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April 19, 2009

UGANDA: Circumcision should not replace more effective HIV prevention

April 19, 2009

STOCKHOLM: Boys injured more than usual by delisted circumcisor

April 15, 2009

CHICAGO: Another botched circumcision

April 13, 2009

CHICAGO: Medical research subject to bias

April 12, 2009

JERUSALEM: Browbeaten to be circumcised again - at 87

April 11, 2009

BOSTON: Circumcised boys get MRSA

April 11, 2009

PAKISTAN: Muslim men not circumcised

April 8, 2009

DETROIT: Parents saying no to circumcision

April 8, 2009

NIGER: Ten villages reject Female Genital Cutting

March 31, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC: Hunger strikers at Genital Integrity rally

March 27, 2009

ATLANTA: $2,300,000 verdict for botched circumcision

March 26, 2009

UGANDA: Recycled HIV study generates HSV-, HPV-circumcision propaganda

March 13, 2009

KENYA: Church offers girls FGC substitute

March 16, 2009

LONDON: Thousands of girls mutilated in Britain

March 5, 2009

CANADA: Topical anaesthetic EMLA linked to serious side effects

March 14, 2009

SYDNEY: Infant circumcision not justified in Australia

March 12, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Youth loses leg, toes after botched circumcision

March 3, 2009

UGANDA: Health Ministry sceptical of circumcision-HIV connection

March 2, 2009

NEW YORK: New Web Site Promotes Myths About Circumcision and HIV

February 26, 2009

INDIANA: Circumcision denounced

February 13, 2009

WASHINGTON DC: African women defend FGC by comparison with MGC

February , 2009

KENYA: "Being circumcised means never having to wear a condom"

February 13, 2009

WINDSOR, UK: Baby bleeds to death after circumcision

February 12, 2009

RWANDA: "Invisible condom" myth thrives

Rwanda

HIV Rates:

Circumcised men

3.8%

Intact men

2.1%

Women

3.6%

2005 Demographic and Health Survey (p 10/17)

February 11, 2009

SIERRA LEONE: Women degraded for questioning FGC

February 8, 2009

KHARTOUM: Sudanese government backs down from full FGC ban

February 4, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO: Doctors want baby to keep all 24 digits

January 30, 2009

ARIZONA: Circumcision does not affect HPV acquistion

January 27, 2009

KENYA: Female genital cutting "prevents HIV"

January 23, 2009

THAILAND: Nurse let off after mistaken circumcision

January 23, 2009

SOUTH AFRICA: Man dies in fight over 'real' circumcision

January 22, 2009

KENTUCKY: Penis-removal during circumcision - out of court settlement

December 19 2008

MALAYSIA: Pictures [disturbing] of boy about to be forcibly circumcised

January 12 2009

BENIN: Another death from circumstition

January 6 2009

KENYA: Another forced circumcision

December 29 2008

GERMANY: The debate simmers

December 24 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: More deaths - parents refusing medical care

December 25 2008

LOUISIANA: Man kills himself after botched circumcision

December 21 2008

BALTIMORE: Circumcision fails to protect vast majority of black men

December 21 2008

UGANDA: Columnist scoffs at circumcision

December 20 2008

NIGERIA: Circumcision ban considered

December 19 2008

ISRAEL: Secular Jews not circumcising

December 18 2008

KENYA: Circumcision fails to convince

December 18 2008

PENNSYLVANIA: Pierced kittens rescued - "unbelievable"

December 5 2008

HELSINKI: Tighter regulation advocated

December 5 2008

CAPE TOWN: Two more circumcision deaths

December 5 2008

KENYA: Girls flee from genital cutting

December 5 2008

ISRAEL: Ritual circumcision causes urinary tract infections

November 24 2008

HUDSON, NY: New Intactivist organisation formed

December 1 2008

ZAMBIA: Youth believes hype, circumcises himself

November 28 2008

PHILADELPHIA: Gentiles hire mohel for "holistic" circumcision (but it's genital cutting all the same)

November 27 2008

SOWETO: Forums to promote circumcision making selective use of science

November 26 2008

BALTIMORE: "Pain is okay" - mohel

November 26 2008

LONDON: Mass HIV testing and treatment "a human rights issue"

November 24 2008

KENYA: Women to be persuaded to promote circumcision of husbands

October 31 2008

GERMANY: Circumcision "could be an offence of criminal injury" / Beschneidung: Strafbare Körperverletzung?

