January 7, 2023 On Thursday the British tabloids reported that in his upcoming memoir, Prince Harry revealed that he and his brother, Prince William, are circumcised. "'There were countless stories in books, and papers (even The New York Times) about Willy and me not being circumcised,' he wrote. 'Mummy had forbidden it, they all said, and while it’s absolutely true that the chance of getting penile frostbite is much greater if you’re not circumcised, all the stories were fal

October 12, 2022 On Tuesday Intact America posted a tweet that began with a warning: "Don't be misled." Ironically the entire tweet is misleading. Intact American committed two cherry-picking fallacies and used a butchered, outdated quote. Intact America stated, "No medical society recommends routine #circumcision, including the #AmerAcadPeds. Keep baby boys intact." This statement is a misleading cherry-picking of the American Academy of Pediatrics's actual position. The AAP

Published: August 13, 2022 Updated: February 3, 2023 The Facebook page Antisemitism in Intactivism is doing a fine job of documenting the virulent hatred of Jews that daily permeates the intactivist presence on social media. Antisemitism isn’t limited to rank-and-file members, however. Sadly, this centuries-old bigotry has infected the highest levels of intactivist leadership. Today we'll examine the actions of four prominent individuals in the intactivist movement. They incl

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

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

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

Andrew Gross February 5, 2022 On December 1, 2021 Intact America published an open letter from Executive Director Georganne Chapin to urologist Dr. Michael Mooreville in response to their letters that were published in the same edition of The New Yorker magazine. This post is a letter (slightly edited) that I wrote to Chapin and copied to Dr. Mooreville. Dear Georganne, I am writing about your October 11 letter to The New Yorker and your December 1 open letter to Dr. Michael

January 9, 2021 Circumcision practitioners in North America typically use one of three methods to remove the foreskin: Gomco clamp, Mogen clamp, or Plastibell. We agree with Intact America that parents should view videos to better understand the procedure that their son will receive. However we're confused as to why Intact America would believe that doctors don't want parents to see such videos. Parents understand that even a minor surgical procedure isn't pretty. Popular rea

December 11, 2021 In 1907 Mark Twain famously wrote, "Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to [British Prime Minister Benjamin] Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" [1] Disraeli may have been referring to the misuse of statistical data to trick others, a fallacious tactic often used to boost a weak argument. Let’s e