Seventh International Symposium

The Seventh International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society convened in the Georgetown University Conference Center in Washington, DC, USA on April 4-7, 2002.

Faculty

• Jeannine Parvati Baker, MS, Director, NOCIRC of Utah – Joseph,co-founder, Six Directions, and author. Joseph, Utah, USA.
  
• Peter Ball, MA, MB, B Chir, retired family practitioner, member, NORM-UK, and producer and director, non-surgical foreskin restoration video. Turnbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
  
• Michel Beauge, Medical Doctor and Sexologist, Vice Chairman, National Union of Sexologists, Secretary General, Group of Western France Sexologists for Advanced Training. Quimper, France.
  
• Daniel H. Bollinger, III, BA, Director, NOCIRC of Indiana, founder and director of Wabash Men’s Council, Media Outreach Coordinator for NOCIRC. West Lafayette, IN, USA.
  
• Charles A. Bonner, JD, civil rights, personal injury, and medical mal practice attorney. Sausalito, California, USA.
  
• Mary Conant, RN, nurse conscientious objector to circumcision, co-founder of Nurses for the Rights of the Child, and Director, NOCIRC of NM. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
  
• Amber Craig, MS, Director, NOCIRC of North Carolina and coordinator, Medicaid Project. Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  
• George C. Denniston, MD, MPH, founder and Director, Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.) and author. Norland, Washington, USA.
  
• Milton Diamond, PhD, Professor, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, host and co-producer, PBS TV series, Human Sexuality, President, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and Past President, International Academy for Sex Research. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
  
• Steve C. Donnell, MB, ChB, FRCS, DCH, FRCS Ed, senior registrar, pediatric surgery and urology, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK, and consultant pediatric surgeon, Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Birmingham, UK.
  
• Laurie Evans, Director, NOCIRC of New York – Hudson Valley. Katonah, NY, USA.
  
• Rudolph P. Fedrizzi, MD, board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, Northern New Mexico Women’s Health and Birth Center. Taos, New Mexico, USA.
  
• Paul Fleiss, MD, MPH, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, University of Southern California Medical Center, pediatrician,and author. Los Angeles, California, USA.
  
• Leonard Glick, MD, PhD, professor of anthropology, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, and author. New Salem, MA, USA.
  
• Ronald Goldman, PhD, psychologist, educator, author, and executive director, Circumcision Resource Center. Boston, MA, USA.
  Gary Harryman, MA, coordinator, National Organization of Restoring Men, Southern California (NORM-SC), researcher, author. Topanga, CA, USA.
  
• Greg Hartley, PE, graduated cum laude in engineering, University of Pittsburgh, completed Naval Nuclear Power School, was a civilian instructor, US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, now works in fleet support, and Director, NOCIRC of PA. Ingomar,PA, USA.
  
• Frederick Mansfield Hodges, D. Phil. (Oxon), medical historian, post-doctoral research associate, Department of History, Yale University, and author. New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  
• Yngve Hofvander, MD, pediatrician, Professor, International Child Health, Uppsala University, Sweden, consultant to the Swedish International Development Authority, World Health Organization, and UNICEF. Uppsala, Sweden.
  
• Duane Jorde, Director, NOCIRC of Hawaii, co-ordinator,“Fathers in Rebellion” exhibit. Honolulu, HI, USA.
  
• Van Lewis, Director, NOCIRC of Florida. Panacea, Florida, USA.
• Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, MA, cross-cultural sexologist, clinical supervisor, The American Board of Sexology, and author. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
  
• David J. Llewellyn, BA, JD, practicing attorney at law representing plaintiffs in wrongful circumcision and other genital injury cases. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  
• Linda Massie, BSc, PG/Dip, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Northern Ireland. Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  
• Harry Meislahn, BA, MBA, magna cum laude graduate in Economics, Harvard, MBA recipient, Harvard Business School, and Director, NOCIRC of Illinois. Winnetka, IL, USA.
  
• Marilyn Milos, RN, Director, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC),Coordinator, International Symposia on Genital Integrity. San Anselmo, California, USA.
  
• Soraya Miré, Director, Persistent Productions, producer, FireEyes. Pasadena, CA, USA.
  
• Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, Past Public Health Physician, Makerere Medical School, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,Director of the Population Secretariat, Ministry of Finance and Planning – Government of Uganda. Kampala, Uganda.
  
• Martin Novoa, investment banker, twenty years experience in research and counseling about male circumcision. San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Kristen O’Hara, BS in Education, Salem College, Salem, Massachusetts, and author. Boston, MA, USA.
  
• Shane Peterson, PhD, affiliated with the International Office for Men’s Health and Gender Studies, School of Nursing and Public Health, Edith Cowan University, Director, NOCIRC of Australia. Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  
• Mark Reiss, MD, retired physician, active member of a Conservative synagogue, child’s rights activist, and researcher. San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Marianne M. Sarkis, MA, applied medical anthropologist, Director, Female Genital Mutilation Awareness and Education Project of NOCIRC, originator of first female genital mutilation website. Albany, CA, USA.
  
