By Quinn Ambriel Baker

"STOP!!" (Cartoon by Steve Breen)


PHOTOGRAPHS [See also POSTERS.]

33 Photographs of the Intact Adult Male Foreskin

Baby being circumcised in U.S. hospital

Baby right after being circumcised

Baby strapped to Circumstraint

CARV (Citizens Against Ritual Violence)

Circumcised baby with bandaged penis

Circumciser tearing baby's foreskin from his glans

Circumcision Scars

Adult Jewish male

Residual penis of adult circumcised when he was a baby (#1)

Residual penis of adult circumcised when he was a baby (#2)

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity."

Foreskin Restoration (Glans Re-covering)

Four-year-old Saudi Arabian boy's penile stump, severed penis, and "successful" reattachment after ritual circumcision

Intact adult penis and circumcised adult penis side by side

Intact boy doll

Jacob Sweet

Miscellaneous Photographs

Mohel sucking blood from baby's penis

Mother embracing son whose glans was destroyed during laser circumcision in Turkey

One Baby's Experience

Six-year-old Muslim boy about to be circumcised

"These crimes will never be forgotten ..."

This is how most males born in the U.S. today are welcomed into the world.

This seven-year-old girl's clitoris has just been cut off.

Three foreskin restorations in progress

The Three Zones of Penile Skin

Tommy Lee Jones with his baby son

Turkish boy being circumcised

"We support nurses who won't circumcise"

"What happens to you here is forever." (Circumciser crushing off baby's foreskin with Sheldon clamp)


POSTERS

"Circumcise me?" (Open letter to routine infant circumcision advocates Edgar J. Schoen, MD; Gerald N. Weiss, MD; and Thomas E. Wiswell, MD)

Circumcision Policy Statement, American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision, March 1, 1999

Cover of FACT Magazine July-August 1966

Drawing by Casey Ryan Miller, age 14

The Face of an Unmutilated Child

"I can hold a sign too, Dad"

Is there a connection ... ?

"It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself"

"Now do you think it makes no difference?"

"A piece of skin the size of a quarter..."

"Shear Madness!"

This is your baby. This is your baby being circumcised. Any questions?

This is your baby. This is your baby on a Circumstraint. Any questions?

"What's done to children, they will do to society" (#1)

"What's done to children, they will do to society" (#2)

"What's done to children, they will do to society" (#3)

Who will protect us from our protectors?


TEXT

$10,000 Reward

$360,000 Awarded for Botched Circumcision

1999 American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision -- Circumcision Policy Statement (With More Than 100 Hyperlinks)

Alaska Law Firm Settles Lawsuit With Family of Brain-Damaged Boy

Ari Zighelboim's review of Circumcision, Strictly Speaking, by Gerald N. Weiss, MD, on www.amazon.com

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child Press Release

Baby Boy Steals Circumstraint -- Richard DeSeabra

Books

Awakenings: A Preliminary Poll of Circumcised Men (Revealing the Long-Term Harm and Healing the Wounds of Infant Circumcision) Report of the Harm Documentation Survey -- Tim Hammond, NOHARMM, 1994

Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery -- David L. Gollaher

Circumcision: An American Custom -- Mary Milvitch

Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy -- Edward Wallerstein

Circumcision: An Ethno-Medical Study -- A. Thomas

Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma -- Ronald Goldman, PhD

Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma -- Rosemary Romberg

Circumcision: The Rest of the Story -- Peggy O'Mara, editor

Circumcision: What Every Parent Should Know -- Anne Briggs

Circumcision Exposed: Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition -- Billy Ray Boyd

Decircumcision (Circumcision Practices and Foreskin Restoration Methods) -- Gary M. Griffin

Foreskin Restoration (Uncircumcision) -- Mark Waring

The Joy of Being a Boy -- Elizabeth Noble with Leo Sorger, MD

The Joy of Uncircumcising! -- Jim Bigelow, PhD

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.

Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective -- Ronald Goldman, PhD

Routine Circumcision: The Tragic Myth -- Nicholas Carter

Say No to Circumcision! 40 Compelling Reasons -- Thomas J. Ritter, MD, and George C. Denniston, MD

Sex as Nature Intended It

Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy -- George C. Denniston and Marilyn Milos, editors

You Call This Love? The Real Reason Women Don't Like Sex -- Lisa Bisque

Books, Photographs and Videos by John A. Erickson

Call It What It Is: Child Abuse -- Gary L. Harryman

Circumcision Supplement BJU International, British Journal of Urology Volume 83, Supplement 1, January 1999 (Contents and ordering information)

Circumcision Variations -- Ron Redmond

Circumcision-Related Lawsuit Settlements

Circumcision: What Your Baby Can't Tell You (Compiled and edited by John A. Erickson)

"The Animal Kingdom Would Probably Cease to Exist Without Smegma"

"The Circumcised Male Has Less Penis"

"Circumcision Is a Brutal Ritual Rooted in Superstition and Should be Abandoned"

"Circumcision Produces These Irreversible Changes"

"Circumcision ... Took Away ... [Masturbation's] Intense Pleasure"

"The Complications of Circumcision"

"The Darker Regions of the Human Mind"

"Deaths Attributable to Newborn Circumcision Are Rare"

"Deaths Do Occur as a Result of Circumcision ... No One Knows How Many"

"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"

"A Piece of Skin the Size of a Quarter"

"A Scream We Will Never Forget"

"Sight Without Color" (Statements by Men Circumcised as Adults)

Comments from Visitors to In Memory of the Sexually Mutilated Child

Comments received in 1998

Comments received in 1999

Comments received in 2000 (Jan.-June)

Comments received in 2000 (July- )

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity"

A Day at the Fair -- Susan Peer (Parents of Intact Sons)

Deeper Into Circumcision: An Invitation to Awareness and Guide to Resources for Researchers, Parents, Restorers, Activists and the Merely Curious (Compiled and edited by John A. Erickson)

449 Famous Males with Foreskins

"The child was not aware of the mutilation he had suffered"

Circumcised Mice

Circumcision Deaths/Disasters Headlines

Circumcision Instruments/Technique

Contents

Dear Reader

"A Deathblow to Denial" (Letter from Eileen Marie Wayne, MD, to Carla Miller)

Does Male Circumcision Help Spread AIDS?

"The Eye of the Beholder"

"Feelings Too Violent to Describe"

"He Didn't Even Cry" / Febo

In the Name of Humanity (excerpt) -- Joseph Lewis

Lampshades

Letter from Ralph Ginzburg

"Look at these hands" -- Mary Conant, RN

Messages on the Internet

"My Own Nightmare and Fight for Justice" -- Carla Miller

Obstetrical/Gynecological Mutilation

Patent for Electrosurgical Circumcision Apparatus

Recreational/Erotic/Fetish Circumcision

Scott McGillivray's review of Deeper Into Circumcision in Foreskin Quarterly, and comments by John Erickson

Vulvo-Rectal Fistula from Violence During First Coition

"We love you and we are here to protect you" -- Betty Katz Sperlich, RN

The End of Circumcision in America -- George C. Denniston, MD

Foreskin Restoration (Glans Re-Covering)

Foreskins For Sale

"Genital mutilation is the foremost violent warfare of genocide consuming humanity through its children's godlike organs of love" and Other Miscellaneous Brief Statements

Have a story to tell?

Immunological functions of the human prepuce -- PM Fleiss, FM Hodges, RS Van Howe, Sexually Transmitted Infections, October 1998

In Memoriam -- Thank You, Never to be Forgotten Heroes

"In memory of all the children throughout history who have died at the hands of sexual mutilators ..." (Opening screen of In Memory of the Sexually Mutilated Child)

Infant Circumcision: Crime Against Humanity (A Statement by John A. Erickson)

Infant Circumcision: The Perfect Crime

Informed Consent for Medically Necessary Circumcision -- Eileen Marie Wayne, MD

"Just Anecdotal" ("I'm going to cut your foreskin off, little boy" and Other First Person Statements)

Circumcised at 30 -- William E. Krueger ("I feel damaged on almost every level.")

"Dr. Xxxxxx mutilated my sexual organs when I was a child"

"I'm going to cut your foreskin off, little boy"

Intact, Mutilated, Largely Restored ("I soon realized what a great mistake I had made!")

A Jewish Mother's Awakening

Letter from the wife of a circumcised man to David McKnight -- Wives of Circumcised Husbands Support Group ("For too long I have blamed myself for our sexual problems when circumcision was the culprit.")

"Lightning Struck Twice for Me" -- Cliff Pointer ("No one had the right to cut my foreskin off!")

My Circumcision Story -- Jerry Brayton ("I would rather have been raped than circumcised.")

No Foreskin ("... the words stuck in my throat and no sound came out.")

Open letter from the mother of three boys, the youngest intact ("This letter is therapy for a mother who feels an enormous amount of guilt.")

