<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress.com" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Questioning Circumcision</title>
	<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>Think.  Read.  Question.  Learn.  Share.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:39:39 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Court blocks father from circumcising 12-year-old son</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Court blocks father from circumcising 12-year-old son
Posted by The Oregonian January 25, 2008 08:14AM
Categories: Top Stories

The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday blocked a divorced former Southern Oregon man from circumcising his 12-year-old son against the wishes of the boy&#8217;s mother.
The court ruled that the trial judge failed to determine whether the boy wanted to have the procedure. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=38&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/court-blocks-father-from-circumcising-12-year-old-son/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>&#8220;Addressing Questions About HIV and Circumcision&#8221; (PDF resource)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
THE BOTTOM LINE: NOTHING HAS CHANGED 
Circumcision is still not medically necessary. 
Circumcision is still not recommended as a routine procedure. 
Circumcision still carries many risks and harms. 
Everyone still needs to practice safe sex. 
The foreskin is still a normal, valuable body part. 
It’s still “his body, his choice.” 
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=37&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/addressing-questions-about-hiv-and-circumcision-pdf-resource/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Public Service Announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
  

Public Service Announcement
 
The odds of a boy *ever* needing to be circumcised for medical reasons are just 1%.Conversely, circumcision guarantees a child:

100% risk of losing “the most sensitive parts of the penis” LINK
71% risk of penile adhesions LINK
10% risk of meatal stenosis LINK
1% risk of circumcision revision LINK

…and that’s to say nothing of immediate surgical risks including, but not limited to, anesthesia reaction, hemorrhage, infection, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=34&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/public-service-announcement/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>MYTH: Circumcision &amp; UTIs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[




Circumcision and Urinary Tract Infection
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are rare, and mainly occur in the first year of life. They are several times commoner in girls than boys (but of course surgery is never considered for girls).
They are painful, and women&#8217;s experience of them is a powerful inducement to have sons circumcised, if they imagine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=33&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/myth-circumcision-utis/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Penn &amp; Teller: B.S.: Circumcision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Penn &#38; Teller&#8217;s 3rd season includes an episode on circumcision.  It&#8217;s great!  They definitely address a lot of the myths.  I highly recommend it, especially for young, liberal parents and daddies-to-be.  
You can read about it and watch a preview, HERE.  
You can purchase it HERE.  Makes a great stocking-stuffer!  

       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=32&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/32/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Matter of Semantics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We need to eliminate the term &#8220;uncircumcised&#8221; from our vocabularies.  Babies, children, and men who possess their whole penises are intact, just as a woman who has natural breasts is not unmastectomized or someone without a nose job isn&#8217;t unrhinoplastied.  In fact, for a man to be &#8220;uncircumcised&#8221; circumcision would need to be reversible, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=31&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/a-matter-of-semantics/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Canadian Children&#8217;s Rights Council considers circumcision to be genital mutilation of children.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Canadian Children&#8217;s Rights Council
 
The Canadian Children&#8217;s Rights Council considers circumcision to be genital mutilation of children. 

The position of the Canadian Children&#8217;s Rights Council 
 
The Canadian Children&#8217;s Rights Council position is that there is no medical benefit to the routine genital mutilation (circumcision) of any children (defined by U.N. as those under 18 years of age). Further, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=30&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/the-canadian-childrens-rights-council-considers-circumcision-to-be-genital-mutilation-of-children/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>FREE DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FREE educational DVD from PregnantEarth.Com
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=29&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/free-dvd/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>LactivistIntactivist.Com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Great T-Shirts from LactivistIntactivist.Com!
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=28&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/lactivistintactivistcom/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Male Circumcision and HIV: A Public Health Policy Weblog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Bookmark this site!  http://www.circumcisionandhiv.com/ 
SEE ALSO: 
 

Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men

		Removing foreskin no protection for American men of color, study finds 
			December 4, 2007: MSNBC: READ THE STORY  
 


Circumcision does not affect HIV in US men: study



Washington, Dec 04: Circumcision may reduce a man&#8217;s risk of infection with the AIDS virus by up to 60% if he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intactivist.wordpress.com&blog=2159120&post=27&subd=intactivist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://intactivist.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/male-circumcision-and-hiv-a-public-health-policy-weblog/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
