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What is an intactivist?
in·tac·tiv·ist [in-tak-tuh-vist]
noun
1. an especially active, vigorous advocate of children's rights, especially the right to genital integrity or the right to be free from genital cutting (circumcision).adjective
2. of or pertaining to intactivism or intactivists: an intactivist organization for the right of male, female, and intersex children to be free from genital cutting.3. advocating for children by vigorously opposing genital cutting (circumcision), especially the cutting of children who lack capacity to consent: Intactivist opponents of the American Academy of Pediatrics picketed their annual conference in New Orleans.
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- ZIMBABWE: Youth tries to cut off his own foreskin after being teased
- CHILE: Officials oppose 'normalisation' surgery of intersex children
- EASTERN CAPE: Death Toll at 23
- MALAYSIA: Boy loses penis-head in botched medical cutting
- KENYA: Boy faces loss of his penis after botched medical cutting
- KENYA: Knife-rapists go door-to-door
- EASTERN CAPE: 9 male genital cutting deaths so far this season
- JAKARTA: Why female genital cutting is so common in Indonesia
- COPENHAGEN: Danish doctors come out against infant male genital cutting
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WORTH A SECOND VIEW: Daytime Talk Show Disaster
Worth a second listen (and view).
Posted in Culture
Tagged AIDS, circumcisionm, HIV, Masterson, mutilation, Orden, Sears, STD, STI, Stork, The Doctors
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ZIMBABWE: A familiar fear – one intervention at a time, likely the norm in HIV prevention
Many critics of the African circumcision trials drew the obvious conclusion that a push for male circumcision in Africa and elsewhere would result in a corresponding drop in condom use. In a partially useful risk reduction intervention, such a result … Continue reading
AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS Vol 24 Issue 8: Circumcised men who have sex with men may be more susceptible to HIV acquisition
The latest study to suss out the impact of circumcision on rates of HIV acquisition among gay men has provided some important insights. The general conclusion to be drawn is that the failure to show a statistical difference between circumcised … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged AIDS, circumcision, condoms, foreskin, gay, HIV, May Ann Liebert Publishers, men, msm, penis, STD, STI
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AUSTRALIA: Tale of Two Opinions on Circumcision
NOTE: This is a republished “best of” post from 2009. Unfortunately, not all of the links are still live. Sorry about that. Excellent analysis of the latter article below is available from the Intactivism Pages. HIV and circumcision share one … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged Africa, AIDS, Australia, Australian, circumcision, Halperin, HIV, HPV, Murray, Nations Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, New South Wales, STD, STI, Wodak
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REPORT: Hygiene is key to HIV prevention rather than removal of tissue by circumcision
New research suggests that poor penile hygiene rather than the removal of specialized tissue, such as tissue densely packed with Langerhans cells, is responsible for the prophylactic effect of male circumcision. [Revised paragraph] The study, published in the latest edition … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged Africa, AIDS, circumcision, HIV, penile wetness, sexually transmitted infections, STI
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