Sixth International Symposium

The Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity convened in Wesley College at the University of Sydney, Sidney, New South Wales, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.

Faculty

• Seham Abd el Salam Muhammed, MD, research fellow, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, the American University in Cairo, member of the Egyptian FGM Task Force, founder of Resource Center of FGM Cairo, Egypt.
• John Aldous, co-founder E.B.-N.O.R.M. (Everyman’s Birthright - National Organization of Restoring Men). Everard Park, South Australia.
• Zenas Baer, JD, attorney concentrating on Federal Civil Rights Litigation. Hawley, Minnesota, USA.
• Jeannine Parvati Baker, MS, co-founder, Six Directions non-profit educational organisation, author and lecturer. Joseph, Utah, USA.
• Peter Ball, MA, MB, B.Chir., retired family practitioner, producer and director, non-surgical foreskin restoration video. Turnbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
• Gillian A. Bensley conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science(Honours) degree in Psychology. Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• Daniel H. Bollinger, III, BA, founder and Director, Wabash Men’s Council,Indiana, USA.
• Charles A. Bonner, JD, civil rights, personal injury, and medical malpractice attorney. Sausalito, California, USA.
• Gregory J. Boyle, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Bond University. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• Mary Conant, RN, conscientious objector to circumcision, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the Child. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
• Robert Darby, PhD, scholar and editor, researched the history of the rise and decline of routine circumcision in Australia for his book on the subject. Canberra, Australia.
• Paul Fleiss, MD, MPH, paediatrician. Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Tracey Gemmel, candidate for Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology, Bond University. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• Pia Grassivaro Gallo, PhD, associate professor, general biology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.
• Yngve Hofvander, paediatrician, Professor, International Child Health, Uppsala University, Sweden, consultant to the Swedish International Development Authority, World Health Organization, and UNICEF. Uppsala, Sweden.
• Frederick M. Hodges, DPhil (Oxon), medical historian, co-editor, Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press 1999). University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• LeYoni Junos, Director, Amnesty International Bermuda, Bermuda Human Rights Commissioner. Hamilton, Bermuda.
• Michael Katz, MD, Vice President of Research for the March of Dimes. White Plains, New York, USA.
• DaiSik Kim, PhD, Professor, Department of Physics, Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea.
• Sae Chul Kim, MD, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
• Tina Kimmel, MSW, MPH, doctoral candidate in public health, University of California, Berkeley, Director, NOCIRC of California – East Bay. Oakland, California, USA.
• Peter Lawrence, MS, doctoral candidate, University of Sydney, counsellor,and founder of UNCIRC of Australia in 1994. Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Els Leye, Female Genital Mutilation Project Coordinator, International Centre for Reproductive Health. Ghent, Belgium.
• Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, MA, cross-cultural sexologist and clinical supervisor,The American Board of Sexology, author, Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey Into Female Genital Mutilation, A Woman’s Odyssey into Africa: Tracks Across a Life, and Genital Surgery and the Rights of Children. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
• Linda Massie, BSc, PG/Dip, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Northern Ireland. Glen gormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• Brett McCann, Counsellor, Sexual Health Clinic, Sydney Hospital, President, Australasian Sexual Health Counsellors Society. Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Kenneth A. McGrath, VRD, Msc(Hons), LIBiol, MNZIMLS, RNZNVR (Rtd), Senior Lecturer in Pathology, Faculty of Health Studies, Auckland University of Technology. Auckland, New Zealand.
• Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, co-founder and Director, NationalOrganization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers(NOCIRC), Coordinator, International Symposia on Genital Integrity. San Anselmo, California, USA.
• Pandy S. Ndimwibo, BA SWASA, DIP PPM, PGD Counselling,Chairman of the Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau. Kampala, Uganda, Africa.
• Juliana Nkrumah, MS, Community Education and Development Officer, NSW Education Program on FGM, Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Myung-Geol Pang, PhD, GenDix, Co., Korea, Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Population, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea.
• Shane Peterson, PhD, International Office for Men’s Health and Gender Studies, School of Nursing and Public Health, Edith Cowan University. Canberra, ACT, Australia.
• Royal Phillips, CBE, international childbirth instructor, columnist, Montecito Journal. Santa Barbara, California, USA.
• Samuel M. Ramos conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology at Bond University. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• Samuel Richmond, BA, MLS, librarian and Director, NOCIRC of California - Irvine. Irvine, California, USA.
• William Sides, Managing Director of Sides Engineering, developed the “Pill Tube” foreskin restoration method. Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia.
• Morris L. Sorrells, MD, retired paediatrician, consultant. Atherton, California, USA.
• J. Steven Svoboda, JD, founder and Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC), Berkeley, California, USA.
• Moisés Tractenberg, MD, psychoanalyst, author, Director, NOCIRC of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• John W. Travis, MD, MPH, founder and co-director, Wellness Associates, author, Wellness Inventory and the Wellness Workbook, co-founder, International Coalition for Genital Integrity, co-founder, Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children. East Gipsland, Victoria, Australia.
• J. Neville Turner, LLB (Hons), BA, barrister and solicitor, authored six books and numerous articles on child and family law, board member and former president of Oz Child. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Franco Viviani, PhD, professor, physical education, cultural anthropology, and general biology, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.
• Shelton Harrison Walden, BA, Executive Producer and host, Walden’s Pond, WBAI radio, teacher, High School for Environmental Studies. New York, New York, USA.
• John Warren, MB, DCH, FRCP, founder and Director, National Organization of Restoring Men (NORM-UK), Director, NOCIRC of UK. Harlow, Essex, UK.
• Norma Wilcox, RN, MS, Director, Urological/GynecologicalTeaching Associate Programs, Stanford University and University of California/San Francisco Schools of Medicine and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. San Francisco, California, USA.
• George Williams, MB, ChB, FRACP, consultant paediatrician/perinatologist, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Australia. Menai, New South Wales, Australia.
• Hugh Young, BSc, journalist and radio producer, Auckland, Whangarei, Honiara (Solomon Islands), Gisborne, and Wellington. Pukerua Bay, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
• Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, PhD, Avraham Kahana, and Ronit Tamir, members, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, PhD, currently a medical student in Australia is Director, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. Sturt, South Australia, Australia.

