Ninth International Symposium

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The Ninth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights convened in Johnson Hall at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA on August 24-26, 2006.

Faculty

• Mostafa K. Al-Madawi is a retired judge. Benghazi, Libya.
• Zachary Androus, BA, MA, and PhD Candidate in Race, Gender, and Social Justice, American University, teaches anthropology at the Lorenzo de Medici University, Florence, Italy.
• Suzanne Arms is an author, photojournalist, filmmaker, and founder and director of Birth the Future. Bayfield, CO.
• Peter Ball, MA, MB, B.Chir., retired family practitioner, is Vice Chairman, NORM-UK, and producer and director, non-surgical foreskin restoration video. Turnbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
• David Chamberlain, PhD, is a psychologist, pioneer in prenatal and birth psychology, and author. Nevada City, CA, USA.
• Georganne Chapin, MS, JD, is President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan and adjunct faculty member, Pace University School of Law. Terrytown, NY, USA.
• John Dalton, a biochemist with an MSc in Radiation Biophysics, is the archivist and researcher for NORM-UK. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
• Oloaye Olusoji Emmanuel, founder, Media for Ethnic Equality (MEE), inspiring youths and campaigning for peace in the world through the media. Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria.
• Marie Fox, LL.B, PhD, is Professor of Law, School of Law, Keele University and an author. Staffordshire, UK.
• Noel Gazzano, medical anthropologist, received her PhD from the University of Firenze. Florence, Italy.
• John Geisheker, JD, LLM, is General Counsel and Executive Director, Doctors Opposing Circumcision. Seattle, WA USA.
• Leonard B. Glick, MD, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (retired), is the author of Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. New Salem, MA, USA.
• Jess Grant is a singer and writer of songs to provoke and amuse, fusing lyrical intensity with diverse pop styles and working-class ethics. Seattle, WA, USA.
• Pia Grassivaro Gallo, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, organized Padua’s Working Group on FGM. Padua, Italy.
• Matthew Hess, founder and President of San Diego-based MGMbill.org, is seeking to pass US laws that would protect boys from non-therapeutic circumcision. San Diego, CA, USA.
• George Hill is the Vice-President for Bioethics and Medical Science, Doctors Opposing Circumcision. Seattle, WA, USA.
• Frederick Mansfield Hodges, DPhil (Oxon), medical historian, author, and co-author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision. Berkeley, California, USA.
• Yngve Hofvander, MD, is a pediatrician and Professor, International Child Health, Uppsala University. Uppsala, Sweden.
• Primus Lake, is a Professor, Nusa Cendana University. Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia.
• Romeo B. Lee, is Associate Professor, Behavioural Sciences, De La Salle University-Manila. Manila, Philippines.
• Gloria Lemay is a writer, midwifery educator, and childbirth activist. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• David J. Llewellyn, BA, JD, a practicing attorney, representing plaintiffs in wrongful circumcision and other genital injury cases. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Linda Massie, BSc, PG/Dip, is founder and Director, NOCIRC of Northern Ireland. Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• Ken McGrath, VRD, MSc(Hons), LIBiol, is Senior Lecturer in Pathology, Faculty of Health, Auckland University of Technology. Auckland, NZ.
• Jody McLaughlin is editor of the Compleat Mother magazine and Director, NOCIRC of ND. Minot, ND, USA.
• Marilyn Milos, RN, is Director, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and Coordinator, International Symposia on Genital Integrity. San Anselmo, CA, USA.
• Stephanie Mines, PhD, is a psychologist and the author of We Are All in Shock: How Overwhelming Experience Shatters You and What You Can do About It (New Page Books, 2003). Boulder, CO, USA.
• Debora Moro is a graduate in Psychology, Working Group on FGM, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.
• Miriam Pollack, an educator, has been advocating for genital integrity for Jewish as well as non-Jewish baby boys for the past 15 years. Boulder, CO, USA.
• Patricia Robinett is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and the author of The Big Ugly and The Rape of Innocence. Eugene, OR, USA.
• Steve Scott, Educational Outreach Coordinator of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, is the Director, NOCIRC of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• David Smith is the general manager of NORM-UK and editor of NORM NEWS. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
• James L. Snyder, MD, FACS, is a Diplomate, American Board of Urology, Fellow, American College of Surgeons and Past President, Virginia Urological Society. Clifton Forge, VA, USA.
• Morris Sorrells, MD, is a retired pediatrician, consultant, and researcher. Gig Harbor, WA, USA.
• J. Steven Svoboda, JD, founder and Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC), Berkeley, California, USA.
• Michael Thomson, LL.B, PhD, is Professor of Law and Head of School, School of Law, Keele University and an author. Staffordshire, UK.
• Franco Viviani, PhD, is Professor of Functional Anthropology, University of Udine, Professor of Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.
• Rebecca Wald, BA, JD, has worked as an attorney, a newspaper reporter, covering legal issues, and a newspaper and book editor. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• John Warren, MA, MB, Bchirc, DCH, FRCP, is a retired physician and founder of NORM-UK. Harlow, Essex, UK.
• Hugh Young, a journalist and radio producer, created and maintains a human rights website, www.circumstitions.com, treating intactness rather than circumcision as normal. Pukerua Bay, New Zealand.

