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Male Genital Mutilation

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This page is a dedicated citation list intended to help fight against the misinformation surrounding the surgical abuse of children via Male Circumcision. Also known as Male Genital Mutilation, or MGM. These citations are intended to 1) educate parents 2) counter false narratives 3) further the goal of ending child genital mutilation forever. It is also provided as a handy resource for anyone seeking to know more. If you have any suggestions, additional citations – or have spotted a broken link – please send us a comment or message us via the contact page. Some links are in multiple categories. Categories may move locations as we better organise the list.

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Resources

Books

  • “SEX & CIRCUMCISION: An American Love Story” by Eric Clopper, a Jewish man and spokesman for Foregen
  • Unspeakable Mutilations: Circumcised Men Speak Out by Lindsay Watson (Original)
  • “Circumcision Is A Fraud” by Peter Adler, professor of International Law. He has been in the intactivist movement for years. He laid down all the legality behind circumcision and the reasons for why male circumcision is a fraud and medical malpractice.
  • “Circumcision – The Hidden Trauma” by Ronald Goldman, a phycologist with expertise on early trauma.
  • Marked in Your Flesh by Professor of Anthropology Leonard B. Glick gives the history of circumcision in Judaism and how it was adapted in the US.

Films & Lectures

Documentaries

Lectures

Foreskin Restoration

Note: Awful & Graphic videos of real circumcision are freely available on YouTube, but are not linked to here. Searching for ‘Circumcision Training’ is the best way to find them.


Long Term Health Problems & Deaths

Circumcision is an irreversible procedure that causes:

Brain Damage & Lifelong Disability

Brain Damage & Lasting Trauma

Disability

Loss of Sexual Feeling

Cause Of Sexual Disfunction

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Studies Directly Linking Circumcision to STDs

Circumcision Causes Risky Sexual Behaviour

Possible Links

DEATH

Note: A newborn baby has ~78ml of blood, which is not enough to fill most perfume bottles. Or even a small teacup. This begs the question: how much do they have to lose before they get brain damage from circumcision? Or die? The exact figure is debatable, but cannot be more than a couple of teaspoons. (Original)

Botched Circumcisions (Examples)


Moral Objections

Male Genital Mutilation Is……

A Human Rights Violation

Used To Promote Female Circumcision

Dangerous Trend Towards Legalising FGM

Campaigners who define FGM only in terms of its rarest and worst forms are paving the way for pro-FGM advocates to redefine the less-awful kinds of female cutting as ‘not FGM’. Which means they can argue to legalise it. (Original)

Is MGM as bad as FGM?

How Can You Tell If You’re Cutting A Boy Or a Girl?

Caused By Greed

Male Genital Mutilation is extremely profitable, with the procedure itself costing $380-$2000 for an infant in America. (Original) This likely does not including after-care. The foreskin can then be sold to the medical sciences & cosmetics industry. However, the main financial gain may come from vested interests.

Mass Circumcision Campaigns

  • The Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation has poured funding into circumcision programs in Africa for decades. Including:
  • So has the WHO, and several other bodies.

Selling Foreskins

Sexual Assault

No baby or child can consent to circumcision. It is an act of force perpetrated on their helpless bodies by adults who strap them down and ignore their cries of distress. However, it isn’t only perpetrated against children.

Forced Circumcision of Adults

Horribly Painful

Circumcision causes so much pain it leads to lasting emotional & brain damage. See: Brain Damage & Lifelong Disability above.

Pain

Notes On Trauma

Irreversible


Counter Objections

This isn’t a one-way argument, and many Inactivists find that victims of Male Genital Mutilation defend it themselves…. Much the way victims of FGM do…..

“Doctors Recommend Circumcision”

While doctors in America frequently praise circumcision, they likely do so because they have no knowledge of the risks or functions of the foreskin – which medical textbooks normally omit. They also have a vested financial interest in cutting. (See: Caused By Greed, above). See also: More Circumcision Myths You May Believe: Hygiene, UTIs, and STDs (Original) Worldwide, however, most medical organisations seem to be against the practice. The following is a short list detailing just some of the medical organisations known to have issued statements questioning or opposing circumcision:

Major Medical Authorities Who Don’t Support Circumcision

Political & Media Organizations Who Don’t Support Circumcision

“I Was Circumcised And I’m Okay”

Victims Of FGM Say The Same Thing

Your Sexual Function Has Been Damaged – And So Has Hers

According to studies, not only is sex less pleasurable for the circumcised man – it is also less pleasurable for his partner. Women are half as likely to reach orgasm during intercourse with a circumcised man.(Original) It is also associated with frequent orgasm difficulties in men. (Original) Regardless of how much fun you are having, you only have your own experiences to go by. Circumcised men mostly report that the only really pleasurable part of their penis is the scar. This is because the most pleasurable part of their penis has been removed before they ever had a chance to use it.