November 22 2008

IRAQ: Kurdish areas to ban FGC

November 17 2008

DENMARK: Male circumcision "objectionable and ethically indefensible" / Flere kræver omskæring af drengebørn forbudt

November 8 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Xhosa activist slams tribal circumcision

November 8 2008

PRAGUE: Foreplay is overrated, researchers claim [or rather: Intactness prolongs intercourse]

November 8 2008

LOS ANGELES: Comedian suggests banning circumcision instead of gay marriage

November 6 2008

EASTERN CAPE: Special wards for botched circumcision victims

Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2008:
24

October 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: South African Medical Journal slams circumcision campaigns

October 29 2008

UGANDA: Circumcision-HIV link to be studied

October 27 2008

KENYA: "I wanted FGC - till I saw it being done"

October 22 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Doctor tells of many botched circumcisions

October 21 2008

FINLAND: Circumcision of 4-year-old "not criminal"
One-third of Finnish doctors think it should be

October 15 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Traditional ritual questioned

October 15 2008

UGANDA: District outlaws FGC

October 15 2008

UGANDA: Policy makers not told of circumcision trials

October 15 2008

KENYA: Bands of youths forcibly circumcising

October 12 2008

OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): West African First Ladies to join fight against FGC

October 12 2008

KENYA: Luo elder: "arm twisted" to promote circumcision, claims featherbedding

October 7 2008

CAPE TOWN: No circumcision-HIV link in survey of 3000 men

October 7 2008

JERUSALEM: One third of former-soviet immigrants choose to stay intact

October 7 2008

WASHINGTON: Circumcision doesn't protect men who have sex with men

October 6, 2008

WASHINGTON: Supreme Court declines to stop Oregon court from asking boy what he wants

October  2008

ISRAEL: Circumcision causes Urinary Tract Infections

October  2008

HOBART: Tasmanian Law Institue to review circumcision's legality

September 29, 2008

KENYA: Rethink Male Cut Campaign in the War Against Aids

September 26, 2008

KENYA: Hospitals ill-equipped to cope with circumcision

September 24, 2008

KENYA: Circumcision drive "could be disastrous"

September 22, 2008

KENYA: 66 y.o. celibate gets circumcised "to prevent HIV"

September 21, 2008

EGYPT: Female cuting common in Egypt despite ban

September 2008

IRELAND: Doctors divided on cultural circumcision

September 25, 2008

KENTUCKY: Not just a snip - doctor took the lot

September 22, 2008

ONLINE: workshops on the foreskin and circumcision

September 13, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: ANC exec forcibly circumcised

September 13, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Editors "trained" to support circumcision

September 5, 2008

ENGLAND: Health trusts break NHS guidelines to ritually circumcise

September 5, 2008

LONDON: More on the shocking complication rate

September 5, 2008

TASMANIA: Circumcision ban an option for Physicians' review

September 4, 2008

KEELE, UK: Religious circumcision should wait for consent

September 3, 2008

KENYA: More men circumcised by force

September 3, 2008

LONDON: Male and female cutting jointly condemned

September 1, 2008

GENEVA: "Shocking" rate of circumcision complications

August  2008

COPENHAGEN: Circumcision caveats

August 20, 2008

NAMIBIA: Circumcision "not yet"

August 18, 2008

MEXICO CITY: Women challenge value of circumcision:
"like a cheap condom that breaks 40% of the time"

August 15, 2008

NAIROBI: Kenyans not all buying circumcision hype

August 14, 2008

LONDON: Intact gay men no more likely to have HIV

August 13, 2008

SYDNEY: Adult-circumcised gay men more likely to be receptive

August 13, 2008

UGANDA: "Circumcised men can't get AIDS"

August 7, 2008

TANZANIA: Do Not Cloud Message

August 5, 2008

MEXICO: AIDS 2008 Officials Ignore Opposing Views on Circumcision and HIV

August 5, 2008

PHILIPPINES: Boy dies of tetanus

August 4, 2008

MEXICO: Condoms much more cost-effective than circumcision

August 3, 2008

MEXICO: Circumcision a dangerous distraction in HIV battle

August 2, 2008

KENYA: Another circumcision injury

July 31, 2008

LONDON: No FGC prosecutions yet

July 31, 2008

SWAZILAND: Circumcision used as excuse not to use condoms

July 31, 2008

FINLAND: government considers legalising male circumcision

July 22, 2008

BARI, ITALY: Baby dies after home circumcision

July 19, 2008

CAPE TOWN: Circumcision causes mental illness

July 18, 2008

EASTERN CAPE: Another victim

July 18, 2008

KENYA: Luo elders reject circumcision plan

July 14, 2008

EAST LONDON: Initiation schools banned

July 11, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Youths beaten for not being circumcised

July 11, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: 53 initiates rushed to hospital

July 8, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll rises

July 5, 2008

AFRICA: A risky social experiment?

