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• Doctors reject call for more circumcision as response to heterosexual HIV infection
• New RACP circumcision policy welcomed by child protection advocates
• AIDS control breakthrough: Vatican approves condom use
• More evidence that circumcision leads to reduced condom use
• The case against boosting infant male circumcision in the face of rising heterosexual transmission of HIV: MJA publishes replies to Cooper et al
• Cooper et al reply to their critics, and get themselves into even deeper water
• "Bizarre mutilation": Child health journal dismisses circumcision
• New South Wales doctor guilty of genital mutilation
• Routine circumcision at 11 years? Report and critique of new Canadian proposal
• Another U.S. state drops circumcision from medical benefits schedule
• Australia: Circumcision statistics show decline in most states
• Foreskin restoration: New medical technologies offer hope to circumcised men
• Circumcised men at equal risk of infection with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
• Pros and cons of circumcision: The rising tide of doubt
• JAMA suppresses circumcision critics: Read the censored replies to Tobian and Gray here
• RACP releases circumcision guide for parents
• Child health experts slam "new" circumcision proposal
• Researchers defend Danish study showing that male circumcision has adverse effect on sexual satisfaction
• Tasmanian law report recommends regulation of circumcision
• Canberra circumcision doctor disciplined
• British royal family circumcision tradition: Further sightings of a persistent urban myth
• Jewish film maker Victor Schonfeld on why Europe should persist with measures to protect children from circumcision harm
• American libertarian rejects circumcision: A barbaric violation of the rights of the individual
• American Academy of Pediatrics admits that there is no medical case for routine circumcision
• British court: Circumcision choice should be left until children old enough to decide for themselves
• Changes to Medicare coverage of circumcision, female circumcison now covered
• Lack of progress in reform of Medicare circumcision rules criticised

News in depth

• USA bombs out on child health
• Vaccine against HIV shows promise
• More circumcision death and injury in United States
• Many African AIDS cases caused by medical treatments
• Study finds insignificant benefits from circumcision
• Female genital mutilation in Australia
• Mayhem charge in tattoo case
• Circumcision and urethritis risk
• Circumcision and AIDS in the developed world
• Melbourne doctor suspended over Plastibell injury
• Australia faces growing problem with antibiotic-resistant bacteria (MRSA)
• United States losing faith in circumcision
• Guardian (UK): Time to stop all genital cutting of children?
• Economists slam African circumcision programs
• Medical colonialism? South African Medical Journal slams HIV-circumcision push
• Not a surgical vaccine: There is no case for boosting infant male circumcision to combat heterosexual transmission of HIV in Australia
• Father's anguish at circumcision of son: Need to reform circumcision consent rules
• Medicare should not pay for medically unnecessary circumcision
• Growing opposition to unnecessary circumcision throughout Europe
• Foreskin has important sexual function: New research
• Child and male health improves as circumcision incidence falls
• Heterosexual HIV diagnoses decline as a proportion of total infections despite falling circumcision prevalence
• Falling incidence of circumcision in United States
• Sexual health of Australians: New study shows steady improvement
• Pro-circumcision literature full of gaps, lacks rigour and relevance
• Centers for Disease Control circumcision guidelines meet fierce criticism
• British judge calls circumcision "significant harm"; can be worse than female genital mutilation
• Global Public Health journal questions African circumcision programs
• High incidence of circumcision complications in Melbourne
• Geo publishes hard-hitting critique of Zambia circumcision campaign … but only in German

Statements by medical authorities

• Circumcision not recommended: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2010
• Previous statements by Australian medical authorities
• Circinfo response to previous statements
• Review of RACP 2002 policy
• Canadian circumcision policy
• Dutch Medical Association policy on non-therapeutic circumcision
• Foreskin care and management: Statement by British Association of Paediatric Urologists
• South African Medical Association condemns circumcision of infants
• American Academy of Pediatrics circumcision policy criticised by child health experts
• Australian child health authorities: Circumcision not worth it for Aussie boys
• New critique of AAP circumcision policy leaves little standing
• AAP admits 2012 circumcision policy dictated by cultural and political concerns
• "Not justified": Canadian Urological Association rejects circumcision
  
  Guide for parents

• Circumcision and penis care: Guide for parents
• Detailed guide for parents
• Non-surgical treatments of foreskin problems
• Father of three boys offers sound advice on foreskin care and management
• Circumcision myths you may believe: Hygiene and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
• RACP releases circumcision guide for parents
• Advice on foreskin care from French doctor

