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This website is intended as a resource for men who wanted to document their harm from circumcision done in infancy or childhood, as well as for parents - medical professionals - ethicists - religious leaders - attorneys - child protection advocates - human rights campaigners - legislators - and the media "Singly, a man's report of circumcision harm is dismissed as anecdotal. Collectively, these reports are proof that circumcision damages boys and the men they become. Except for some African and Muslim-majority nations where children of both sexes have their genitals forcibly cut, in many parts of the world circumcision harm is actual, concrete and particularized to unconsenting males." Tim Hammond - Curriculum Vitae - Survey Programmer Use the above "Results" tab to view and download our final report to learn why a circumcision does not need to be "botched" to cause harm, and why even circumcisions that meet the "standard of care" cause damage, or SKIP below to "Introduction to the Problem" U P D A T E S 2023 May Video presentations for the 11th annual commemoration of the Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy (WWDOGA). YouTube | WWDOGA website 2023 April ‘Male circumcision’ and ‘female genital mutilation’: why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature. JL Nuzzo. International Journal of Human Rights. 2023:1-24 | PDF 2023 March A landmark survey of almost 1800 foreskin restorers from 60 nations was published in the International Journal of Impotence Research. Foreskin restorers: insights into motivations, successes, challenges, and experiences with medical and mental health professionals – An abridged summary of key findings. View Is circumcision still appropriate for today? A Jewish/Muslim Dialogue | YouTube 2023 February The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement officially expired in 2017. Most policy statements issued by the AAP expire automatically after 5 years unless renewed, reaffirmed or superceded by a new statement. A couple of dedicated individuals had to remind the AAP to update its relevant webpages to reflect the expired status of that policy. In January the AAP changed the status of the policy to 'Expired'. It remains to be seen what this means for doctors, hospitals and private clinics who continue to promote circumcision by referring to this now expired policy. Expired 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement on AAP website / PDF   |   Expired 2012 Male Circumcision Technical Report on AAP website / PDF From the activist archives: US health insurers knowingly pay for medically unnecessary newborn circumcision. Some even openly concede that it's a social custom and pay for it anyway, just to please plan members and to stay competitive. These were the findings from a 1994 NOHARMM investigative project. The situation likely remains unchanged in 2023. PDF Consumers in the 1990s succeeded in lobbying state legislatures to de-list Medicaid funding of newborn circumcision. A 2004 article by North Carolina resident Amber Craig describes the process that she and others followed to protect children and help save tax payer dollars from being spent on this medically unnecessary surgery. PDF 2022 September From the medical archives: Circumcision in America in 1998: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Charges of American Physicians. (1999, Chris Fletcher, MD) An analysis of the accuracy of the presentation of the human penis in anatomical source materials. (2004, Gary Harryman) Mirror page added to this site for the groundbreaking 1995 video documentary 'Whose Body, Whose Rights? 2022 August New legal website launches: Genital Autonomy Legal Defense and Education Fund Is Circumcision "Necessary" in Islam? (Journal of Religion and Health) PDF Two Jewish brothers on Swiss TV: Ephraim's and Manasseh's foreskin was cut off and they suffer from it (YouTube) (German with English captions) 2022 July From the legal archives (1989): The First Circumcision Case by R. Morris* | Circumcision: Legal & Constitutional Issues by C. Bonner & M. Kinane * Historic Adam London case (1985). Hospital Sued in Circumcision (SF Chronicle) | Marin Judge Kills Suit over Circumcision (SF Chronicle) Petition of Writ | Petition Table of Contents | Petition Introduction Circumcision of boys, not a small cut (Arte/Franco-German TV, English subtitles-broadcast 23 July 2022) | view from this website Rethinking the Circumcision Part 1: Gary Shteyngart & Max Buckler (Ep. 31 Podcast-July 27-excellent, nuanced discussion) | listen from this website 2022 June Exposing the TRUTH about Medical Circumcision Informed Consent (Intaction) Video | Donate Genital Cutting as Gender Oppression: Time to Revisit the WHO Paradigm Brian D. Earp Chopped: Exposing the Colonial and Scientifically Dubious Circumcision of 23 Million African Men (2019) The African Exponent 2022 May Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy/10th Anniversary - May 7, 2022: Website | Full playlist of international video presentatiions (YouTube) Recommended from WWDOGA 2021: Circumcision in Medicine and Islamic Culture & Religion by Dr. Mohamed Fahmy The Genital Autonomy Movement responds to antisemitism: Statement Opposing Antisemitism in the Genital Autonomy Movement Standing Together Against Antisemitism  R. Wald Refuting “Jewish Fragility” & Why Antisemitism Harms the Genital Autonomy (GA) Movement  R. McAllister "The Abuse of Jewish Fragility": a Case Study in How to Undermine the Cause of Genital Autonomy through Jewish Scapegoating and the Use of Classic Antisemitic Tropes   D . Balashinsky An Elephant in the Genital Autonomy Movement   R. McAllister How to Deradicalize a Movement    E. Ungar-Sargon   Shared Issue, Different Ideas. Children's Justice is Not Intactivism    Hegemon Media/B. Marotta 2022 March INGOCGA issues report on male circumcision as a human rights violation. News release | Report (PDF) Clemens