July 4, 2008

YEMEN: Women favour female genital cutting

July 4, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Dangers of circumcision

July 3, 2008

RWANDA: military to "volunteer" for circumcision

Rwanda

HIV Rates

Circumcised men

3.8%

Intact men

2.1%

(Women

3.6%)

2005 Demographic and Health Survey (p 10/17)

July 3, 2008

CAPE TOWN: E Cape circumcision toll rises

July 2, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Another boy dies from circumcision

July 2, 2008

PAKISTAN: Baby dies from blood loss

July 2, 2008

UGANDA: Even death is no escape

June 30, 2008

UGANDA: MPs want FGC ban

July 2, 2008

MOSCOW: Boy dies

July 1, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Death toll now 14

July 1, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Boy Dies from circumcision by his brother

June 28, 2008

NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CHICAGO: Intactivism in Pride parades

NY Gay Pride 08

June 28, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Ten boys die from circumcision

June 27, 2008

KAMPALA: Forcible circumcision condemned

June 26, 2008

SWITZERLAND: Parents convicted of circumcising daughter

June 26, 2008

LONDON: Why is circumcision so common?

June 25, 2008

KAMPALA: Elderly man forcibly circumcised

June 24, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Father abducted for circumcision

June 25, 2008

KAMPALA: Elderly man forcibly circumcised

June 24, 2008

JOHANNESBURG: Father abducted for circumcision

June 19, 2008

KENYA: Circumcision campaign begins

June 17, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Girl, 5, circumcises boy, 5

June 17, 2008

Côte St. Luc, CANADA: Rabbi speeding to bleeding baby, gets off

June 14, 2008

HAMBURG: Doctor in court over painful circumcision

June 11, 2008

SWITZERLAND: Sentence for circumcision of sister in Somalia

June 15, 2008

ENFIELD, UK: Doctor who botched circumcision suspended

June 14, 2008

NEW DELHI: New device

June 14, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Police seek "bogus" surgeon after youth's death

June 11, 2008

NEW YORK: Intact men no more likely to have genital herpes

June 11, 2008

ENFIELD, UK: Circumcision botched - "no glans"

June 9, 2008

CAIRO: New Egyptian FGC law criticised

June 9, 2008

FLORIDA: Urologists debate circumcision: "risky" "little medical indication"

June 7, 2008

CAIRO: Egypt passes law againt FGC

June 7, 2008

OSLO: Gambian man charged with FGC of five daughters

June 4, 2008

MELBOURNE: Oestrogen on the foreskin prevents HIV (2003: Lemon juice in the vagina prevents HIV / 2000: the foreskin attracts HIV)

June 2, 2008

KENYA: Circumcising HIV+ men to protect them from contracting HIV is madness safe

May 31, 2008

SEATTLE: Genital Integrity policy announced

May 29, 2008

PHILIPPINES: Doctors question circumcision

May 27, 2008

AMSTERDAM: Doctor suggests token Female Genital Cut

May 25, 2008

KAMPALA: Museveni refuses to ride the circumcision juggernaut

May 22, 2008

CAPE TOWN: Young Communists call for circumcision; others urge caution

May 19, 2008

WITWATERSRAND: Circumcision programes "put into question"

May 7, 2008

NETHERLANDS: Circumcising father "not guilty"

May, 2008

MIDWEST: Doctor too keen to circumcise: $1,052,000

May 6, 2008

INDIANA: Circumcision is not a vaccine

May 5, 2008

FLORIDA: Flacks wax ecstatic: jock docks dicks

May 5, 2008

SWAZILAND: Billboards promise circumcised "pride", "benefits"

April 30, 2008

UGANDA: Muslims offer to circumcise infidels

April 28, 2008

CAPE TOWN: TV Head censors circumcision documentary

April 20, 2008

PHILIPPINES: Doctor claims circumcision record

April 16, 2008

YEMEN: Parliament upholds female circumcision

April 10, 2008

KENYA: Role of anal sex in HIV underestimated

April 10, 2008

KENYA: Circumcision becomes offical policy

April 8, 2008

SRI LANKA: Circumcised men at more risk of genital warts

April 2, 2008

Manila: Man circumcised on Big Brother; another refuses

March26, 2008

UGANDA: Gov't Drafts Policy On Male Circumcision

March 19, 2008

(Belated reportage) NEW ZEALAND: Circumcision doesn't prevent STDs

March 7, 2008

GHANA: AIDS conference recommends circumcision

Ghana

HIV rates

Circumcised men

1.6%

Intact men

1.4%

(Women

3.2%)

Circumcision rate

95%

2003 Demographic and Health Survey (p 13/15)

March 4, 2008

NEW YORK: Margaret Sanger's grandson is skeptical

March 1, 2008

PARIS: Death of anti-FGC activist probably accidental

March, 2008

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Circumcision does not protect against Sexually Transmitted Diseases