Injury and harm

• Circumcision injury and death in Australia
• British men seek compensation for circumcision injury
• Circumcision questioned in Canada following plastibell death
• Circumcised as adult: One man's report
• Psychological effects of circumcision
• Deaths from circumcision in United States
• Harm and physical effects of circumcision
• Visual evidence of circumcision harm
• Personal reports of circumcision injury
• Assaulted and mutilated: Shane Peterson's circumcision nightmare
• Sexual violence against males
• Circumcision cuts sexual satisfaction
• Too many circumcision complications in Canada hospitals
• Study of circumcision techniques by Hugh Young explains why there is no safe method of circumcision
• Circumcision always painful for babies and young boys: No effective anasthetic yet available
• High incidence of circumcision complications in Melbourne
• Warning on risks of Plastibell circumcision device
• Higher incidence of urethral damage in circumcised boys

Personal stories from circumcised men

• Unspeakable Mutilations: Circumcised men Speak Out (ed. Lindsay Watson)
• Personal reports of circumcision
• Men circumcised as adults
• A sense of total betrayal
• Numbers aren't everything: The unquantifiable subjectivities of circumcision harm
• Dutch boy regrets circumcision, tries to overcome loss of sensitivity by designing special underwear

Medical ethics, human rights and law

• British judge calls circumcision "significant harm"; can be more damaging than female genital mutilation
• Bibliography of major articles on ethical, human rights and legal aspects of circumcision
• Bundaberg scandal: Abduction and circumcision of Australian boys
• Islamic circumcision practices
• Iranian human rights activist criticises circumcision
• Riad Sattouf: Ma Circoncision
• International human rights treaties
• Paul Mason and Germaine Greer on children's rights
• Sami Aldeeb: Circumcision and human rights
• Sami Aldeeb:  Male and female circumcision: Hypocrisy and double standards at the United Nations
• South African Children's Act 2005
• British Medical Journal debates ethics of male circumcision
• American female circumcision boo-boo ignites calls for equal protection
• Legal precedent on child's right to reject circumcision: Case of Boldt v. Boldt
• Doctors Opposing Circumcision defends intervention in Boldt case: Letter to Journal of Clinical Ethics
• Scholar criticises double standard on male and female genital mutilation
• Circumcision in girls and boys: British Medical Journal criticises the double standard
• Jewish voices against circumcision becoming stronger
• Law, human rights, and non-therapeutic interventions on children: Genital integrity conference “A smashing success”
• Family Court case of K & H: Legality of circumcision may require consent of both parents
• Medicare should not pay for medically unnecessary circumcision
• Circumcision and law
• German court rules circumcision of boys unlawful personal injury
• Tasmanian law report recommends regulation of circumcision
• The circumcision decision: A medical or a human rights question
• Helsinki conference on the right to genital integrity
• Circumcision “aggravated assault” and child abuse: Canada Supreme Court
• Freedom is more important than tradition: German-Turkish MP defends Cologne circumcision judgement
• Circumcision and child's right to an open future
• Circumcision under the spotlight in medical ethics journal
• Charleston bioethics debate shows weakness of case for circumcision
• South Africa Children's Act fails to protect boys from circumcision
• In defence of genital autonomy for children
• British court: Circumcision choice should be left until children old enough to decide for themselves
• As human rights advance, circumcision advocates are left with nowhere to hide

Health and disease

• Phimosis and paraphimosis
• Doctors warn against false diagnosis of phimosis
• Phimosis and paraphimosis in medical history
• Treatment of phimosis
• Phimosis: Circumcision outmoded treatment, usually unnecessary
• Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO)
• Cancer of penis and prostate
• Circumcision may increase risk of prostate problems
• Foreskin, circumcision and prostate cancer
• Cervical cancer
• Sarah Waldeck: Circumcision of boys to reduce risk of cervical cancer is illegal
• Urinary Tract Infections
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• HIV-AIDS
• AIDS infections soar among circumcised populations
• Neonatal circumcision neither necessary nor ethical
• African doctors question Bush/Gates/WHO circumcision push
• Other rare problems
• Circumcision and child health
• Cooper, Wodak, Morris call to boost circumcision rate to fight AIDS: Irrelevant, unscientific and unethical
• Condoms: The real magic bullet against HIV-AIDS
• HIV-AIDS control: Growing doubts on the circumcision solution
• Circumcision as AIDS control strategy: Random clinical trials and the real world
• The case against boosting infant male circumcision in the face of rising heterosexual transmission of HIV: Replies to Cooper et al
• Not a surgical vaccine: There is no case for boosting infant male circumcision to combat heterosexual transmission of HIV in Australia
• Study by Boyle and Hill exposes flaws in African circumcision-to-control-AIDS clinical trials
• Australian study of male health fails to mention circumcision
• Heterosexual HIV diagnoses decline as a proportion of total infections despite falling circumcision prevalence
• Circumcision and sexually transmitted infections: Circumcised men at greater risk of some STIs
• Global Public Health journal questions African circumcision programs
• Lifetime risk of cancer of the penis is extremely low
• Circumcision, human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer in women
• Circumcision rarely needed for recurrent urinary tract infections
• 95 per cent of boys will never experience a foreskin problem
• Effect of circumcision on sexually transmitted infections and cancer
• Foreskin not a risk factor for cancer of the penis

