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

• Welcome and Opening Remarks

Marilyn Milos

• Keynote Address: Integrity in the Biotech Era

Frederick Mansfield Hodges

• Award Presentations

Marilyn Milos

Friday, April 5

• A New Law Regulating Religious Circumcision in Sweden

Yngve Hofvander

• Penile Torts in the Courts

David Llewellyn

• Circumcision: A Teenager’s Perspective

William Stowell

• Discrimination for Political Views: Intactivism in the Workplace, Part I

Charles Bonner

• Discrimination for Political Views: Intactivism in the Workplace, Part II

Martin Novoa

• Assaulted and Mutilated: Surviving Circumcision Trauma

Shane Peterson

• Educating the United Nations About Male Circumcision

J. Steven Svoboda

• An Adlerian Look at Neonatal Trauma and Early Childhood Beliefs

Dan Bollinger

• Anthropology and Circumcision: Why did it take us so long to come around?

Marianne Sarkis

• Female Genital Mutilation: My Own Story

Soraya Miré

• Can Culture Play a Positive Role in Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation?

Jotham Musinguzi

• Circumcision Decision Making in a Population of American Women Intending a Non-Interventive Birth

Rudolph P. Fedrizzi

• Adoption: A Path to Genital Integrity

Greg Hartley

• Genital Integrity and Nobel Prize Winners

Van Lewis

Saturday, April 6

• What is the Foreskin?

Steve Scott

• A Survey of the Foreskin as Depicted in Current Medical Educational Literature

Gary Harryman

• The Importance of the Foreskin to Penile Reflexes

Harry Meislahn and John Tay

• Circumcision and Sexual Pleasure: A Study

George Denniston

• Penile Sensitivity Touch-Test Evaluation Study

Morrie Sorrells

• Preputial Stenosis in Adolescents and Young Adults

Michel Beauge

• Save the Foreskin II: BXO in Boys Does Not Mandate Circumcision

Steve Donnell

• Comparative Analysis on Urinary Tract Infection in North America, Israel, and Europe

Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin

• A Doctor Puts His Scalpel Down: What to Say to Parents

Paul Fleiss

• NORM-UK and Britain’s Health Service

Peter Ball

• A Research and Community Development Strategy for NOCIRC of Northern Ireland

Linda Massie

• Activism in North Carolina, USA

Amber Craig

• Male Circumcision Hurts Sexuality of Both Partners

Kristen O’Hara

Sunday, April 7

• Something Less than Joyful: Jewish Americans and the Circumcision Dilemma

Leonard Glick

• The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate: A Psycho-Social Critique

Ronald Goldman

• My Painful Journey: A Retired Jewish Physician’s Acknowledgment of Circumcision Trauma Leads Him to Intactivism

Mark Reiss

• The Management of Ambiguous Genitalia

Milton Diamond

• What’s Going On: New Alliances, New Ideas, New Gains, New Hopes, And New Futures

Hanny Lightfoot-Klein

• Closing

Jeannine Parvati Baker

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

• Official Brochure of the Seventh International Symposium