February 28, 2008

UNITED NATIONS: Push to end (female) circumcision

February 27, 2008

PHILIPPINES: US troops on medical mission circumcise men instead

February 22, 2008

UGANDA: Death penalty if (female) circumcision fatal

February 22, 2008

USA: FDA warns firm over safety pins for circumcision

February 21, 2008

AFRICA: Doubts and dissent over circumcision

February 22, 2008

OXFORD: NHS "should pay for adult circumcision of African men"

February 18, 2008

GLASGOW: Girls risk rendition home for circumcision

February 13, 2008

RWANDA: Men seek circumcision so they can abandon condoms

February 10, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Many men "not circumcised enough"

February 8, 2008

FGM: Slow progress in three countries

February 8, 2008

BRISBANE: Australian and New Zealand physicians won't soften their stand against infant circumcision

February 7, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Health Minister doubt's utility of circumcision against HIV

February 6, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS: Court: Mom Can't Sue Over Circumcision

February 6, 2008

BOSTON: Vaccine knocks out foreskin's immune response

February 6, 2008

LOS ANGELES: Christina Aguilera celebrates circumcision with penis balloons

February 6, 2008

NORTH CAROLINA: Bigamous father of 12 circumcised his own sons

February 3, 2008

UGANDA: Circumcising men may increase HIV risk to women

January 31, 2008

SYDNEY: Circumcision advocate accepted uncritically

January 31, 2008

VICTORIA, B.C.: More parents choosing to skip circumcision

January 30, 2008

SWITZERLAND: HIV+ men on retrovirals not infectious - CDC hurries to pooh-pooh

January 30, 2008

KENYA: Forced circumcision a weapon of tribal warfare

December 13, 2007

AMSTERDAM: Imams condemn female cutting

January 25, 2008

OREGON: Court rules 12-year-old may not be circumcised - in the meantime

January 23, 2008

SOUTH AFRICA: Young man takes father, tribal elders to court over forced circumcision

January 22, 2008

RWANDA: Govt launches mass circumcision campaign despite evidence of futility:

Rwanda

HIV Rates

Circumcised men

3.8%

Intact men

2.1%

(Women

3.6%)

2005 Demographic and Health Survey (p 10/17)

January 20, 2008

INDONESIA: Female Genital Cutting medicalised

January 19, 2008

USA: Fewer than 1 in 3 boys circumcised in the West

January 15, 2008

NAIROBI: Men "circumcised to death"

January 13, 2008

CAPE TOWN: One independent doctor welcomes sexuality finding, others critique it

January 9, 2008

SAN DIEGO: Call for circumcision to be adults-only

January 8, 2008

TORONTO: Whats wrong with research on circumcision and sexuality?

January 8, 2008

KENYA: More forcible circumcisions

January 7, 2008

EAST AFRICA: More qualms about circumcision to prevent HIV

January 6, 2008

UGANDA: Study fails to detect sexual dysfunction

January 5, 2008

KENYA: Does intactness prevent herpes?

January 4, 2008

IRAQ: Moves to outlaw FGC in the Middle East

January 3, 2008

FIJI: Doctor botches 18 circumcisions

January 1, 2008

KENYA: 20 men forcibly circumcised - five die

December 31, 2007

SUDAN: Female genital cutting outlawed

December 26, 2007

NEW YORK: Mohels cut gentile babies

December 21, 2007

TEXAS: MRSA kills more than AIDS

December 18, 2007

UGANDA: Ebola cancels traditional circumcision

December 16, 2007

AFRICA: Gates donations put healthcare at risk

December 16, 2007

CAIRO: Islamic scholar opposes female circumcision ban

December 15, 2007

US: No correlation between HIV and circumcision in Latino, Black Men who have Sex with Men paper news

December 14, 2007

KENYA: Boy dies / girls' defenders stoned

December 9, 2007

HOBART: Doctors back call for circumcision ban

December 7, 2007

UGANDA: Campaign to circumcise without testing

December 4, 2007

CAPE TOWN: Circumcised again - by force

December 3, 2007

LUSAKA: Reporter has himself circumcised

November 29, 2007

BEIJING: Health Minister cautious about mass circumcision

November 22, 2007

SPAIN: Baby bleeds to death after botched circumcision

November 20, 2007

KYOTO/WISCONSIN: Skin cells made as versatile as embryo cells

November 19, 2007

INDIA: Circumcision death - doctors blame family!