Proceedings

Program

Thursday, 7 December

• Welcome and Opening Remarks

Marilyn Fayre Milos and George Williams

• Keynote Address: Ending Enforced Genital Cutting of Children and Violation of Their Human Rights: Ethical, Psychological and Legal Considerations

Gregory J. Boyle

• An Overview

George Williams, Moderator

• Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis

Frederick M. Hodges

• A Source of Serious Mischief: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Preventive Circumcision in Australia, 1880–1930

Robert Darby

• Compulsion to Circumcise is Constant, the Reasons Keep Changing

Michael Katz

• Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation

George Williams, Moderator

• Comparative Legal Analysis of Body Mutilation Practices on Children

J. Steven Svoboda

• Equal Protection Case Studies in the Scope and Limit of Gender-Based Discrimination Under State and Federal Constitutions

Zenas Baer

• Human Rights of Children in the New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Genital Integrity Throughout the World

Charles A. Bonner

• Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow!

J. Neville Turner

• Religious Considerations

Tina Kimmel, Moderator

• An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook

Moisés Tractenberg

• Attitude, Knowledge, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation

Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Ronit Tamir

• Bris Shalem: Toward a Covenant of Wholeness

Samuel Richmond

• Limitations to Practices of a Belief or Religion in International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Genital Mutilation in the Judaic Tradition

LeYoni Junos

• Breaking Through Medical and Media Bias

Tina Kimmel, Moderator

• The White Coat of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula and Survive Physician Opposition

Norma Wilcox

• The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition

Shelton Harrison Walden

Friday, 8 December

• International News

Peter Ball, Moderator

• A Review of Circumcision in New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it up.”

