2012-08-24

Circumcision

Dr. Momma (good explanation of what "circumcision" really is)
Saving Our Sons
Foreskin Restoration
Beginner's Foreskin Restoration
Danelle Frisbie, an intactivist
Rates of Circumcision in the US
Circumcision causes alexithymia (inability to process emotions)
Origins of Circumcision in Britain (and throughout the English-speaking world)
National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males
No Circ
Moralogous
Director of CUT on Outlawing Circumcision

Penn & Teller Bullshit on Circumcision
Part IPart IIPart III



i hope that one day we will look back on circumcision with the horrified clarity with which we now look back on foot binding 

circumcision and capitalism are similar in that those they most directly hurt often defend them out of a kind of cultural Stockholm Syndrome

america: where men wanting naturally functioning genitals is weird and fetishistic  (link via)