November 19, 2007

U N: Extent of AIDS epidemic overstated

November 18, 2007

NEW YORK: An urgent appeal to help protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

November 4, 2007

LONDON: Cutting comments: the foreskin debate

November 12, 2007

ADELAIDE: "Cosmetic" circumcision banned in South Australian hospitals

November 12, 2007

UGANDA: Circumcision may not help

November 8, 2007

UGANDA: President Cautions Youth On Circumcision

November 7, 2007

OREGON: Court Mulls Circumcision Case î

November 5, 2007

UGANDA: ABC, not circumcision, gives best defence against HIV

November 1, 2007

UGANDA: Don't Impose Circumcision On Natives!

October 30, 2007

BRISBANE: Queensland Gov't considers teen surgery ban

October 29, 2007

SOUTH AFRICA: Grassroots resistance to mass cutting

October 23, 2007

RWANDA: Homosexual transmission of HIV underreported (confounding circumcision studies)

October 22, 2007

SWAZILAND: Israeli doctors circumcising

October 19, 2007

UGANDA: Stick to the ABC Strategy

October 16, 2007

CHICAGO: Staph Infections Deadlier Than AIDS?

October 12, 2007

HONG KONG: Aids expert sceptical about benefits of male circumcision

October 10, 2007

SYDNEY: Circumcision offers gay men no protection from HIV

October 7, 2007

ESSEX: Mother wants disabled daugher hysterectomised

October 4, 2007

CHICAGO: Doctors don't feel (your) pain

October 5, 2007

TURKEY / KENYA: "First Joy" / "A White Wedding"

October 5, 2007

PERTH: Elder cuts penis in tribal ceremony

October 3, 2007

NEW YORK: Jewish Intactivists stop circumcising

September 16, 2007

FRANKFURT: Court finds circumcision an unlawful personal injury

September 16, 2007

ZAMBIA: Understaffed clinics offer circumcision with inadequate counselling

September 12, 2007

OREGON: Jewish group weighs in against child's freedom from circumcision î

September 12, 2007

HELSINKI: Muslim party wants sharia law, circumcision, animal sacrifice

September 11, 2007

PRETORIA: Trial results "unfolding" not "overwhelming"

September 6, 2007

KENYA: Flaws in HIV studies noted

September 5, 2007

PORT MORESBY: Doctors differ over circumcision

August 31, 2007

CHICAGO: Women urged to shun trendy genital surgery

August 26, 2007

PARIS: Voices of sanity emerge

August 20, 2007

TRINIDAD: "Repeated study visits and intensive behavioural counselling" of circumcised men in trials

August 20, 2007

JOHANNESBURG: US Anti-AIDS Program To Fund Circumcision in Africa

August 13, 2007

HOBART: Tasmania's Children's Commissioner wants circumcision ban

August 13, 2007

ADELAIDE: Circumcision review

August 12, 2007

MELBOURNE: Circumcision banned in public hospitals - 'not worth the cost'

August 11, 2007

EGYPT: Second girl dies during circumcision

August 10, 2007

NEW ZEALAND: Academic calls for circumcision at public expense

August 10, 2007

SENEGAL: Experts Concerned About Effect of Male Circumcision Studies on Sexual Behavior of Men who have Sex with Men

August 8/10, 2007

NORWAY/SWEDEN: Fe/Male Genital Cutting Opposed/Supported

August 7, 2007

SEATTLE: Circumcision Status Does Not Affect Women's STI Risk (might actually increase it, but we'll ignore that)

August 1, 2007

U S: Circumcision debate cuts deep

July 26, 2007

MONTREAL: Circumcision May Not Impact Sensitivity (If You Ignore The Foreskin)

July 23, 2007

AUSTRALIA: Male circumcision has no role in the Australian HIV epidemic

July 16, 2007

ZIMBABWE: Inflation helps curb AIDS rate - men can't afford prostitutes, vindicating alternative to circumcision claim

July 18, 2007

MATTOON, ILLINOIS: Another boy's glans sliced off

July 10, 2007

LONDON: Police plea on [female] genital mutilation

July 2, 2007

PAKISTAN: Another death

June 28, 2007

NEW YORK: Talbott findings "drivel" - circumcision advocates - Talbott replies

June 28, 2007

FRANCE: Circumcision for HIV needs follow-up

June 27, 2007

SEATTLE: Use of Federal Funds for Medicaid Non-Therapeutic Circumcision is Unlawful

June 25, 2007

SOUTH AFRICA: Five boys die; witchcraft blamed

June 28, 2007

EGYPT: Girl dies; circumcision outlawed

June 24, 2007

LONDON: Gimme Some Skin

June 24, 2007

EGYPT: Mufti says female circumcision forbidden

June 22, 2007

OREGON: High court takes up boy's circumcision

June 19, 2007

NEW YORK: Circumcision: Health-conscious procedure or unnecessary sexual amputation?

