September 27, 2022 Emily, a concerned Indiana mother, wrote to Marilyn Milos because her young son is having frequent erections that are painful. She asked if this condition is normal for an uncircumcised toddler. Milos told Emily to explain penile development and foreskin retraction to her 4 year-old son in order to determine what is causing the pain. The correct answer to this question is obvious. For painful erections, the mother should immediately contact the child's pedi

September 17, 2022 An intactivist meme claims that sex with a circumcised partner causes vaginal dryness. In support of this assertion, the meme cites two studies and a book. All three sources were written by anti-circumcision activists, and none of them provides evidence for the validity of the statements. "Maintaining a fully intact foreskin helps to avoid problems with excessive dryness of the vagina, report Dr. John P. Warren and Psychologist Jim Bigelow in a scientific r

Andrew Gross Published September 15, 2022 Updated September 16, 2022 In January we reported about a fake Reddit community created to mimic the Circumcision Choice page on the Reddit social media platform. The person who created the fake subreddit is using my name, my Facebook profile photo, and the cover photo from the Circumcision Choice Facebook page - all in a malicious attempt to defame Circumcision Choice and me personally. Neither I nor Circumcision Choice has any prese

September 10, 2022 On Thursday freelance writer Elizabeth Broadbent posted an article titled, "6 Reasons I Believe Circumcising Your Son is Genital Mutilation." The article began by referring to the 2015 story of the Florida parental dispute: Now she’s changed her mind. And Hieronimus [sic] is on the run with now 4-year-old Chase, who “is aware of what is happening and is terrified by the procedure.” The court has agreed to rescind the arrest order if Chase’s mother will sign

Andrew Gross Published September 3, 2022 Updated September 7, 2022 German intactivist Ulf Dunkel has added another section to his IntactiWiki website page dedicated to me. [1] Several weeks ago he accused me of inflicting trauma on babies. Now he says that I am calling for human rights violations. In the new section Dunkel made several assertions about American law. He claimed that elective circumcision is a "human rights abuse" or "violation." He claimed that "there is no le