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Intactivism as a grassroots movement started in 1970 when [[Van Lewis]] and [[Benjamin Lewis]] protested demanding the abolition of infant circumcision outside a hospital in Tallahassee, Florida. in 1976, [[Jeffrey R. Wood]] established [[INTACT Educational Foundation]] in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He promoted the adjective “intact” to define the state of the [[penis]] that has its [[foreskin]].<ref>[[Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma]], 1985, p. 346</ref> From a few lone protestors, the movement started becoming organized in the 1980s with the creation of the [[NOCIRC|National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers]] NOCIRC, founded by [[Marilyn Milos]] in 1985, the [[National Organization of Restoring Men]] (NORM), and the [[NOHARMM|National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males]] (NOHARMM). Non-surgical methods for [[foreskin restoration]] are widely shared.
The popularization of internet and the appearance of online social networks contributed to the growth and spread of the intactivist movement during the last decade of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century.<div style="clear:both;"></div>