June 20, 2007

NEW YORK: Circumcision overstated as AIDS preventative: prostitutes the key

June 13, 2007

OTTAWA: Boy dies from PlastiBellTM circumcision

June 11, 2007

LONDON: X-Man Nixes Circs!

June 8, 2007

SIERRA LEONE: Parliament bans child brides, not FGM

June 7, 2007

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: Doctors call for mass circumcision of babies to prevent some AIDS some day

May 22, 2007LONDON: BMJ blasts "designer vagina" craze
May 18, 2007BELARUS: Government rejects mass circumcision
May 18, 2007CAPE TOWN: Male circumcision 'no silver bullet' against Aids

May 13, 2007

JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision is not the solution in HIV battle

May 10, 2007KENYA: US Government funds circumcision campaign
May 10, 2007SYDNEY: Health lecturer slams circumcision
May 7, 2007OREGON: Case of 12yo "Misha" reaches Newsweek
May 2, 2007MINNESOTA: Hospital denies need for informed consent
April 27, 2007OREGON: Divorced parents disagree - father wants 12yo circumcised
April 26, 2007NEW SCIENTIST: Does circumcision harm your sex life?
April 27, 2007OREGON: Divorced parents disagree - father wants 12yo circumcised
April 26, 2007NEW SCIENTIST: Does circumcision harm your sex life?
April 18, 2007WEST VIRGINIA: Parents sue for botched circumcision
April 10, 2007UGANDA: Circumcision isn't enough
April 3, 2007NEW YORK: Health Commissioner: "I was misrepresented"
April 3, 2007BRAZIL: Brazil rejects circumcision
March 31, 2007KENYA: Luo elders reject circumcision
March 7, 2007SWITZERLAND: Male circumcision may raise HIV risk for women
March 5, 2007AMSTERDAM: Langerhans cells don't invite HIV, they protect
February 26, 2007AFRICA: FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
August 16, 2006TORONTO: Circumcision "may not protect"
February 15, 2007LONDON: Baby dies after circumcision
January 22, 2007CANADA: Prince Edward Island circumcision rate abnormally high
February 12, 2007KENYA: Headmaster who sent uncircumcised boys home suspended
February 12, 2007KENYA: Uncircumcised boys sent home from school
February 6, 2007WASHINGTON: Deaths from skin-numbing creams
February 5, 2007UNITED NATIONS: Parents Turn to Clinics for Genital Mutilation
December 31, 2006SEOUL: Circumcision reduces sexual satisfaction: study
December 22, 2006UGANDA: President rejects Circumcision/HIV conclusion
December 19, 2006NEW DELHI: Circumcision can kill: UNAIDS Head
December 19, 2006NEW DELHI: UNAIDS Head urges infant circumcision to prevent AIDS
December 16, 2006UGANDA: HIV Claim Slammed
December 13, 2006UGANDA: Incomplete study claimed to find HIV protection
November 21, 2006MALAYSIA: Yet another unnecessary botch
November 21, 2006CAIRO: Muslim scholars rule FGM un-Islamic
November 21, 2006CHRISTCHURCH: Criticisms of STI research taken on board
November 21, 2006MOPUTU: HIV claim continues despite evidence
November 21, 2006CAMEROON: Traditional practices spread HIV
November 22, 2006CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND: Scientists withdraw STI-circumcision claim
November 18, 2006ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA: Hundreds demonstrate against US FGM conviction
November 18, 2006DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Researchers slam STI study
November 14, 2006SWAZILAND: Mass circumcisions "to prevent HIV"
October 25, 2006GEORGIA: Man convicted for circumcising daughter
October 25, 2006SYDNEY: Bar Mitzvah moved: boy not circumcised enough
October 24, 2006CHICAGO: Judge rules against boy's circumcision
October 19, 2006DENMARK: Law against FGM prevents elective adult genital operations
October 18, 2006TURIN: Hospital offers ritual circumcision - but doctors object
October 17, 2006DUSSELDORF: Turkish ritual circumcisor fined
October 14, 2006UNITED NATIONS: Report on violence against children condemns it all, except....
October 13, 2006JOHANNESBURG: Bush administration cuts funds for circumcisions in Swaziland
October 11, 2006JERUSALEM: Teens seduced into being circumcised
September 17, 2006BANGLADESH: Eight-year-old boy dies, doctor jailed for three years
August 17, 2006TORONTO: More doubt cast on circumcision-HIV prevention link
August 16, 2006CHICAGO: Boy loses testicle in circumcision parents didn't ask for
August 7, 2006HELSINKI: Court rules circumcision of four-year-old boy illegal
