We've documented the false and misleading information that anti-circumcision groups like Intact America and Doctors Opposing Circumcision routinely promote. Meanwhile intactivists have poured over our articles and posts, trying to find anything they can use to discredit us. After four years one critic is finally convinced that he found the smoking gun. Last week he declared that we lied, because we referred to the foreskin as a “flap” of skin. [1] [2] He cited a dictionary definition of flap as something that is "hinged or attached only on one side." He argued that the foreskin is a cuff, defined as something that "encircles". He concluded that by referring to the foreskin as a flap rather
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