancer.html
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/08/the-aap-report-on-circumcision-bad-science-bad-ethics-bad-medicine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7p0tXIcIzM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.thewholenetwork.org/14/post/2011/10/red-foreskins-in-children-what-does-it-mean.html
http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/mueller/
http://www.malawivoice.com/2012/10/31/circumcised-men-on-sex-spree-they-think-they-are-immune-to-hiv-18495/
http://f1000research.com/articles/female-genital-cutting-is-a-harmful-practice-where-is-the-evidence/
http://www.savingsons.org/2012/03/plastibell-lie.html
http://www.drmomma.org/2011/06/ballooning-in-intact-child.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceht-3xu84I

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting such an awesome list of reference material. I hope you don't mind if I refer people your way.

Margaret Diaz said...

Bookmarking! Awesome, thanks

Restoring Tally said...

Good resource. I blogged about how I do not like being cirumcised. You can add my blog to: Men are speaking out (and some are angry):
I am a circumcised man that hates his circumcision

Michelle said...

Please feel free to share and even copy. Any suggestions on its arrangement or more/new studies/info to add are appreciated as well. Thank you!

Ilaria said...

Wow...impressive list!!! :D

Unknown said...

Hi there! I am a fellow intactivist and after a friend told me that she kept her son intact due to the links I share on facebook, and the awesome feeling I got from knowing I saved a son, I just wanted to inform you that you were the one who saved mine :) I am a friend of the Warren family and I saw you had commented something on one of their facebooks a loooooong time ago when your profile picture was of the peaceful parenting logo with the two babies. I was extremely curious as I'd never given a second thought to circumcision, and so I clicked your links. One led me here and the other led me to the PP website where I have spent many hours since pouring over their articles. I wasn't even pregnant or thinking about becoming so at the time, but now I have a 10 month old son who is perfect and whole the way he was born. I never would have thought to thank you until my friend thanked me... but thanks :) your resource page here is great btw!!!

Michelle said...

I have tears in my eyes, thank you Ashley!