March 9, 2024 The subject of our 2017 Irate Man series has verbally attacked the leader of the subject of our 2018 Intact America series. Once again, Circumcision Choice is caught in the middle. Last year we reported on an anti-circumcision civil war between filmmakers Brendon Marotta and Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon. In reporting the story an intactivist blog post falsely claimed that Circumcision Choice had harassed intactivists and that we were affiliated with the Facebook page Antisemitism in Intactivism. [1] In the current controversy James Loewen, a member of the Blood Stained Men board of dire ..read more

Andrew Gross February 27, 2024 At the beginning of this month I received an unsolicited message on my Twitter/X account from a Marina Rabin MD, who wrote, "Like your last name, your [sic] fucking gross." [1] The account owner had published dozens of anti-circumcision posts and claimed that she was a former mohel. The Circumcision Choice team quickly deduced that the account was probably fake. When I contacted the real Dr. Marina Rabin, an experienced ob-gyn and a mohelet, she confirmed that she had never created nor used a Twitter/X account. She declared, "I am certainly not an 'anticircumcisi ..read more

December 2, 2023 ,This article was originally published on the ,CircFacts website. Reprinted with permission. Intactivists love to call circumcision “mutilation." One might be forgiven for thinking that this is their favourite word, such is the frequency with which it is deployed in their polemics. It conjures up images of harm and disfigurement and makes it easier to make the false analogy with female genital mutilation. This may be a great debating ploy, but it is nothing but a cheap attempt to score emotional points. In the broadest sense any permanent bodily alteration might be construed a ..read more

November 14, 2023 The American Academy of Pediatrics held its 2023 conference in Washington DC during the weekend of October 21. After the ,Covid-19 pandemic, this marked the first time since 2019 that the Blood Stained Men group protested the AAP conference. Consequently Circumcision Choice was on hand to counter-protest in support of the doctors. In previous years up to 50-60 anti-circumcision protesters participated. This year only about 15 showed up. The protesters set up outside the Washington DC Convention Center. Three Circumcision Choice counter-protesters were across the street. Most ..read more

Andrew Gross October 2, 2023 On May 1, 2018 Eric Clopper, a Harvard University employee, performed his one-man production, "Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story" in a campus theater. [1] THE PLAY In some respects the two-hour presentation was similar to An Elephant in the Hospital, Ryan McAllister's scholarly lecture. Clopper gave his audience the typical intactivist talking points that are mostly false, misleading, out of context, or irrelevant. Many of his arguments have been addressed in various articles on this website. As the performance progressed Clopper became agitated, frene ..read more

September 8, 2023 Today is Pink's birthday. Four years ago circumcision opponents went ballistic when the recording superstar posted a photo of her children feeding a pelican. Unbeknownst to Pink her 2 year-old son had removed his diaper, and his circumcised penis was visible to her 7.4 million Instagram followers. The 39 year-old mother of two responded to the online abuse. "There’s something seriously wrong with a lot of you out there. Going off about my baby’s penis? About circumcision??? As any normal mother at the beach, I didn’t even notice he took off his swim diaper. I deleted it ..read more

July 29, 2023 This article (except for the final two paragraphs) was published on the Circumcision Facts and Science Facebook page on November 22, 2016. Reprinted by permission. We excerpt a previous in-depth but succinct explanation published recently in a medical journal. The brief explanation is that Biblical circumcision involved a different technique (seen today in Mogen circumcisions), but the amount of foreskin removed was the same. ,The History of Jewish Circumcision: A Response to Lang by Guy Cox, Brian Morris, & John N. Krieger 22 May 2013 Journal of Medical Ethics, 39(7):429-431 ..read more

June 17, 2023 We have become unwitting pawns in a conflict between rival intactivist factions. Last month an intactivist blog reported that Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, founder of the anti-circumcision group Bruchim, had once promoted the Antisemitism in Intactivism page, which the author claimed is affiliated with Circumcision Choice. The Conte News author made ,several statements about Circumcision Choice. He began by calling us a "pro-circumcision anti-intactivist organization." This label is half true, half false. Circumcision Choice is pro parents choice. We support a parent's decision whether ..read more

June 10, 2023 Some of our detractors have questioned why anyone should trust the information on this website. One intactivist tweeted, "No one, not even genital-cutting doctors, takes the 'Circumcision Choice' website seriously, for obvious reasons." [1] Another asked us, "You debunked all this science years ago? Where is your paper refuting it? Did you have others peer review your work? Did you publish in any scientific journals?" [2] At the outset one should note that these objections don't actually disprove any content. It's easier for lazy intactivists to attack the messenger than consider ..read more

Andrew Gross June 1, 2023 "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - William Shakespeare How should a parent respond when her teenage or adult son confronts her, saying that he resents his infant circumcision? In The Joy of Uncircumcising therapist Jim Bigelow advised, "apologies and explanations both to ourselves and our son go a long way toward restoring cognitive harmony ... Such honesty can be very healing for all parties concerned. Such an approach might well heal breaches in the family structure that parents do not even know exist." [1] Psychologist ,Ronald ..read more