June 17, 2023 We have become unwitting pawns in a conflict between rival intactivist factions. Last month an intactivist blog reported...

Published: June 10, 2023 Revised: February 26, 2026 Some of our detractors have questioned why anyone should trust the information on this website. One intactivist tweeted, "No one, not even genital-cutting doctors, takes the 'Circumcision Choice' website seriously, for obvious reasons." [1] Another asked us, "You debunked all this science years ago? Where is your paper refuting it? Did you have others peer review your work? Did you publish in any scientific journals?" [2] A

Andrew Gross Published: June 1, 2023 Updated: July 16, 2023 "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - William Shakespeare How should a parent respond when her teenage or adult son confronts her, saying that he resents his infant circumcision? In The Joy of Uncircumcising therapist Jim Bigelow advised, "apologies and explanations both to ourselves and our son go a long way toward restoring cognitive harmony ... Such honesty can be very healing fo