Published: July 22, 2022 Update: July 28, 2022 In July 2020 psychologist Ronald Goldman, joined by more than two dozen fellow Massachusetts taxpayers, filed a lawsuit against MassHealth to force the state agency to stop using Medicaid funds for elective infant circumcisions. [1] Goldman is executive director of the anti-circumcision organization Circumcision Resource Center and author of a 1998 book, Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma. The plaintiffs argued that Medicaid funds m

June 28, 2022 On Monday Marilyn Milos responded to Samuel, a circumcised man who told her that he enjoys sex very much and "honestly, I can't imagine it being any better. Am I missing something?" Milos began by telling Samuel that the foreskin is the most erogenous part of the male genitalia, with "tens of thousands of nerve endings that respond to the lightest touch." In fact the number of nerve endings has never been determined. The fine touch nerve endings she described do

June 21, 2022 Yesterday Marilyn Milos posted an inquiry from a college student whose two dates were turned off by his uncircumcised penis. He asked how he could stop surprising women and being rejected. Milos began her response by advising him to tell his dates, "I have a normal penis, the one I was born with." This is a bad start, even for an Intact America board member. All men - circumcised and uncircumcised - have normal penises. Intactivist leaders often complain that un

June 17, 2022 This week Intact America published a blog post in which Georganne Chapin suggested that infant circumcision may be responsible for some of the violence being perpetrated in America by men and teenage boys. The Intact America executive director asked, "What is making these guys so angry?" and then answered her own question. "We must ask ourselves whether the nearly ubiquitous violation of baby boys as a class of people and the assembly-line acts of violence carri

Andrew Gross Published: June 4, 2022 Updated: August 5, 2022 A Texas anti-circumcision activist has experienced nausea, insomnia, uncontrolled crying, a panic attack, and feelings of helplessness and grief. [1] A student at Western Kentucky University experienced daily emotional breakdowns and nightly insomnia. [2] After a week of depression an intactivist in Toronto was hospitalized at a mental health facility. [3] An enraged activist in Alaska punched through a glass window

May 10, 2022 Yesterday Marilyn Milos wrote a column in which she made several false claims about circumcision and sexual intercourse. She provided no evidence to support her incorrect assertions. A woman in Denmark wrote that sexual intercourse with her husband was uncomfortable. Her husband takes a long time to reach orgasm, and by the end she is in a great deal of pain. Milos began by claiming that circumcision removes "tens of thousands of specialized erogenous nerve endin

A point-by-point response to the Elhaik study Andrew Gross April 21, 2022 Medical headlines in 2018 promoted a study that indicated that infant circumcision may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death. Dr. Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield in Great Britain authored the study. In 2016 Elhaik proposed a hypothesis that stressful events during infancy, including circumcision, increased a risk of SIDS. I present a point-by-point

Published: May 1, 2022 Updated: June 24, 2022 IMPORTANT NOTE: Circumcision Choice administrators have differing views on the subject of abortion. Circumcision Choice does not take a position on legal or ethical aspects of abortion, which is outside the scope of our mission. This article responds to statements by anti-circumcision activists and points out the inconsistency or logical incoherence of their positions. The topic of abortion is in the news in the United States. By

April 5, 2022 Yesterday Intact America board member Marilyn Milos wrote a column to answer a mother's question about circumcision as a preventative measure against penile cancer. [1] Milos's response is full of false and misleading statements. Milos began by providing the key statistics about penile cancer, based on estimates by the American Cancer Society. [2] She compared them to the statisics for breast cancer, concluding "despite the higher incidence of breast cancer, no

March 12, 2022 Anti-circumcision activists use several ad hominem techniques to dismiss anything their opponents have to say. They accuse circumcised men of protecting a fragile ego, or of being in denial about the supposed harm of the procedure. They accuse mothers of imposing their own sexual preferences on their sons, or of treating their sons as property. They accuse Jews and Muslims of being brainwashed by religion, Americans of being blinded by cultural bias, and medica