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'''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', {{RN}}, ({{LifeData|1940-03-22}}), who has championed the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity and genital autonomy since witnessing circumcision as a nursing student in 1979, spoke at the [[WWDOGA]] in 2015. She has studied at the College of Marin.

* Co-founder, president, and Executive Director of Genital Autonomy -  America after NOCIRC name change in January 2016, to protect the bodily integrity and genital autonomy of every child — female, intersex, and male.

Born in San Mateo, California, and professionally trained as a Registered Nurse at the College of Marin's School of Nursing, Milos started campaigning against routine non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys when, as a nursing student in 1979, she witnessed the circumcision of a newborn baby boy. It was the moment she realized that her doctor had lied to her about what would happen to her own sons behind closed doors. Once she researched the issue and realized that most of the world's males are not circumcised, the important functions of the foreskin, and the harmful consequences of inflicting pain and trauma of a newborn baby, she began giving parents accurate information about circumcision. She was told to keep her mouth shut and, in 1985, she was forced to resign. She founded [[NOCIRC]] that same year, 1985.<ref name="Glick">{{REFbook

==Support for genital autonomy==

Milos, who supports genital autonomy for all children, bases her arguments on the fact that the foreskin is a normal body structure with protective, immunological, and sexual functions, and that every child has an inherent right to bodily integrity and genital autonomy (personal choice).<ref>"Marilyn Milos and Donna Macris note that some have claimed that the foreskin provides a protective covering for the glans, making the [[uncircumcised]] penis more sensitive during sexual activity." Stephen Garrard Post, ed., ''Encyclopedia of Bioethics'', 5 vols (3rd edition; New York: MacMillan Reference, 2004), vol. 1, p. 422</ref><ref>; see also {{Sorrells etal 2007}}</ref> She also believes that circumcision of infants should be seen as a [[human rights]] issue:

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR1XgKuKb5I Informed Consent], created by Marilyn, Sheila Curran, {{RN}}, with Dr. Edward Boyce performing a circumcision, and narrated by Troy Christian.

* Milos was the co-editor, with James W. Prescott, {{PhD}}, of the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Circumcision, which were published in ''[[The Truth Seeker]]'', July/August 1989.

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