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Forcible Foreskin Retraction: When Intact Do Not Retract!
Forcible foreskin retraction, which is the practice of pulling back a child's foreskin to any degree, is an issue in the United States. At Intact America, most of the complaints we have received about this practice come from parents of boys who have suffered from the...
Birth Plan Checklist: Don’t Forget to Specify No Circumcision
A birth plan checklist is a written document that states what you want and expect during your baby’s birth and post-delivery. It helps your medical team, partner, family, and friends understand your preferences and is your key to creating a personalized birthing...
Pros and Cons of Circumcision (Spoiler: You’ve Been Lied to)
Your search led you here to read about the pros and cons of circumcision, but the truth is, you’ve likely been lied to about the purported pros. Circumcision supporters claim that there are health benefits to this invasive, irreversible surgical procedure, but these...
Circumcision Gone Wrong: Damage, Deformity, Death
Botched circumcisions can have both serious immediate negative effects—blood loss and infection, for instance—and long-term devastating consequences, like gender reassignment and death. How often does this happen? We don’t know. Intact America Founding Executive...
DoNoHarm.report project announcement
DoNoHarm.report is a free online medical mistreatment service for filing official complaints for circumcision, foreskin, penis, and other genital harms. The purpose of DoNoHarm.report is threefold: To assist people in filing complaints with regulatory agencies against...
Voices — “Glenn”
I was born to a 17-year-old nursing student in the deep Southern Baptist South. She chose not to have me circumcised and kept me intact. To say this was unusual in the South is an understatement. My earliest memory of being uncircumcised—and that it was...
Intact America Staffs Tent at Atlanta Pride 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...
Intact America Celebrates its 15th Anniversary
Intact America Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary and Gears Up Two New Initiatives to Fight Baby Boy Circumcision The New ‘SKIN IN THE GAME’ Storytelling Campaign Will Feature the Victims of Circumcision to Show How ‘Circumcision Cuts Through Us All’ The DoNoHarm.Report...
Intact America celebrates 15 years!
Intact America (IA) is celebrating our 15th birthday! "Celebrating" might sound like a strange word to use, when you consider that the practice Intact America is fighting – the routine amputation of baby boys' foreskins – is still all-too-common in U.S. hospitals. In...
Voices — Luke Davis
When I was born in the early 1990s, my mother chose not to have me circumcised. She did the same for my older brother. She's a nurse, and she knew it wasn't medically beneficial the way everyone makes it out to be. But we were unusual for American boys. And even...