Female circumcision

• Review of books on female circumcision
• Classification of male and female genital mutilation
• "Foreskin is a feminist issue": Why women should be concerned with male circumcision
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians policy on female genital mutilation
• Gaol sentence increased for NSW genital mutilation doctor
• Changes of Medicare coverage of circumcision, female circumcision now covered
• United States federal law against FGM ruled to be unconstitutional

Controversy and debate

• Origins of ritual circumcision
• Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on the origins of circumcision
• Myths about the foreskin
• Circumcision and public health
• Why some mothers want to circumcise
• Circumcision and sexuaity: Effects of circumcision on sexual satisfaction and sexual dysfunction
• Nerve structure of penis: Foreskin the sexually dynamic element - Lecture by Ken McGrath
• Male circumcision and female sexual pleasure
• Quotes on the foreskin, circumcision and sexual function
• Circumcision and sexual function
• Circumcision and vaccination
• Visual evidence
• Debate: Have the circumcision promoters made a convincing case?
• Circumcision and public health (2): Is circumcision a biomedical imperative for the 21st century?
• Foreskin has important sexual function: New research
• Circumcision and "moral hygiene": The Victorian anti-masturbation crusade
• Child and male health improves as circumcision incidence falls
• Young American scholars turn critical eye on circumcision
• Circumcision, sand and armies: The sand myth revisited: Robert Darby replies to Brian Morris
• United States Centers for Disease Control circumcision guidelines meet fierce criticism
• Do we really need a policy on circumcision?
• Where does penile sensation come from? Thoughts on the Bossio sensitivity study
• Professor Brian Morris: Relentless anti-foreskin activist
• Circumcision, sexual function and penis sensitivity: Letters in journal criticise Bossio study
• Medicare should not cover non-therapeutic circumcision
• Numbers aren't everything: The unquantifiable subjectivities of circumcision harm
• Origins of cultural/religious/ritual circumcision are not related to hygienic or other practical considerations: Reply to Steven Moreton
• Lack of progress on reform of Medicare circumcision rules criticised

Australian circumcision statistics

• Incidence and prevalence of circumcision in Australia

Contact

Other sites of interest

History of Circumcision

Circumcision Information and Resource Pages

Circumstitions (New Zealand)

Circumcision News

Intact Australia

Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy

Intactivists of Australia

Circumcision Decision Maker (interactive website)

My Circumcision Disgrace (Distraught father explains how his son was circumcised without his consent)

Save Our Sons

Circleaks (Information about circumcision promoters and their links with sexual fetish groups such as Gilgal Society and child sexual abuse)

Circkleaks Blogspot (More discreditable information about circumcision advocates)

Circwatch: Keeping an eye on circumcision advocates

Joseph4GI Blogspot

Intactipedia (the circumcision encyclopaedia)

Intact News

Circumcision Harm

Canada Association for Genital Integrity

Circumcision Information Resource Centre  (Canada)

Canada Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership

NoHarmm

Norm-UK

Nocirc (USA)

Circumcision Resource Centre (USA)

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

Intact America

International Coalition for Genital Integrity

Male circumcision and HIV: A public policy weblog

Nocirc South Africa

Peaceful Parenting

Nurses for the Rights of the Child

End Routine Infant Circumcision

Pro-Kinderrechte - In favour of the rights of children (in German; FAQ in English)

Genital Autonomy (Britain and Europe)

Genital Autonomy Canada

Acroposthion: Celebrating the wonders of the foreskin

(Parental guidance recommended)

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