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[[File:Jim_Bigelow.jpg|thumb|right|Jim Bigelow, author of "The Joy of Uncircumcising" at the NOHARMM Protest of the California Medical Association, 12 July 1993]]'''Jim Bigelow''', {{PhD}}, ({{FromIntactWikiLifeData |Titledeath=Jim Bigelow2019-12-04}})<ref>{{REFweb |URLurl=httphttps://intactwikiwww.arclaw.org/wnews/index.php?longtime-activist-and-author-jim-bigelow-passes-away |title=Jim_Bigelow&oldidLongtime Activist and Author Jim Bigelow Passes Away |date=20742019-12-19 |accessdate2020-01-03}}</ref>, [[intactivist]], is the author of [[The Joy of Uncircumcising]], one of the first books on the topic of [[foreskin restoration]]. Bigelow revised and updated duplicated material from [[BUFF]]'s sheets in 1990; he established the UNCircumcising Information and Resources Centers ([[UNCIRC]]) in California in 1991, and wrote his book ''The Joy of Uncircumcising!'' in 1992. Since then the book has been reviewed in ''JAMA'' (The Journal of the American Medical Association), ''Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery'', and various men's movement publications such as ''Journeyman'' and ''Mentor''.

'''In June 1994, Jim Bigelow''', Ph.D. is the author of decided to incorporate UNCIRC under [[The joy of uncircumcisingNORM]], one of the first books on the topic of [[foreskin restoration]]. Bigelow revised and updated duplicated material from [[BUFF]]'s sheets in 1990; he established the UNCircumcising Information and Resources Centers ([[UNCIRC]]) in California in 1991, and wrote his book "The Joy of Uncircumcising!" in 1992. Since then the book has been reviewed in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and various men's movement publications such as Journeyman and Mentor.

In June 1994, Jim Bigelow decided to incorporate UNCIRC under has led a diverse professional life as a professor, therapist, clergyman and author. He earned his doctorate in psychology at [https://www.cgu.edu/ Claremont Graduate School] and served as a Professor of Psychology at [NORM]https://www.whittier.edu/ Whittier College]. He has also lectured abroad extensively and pastored several Evangelical churches. He was the father of two grown children and lived with his wife in California.

| last=Bigelow | first=Jim |author-link=Jim Bigelow | year=1994 | title=The Joy of Uncircumcising!: Exploring Circumcision: History, Myths, Psychology, Restoration, Sexual Pleasure, and Human Rights | url=https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Uncircumcising-Circumcision-Psychology-Restoration/dp/093406122X | editor= | edition=2 | volume= | chapter= | pages= | location= | publisher=Hourglass Book Pub | isbn=978-0934061223

* {{REFjournal |last=Bigelow |first=Jim |init=J |author-link=Jim Bigelow |title=Uncircumcising: undoing the effects of an ancient practice in a modern world |journal=Mothering |date=1994-06 |volume= |issue=Summer 1994 |pages=Weblinks56-61 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/bigelow1/ |accessdate=2019-12-06}}{{SEEALSO}}* [[United States of America]]{{LINKS}}* http[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/health-they-took-my-foreskin-and-i-want-it-back-some-men-feel-their-circumcision-at-birth-was-an-1458890.html Health: They took my foreskin and I want it back], The Independent, Cherrill Hicks, 1993-08-03* https://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/bigelow1/

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