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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Foreskin! Discover Foreskin’s Surprising Superhero Powers on FORESKIN DAY, April 4

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March 28, 2025

Sensitive, strong, and always on guard, foreskin is the first line of defense against abrasion, bacteria, and irritants that tarnish the head of the penis

Intact America’s online Foreskin Day Celebration, hosted by comedy great Martin Morrow, will stream on YouTube April 4 at 9 p.m. EDT

(New York)—March 17, 2025… Intact America will give foreskin the appreciation it deserves with a witty, surprising, and unforgettable Foreskin Day 2025 on April 4. A virtual celebration on par with 4/20, Foreskin Day features all-things foreskin, including merch, specialty cocktails, party favors, memes, videos, playlists, and more.

Foreskin Day culminates with an online Foreskin Day Celebration, a festive, funny, and engaging 30-minute variety show that will stream on Intact America’s YouTube channel at 9 p.m. EDT on April 4. The dynamic comedian, actor, and dedicated intactivist Martin Morrow will host the show. Referred to as “the future of comedy” by Dan Aykroyd, Morrow has worked alongside comedy giants including Tim Allen, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Katt Williams, and many others.

Intact America, the nation’s leading nonprofit anti-circumcision advocacy organization, created Foreskin Day in 2023 to help Americans learn that foreskin is not “extra skin,” but a vital part of the male genitals. Enriched with blood, muscle, and thousands of Meissner’s corpuscles—the most sensitive nerves in the human body—foreskin is far more erogenous than the glans (head of the penis) or the penile shaft itself.

Foreskin Day’s theme this year is Foreskin: The First Line of Defense, and will feature foreskin’s superhero powers, such as its role in sexual pleasure and its protective and immunological functions.

“Foreskin Day invites everyone to explore the foreskin’s multiple functions. Unfortunately, most Americans know little about the foreskin’s powers because the United States is the only Western developed country that still routinely circumcises baby boys, even though it is not medically necessary,” explains Georganne Chapin, founding executive director of Intact America and author of “This Penis Business: A Social Activist’s Memoir”  (Lucid House Publishing: 2024, 2025).

She continues, “Foreskin truly is a superhero: It makes sex more pleasurable to men and their lovers; provides lubrication and glides in and out to reduce friction and enhance penetrative sex; keeps the glans moist and sensitive throughout a man’s life; and protects the glans from bacteria and dirt.”

Studies[1] have shown that the foreskin’s inner layer harbors bacteria-fighting cells, such as T-cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, and Langerhans cells. Its sebaceous glands produce sebum, an oily secretion that keeps the foreskin’s pH level slightly acidic and protects against infections caused by bacteria or fungi.[2]

“Foreskin is amazing,” Chapin says. “The more we learn about it, the more we commit to keeping future generations of American boys and men intact, the way nature made them.”

Foreskin Day, April 4

Online celebration 9:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Intact America’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/intactamerica

About Intact America

Since 2008, Intact America has been challenging societal and sexual norms by advocating for the health and well-being of all children and the adults they become. It is the largest and leading national advocacy group working to end involuntary child genital cutting in America and to ensure healthy sexual futures for all people. A not-for-profit organization, Intact America has earned Candid’s (formerly GuideStar) Seal of Platinum Transparency based on its impact.

Intact America conducts research and educates the public to change the way Americans think about circumcision. Its initiatives include DoNoHarm.report, an online database that helps parents and men to report circumcision solicitation, complications, and other genital injuries; Skin in the Game, a national photo and storytelling campaign that gives voice to circumcision survivors and shows how circumcision cuts through us all; and Foreskin Day, an annual national celebration held every  April 4th to educate Americans about the benefits of the natural penis and its foreskin.

To learn more about the issues involved in the current conversation about newborn male circumcision, visit IntactAmerica.org, Skininthegame.org, and CircumcisionDebate.org, and follow Intact America on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.

 

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1758142/pdf/v074p00364.pdf

[2] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24538-sebaceous-glands

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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.