Circumcision rates are down amid controversy Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Gilroy obstetrician Dr. Jumnah Thanapathy recalls seeing a botch, one of the tiny...
... Anarchism: The word "anarchy" comes from Greek and means "no rulers". As a political philosophy, anarchism is based on the idea that organization does not...
A Penile Sensitivity Touch-Test Evaluation Study is being conducted in San Francisco. The purpose of the study is to produce the first quantitative map of ...
Hi Folks, I donno if this will go anywhere. I'm in charge of the 16th Annual Health Fair on Dixie State College Campus in Saint George, Utah on the 14th of...
... I'm up in Logan, but I'll be in class on that day. If no one else can possibly do this and you're really desperate for someone, then I'd be willing to...
First Announcement and Call for Papers Islam and bioethics: concerns, challenges and responses March 27-28, 2006 at Pennsylvania State University The aims of...
Hey everyone. I just received word of this. Looks like it should be very good. All the people involved are long time veterans of the movement. Maybe we could...
Dear Intactivists, I want to offer my home as a FREE space to stay for any intactivists coming for the AAP meeting, the Intactivist Workshop, and/or the ...
I had the opportunity to listen to the discussion on the SGI website about how male circumcision is a feminist issue. It is over an hour long, but I encourage...
ummm... thanks. <Blush> That's funny cuz I have a hard time listening to it now, because I just feel like I sound so inexperienced, and have grown so much...
http://www.ias-2005.org/planner/Abstracts.aspx?AID=3138 - ----------------- Abstract Female circumcision and HIV infection in Tanzania: for better or for ...
I don't usually post URLs but I found this 'product' while surfing the web the other day. It is apparently a 'protective' garment for men who use tanning beds ...
On an educational note, Jeff Brown came all the way from his home in Northern California to my home in Saint George, Utah to put on a NOCIRC booth for the...
Does anyone read Mothering magazine? I saw it at the Whole Foods yesterday and picked up a copy. They had an article on circumcision. You can read it if you...
I read the full article in the JME (the link to which I posted yesterday) and it raises a lot of points. Two quick questions, though: 1) Isn't the "male body"...
In a message dated 9/17/2005 3:32:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I think you answered your own question about why feminists put the word "female" before...
I suppose you are right about the intersex part, although I was responding directly to the article, which didn't address that topic. Maybe feminism as a...
In a message dated 9/19/2005 9:02:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Not necessarily. Organized feminism can appear somewhat indifferent to babies in comparison...
... More and more women who call themselves feminists and society in general, it seems to me, up to and including the United Nations, are avowedly concerned ...
I'm going to guess that this is a generational thing here. These comments that Van is stating, I have heard a lot, but nearly always it is from those at least...
... I'll agree with you on both sides. I had a gender studies teacher a generation older than myself--I'm 43. It was the most lopsided class I ever took. Even...
Read Steven Svoboda's report in Flesh and Blood on his work at the UN. The UN changed the mandate of one of its important groups from working to secure the...
... The article Sheila posted has a good expose of that kind of thinking with respect to circ. Males are supposed to buck up and take it. Makes us more manly...
Again, I can only hope that it is a generational thing. Those making the decisions at the UN and those who pushed it on the UN are likely in their 40s+ (likely...
I prefer the term, "humanist" to either "feminist" or "masculist". The language is so difficult and ambiguous. Look at this word: RACIST. That doesn't mean, in...
In a message dated 9/21/2005 12:23:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I really think this is not facing the real problem, the real power. Feminists are not in a...
... Love cannot include deliberate mutilation. Telling somebody to "wake up" is impolite, since Van Lewis was not rude. It would be a mistake to permit "most...
In a message dated 9/21/2005 5:24:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... This was directed to all of us in this constant barrage of mail agains feminists, not one...