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Intact America Staffs Tent at Atlanta Pride 2023

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October 2, 2023

Intact America, the Nation’s Largest Anti-Circumcision Group, Will Bring Its #ForeskinPride Message to the 2023 Atlanta Pride Festival on October 14 and 15

Why? Both the Anti-Circumcision and LGBTQA+ Movements Say Nature Knows Best When It Comes to Sex

Festival Goers Will Discover the Many Benefits of the Natural, Intact (Uncircumcised) Penis at Intact America’s Booth B34

(Tarrytown, New York—October 2, 2023)…Each day, 3,500 healthy baby boys are victims of genital cutting in America, the only Western developed nation in the world that still practices male child circumcision.

The practice continues because many Americans think circumcision is harmless—just “a little snip” of excess skin.

In reality, circumcision is a painful, complex procedure that removes the most erogenous tissue of the male genitals, according to Intact America, the largest, professionally run anti-circumcision group in the nation.

Now, Intact America will make its case for keeping baby boys intact—uncircumcised—at the upcoming 2023 Atlanta Pride Festival the weekend of October 14 and 15 at Piedmont Park.

“The foreskin is there for a man’s pleasure and the pleasure of his partner,” explains Georganne Chapin, MPhil, JD, founding executive director of Intact America. “No one has the right to alter a little boy’s genitals and deny him a healthy sexual future.”

Chapin explains why the foreskin is a vital part of a man’s anatomy:

  • Foreskin heightens a man’s sexual satisfaction because it contains thousands of unique ultra-sensitive nerve endings—nerves that are not found anywhere else on the male body.
  • Foreskin lets the penis glide in and out during penetration, making sex more gentle and pleasurable for the man’s partner.
  • Foreskin protects the glans, or the head of the penis, from everyday chafing, drying out, and losing sensitivity over time. A protected glans remains moist and pink and ready for pleasure.

Find Intact America at Booth B34 at Atlanta Pride

The Intact America team will be at Booth B34 to greet festival goers and answer questions about intactivism, the word used to describe the anti-circumcision activism movement. The team will also encourage guests to play with “Foreskin Frank,” a friendly blow-up intact penis, and “Manny the Mannequin,” who dispenses a free condom to people who pull his intact phallus.

“For decades, the LGBTQA+ community has fought for the basic human right of all people to be who they are,” Chapin says. “Intact America celebrates the right of every child—male, female, or intersex—to keep and enjoy the body that nature gave them.”

About Intact America

Intact America is the largest national advocacy group working to end involuntary child genital cutting in America and to ensure healthy sexual futures for all people. It does this by challenging social and sexual norms and empowering supporters and volunteers through advocacy and education. To learn more about the issues involved in the current conversation about newborn male circumcision, visit IntactAmerica.org and CircumcisionDebate.org, and follow Intact America on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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  • Jeannie Ashford is a writer, editor, public relations professional, and communications specialist who has supported Intact America for more than a decade. She received a BA in English Honors at Queens College, City University of New York, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

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Marilyn

Marilyn Fayre Milos, multiple award winner for her humanitarian work to end routine infant circumcision in the United States and advocating for the rights of infants and children to genital autonomy, has written a warm and compelling memoir of her path to becoming “the founding mother of the intactivist movement.” Needing to support her family as a single mother in the early sixties, Milos taught banjo—having learned to play from Jerry Garcia (later of The Grateful Dead)—and worked as an assistant to comedian and social critic Lenny Bruce, typing out the content of his shows and transcribing court proceedings of his trials for obscenity. After Lenny’s death, she found her voice as an activist as part of the counterculture revolution, living in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco during the 1967 Summer of Love, and honed her organizational skills by creating an alternative education open classroom (still operating) in Marin County. 

After witnessing the pain and trauma of the circumcision of a newborn baby boy when she was a nursing student at Marin College, Milos learned everything she could about why infants were subjected to such brutal surgery. The more she read and discovered, the more convinced she became that circumcision had no medical benefits. As a nurse on the obstetrical unit at Marin General Hospital, she committed to making sure parents understood what circumcision entailed before signing a consent form. Considered an agitator and forced to resign in 1985, she co-founded NOCIRC (National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers) and began organizing international symposia on circumcision, genital autonomy, and human rights. Milos edited and published the proceedings from the above-mentioned symposia and has written numerous articles in her quest to end circumcision and protect children’s bodily integrity. She currently serves on the board of directors of Intact America.

Georganne

Georganne Chapin is a healthcare expert, attorney, social justice advocate, and founding executive director of Intact America, the nation’s most influential organization opposing the U.S. medical industry’s penchant for surgically altering the genitals of male children (“circumcision”). Under her leadership, Intact America has definitively documented tactics used by U.S. doctors and healthcare facilities to pathologize the male foreskin, pressure parents into circumcising their sons, and forcibly retract the foreskins of intact boys, creating potentially lifelong, iatrogenic harm. 

Chapin holds a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College, and a Master’s degree in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. For 25 years, she served as president and chief executive officer of Hudson Health Plan, a nonprofit Medicaid insurer in New York’s Hudson Valley. Mid-career, she enrolled in an evening law program, where she explored the legal and ethical issues underlying routine male circumcision, a subject that had interested her since witnessing the aftermath of the surgery conducted on her younger brother. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Pace University School of Law in 2003, and was subsequently admitted to the New York Bar. As an adjunct professor, she taught Bioethics and Medicaid and Disability Law at Pace, and Bioethics in Dominican College’s doctoral program for advanced practice nurses.

In 2004, Chapin founded the nonprofit Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality, a company that designs software and provides consulting services designed to reduce administrative complexities, streamline and integrate data collection and reporting, and enhance access to care for those in need. In 2008, she co-founded Intact America.

Chapin has published many articles and op-ed essays, and has been interviewed on local, national and international television, radio and podcasts about ways the U.S. healthcare system prioritizes profits over people’s basic needs. She cites routine (nontherapeutic) infant circumcision as a prime example of a practice that wastes money and harms boys and the men they will become. This Penis Business: A Memoir is her first book.