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Intactivism started specifically as a movement against the non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of male minors. Intactivism does not intend to ban circumcision globally — intactivism promotes that all children deserve to grow with [[intact]] genitals, and that genital surgeries — including [[circumcision]] — should only be performed on adults capable of providing [[informed consent]], except in cases of real medical necessity.
[[Jonathan A. Allan]] quoted [[David Wilton]] who said, "While no gender or person is excluded from those intactivists seek to protect through lobbying and political action, infant boys are the most wide-spread victims of genital cutting in the United States.<ref name="allan2024">{{REFbook
|last=Allan
|first=
|init=JA
|author-link=Jonathan A. Allan
|year=2024
|title=Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin
|url=https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Uncut
|work=
|editor=
|edition=
|volume=
|chapter=Chapter 8: Intactivism and the Logic of Trauma
|page=318
|location=Regina
|publisher=University of Regina Press
|ISBN= 978-1779400307
|quote=
|accessdate=2024-12-28
|note=
}}</ref>
=== Female genital mutilation ===