Proceedings

Program

Thursday, 24 August

• Welcome and Opening Remarks

Marilyn Milos, John Geisheker, and Peter Ball

• The Delusional Psychologies of Circumcision and Civilization

David Chamberlain

• Determining the Best Interest of the Child: A comparative approach to professional medical guidance for relating male circumcision

Marie Fox and Michael Thomson

• Cultural Relativism at Home and Abroad

Zachary Androus

• Circumcision in Perspective

Jody McLaughlin

• Circumcision Mythologies in Conflict with Logic, Reason, and Common Sense

Steve Scott

• Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation on Global Health and Sexuality

Olaoye Olusoji Emmanuel

• Medical Interventions on Women’s Genitals: Historical Texts and Contemporary Discourse

Noel Gazzano

• Female Genital Modifications in Malawi: A Field Research

Debora Moro

• The Ritual Use of Herbs for Female Genital Modifications in Africa

Franco Viviani

• Ten Years of Merka’s Alternative Rite in Somalia (1996-2005): From “Sunna Gudnin” to “Gudnin Usub”

Franco Viviani

• Muslims and Circumcision

Mostafa K. Al-Madawi

• Changing People’s Minds about Circumcision

Patricia Robinett

Friday, 25 August

• “Toxic Irritation of the Nervous System” Abraham Wolbarst and the Industrial Implementation of Eugenic Circumcision

Frederick Hodges

• Excuses for Circumcision: Some Byways of Penile Anatomy

Ken McGrath

• The Perils of Circumcision

James Snyder

• Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: A Risk of Circumcised Boys

George Hill

• Conservative Management of Foreskin Problems

John Dalton

• Fine Touch Pressure Thresholds in the Adult Penis

Morris Sorrells

• Fitting In and Getting Off: Elective Adult Male Circumcision in the USA

Zachary Androus

• Image: Are We Right or Wrong?

David Smith

• “Real Men”: Foreskin Cutting and Male Identity in the Philippines

Leonard Glick

• Filipino Male Experience of Ritual Circumcision: Perspectus and Insights for Philippine-Based Anti-Circumcision Advocacy

Romeo B. Lee

• Traditional Male Circumcision in West Timor, Indonesia: Practices, Myths, and their Impact on the Spread of HIV/AIDS and Gender Relations

Primus Lake

• Report from NOCIRC of Ireland

Linda Massie

• News from NORM-UK

John Warren

• Male Circumcision in Europe: Is There Anything We Can Do?

Yngve Hofvander

• Foreskins for Keeps: A Midwife’s Project to End Circumcision

Gloria Lemay

• Circumcision in the Mass Media

Hugh Young

Saturday, 26 August

• Coding, Reporting, and Analyzing Circumcision Data

Georganne Chapin

• A Treatise From the Trenches: Why Are Circumcision Lawsuits So Hard to Win?

J. Steven Svoboda

• Winning and Losing on the Circuit

David J. Llewellyn

• Switching Gears in Washington State: From Individual Lawsuits to Writ of Mandamus

John Geisheker

• The MGM Bill Proposals: A Legislative Strategy for Protecting US boys from Circumcision

Matthew Hess

• Ending Non-religious Circumcision: Supply vs Demand

A Moderated Discussion

• Defining What is Sacred

Miriam Pollack

• Beyond the Bris: One Jewish Mother’s Experience

Rebecca Wald

• Resolving Circumcision Trauma: Neurological Repatterning and Healing Action

Stephanie Mines

• Ending Circumcision for Children: A Total Paradigm Shift

Suzanne Arms

• Tribute to Jeannine Parvati Baker

Marilyn Milos and Suzanne Arms

• No Host Banquet Dinner and Premier Performance

Composer Ron Romanovsky and Betty Katz Sperlich, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the Child, present IT’S A BOY! (a circus opera). The performance includes five vocalists and two accompanists.

Sponsors

The Symposium was sponsored by the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers and Doctors Opposing Circumcision.

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