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New Book: Circumcision is a Fraud

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 [...]

By |January 25th, 2022|General, News|

Foreskin Restoration Survey

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 [...]

By |June 30th, 2021|General|

Research on Circumcision Attitudes

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 [...]

By |April 28th, 2021|General|

Survey for Circumcised Men

PSYCHOLOGISTS SEEKING MEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED CIRCUMCISION DISTRESS We invite men who have experienced circumcision-related emotional distress to complete a brief confidential survey. The survey runs through the month of April 2021. To participate you must be an US resident who has not attended therapy to address this concern. This survey is part of a [...]

By |April 1st, 2021|General|

Circumcision & Age of Consent

 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.”  [...]

By |December 29th, 2020|By and for physicians, General|

VMMC: A New Tuskegee?

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 [...]

By |October 15th, 2020|Scientific publications|

Circumcision and COVID-19

Circumcision and COVID-19: Which surgeries are "essential" during a pandemic? On a failure of ethics at the American Academy of Pediatrics On April 2, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Fetus and Newborn issued “Initial Guidance: Management of Infants Born to Mothers with COVID-19.”[1] The AAP’s 18-page [...]

By |October 14th, 2020|General, News|

Circumcision Harms Physicians Too

John Sambrook, a child protection advocate from Washington State, recently (June 29, 2019) posted a blog acknowledging the ways in which circumcision harms not just children and the men they will become, but harms physicians themselves. The essay is re-posted here with his kind permission. See Genital Integrity Kirkland for more blog posts and videos [...]

On the Death of Dr. Rob Darby

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 [...]

By |April 28th, 2019|News|

Anti-FGM case exposes challenges in child protection

‘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 [...]

By |January 21st, 2019|News|
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