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

December 29, 2021 A paper published in April 2021 reported a survey of British men who were circumcised during childhood for phimosis. [1] The researchers sought to determine the level of circumcision satisfaction among men who were circumcised during childhood. According to the survey results 9% of the men had a positive association with their circumcision and 22% had a negative association. When asked which treatment options they would have selected, 43% chose circumcision,

Published: January 31, 2019 Revised: February 11, 2023 One of the medical benefits of newborn circumcision is a lower lifetime risk of penile cancer. A secondary benefit is a lower risk of cervical cancer for female sexual partners. In an attempt to nullify these benefits, circumcision opponents have referred to the American Cancer Society, implying that the respected health organization has declared that the procedure has no protective benefits against cancer. Intactivists h

Published: November 29, 2018 Revised: August 1, 2022 Anti-circumcision activists often claim that just 1 out of 16,667 men (0.006%) will require a circumcision for medical reasons. This is one of the most cited intactivist statistics, up there with the 16 functions, 117 deaths, and 20,000 nerve endings. It was even cited by the president of Doctors Opposing Circumcision in a 1996 medical journal. [1] This post will answer the questions: What is the source for this statistic?