February 19, 2022 Brendon Marotta has demonstrated that intactivism is a mental disorder. In a blog post published on Thursday, the producer of the anti-circumcision documentary American Circumcision claimed that circumcision causes serious psychological trauma. He also claimed that the procedure causes cultural trauma that unhappy circumcised men "experience from living in a genital cutting culture." [1] Marotta claimed that unhappy circumcised men are "culturally traumatize

Andrew Gross January 20, 2021 The headlines and articles screamed about the latest study that purports to show that infant circumcision causes harm. “Undergoing circumcision as an infant has delayed psychological complications.” [1] “Neonatal circumcision has delayed psychological implications as an adult: Study.” [2] In fact the researchers who wrote the study published in the journal Heliyon [3] did not make those claims. They cautiously concluded that their findings sugges

Andrew Gross February 7, 2019 "Circumcision’s Psychological Damage" is the 7th article in a series published in Psychology Today which claims that circumcision is harmful. Psychology professor Patrick O’Connor argued that circumcision during infancy or childhood causes mental trauma that affects males throughout their lives. [1] My analysis follows. O’Connor began by disparaging the proposed CDC guidelines that were released in late 2014 [2], saying they were based on a 2012