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Circ psych: fox and the sour grapes
Moralogous hits the nail squarely on the head with A brief history of the foreskin and circumcision. She has allowed me to repost this excerpt in which she compares the fable of the fox and the sour...
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A mother’s remorse
Jennifer, blogger at Our Muddy Boots, has shared a heartwrenchingly brave and honest blog post regarding her son’s routine circumcision. Her words are so powerful they need no further introduction. “I...
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What’s good for the goose…
On September 30, 1996 I was a month into my final year of high school and more than a decade away from considering genital mutilation for the first time. Unbeknownst to me, a bill was enacted on that...
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The Angry Post
Remember that whole “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” thing? Well, I’m all for that. So sometimes I am angry when others don’t take it as seriously as I do. Yesterday, the citizens of...
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Keep it simple
Routine infant circumcision (RIC) is the simplest issue burdened by cultural complexity I’ve encountered as a parent. A non-issue in societies that recognize people are entitled to their whole bodies,...
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Circumcision Symposium, or How Did I Get Here?
As a high school senior I interned with an orthopedic surgeon for three weeks. I was sure I was going to become a doctor one day. As a college student I was pre-med, but hanging out with my friends...
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Where logic & ethics go to die
Eight months ago a neighbor called me to her house because her newborn wasn’t waking to breastfeed, couldn’t be woken for long, and was losing weight. We chalked it up to him being borderline...
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To the AAP Task Force on Circumcision
To the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision: On this day I recoil at the thought of my nationality being used in the name of a medical organization that demonstrates overt...
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BIRTH Fair 2012 (aka Haunted)
Really, I’m not the penis police. Nor am I into typing, much less saying that word–penis–repeatedly. But I said it again and again and again at Saturday’s B.I.R.T.H. Fair. For five hours I spoke to a...
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It found me
I do not wish to be concerned with the matter of genital mutilation. I did not set out looking for a cause with which to align myself. It found me. There is no unknowing, however. I cannot go back...
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