July 21, 2006OTTAWA: Canadian Governent ends circumcision funding
June 6, 2006SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA: Doubts raised over circumcision-HIV utility
July 21, 2006WINNIPEG: Doctor wristslapped for circumcising wrong baby
July 20, 2006WWW: New weblog for first-person genital cutting stories
July 20, 2006CANADA: Hospital circumcision rate halves in 10 years
July 5, 2006TORONTO: Government pays for surgical restoration
June 15, 2006NEW YORK: Mohels allowed to suck babies' penises - with Listerine
June 9, 2006DEAR ABBY: Grandmother thinks circumcision will "cure" homosexuality
May 18, 2006WINNIPEG: St Boniface hospital cuts circumcision / Plus de circoncision sur les nouveaux nés
April 10, 2006GLASGOW: Ritual circumcisions clog hospital waiting lists
March 31, 2006NORTH CAROLINA: Three men charged for consensual adult castrations
February 23, 2006SWAZILAND: "Circumcision no AIDS cure"
February 18, 2006CHICAGO: Court to rule on disputed circumcision of eight-year-old
February 15, 2006PRETORIA: South African Chilren's Act limits circumcision, sort of
February 8, 2006UGANDA: Circumcision protects female partners from HIV - NOT
December 26, 2005SWAZILAND: Campaign to circumcise "against AIDS" begins
December 19, 2005KENYA: Presbyterians medicalise circumcision rite
November 30, 2005LOS ANGELES: Statistician faults circumcision-AIDS study conclusion
November 11, 2005LONDON: Ethicist condemns (some) infant circumcision
October 17, 2005MELBOURNE: Babies feel pain more than adults: study
October 14, 2005NEW YORK: Jewish doctors condemn metzitzah
October 10, 2005WASHINGTON: Resistant staph on the rise - cut babies at risk
October 7, 2005IRELAND: Man goes free after circumcision death
September 17, 2005NEW YORK: Mohel agrees to stop metzitzah
August 26, 2005NEW YORK: City uses kid gloves after metzitzah death and two other herpes cases
August 9, 2005WELLINGTON: NZ AIDS Foundation concerned at reports
August 5, 2005LAGOS: UNAIDS urges caution on HIV-circumcision findings
July 27, 2005RIO DE JANEIRO: Male circumcision "lowers AIDS risk" Abstract and discussion
June 16, 2005LONDON: Female circumcision "is not persecution" - barrister
June 16, 2005PRETORIA: Bill makes circumcision an assault
May 21, 2005NORTH DAKOTA: Influenced by infant's cries, man wants ban on circumcision
May 5, 2005SAN FRANCISCO: Human Rights Commission slams unnecessary genital surgery of intersex children
May 3, 2005LEWES, ENGLAND: Estranged father charged with assault for having son circumcised
April 13, 2005BOISE: Idaho cuts Medicaid funding for circumcision
April 13, 2005FEZ: Prince of Morocco circumcised, 50,000 other boys also in "show of support"
March 23, 2005CAPE TOWN: Wife held after forced circumcision of husband
March 23, 2005CONNECTICUT: Lawsuit claims circumcision botched
March 19, 2005ONTARIO: Doctors accused of circumcising for the money
March 18, 2005SIERRA LEONE: Minister of Women's Affairs threates FGM opponents
March, 2005INDIANA: US Circumcision rate falls
March 11, 2005SAN FRANSISCO: Genital mutilation [except of males] is persecution, court rules
February 11, 2005KATHMANDU: Father loses second son to circumcision, ready to sacrifice third
February 2, 2005NEW YORK: Mohel practising metzitzah may have given babies herpes: one dies
January 8, 2005CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: More initiates die - conditions "shocking"
January 3, 2005PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA: Young initiands kill circumcision nurse
December 23, 2004NEW YORK: Dustin Hoffman ambivalent about circumcision
December 14, 2004AMSTERDAM: Dutch Government cuts financial support for circumcision
December 15, 2004WASHINGTON: Father gets three years for more-amateur-than-usual circumcision
December 14, 2004ISRAEL: Mohel convicted for botched circumcision
October 22, 2004NEW ZEALAND: Dog-tail docking ban passes first hurdle in Parliament:
Dockers compare it with circumcision
October 9, 2004SAN FRANCISCO: Parents found to give spurious grounds for circumcision
July 15, 2004KANSAS: Mother tries to protect 3-year-old - but fails
July 14, 2004BRITISH COLOMBIA: Doctors take stand against circumcision
July 12, 2004SCOTLAND: "he was covered in blood"
July 8, 2004SOUTH AFRICA: Another circumcision school initiate dies
