The Truth Seeker

Jul/Aug 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker

The Truth Seeker is an American periodical published beginning in 1873. It was considered the most influential Freethought publication during the period following the American Civil War into the first decades of the 20th Century, known as the Golden Age of Freethought. Though there were other influential Freethought periodicals, Truth Seeker was the only one with a national circulation. The headquarters is in San Diego, California. The Truth Seeker is the world’s oldest freethought publication, and one of the oldest periodicals in America. Among general-readership titles, only Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and The Nation are older.

The July/August 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker was dedicated to articles about circumcision and genital mutilation. It contains the core proceedings of the First International Symposium on Circumcision. It is an early example of intactivist literature.

James W. Prescott, Ph.D., was the editor of The Truth Seeker. He and Marilyn Fayre Milos, R. N., Executive Director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), jointly edited the circumcision issue.

Many articles from The Truth Seeker have been transcribed elsewhere.

The Truth Seeker edition, vol 1, no. 3, July/August 1989 and its various articles became the progenitor of future intactivist literature.

Feature articles

Religious-Psychological Perspectives

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Milos, Marilyn Fayre. Infant circumcision: What I wish I had known.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Larue, Gerald A. Religious traditions and circumcision.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] DeMeo, James. The geography of genital mutilations.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Prescott, James W. Genital pain vs. genital pleasure: Why the one and not the other?.

Social-Cultural Perspectives

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Hosken, Fran P. Female genital mutilation: strategies for eradication.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Badawi, Mohamed. Epidemiology of female sexual castration in Cairo, Egypt.

Medical Perspectives

• George C. Denniston. First do no harm.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Snyder, James L.. The Problem of Circumcision in America.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Altshul, Martin. Cultural Bias and the Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Circumcision Controversy.
• Paul M. Fleiss, David S. Bate & John A. Erickson. Letters.

Legal Perspectives

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Morris, Richard W. The first circumcision case.

• Hardebeck, John W. "Newborn circumcision resolution".

Philosophical/Social Transformations

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Snyder, James L.. Testimony against circumcision.
• Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision

Departments

• James Harvey Johnson. Superior Men, Chapter IV.
• Acknowledgements and Resources

Center insert

• Bonner, Charles A. / Michael Kinane: Circumcision: the legal and Constitutional issues, The Truth Seeker. (1989).
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Duffy, John. Clitoridectomy: A Nineteenth Century Answer to Masturbation.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Prescott, James W.. Social-Behavioral Characteristics Of Affectionate/Nurturant And Non-Affectionate/Non-Nurturant Primitive Cultures.

External links

The Truth Seeker is available on the Internet in two versions, a digital book edition and a PDF file;

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] (25 May 2009). The Truth Seeker: Crimes of Genital Mutilation (Digital Publication), issu.. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] The Truth Seeker.
• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 0] Official website. Retrieved 8 January 2021