"When I realized that Judaism cut me off from part of myself, I cut myself off from Judaism" -- Brian Levitt

"Light in a world of darkness" (George Hill's tribute to Geoffrey Falk and his Circumcision Information and Resource Pages website)

Links to Information on the World Wide Web

Lysozyme in moisture under foreskin kills HIV

Making America Safe for Foreskins (Selected Letters Published and Unpublished from 1982 to 1992) and Other Writing by John A. Erickson (Selections)

"The Best Reason to Let a Baby Keep His Foreskin Intact" and Other Letters

Circumciser, Heal Thyself

Does Male Circumcision Victimize Women?

Excerpts from Miscellaneous Letters

Foreskin Deprivation Anxiety: The Secret Torment

Infant Circumcision: Foreskin Amputation by Force

Is Infant Circumcision a Moral/Ethical Issue?

Is There Life After Birth?

Let's Let Everyone Keep Their Genitals Intact for a Happier World

Letter to Parents Magazine (3/22/92)

Miscellaneous Letters

Open Letter to the American Medical Association (The Human Foreskin, Infant Circumcision, and Common Sense)

To Persons of Good Will Who Circumcise Babies

Two Mindsets / A Suggestion for Settling the Infant Circumcision Dispute Once and for All

What "Emotional Harm Affecting a Child Throughout His Life"?

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)

Medical Journal Articles Documenting the Complications of Circumcision

Medical Journal Articles Documenting the Use of Human Foreskins in Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Other Commercial Enterprises

Miscellaneous Documents

Miscellaneous Letters

From Eileen Marie Wayne, MD

To the British Journal of Urology (8/97)

To Michael Lafavore, Editor-in-Chief, Men's Health Magazine, and Michael Wilks, Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, British Medical Association (1/1/99)

To Carole Marie Lannon, MD, Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision (4/24/99)

To Gerald N. Weiss, MD (5/31/99)

To Roy M. Pitkin, MD, Editor, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Patrick J. Woodman, D.O.; Sonya S. Erickson, MD (7/30/99)

To Patrick J. Woodman, D.O. (1/31/00)

From the American Cancer Society to the American Academy of Pediatrics (2/16/96)

From Stan Emerson to Frontline (1/21/99)

From Dr. Frederick Leboyer to Rosemary Romberg

From a man in California to Edgar J. Schoen, MD

From Carla Miller to Hillary Rodham Clinton (11/7/98)

From Robert S. Van Howe, MD, to the American Academy of Pediatrics

From Duane Voskuil, PhD, to the North Dakota Board of Medical Examiners and the Commission on Medical Competency (3/3/95)

From Duane Voskuil, PhD, to Alliance for Sexual Abuse Prevention and Treatment (8/23/98)

An Open Letter to the American Medical Association -- Gary L. Harryman

To Salon Magazine (11/4/98)

Miscellaneous Resources

Organizations with No Website

"Parents of intact boys should be raising intactivists"

"A piece of skin the size of a quarter ..."

Phimosis in antiquity -- Frederick M. Hodges

Poem in recurring dream of gynecological mutilation victim

Poetry

First Love

Ode to My Husband's Missing Foreskin

rage

Words in recurring dream of gynecological mutilation

Routine Circumcision Not Recommended, AAP Says (NOCIRC Press Release)

The Serial Circumciser

Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy (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)

Questions

A Short History of Circumcision in the U.S. in Physicians' Own Words

Some Statements

Some Statements from Whose Body, Whose Rights?

Special Announcement (Men's Health July-August 1998)

Sue Circumcisers

Thank You, Howard Stern

"Thank you, John Erickson"

"These crimes will never be forgotten ..."

T-Shirts and Bumper Stickers

Universal Covenant of Ecumenics International -- Anastasios Zavales

The Unkindest Cut of All -- John M. Foley, MD

Videos

Adult Circumcision Video

Facing Circumcision: Eight Physicians Tell Their Stories -- Nurses for the Rights of the Child

It's a Boy!

NOCIRC Circumcision Video

The Nurses of St. Vincent: Saying "No" to Circumcision -- Barry Ellsworth

They Cut Babies, Don't They?

Three Foreskin Videos by John A. Erickson

Whose Body, Whose Rights? -- Lawrence Dillon and Tim Hammond

What Is Lost? -- Gary Harryman

Where Is My Foreskin? The Case Against Circumcision -- Paul M. Fleiss, MD, Mothering Magazine, Winter 1997

"Why I Stopped Circumcising Babies"

Foreword to Circumcision Exposed, by Billy Ray Boyd -- Paul M. Fleiss, MD

Violating the Golden Rule -- George C. Denniston, MD

"Would any amount of money induce you to part with your foreskin -- and if so, how much? If not, why not?"

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