The Truth Seeker
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The Truth Seeker is an American periodical published beginning in 1873.[1] 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.[1] 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.[2]
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Feature articles
Religious-Psychological Perspectives
- Milos, Marilyn.
Infant circumcision: What I wish I had known
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- Larue, Gerald.
Religious traditions and circumcision
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- DeMeo, James.
The geography of genital mutilations
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- Prescott, James.
Genital pain vs. genital pleasure: Why the one and not the other?
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Social-Cultural Perspectives
- Hosken, Fran.
Female genital mutilation: strategies for eradication
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- Badawi, Mohamed.
Epidemiology of female sexual castration in Cairo, Egypt
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Medical Perspectives
- George C. Denniston. First do no harm.
- Snyder, James.
The Problem of Circumcision in America
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Legal Persectives
- Marris, Richard.
The first circumcision case
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Philosophical/Social Transformations
Departments
External links
- Official website. Retrieved 8 January 2021
References
- ↑ a b Jacoby, Susan: Freethinkers: A history of American Secularism. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books. Pp. 155-6.
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The Truth Seeker
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 8 January 2021.