Hugh Young and Kenneth A. McGrath

• Circumcision Rates in UK Males

John Warren

• Prevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland

Linda Massie

• Circumcision of Boys in Sweden: Proposal for Government Regulation

Yngve Hofvander

• Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual

Royal Phillips

• Female Genital Mutilation

Juliana Nkrumah, Moderator

• FGM: Getting the Debate Happening at the Grassroots – The Australian Experience

Juliana Nkrumah

• Egyptian Intellectuals and Genital Integrity

Seham Abd el Salam Mohammed

• Female Circumcision: Its Effects on the Reproductive Health of Adolescents

Pandy Ndimwibo

• The Struggle Against Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision: The European Experience

Els Leye

• Sunna Budnin: An Alternative Ritual to Infibulation, Invented and Carried Out in the Merka District, Somalia

Pia Grassivaro Gallo and Franco Viviani

• Genital Mutilation of Children: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

Hanny Lightfoot-Klein

• International Symposia on Genital Integrity Award Presentations

Marilyn Fayre Milos, Moderator

• Address of the Recipient of the Human Rights Award: Over 100% Circumcision Rate: The Short and Bizarre History of South Korean Circumcision

DaiSik Kim, Myung-Geol Pang, Sae Chul Kim

Saturday, 9 December

• Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation

Gregory J. Boyle, Moderator

• Sigmund Freud, Male Circumcision and the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Review

George Williams

• Physical, Sexual, and Psychological Impact of Male Infant Circumcision: An Exploratory Study

Gillian A. Bensley and Gregory J. Boyle

• Neonatal Circumcision: Long-Term Harmful Effects

Tracey Gemmel and Gregory J. Boyle

• Ritual and Medical Circumcision Among Filipino Boys: Evidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Samuel M. Ramos and Gregory J. Boyle

• Counselling Approaches for Acute Post-Circumcision Stress Disorder: A Case Study

Brett McCann and Peter Lawrence

• How to Respond to the Doctor Who Says You Must Circumcise Your Son

Paul Fleiss

• What Exactly Is Lost With Genital Cutting?

Morris L. Sorrells, Moderator

• Separation of the Two Sensory Platforms of the Human Penis

Kenneth A. McGrath

• A Novel Research Study in Assessing Penile Sensitivity/Insensitivity Without a Measuring Device

Peter Lawrence

• Touch-Test Sensory Evaluation Research: Preliminary Findings

Morris L. Sorrells and Tina Kimmel

• Addressing the Wounds

Peter Ball, Moderator

• Assaulted and Mutilated: A Personal Account of Circumcision Trauma

Shane Peterson

• Concurrent Session A: Male Genital Mutilation and Foreskin Restoration

Peter Ball, Moderator

• Circumcision: A Festering Wound

Daniel H. Bollinger, III

• Current Foreskin Restoration Practices in Australi

John M. Aldous

• A report on the evolution and growth of foreskin restoration in Sydney Australia, since 1994

Peter Lawrence

• Doctors, File Information, and Activists Can be Worse than the Circumciser’s Knife

William Sides

• Foreskin Restoration: a video

Peter Ball

• Concurrent Session B: The Role of Women in Ending Genital Mutilation

Jeannine Parvati Baker, Mary Conant, Linda Massie, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Moderators

• Closing Keynote Address: Circumcision as a Part of the Normative Abuse of Children: Essentials for Transforming the Lives of Children

John W. Travis

• Closing

Jeannine Parvati Baker

Publications

The proceedings are published in

• (2001) Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem. George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos (ed.). Springer (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press). ISBN 978-1-4419-3375-1. Retrieved 31 December 2019.

Symposium organizers

• Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
• Dr. George Williams, NOCIRC of Australia
• Dr. Gregory J. Boyle, Bond University
• Dr. Frederick M. Hodges, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.

See also

• 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

• Official Symposium Brochure]