In Memory of the Sexually Mutilated Child
In memory of all the children throughout history
who have died at the hands of sexual mutilators;
and in memory of those who almost died,
those who wanted to die,
and those who wished they had died;
and in memory of those who never knew
that a sexual mutilator killed
a beautiful, wondrous, irreplaceable part of them.
See also: YourWholeBaby.org and American Circumcision Documentary
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For Mikey -
I never forgot you.
"... my grief lies all within;
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortured soul."
Shakespeare
[Circumciser crushing off baby's foreskin with
Sheldon clamp]
"What happens to you here is forever."
"Through lack of understanding they remained sane."
George Orwell, 1984
John A. Erickson
Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
The Human Connection
.
"Circumcision removes a piece of skin
Say No to Circumcision! 40 Compelling Reasons
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Fifteen quarters will fit on a
Fran P. Hosken
George Bernard Shaw
Baby being circumcised in U.S. hospital
Mohel sucking blood from baby's circumcised penis
Six-year-old Muslim boy about
to be circumcised
This seven-year-old girl's clitoris has just been cut off.
Baby strapped to Circumstraint
Circumciser tearing baby's foreskin from his glans
Baby right after being circumcised
Circumcised baby with bandaged penis
Mother embracing son whose glans was
"Today, Jacob is nine years old and is severely brain damaged.
"Betrayed by Doctors and Lawyers in Alaska, Sweets
"There's something deranged about anyone who persists in
"Carving, crushing, burning, and slicing a baby's penis,
Carla Miller, Founder, Patients In ARMS
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"I wish I could circumcise every uncircumcised man
Private communication
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"What turned me off the whole circumcision scene was
From a letter from Ms. A. C. Herts
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"I was never to see those beautiful,
Rosemary Romberg, after the circumcision
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"Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you talk
Mother and health care provider after watching a
video
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"It's absolutely horrible. I didn't know how horrific it
Melissa Morrison, seven months after
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"I'm sobbing. The baby's screaming. The doctor's cutting.
Marilyn Milos, RN, Executive Director,
NOCIRC and Intact America
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"If I had had my baby circumcised and then
Private communication from a woman who divorced
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"Millions of Jews were murdered during the
Holocaust
Pediatrician's wife,
[The pediatrician she spat this out to and a nurse who
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"I would do anything not to hurt you,
Jewish mother who refused to
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"I will die hearing my baby's screams."
Miriam Pollack
Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows
Sixth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations:
University of Sydney, Australia, 7-9 December 2000
Legals experts, health-care professionals, medical
For program flier with registration form, send SASE to:
"I am enthralled by your beautiful images of
The entire exhibit. 33 small color images on one web page.
The entire exhibit. 33 medium-size black-and-white images
on one web page.
The entire exhibit. 33 large color images, each on its own page.
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"Photographs that show exactly what we are trying to
protect."
Five small and five medium-size color images, all on one web page
Five small and five medium-size black-and-white images, all on one web page
Five large color images, each on its own page
3 Zones #1
3 Zones #2
3 Zones #3
3 Zones #4
3 Zones #5
Residual penis of adult circumcised when he was a baby (#1)
Residual penis of adult circumcised when he was a baby (#2)
"I remember my foreskin. I want my foreskin back."
"Despite the many shortcomings of its new position statement,
"'Where Is My Foreskin? The Case Against
Circumcision,' by
"Dr. Fleiss et al. in their definitive article on the
immunological
"[A] horrifying, mind-numbing exposé of total penis
amputation,
"Parents should be wary of anyone who tries to retract their
child's foreskin,
"Intentionally amputating healthy erogenous genital tissue from
"When a baby boy's normal intact penis is
"Circumcision meets the legal definition of sexual assault and
child
abuse."
"I clearly violated, all in one instant, the Golden Rule
"I now know that every baby I circumcised cried and
Compiled and edited by John A. Erickson
"I waited for years for someone to say
what I thought should be said. But no one
did. So I started saying it myself."
"Mutilation ... implies the cutting off or removal
of a part essential to completeness, not only of a
person but also of a thing, and to his or its perfection,
beauty, entirety, or fulfillment of function."
Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1968
"A piece of skin the size of a quarter
contains more than three million cells, 12
feet of nerves, 100 sweat glands, 50 nerve
endings, and almost three feet of blood vessels."
Ashley Montagu and Floyd Matson
McGraw-Hill, 1979
almost equivalent to a 3 x 5 index card."
Thomas J. Ritter, MD, and George C. Denniston, MD
Hourglass Book Publishing, 1996
3 x 5 index card with room to spare.
