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• Separated at Birth - Did Circumcision Ruin Your Sex Life? by Mark Jenkins - photographs by Bill Emory - Mens Health - July/August 1998 - This article follows an infant male through a typical circumcision process in a US hospital. Explanatory text and photos support the main story line.
  
• The Case Against Circumcision by Paul M. Fleiss, MD, - Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living - Winter 1997 - Premier article describing the functions of the natural foreskin and why it is necessary for lifelong optimal health of the male.
  
  
• Botched circumcision leads to $360,000 in damages; The cruel cut that ruined a man's life By Bruce Butler - A 26 year old man receives damage settlement after a doctor admitted he botched a circumcision operation (on the victim when he was an infant) which left the man with a badly deformed penis. This article is presented in both Spanish and English.
  
• Should You Circumcise Your Newborn Son? by Dr. George Denniston - Nurturing Magazine Online - Issues Column
  
• The Right to Our Own Bodies The History of Male Circumcision in the U.S. by Frederick Hodges and Jerry W. Warner - This article appeared in the Nov 1995 issue of M.E.N. Magazine
  
• Unnecessary Circumcision A physician's perspective on the issue of circumcision and whether cutting of the foreskin is a necessary procedure
  
• Boys and Their Hoods by Chris LaMorte - Westword - Two guys take personal growth to the extreme in a quest to bring foreskins to the fore. - Includes description of T-tape restoration technique.
  
• Complications Of Circumcision - CIRP Articles about the complications of circumcision and their treatments, not including repair of the circumcision itself.
  
• Modern Circumcision: An Escalation of Ritual by George C. Denniston, M.D. M.P.H. - The Virtual Journal - Illustrated history of circumcision including materials and methods
  
• Articles on Circumcision Articles and resources presented by Men Web
  
• Dr. Greene's house calls Dr. Greene discusses the advantages and disadvantages of performing a circumcision on a newborn.
  
• Circumcision - Genital Mutilation American Style By Rio Cruz - Fathering Magazine Jan 1999 - How a father discovered, too late, that circumcision is not a good thing.
  
• Circumcision - The Daily Apple Information on circumcision. Pros and cons, and how to decide based on AAP report.
  
• The Uncut Truth by Bruce LaBruce - Eye Magazine
  
• Circumcision, Human Rights, and Ethical Medical Practice The Humanist, May-June 1999 - "The AAP "Circumcision Policy Statement" continues, in effect, to endorse, whenever parents so choose, a concept that our common law condemns. This becomes particularly onerous when the beneficiary of this "forcible extraction" is an unknown future person where the incidence of alleged future diseases has been acknowledged by the AAP in the same statement to be insufficient to justify the application of routine circumcision."
  
• Don't Believe the Knife: Circumcision is a Bad Habit by Trudy Goldenberg - Vice Magazine (Feb 1999)
  
• Rethinking Circumcision Expert advice from Sesame Street Parents magazine. Article reviews the American Academy of Pediatrics stance against circumcision. (scroll down to article)
  
• The End of Circumcision in America by George C. Denniston M.D., M.P.H - An ever­growing number of physicians are opposed to routine neonatal circumcision. These doctors recognize that no one has the right to forcibly remove sexual body parts from another individual. They recognize that doctors should have no role in this painful, unnecessary procedure inflicted on the newborn.
  
• Is circumcision necessary? The decision to circumcise is a highly personal one, and parents should only make the choice AFTER they've been armed with all of the facts
  
• Negative Aspects Of Routine Infant Circumcision By Wayne Hampton - 19 November 1994
  
• Who Is The Better Lover: Circumcised Or Intact Men? Dr. Dean Edell - Health Central - January 20, 1999 - This is the first study to look at what women said in comparing sexual experiences with sexual partners who were circumcised versus intact sexual partners.
  
• Foreskin or against it? - Is circumcision the unkindest cut of all? by Hank Hyena - Salon Magazine - "you need a flesh-cap," I snickered, "because winters are frightfully cold in Helsinki." My Finnish friend Paavo and I tease each other incessantly about cultural differences. A primary source of amusement is our differing penises: I am circumcised, while he carries a foreskin.
  
• The first cut - Do uncircumcised penises have more fun? By R. Daniel Foster - Men's Fitness, September 1999
  
• Circumcision: It's Not Necessary Benjamin Spock, M.D. - Redbook - April 1989 - Dr. Spock now believes that circumcision of males is traumatic, painful, and of questionable value.
  
• Is Circumcision the Right Choice? by Louanne Cole Weston, PhD - On Health
  
• Circumcision In America by Debra S. Ollivier - Salon Magazine feature article (Oct 1998) How did a medically pointless procedure become a routine practice performed on a majority of American males?
  
• Why we should NOT circumcise kids. Let the boy decide for himself This site has several hyperlinks giving a perspective on circumcision in America. We also have compiled a list of circumcision horrors. This debunks the myth circumcision is always safe and quick.
  
• Is Circumcision Necessary? From the book - "Immaculate Deception II : Myth, Magic & Birth" by Suzanne Arms - Reprinted with permission from Celestial Arts.
  
• Oregon Retracts Foreskin Coverage: No More Clip Jobs Napa Valley Men's Network, 1994 - "Of particular note, a newly un-insured item in the Oregon Plan is circumcision. The men's movement, tiny and underfunded as it is, has made some progress in eliminating the routine genital mutilation of men in America."
  
• Part of Us is Missing: The Ritual Mutilation of Male Children In the 1800s, fundamentalist preachers, who equated sexual gratification with "sin", seized the Jewish tradition of circumcision as a method of reducing the potential for sexual pleasure by male children.