July 7, 2004SWEDEN: Illegal circumcision reported to police after septicaemia
July 4, 2004CAPE TOWN: Rastafarian circumcised against his will then further abused by police
June 16, 2004MOSCOW: Russia's women and gay men to be shown incomplete penises
June 8, 2004NAIROBI: Female circumcisors repent
June 6, 2004BOSTON: Sensitive treatment of FGM survivors
May 12, 2004NORTH DAKOTA: Lawyer says parents not briefed on risks of circumcising infant
May 10, 2004WINNIPEG: Botched circumcision (and human experimentation) leads to premature death of David Reimer
March 25, 2004ATLANTA: Georgia outlaws ALL [even adult consensual] female genital piercing
April 13, 2004LEBANON: French-Syrian's anti-circumcision comic strip
April 13, 2004SYDNEY: Dog-tail docking compared with circumcision
February 26, 2004NOTTINGHAM, UK: Not tested on animals - on humans instead!
February 19, 2004SOUTH AFRICA: 20 die from circumcision
February 16, 2004SYDNEY: HIV claim debunked
February 13, 2004LONDON: Museum of pain includes circumcision
February 2, 2004ISTANBUL: Circumcision slows ejaculation (Duh!)
February 12, 2004FLORENCE: Doctor proposes FGM substitute
February 11, 2004B. C.: Parents of dead boy want others warned
January 10, 2004LOS ANGELES: Couple charged with agreeing to circumcise girls
October 16, 2003ETHIOPIA: Circumcision dropped to prevent HIV
December 17, 2003MALAYSIA: Cross-cultural circumcision mooted
December 5, 2003NORWAY: Court rules circumcision causes damage
December 5, 2003DENMARK: National Council for Children calls for ban
November 21, 2003SCOTLAND: "Appalling" child porn images include circumcision
November 20, 2003SEATTLE: Scientist suspended for cutting mouse tail tips
November 14, 2003PARIS: French law "would outlaw circumcision"
October 30, 2003LONDON: Circumcising "doctor" acquitted - regulation mooted
October 23, 2003SOUTH AFRICA: Botched circumcision: traditional circumcisor gaoled
October 14, 2003KAMPALA: Uganda's president proposes banning circumcision
October 9, 2003LONG ISLAND: Four cut boys get staph. in one hospital
October 9, 2003SAN DIEGO: Another HIV correlation study of high-risk men
September 11, 2003GHANA: Woman gets five years for FGM
September 11, 2003SOUTH AFRICA: US to help fund circumcision village
September 7, 2003QUEENSLAND: Youth nipple piercing ban
August 22, 2003DUBLIN: Boy dies after circumcision
August 4, 2003BROOKLYN: $25,000,000 non-consent suit
July 19, 2003GEORGIA: First US prosecution for Female Genital Mutilation
June 26, 2003NORWAY: Children's Ombudsman critical of circumcision of boys
July 18, 2003CAPE TOWN: Circumcision does not prevent HIV
July 17, 2003MISSISSIPPI: Circumcision rate plummets when charged for
May 19, 2003MASSACHUSETTS: $725,000 damages for loss of glans-tip
May 6, 2003SEATTLE: Intactivists march
April 29, 2003NEW YORK: Sensitivity test ignores the obvious
April 25, 2003NEW YORK: Out-of-court settlement for infant circumcision
April 25, 2003WASHINGTON: USAID to push circumcision as "protection" against HIV
April 21, 2003PHILIPPINES: Doctors make a stand against male circumcision
April 4, 2003 FINLAND: Circumcision law considered
April 2, 2003NEW SOUTH WALES: Hospitals stop circumcising newborns
April 8, 2003JAPAN: Conmen circumcise innocent youth
April 8, 2003WEST HOLLYWOOD: Cat declawing outlawed
April 4, 2003LONDON: BMA ethical guidelines condemn routine infant circumcision
April 1, 2003WASHINGTON DC: Intactivists march on the Capitol
February 20, 2003AFRICA: Much HIV not sexually transmitted
February 18, 2003CALIFORNIA: Lesbian sperm bank protects babies
February 17, 2003AUSTRALIA: Many circumcisions unnecessary
February 7, 2003KENYA: Hundreds of girls run away to evade FGM
February 3, 2003Zambia: Female Genital Mutilation defended - "not violent"
January 21, 2003Benin: Female Genital Mutilation outlawed
January 23, 2003New York: A feature in the New York Times is quite balanced
January 12, 2003West Hollywood: Call to outlaw declawing of cats
January 20, 2002Yemen: Conference on Female Genital Mutilation
January 15, 2003Boston: Judge rules consent required for hair-cutting
December 26, 2002Kenya: Doubts about circumcision-HIV study
December 23, 2002California: Body-modifier arrested for performing FGM
December 21, 2002Montana: Medicaid stops funding circumcision
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