(What I planned to expand upon when saying that men see babies as less than or equal to women, before being told elsewhere that since male babies are male and will grow up to be men, they don't count and therefore I need to shut up about it, because women are the only victims!) *Bolding mine.

Rosemary Romberg - Anchorage, AK
With so many volatile ( Read more... )

It really bothers me that most of the people who are anti-circ, are anti-vaccination, too. The two are not in the same boat. Pro-circumcision and anti-vax use the same type of idiocy to support their claims. They lack scientific evidence, and are mostly supported by ignorance and the desire to support one's own will and biases. Vaccinations and ( Read more... )

From Intact America ( Read more... )

The key is getting them to watch and care. This defiance/refusal is what keeps Americans mutilating our babies.

Seems he's against both!

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They're both intact (thus, not circumcised ( Read more... )

Think again.

"The anthropologist Kirsten Bell similarly found that, when she drew comparisons between the two surgeries for her U.S. college students, the reaction was “immediate and hostile. How dare I mention these two entirely different operations in the same breath! How dare I compare the innocuous and beneficial removal of the foreskin with ( Read more... )

"Thanks to Phoebe Gleeson of NOCIRC"

A Chat About Circumcision

So what is circumcision, anyway? Don't they just take a little bit off the top?

It's surgical removal of the foreskin, frenulum and about one-third to one-half of the skin of the penis.

Wait, one-half of the skin of the penis? How can that be?

There's no precise point where the foreskin ( Read more... )

Brain Visualization Research during Male Infant Circumcision
by Dr. Paul D. Tinari Ph.D.Two of my physics professors at Queen's University (Dr. Stewart & Dr. McKee) were the original developers of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for medical applications. They and a number of other Queen's physicists also worked on improving the accuracy of fMRI ( Read more... )

And the refusal of Americans to even think about it.

Canadians have gone from having the majority as Americans do, to less than 14% in a matter of mere decades. But Americans, well, it's still about ignorance, and still about money. So long as insurance covers it (which it does not in Canada), it will still be done.

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