In November 2020, Peter Adler, Robert Van Howe, Travis Wisdom, and Felix Daase published an article, “Is Circumcision a Fraud?,” in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. DOC is now pleased to announce that Peter Adler, law professor at the University of Massachusetts, has turned the article into a book entitled “Circumcision is a Fraud: And the Coming Legal Reckoning,”  available on Amazon. It has already been listed among the top new releases on Amazon in Pediatrics, Child Advocacy Law, Health Law, Medical Law and Legislation, Reproductive Medicine and Technology, and Social Theo ..read more

Participants Needed for Research on Circumcision Attitudes A sociology doctoral student from University of California, Irvine is currently conducting a study titled “Circumcision: Individual Attitudes and Emotional Processes” and is seeking participants. The study aims to explore the way that individuals experience negative feelings around circumcision. The goal is to publish works that will shed light on how people come to experience those feelings and how they manage them. You are eligible to participate in this study if you are at least 18 years of age or older, were assigned male at birth ..read more

 Dr. Sumeet G. Dua argues that, ethically, male circumcision should be deferred until the age of sexual consent, noting that “male circumcision stands out as the only body part removal performed on healthy, low-risk individuals without their explicit consent, […] thus violat[ing] one of the cardinal ethical rules in medicine.”  Originally published December 22, 2020 on MedPage Today’s social media platform, we republish it here with the author’s kind permission. Why Circumcision Should Be Delayed In Finland, lawmakers recently voted to make an existing ban on female genita ..read more

DOC applauds the recent publication of an article whose title effectively encapsulates some of the problems with the African circumcision campaigns. It is a melancholy reminder that we at DOC warned against such outcomes over 14 years ago, to no avail. “A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men.” Max Fish | Arianne Shahvisi | Tatenda Gwaambuka | Godfrey B. Tangwa | Daniel Ncayiyana | Brian D. Earp Developing World Bioeth. 2020;00:1–16. In August, 2006, at the University of Washington, Seattle, Doctors Opposing Circumcis ..read more

This essay by John Geisheker, Executive Director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, is his personal tribute to circumcision scholar and historian, Dr. Robert Darby.   Doctors Opposing Circumcision is saddened to hear of the recent death in March 2019 of Dr. Robert Darby, of Canberra, ACT, Australia. ‘Rob’ was a tireless and brilliant scholar, a medical historian and bioethicist who defended children’s human rights and was a formidable critic of Anglophone, non-therapeutic, genital cutting. His most famous work is the book “A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Ri ..read more

‘Unconstitutional’ U.S. anti-FGM law exposes hypocrisy in child protection On January 14, 2019, Newsweek magazine published a very thoughtful article by Brian Earp, a bioethicist from Oxford University and the Hastings Center, discussing the recent Michigan court case in which a U.S. federal judge declared unconstitutional the 1996 law forbidding female genital mutilation. Given Mr. Earp’s sharp intellect and pithy, nuanced writing style, it makes compelling reading for those with an interest in the human rights challenges posed by non-therapeutic cutting of children’s genitalia. The Mich ..read more

DOC applauds the recent publication of an article whose title effectively encapsulates some of the problems with the African circumcision campaigns. It is a melancholy reminder that we at DOC warned against such outcomes over 14 years ago, to no avail. “A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men.” Max Fish | Arianne Shahvisi | Tatenda Gwaambuka | Godfrey B. Tangwa | Daniel Ncayiyana | Brian D. Earp Developing World Bioeth. 2020;00:1–16. In August, 2006, at the University of Washington, Seattle, Doctors Opposing Circumcis ..read more

Landmark Foreskin Restoration Survey: Document Your Experiences. Tell Researchers How to Improve Medical Care. Those who have been, or are currently engaged in, manual foreskin restoration methods are invited to participate in a landmark survey to document motivations for and experiences with restoration, as well as experiences with medical and/or mental health professionals. This population has never been researched to any great degree by the medical or mental health communities. Whether you’ve been restoring for 6 weeks or for 6 years, or even if you’ve abandoned restoration, this survey i ..read more

In November 2020, Peter Adler, Robert Van Howe, Travis Wisdom, and Felix Daase published an article, “Is Circumcision a Fraud?,” in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. DOC is now pleased to announce that Peter Adler, law professor at the University of Massachusetts, has turned the article into a book entitled “Circumcision is a Fraud: And the Coming Legal Reckoning,”  available on Amazon. It has already been listed among the top new releases on Amazon in Pediatrics, Child Advocacy Law, Health Law, Medical Law and Legislation, Reproductive Medicine and Technology, and Social Theo ..read more

‘Unconstitutional’ U.S. anti-FGM law exposes hypocrisy in child protection On January 14, 2019, Newsweek magazine published a very thoughtful article by Brian Earp, a bioethicist from Oxford University and the Hastings Center, discussing the recent Michigan court case in which a U.S. federal judge declared unconstitutional the 1996 law forbidding female genital mutilation. Given Mr. Earp’s sharp intellect and pithy, nuanced writing style, it makes compelling reading for those with an interest in the human rights challenges posed by non-therapeutic cutting of children’s genitalia. The Mich ..read more