• Steve Scott, Educational Outreach Coordinator, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, Director, NOCIRC of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
  
• Morris Sorrells, MD, retired pediatrician, consultant, and researcher. Port Ludlow, WA, USA.
  
• William Stowell, A1C, Security Forces, US Air Force, first 18-year-old to file circumcision lawsuit. Denver, CO, USA.
  
• J. Steven Svoboda, JD, founder and Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC). Berkeley, California, USA.
  
• John Taylor, MB, FRCPC, pathologist (retired), Health Sciences Centre and University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  
• Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, PhD, Director, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation, and currently a medical student. Sturt, South Australia, Australia.

Proceedings

Program Thursday, April 4

  6:00 pm Registration
  7:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks Marilyn Milos
  7:15 pm Keynote Address: Bodily Integrity in the Biotech Era Frederick Mansfield Hodges
  8:00 pm Award Presentations Marilyn Milos

Friday, April 5

  8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
  9:00 am A New Law Regulating Religious Circumcision in Sweden Yngve Hofvander
  9:30 am Penile Torts in the Courts David Llewellyn
10:00 am Circumcision: A Teenager’s Perspective William Stowell
10:30 am Discrimination for Political Views: Intactivism in the Workplace, Part I Charles Bonner
11:00 am Discrimination for Political Views: Intactivism in the Workplace, Part II Martin Novoa
11:30 am Assaulted and Mutilated: Surviving Circumcision Trauma Shane Peterson
12:00 pm Educating the United Nations About Male Circumcision J. Steven Svoboda
12:30 pm Buffet Lunch
  1:30 pm An Adlerian Look at Neonatal Trauma and Early Childhood Beliefs Dan Bollinger
  2:00 pm Anthropology and Circumcision: Why did it take us so long to come around? Marianne Sarkis
  2:30 pm Female Genital Mutilation: My Own Story Soraya Miré
  3:00 pm Can Culture Play a Positive Role in Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation? Jotham Musinguzi
  3:30 pm Circumcision Decision Making in a Population of American Women Intending a Non-Interventive Birth Rudolph P. Fedrizzi
  4:00 pm Adoption: A Path to Genital Integrity Greg Hartley
  4:30 pm Genital Integrity and Nobel Prize Winners Van Lewis
  5:00 pm Dinner (on your own)

Saturday, April 6

  8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
  9:00 am What is the Foreskin? Steve Scott
  9:30 am A Survey of the Foreskin as Depicted in Current Medical Educational Literature Gary Harryman
10:00 am The Importance of the Foreskin to Penile Reflexes Harry Meislahn and John Tay
10:30 am Circumcision and Sexual Pleasure: A Study George Denniston
11:00 am Penile Sensitivity Touch-Test Evaluation Study Morrie Sorrells
11:30 am Preputial Stenosis in Adolescents and Young Adults Michel Beauge
12:00 pm Save the Foreskin II: BXO in Boys Does Not Mandate Circumcision Steve Donnell
12:30 Buffet Lunch
  1:30 pm Comparative Analysis on Urinary Tract Infection in North America, Israel, and Europe Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin
  2:00 pm A Doctor Puts His Scalpel Down: What to Say to Parents Paul Fleiss
  2:30 pm NORM-UK and Britain’s Health Service Peter Ball
  3:30 pm A Research and Community Development Strategy for NOCIRC of Northern Ireland Linda Massie
  4:00 pm Activism in North Carolina, USA Amber Craig
  4:30 pm Male Circumcision Hurts Sexuality of Both Partners Kristen O’Hara
  5:00 pm Dinner (on your own)

Sunday, April 7

  8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
  9:00 am Something Less than Joyful: Jewish Americans and the Circumcision Dilemma Leonard Glick
  9:30 am The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate: A Psycho-Social Critique Ronald Goldman
10:30 am My Painful Journey: A Retired Jewish Physician’s Acknowledgment of Circumcision Trauma Leads Him to Intactivism Mark Reiss
11:00 am The Management of Ambiguous Genitalia Milton Diamond
11:30 am What’s Going On: New Alliances, New Ideas, New Gains, New Hopes, And New Futures Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
12:00 pm Closing Jeannine Parvati Baker
12:30 pm Buffet Lunch

The proceedings are published in Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society, edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 2004.

Sponsor

The International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society, a special project of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), provides a forum for discussion about the sexual mutilation of infants and children from historical, anthropological, cultural, religious, social, psychological, medical, ethical, legal and human rights perspectives. NOCIRC is a non-profit educational organization that provides information for parents and others about protecting the rights of children.

See also

• Flesh and Blood

• 1989: First International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1991: Second International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1994: Third International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1996: Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations
• 1998: Fifth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations
• 2000: Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity
• 2002: Seventh International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society
• 2004: Eighth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights
• 2006: Ninth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2008: Tenth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2010: Eleventh International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2012: Twelfth International Symposium on Law, Genital Autonomy, and Human Rights
• 2014: Thirteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2016: Fourteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2018: Fifteenth International Symposium‎‎ on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2022: Sixteenth International Symposium on Child Genital Cutting

External links

• Brochure of the Seventh International Symposium