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{{PhotoMissing}}'''Shane E. Peterson''', Ph.D.{{PhD}}, is a Perth-based Australian [[intactivist]] in [[Australia]].
Peterson was gravely injured when he was [[circumcised ]] as a child. He had surgery to repair the damage when he was 18, which required several [[skin ]] grafts. His attempted surgical restoration had serious complications. He later successfully sued and was awarded damages of AU$360,000 in 1999.<ref>
{{REFnews
|title=Circumcision victim's bid to help others
|date=2002-03-31
|accessdate=2020-12-14
|quote=The [[amputation ]] of part of the penis should be governed by the same rules which apply to the [[amputation ]] of other body parts - urgent medical need, a serious pathological condition and [[informed consent]].
}}</ref>
Peterson and [[George L. Williams]] organized [http://www.circinfo.org/index.php [Circumcision Information Australia]] to provide information about circumcision in [[Australia ]] and elsewhere by Internet. Peterson, representing [[Circumcision Information Australia]], has spoken out on the issue of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]of boys.<ref>
{{REFnews
|title=Cutting anger
|date=2002-08-10
|accessdate=2020-12-14
|quote=Mr Peterson said the case illustrated a [[double standard ]] whereby female circumcision was condemned as mutilation while male circumcision was viewed as trivial or even a beneficial adjustment.
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|quote=I started doing research on this when it was my impression that circumcision is one of those dead dogs like frontal lobotomy," he says. "I'm absolutely astonished that in the last few years there's been all this stuff being whipped up, all these weird 19th-century ideas are being revived.
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|last=Peterson
|first=Shane E.
|author-link=Shane Peterson
|coauthors=
|coauthors-link=
|title=Assaulted and Mutilated: Surviving Circumcision Trauma
|trans-title=
|language=
|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_15
|archived=
|place=Washington, DC
|publisher=
|source=Presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society
|date=2002-04-05
|accessdate=2022-09-03
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Australia]]
* [[Penis]]
* [[Trauma]]
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