The Truth Seeker

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Jul/Aug 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker

The Truth Seeker is an American periodical published beginning in 1873. It was considered the most influential Freethought publication during the period following the American Civil War into the first decades of the 20th Century, known as the Golden Age of Freethought. Though there were other influential Freethought periodicals, Truth Seeker was the only one with a national circulation. The headquarters is in San Diego, California. The Truth Seeker is the world’s oldest freethought publication, and one of the oldest periodicals in America. Among general-readership titles, only Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and The Nation are older.

The July/August 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker was dedicated to articles about circumcision and genital mutilation. It is an early example of intactivist literature.

James W. Prescott, Ph.D. was the editor of The Truth Seeker. He and Marilyn Fayre Milos, R. N., Executive Director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), jointly edited the circumcision issue.

Table of Contents

Feature articles

Religious-Psychological Perspectives

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Milos, Marilyn Fayre. Infant circumcision: What I wish I had known.

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Larue, Gerald A.. Religious traditions and circumcision.

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] DeMeo, James. The geography of genital mutilations.

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Prescott, James W.. Genital pain vs. genital pleasure: Why the one and not the other?.

Social-Cultural Perspectives

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Hosken, Fran P.. Female genital mutilation: strategies for eradication.

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Badawi, Mohamed. Epidemiology of female sexual castration in Cairo, Egypt.

Medical Perspectives

• George C. Denniston. First do no harm.

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Snyder, James L.. The Problem of Circumcision in America.

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Altshul, Martin. Cultural Bias and the Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Circumcision Controversy.

• Paul M. Fleiss, David S. Bate & John A. Erickson. Letters.

Legal Perspectives

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Morris, Richard W. The first circumcision case.

• Hardebeck, John W. "Newborn circumcision resolution".

Philosophical/Social Transformations

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Snyder, James L.. Testimony against circumcision.

• Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision

External links

• [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Official website. Retrieved 8 January 2021

• Digital Publication

• Downloadable file of The Truth Seeker.