"Without nerve endings, one cannot feel --
much as without eyes, one cannot see."
"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity."
This is how most males born in the
U.S. today are welcomed into the world.
One Baby's Experience
"These crimes will never be forgotten
and those involved will be condemned for all time,
both during their life and after their death,
without benefit of moratorium."
Medvedev and Medvedev
A Question of Madness
destroyed during laser circumcision in Turkey
Jacob Sweet
$10,000 Reward
He cannot walk, talk or care for himself in any respect."
Alaska Law Firm Settles Lawsuit
With Family of Brain-Damaged Boy
Find Justice Through Seattle Malpractice Attorney"
Infant Circumcision: The Perfect Crime
circumcising babies after being confronted with the facts."
The Serial Circumciser
reducing it to gore, getting his hands covered with penis
blood, and filling his ears with shrieks and screams of agony
and terror are the potent drug cocktail the serial
circumciser
needs to make himself feel alive."
Some Statements
"I want to know why doctors mutilate women. I want
to know
why they mutilate male babies. I want to know what
compels
mutilators to mutilate. It's not just money. I want to
know if
the percentage of doctors who cut genitals is higher among
doctors whose own genitals have been cut. Is male infant
circumcision at the bottom of all this cutting? Is
it?"
in the world, so they'd all be like me. I don't have
a foreskin and no one else should have one either."
to read a report recently about a bunch of men nursing
erections as they watched a shrieking baby having his
foreskin cut away. When I contemplate the perfection
and symmetry of my little boy's body, including his penis,
I feel a sense of pride at having produced such a beauty,
and I shudder that there are perverts, like I describe, who
would actually take pleasure in marring his perfection."
The Acorn [Society Newsletter], Issue No. 1 1992,
page 10
mystic, Leboyer newborn-baby smiles again."
of her third son, eight days old
(Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma, page
xx)
me out of it? Why didn't someone stop me?"
about circumcision after her son had been circumcised
("Quotations and Comments by North Dakotans Since 1992
Regarding the Ritual of Routine Infant Circumcision,"
compiled with comments by Duane Voskuil, PhD,
NOCIRC of North Dakota/ Bismarck)
was going to be. It was the most gruesome thing I have
ever seen in my life. I told the doctor as soon as he was
done, if I had a gun I would have killed him."
watching the circumcision of her baby son
"The psychological impact of circumcision," by R. Goldman
BJU [British Journal of Urology] International
Volume 83, [Circumcision] Supplement 1, January 1999
There's blood everywhere. And the doctor looked into my
face and said, 'There's no medical reason for doing this.'"
seen the video, I think I would have gone crazy."
her circumcised husband and got custody of their baby
son because her husband, after seeing a baby being
circumcised on the
NOCIRC Circumcision Video,
insisted that their baby son be circumcised anyway
because circumcision marked them as Jews! This must
never happen again! Everyone should be
circumcised!"
American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Conference
Hyatt-Regency Hotel, Chicago, April 14, 1996
heard her (both of whom asked to remain anonymous)
told me this in two separate conversations. The nurse
said there were not enough exclamations points in the
universe to convey the ferocity this woman displayed.
How common is this woman's attitude -- especially
among obstetricians, pediatricians and urologists?]
my parents, except hurt my child."
have her baby son circumcised
It's a Boy!
(video), by Victor Schonfeld
Third International Symposium on Circumcision
University of Maryland, May 1994
"The infant [Prince William] was tagged Baby Wales
and breastfed by his mother, who was adamant that
he should not be circumcised like his father."
Lady Colin Campbell (NY: St. Martins Press, 1992)
Announcement
Securing Human Rights in the 21st Century
researchers, and scholars from Australia, Brazil, Egypt,
Europe, Korea, New Zealand, and North America will address
the medical, legal, and human rights aspects of male and
female sexual mutilations. All presentations will be in
English.
NOCIRC, POB 2512, San Anselmo, CA 94979-2512 USA.
33 Photographs of
The Intact Adult Male Foreskin
what can never be brought back to life for me."
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The Three Zones of Penile Skin
Marilyn F. Milos, RN, Executive Director, NOCIRC
Permission to copy, print, reproduce, transfer, and distribute
images from "33 Photographs of the Intact Adult Male Foreskin" and
"The Three Zones of Penile Skin" without profit, hereby granted. -JAE
Circumcision Scars
Foreskin Restoration
(Glans Re-covering)
Routine Circumcision Not Recommended, AAP Says
NOCIRC Press Release
the American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that
it does not
recommend circumcision. The already declining circumcision
rate
in the U.S. should therefore drop dramatically."
