A storytelling project by Intact America
DISCOVER THE
TRUTH ABOUT CIRCUMCISION
A storytelling project by Intact America
View, download and share the SKIN IN THE GAME: CIRCUMCISION CUTS THROUGH US ALL booklet: 40 pages of riveting images and thought-provoking text reveal why circumcision affects us all.
USE YOUR VOICE.
ADVOCATE.
RECOGNISE.
EMPATHISE.
APOLOGIZE.
SPREAD THE WORD.
SAY NO TO CIRCUMCISION.
HEAL BY REVEALING.
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Intact America gives people a safe place to share their stories. Knowing that you are not alone in your pain and feeling truly heard is often the first step to healing trauma. Skin in the Game Voices series shares varying experiences and perspectives on circumcision harm through personal interviews and storytelling. Read their stories at the link below.
The Campaign
Intact America’s Skin in the Game: Circumcision Cuts Through Us All photographic storytelling campaign is featured throughout this site. Photos by Kevin Garrett deliver thought-provoking imagery showcasing the stories of those who have suffered trauma caused by circumcision, a medically unnecessary surgery routinely performed within the first few days of a baby boy’s birth in the United States. During two multi-day shoots in Atlanta and one in Dallas, more than eighty people came forward to share their stories either as an intactivist, a person whose life had been impacted by circumcision, or both. Only by sharing our stories can we hope to end male genital cutting that causes lifelong, irreversible harm to boys and the men they will become.
MEMOIRS BY
TWO LEADING INTACTIVISTS
In her eye-opening memoir, This Penis Business: A Social Activist’s Memoir, Georganne Chapin, Intact America’s founding executive director, exposes the business of medical circumcision. Her book is a punch-in-the-gut wake-up call that will enrage and empower anyone impacted by the multi-billion-dollar penis business. Human rights activist Marilyn Fayre Milos has written a warm and compelling memoir of her path to becoming “the founding mother of the intactivist movement.” Please Don’t Cut the Baby!: A Nurse’s Memoir chronicles how what started as an effort to become a certified nurse midwife promoting natural childbirth turned into a more than 40-year quest to end the practice of medically unnecessary routine circumcision.