Finally

Just because you feel as if you are okay with what was done to you does not give you a licence or a right to mandate it be done to any other human being. There are people who are ‘alright’ being blind. There are people who are ‘alright’ without legs. But that doesn’t mean everyone should be subjugated by this barbaric act of sexual control.

Circumcision is Cleaner”

This is simply an artefact of the idea that genitals are inherently shameful & “unclean”. But let’s pretend it isn’t.

Female Genitals Are Actually Dirtier Than Male Ones

Which Is Why “Circumcision is Cleaner” is used to justify cutting girls

In countries where female circumcision is accepted practice, they use the same argument to justify cutting girls. Here are some examples:

Male Genitals, By Contrast, Need Much Less Cleaning

If you don’t accept this argument when it’s made about girls…. why would you accept the same argument aimed at boys?

Deliberately cutting newborns risks infection

Evidence shows that newborns have compromised immune systems that are weaker than children or adults. (Original) This is why babies get sick so much. So why are we doing the procedure as soon as they are born, then dunking the wound in a nappy full of literal raw sewerage? Why not wait until the child is old enough to consent?

It Prevents (Insert Medical Condition)”

From club foot, to blindness. From paralysis to bed-wetting. From masturbation to…. nose picking? And homosexuality? Circumcision has been claimed as a ‘cure-all’ for centuries. In fact, some have called it “a cure searching for a disease.”. This is no less true when it comes to modern claims.

Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)

Penile Cancer

This form of cancer is incredibly rare, and mostly affects men aged 50 to 70 years. (Original) By contrast, circumcision literally kills hundreds of babies & children every year. (See: DEATH). Widespread Circumcision has not stopped penile cancer in the USA. Cases of penile cancer have also been reported appearing on the circumcision scar line itself, suggesting the damage played a part in the formation of the cancer.

“He’ll Be Bullied If I Don’t”

This is not an excuse to perpetuate abuse and disability. Especially considering that at least a third of American boys are uncut, and that number is growing.

FGM is Also Promoted Via Bullying

“My Religion Demands Circumcision”

We deeply understand that this is a part of your heartfelt beliefs , but please hear us out.

Christians

Circumcision of Christian children is NOT Biblical. Circumcision was a rite prescribed for Jewish boys by the Old Covenant, which Jesus fulfilled. This is why Christians do not follow Jewish ritual laws, and can eat pork or shellfish. The command in Genesis only applies to Jews.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:18“Was anyone (meaning Jews) at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised (meaning non-Jews)? Let him not seek circumcision.”
  • Galatians 5:1-11 – “Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
  • Acts 21 – This section is too long to quote, but the gist is that the Jews were angry that uncircumcised Greeks (Christian converts) were entering The Temple. Which could only happen if there were uncircumcised Christian converts from the very early days.

There’s a lot more we could quote here, but the TL;DR is that you are not following or honouring Jesus by enacting a ritual from the OLD covenant that was fulfilled by Jesus. In fact, you are saying that Jesus is not your lord by doing so.

Jews

You are correct that the Torah commands the circumcision of infant boys. However, there are a few things to bear in mind:

  • The Torah only commands the nipping off of the very tip of the foreskin. Not the removal of the entire thing. This is the initial cut in the Bris. The practice of removing the entire thing is essentially heretical.
  • Many modern Jews practice the Bris Shalom instead of cutting. It is the same ceremony, but removes the cutting and adds a blessing. It’s much better for the child. It’s likely that the reason so many Jews are adopting this practice is that:
  • Of the 613 commandments for Jews in the Torah, roughly 270 require The Temple in Jerusalem – which no longer stands. In other words, the Covenant under which circumcision was practiced is no longer whole. It could be argued that this means it’s no longer valid.

Muslims

Circumcision of boys is not commanded in the Quran, and is only briefly mentioned. It is not considered one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Nor is it required for your Islamic faith to be considered valid. Many Muslim-majority countries (Turkey included) do not have high rates of circumcision.


Meta Objections

Dirty Propaganda Tactics

Citations implying that dangerous misinformation about circumcision is being deliberately spread, and that pro circumcision groups are hiding the facts of the matter.

History

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