NOCIRC Annual Report, Spring 1999
1999
American Academy of Pediatrics
Task Force on Circumcision
Circumcision Policy Statement
(With More Than 100 Hyperlinks)
Where Is My Foreskin?
The Case Against Circumcision
Paul M. Fleiss, MD
Mothering Magazine, Winter 1997
Paul M. Fleiss, M.D., in the Winter 1997 issue of
Mothering
achieved classic status almost overnight as the most
comprehensive,
most thorough article about the foreskin and circumcision
published
by the popular press to date."
Letter from the Editor,
NOCIRC Annual Report, Spring 1998
Immunological functions of the human prepuce
PM Fleiss, FM Hodges, RS Van Howe
Sexually Transmitted Infections, October 1998
functions of the foreskin have itemized the recent medical
reasons
given to justify routine circumcision of the foreskin and
have
debunked them all. They explain the importance of this normal
human
structure in detail, so there should now be no more
attempts to
medically justify the ancient and unnecessary practice of
circumcision
in this modern era of enlightened medicine."
Kenneth J. Baker, MD, FACOG
Medical Journal Articles Documenting
The Complications of Circumcision
sex-change operations, gangrene, blood poisoning, heart
failure,
collapsed lungs, and severe burns. Why has this information
been hidden
from the general public? Why isn't it included on the
circumcision consent
forms doctors and hospitals give parents to sign?"
Comment from a viewer
Foreskins For Sale
and especially wary of anyone who wants to cut it
off. Human foreskins
are in great demand for any number of commercial
enterprises, and the
marketing of purloined baby foreskins is a
multimillion-dollar-a-year industry."
"Where Is My Foreskin? The Case Against Circumcision"
Paul M. Fleiss, MD
Mothering Magazine, Winter 1997
Medical Journal Articles Documenting
The Use of Human Foreskins in Medical,
Pharmaceutical, and Other Commercial Enterprises
Sexual Mutilations: A Human
Tragedy:
Intro &
Full Text (PDF)
Procedings of the Fourth International Symposium on
Circumcision,
Lausanne, Switzerland, August 9-11, 1996
Edited by George C. Denniston, MD, and Marilyn Fayre Milos,
RN
(Contents and ordering information)
Male and Female Circumcision:
Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations
in Pediatric Practice
Procedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Sexual
Mutilations
University of Oxford, England, August 5-7, 1998
Edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges,
and Marilyn Fayre Milos
(Contents and ordering information)
Circumcision Supplement
BJU International
British Journal of Urology
Volume 83, Supplement 1, January 1999
(Contents and ordering information)
A Short History of Circumcision in the U.S.
in Physicians' Own Words
tethered, protesting infants is a surgical act of sexual
sadism."
What Is Lost?
Gary Harryman
circumcised, this is what is lost -- forever."
Informed Consent for Medically Necessary
Circumcision
Eileen Marie Wayne, MD
"Why I Stopped Circumcising Babies"
Violating the Golden Rule -- George C. Denniston, MD
(I certainly would not have wanted that done to me); the
major
tenet of medical practice, First, Do No Harm; and all seven
Principles of the American Medical Association's Code of
Ethics."
Foreword to Circumcision Exposed -- Paul M. Fleiss,
MD
that I never responded to their pain ... I then decided I was
on their side; my job was to protect babies, not harm them."
Circumcision:
What Your Baby Can't Tell You
"But deception is often nonverbal, and conveyed instead
by gesture or false visual clues; even by silence, as
in situations where a clear risk ought to be pointed out."
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
The Free Press, 1978
"A Piece of Skin the Size of a Quarter"
"Circumcision Produces These Irreversible Changes"
"A Scream We Will Never Forget"
"The Complications of Circumcision"
"The Circumcised Male Has Less Penis"
"Sight Without Color"
(Statements by Men Circumcised as
Adults)
"Circumcision ... Took Away ...
[Masturbation's] Intense Pleasure"
"The Animal Kingdom Would Probably
Cease to Exist Without Smegma"
"Deaths Do Occur as a Result of Circumcision ...
No One Knows How Many"
"Deaths Attributable to Newborn
Circumcision Are Rare"
"I Fucked Her Raw"
And Other Statements Suggesting That
Circumcision Helps Spread HIV and STDs
"I Was Never to See Those Beautiful,
Mystic, Leboyer Newborn-Baby Smiles Again"
"The Darker Regions of the Human Mind"
"Circumcision Is a Brutal Ritual Rooted
in Superstition and Should be Abandoned"