Setz on his circumcision. Der Spiegel (in German) | English PDF AAP circumcision brochures recognize "negative effects on self-esteem and sexuality" of female circumcision but not male. 1995 brochure | 1999 brochure | 2017 brochure 2022 February Circumcision of boys: Thousands of children are circumcised in Germany for no reason. NOZ | PDF Is the NHS carrying out thousands of unnecessary circumcisions on teenage boys? New report shows irreversible surgery is carried out 10,000 times per year Daily Mail | PDF Bloodstained Men push to not circumcise infant boys seen as anti-semitic by some, child protection by others. The Gazette | Enhanced PDF FOIA Request Sheds New Light on the AAP's Motivations: A 2012 policy statement sought to reverse falling circumcision rates, and new data shows that it worked. Circumcision Is A Fraud | PDF Being Honest about the Bris: A Jewish Call for Greater Integrity Evolve | PDF 2022 January: Removal of the Foreskin: More than a Cut Manasseh and Ehpraim Seidenberg call for a rethinking. Mannschaft. PDF Newly published. Circumcision is a Fraud: The Coming Legal Reckoning. Peter W. Adler, MA, JD. Available as Paperback or Kindle at Amazon UPDATES BEFORE 2022 ARE UNDER THE RESEARCH & NEWS TAB Unspeakable Mutilations Circumcised Men Speak Out   Kindle and Paperback - Amazon.com I N T R O D U C T I O N    T O    T H E    P R O B L E M The Global Survey of Circumcision Harm (GSCH) was launched in June 2011 because the medical community has never investigated the long-term adverse physical, sexual, emotional or psychological consequences of infant/childhood circumcision on the health of adult men. In March 2017 survey results were published in the International Journal of Human Rights. Documenting this long-term harm is impeded by: widespread ignorance among men, including doctors, about complete penile anatomy and the functions and benefits of the foreskin; lack of familiarity with how to identify circumcision damage; lack of appropriate opportunities to document these adverse consequences; the fact that the U.S. medical community does not collect any statistics on the number of botched circumcisions or deaths, let alone the long-term adverse outcomes to men. This was revealed in 1985 by Edward Wallerstein, author of Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy, at the 10 minute mark of this 15-minute television interview [IE browsers: up to 2 minutes load time] denial among victims and circumcisers (many of whom are victims themselves) that damage has occurred, as in these video interviews with circumcised women and men whose genitals were cut as young children and this debate between Essayist Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Kushner. the medical community's unethical preying upon parental fears about health in order to promote a needless surgery from which it profits, as explained in this interview with the director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision. individual physicians who obscure the harm of circumcision by portraying it as 'health promotion' thereby asking the public to suspend common sense, demonstrated by this interview of Dr. Lisa Masterson by talk show host Craig Ferguson. To understand the scope of the problem of male genital cutting today, please visit: Geography of Genital Mutilations Statistics on Human Genital Mutilation Estimated Worldwide Incidence of Male Circumcision Complications Estimated U.S. Incidence of Neonatal Circumcision Complications (1940-1990) This survey in 2011-2012 was a grassroots, all-volunteer effort to provide an online self-report and documentation method for any male who considered himself harmed by childhood genital cutting imposed on him without his informed consent. Until the medical community investigates these consequences, the internet remains an alternate venue offering these men the comfort level they require to document such harm. While the survey of course does not claim to represent all circumcised men, most of the physical damage from a "proper" circumcision revealed by our respondents is universal among all men circumcised in infancy or childhood, whether or not they realize or admit to it. It is hoped that documenting such consequences and making the results publicly accessible will provide a starting point for dialogue about the long-term adverse consequences of male genital cutting. It is hoped that this harm will be investigated by medical communities and taken seriously by the societies where customs of male childhood genital cutting occur. WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT THIS WEBSITE Survey Custom Reports On 21 September 2012 the survey was closed to new respondents. Please visit the Results tab to learn more about the findings. Order a report based on custom parameters that includes filters such as age, country/state/province of birth or residence, religion, type of harm, etc. No longer available Results Donate View the most recent statistical results of the survey. VIEW FINAL RESULTS If you believe the public must be made more aware of circumcision harm, you can donate to defray costs of hosting/promoting this survey, and publishing the results for public benefit. Gallery Promote Compare photos of natural intact male genitals to photos of damage uploaded by our survey respondents. Help to promote wider participation by men who know they've been harmed by childhood circumcision by publicizing the survey. Testimony More Research Many respondents submitted video testimony of their harm for posting to this site. Visit the Testimonies tab to hear how childhood genital cutting has affected men physically, sexually, emotionally and/or psychologically. Published research on natural penile anatomy, foreskin physiology, circumcision damage, harm done to men by specious claims of circumcision for HIV reduction, and world medical association statements on circumcision and human rights.

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