Marilyn Fayre Milos

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Marilyn Milos

Marilyn Fayre Milos, R. N., (* March 22, 1940) from San Mateo, California (USA), is an intactivist who spoke at the WWDOGA in 2015. She has studied at the College of Marin.

Milos is

  • co-founder and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC),
  • co-editor of the proceedings of the international symposia, published by Springer,
  • co-founder and Representative at Genital Autonomy USA, and
  • coordinator of International Symposia on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights at Intactivism

Early life

Born in San Mateo, California, and professionally trained as a registered nurse, Milos started campaigning against circumcision with nurses and parents in 1979. The spark for her activism was an experience at a newborn nursery, where she had been instructed to attend a circumcision of an infant boy.[1] In 1985, when she was working as a nurse on an obstetrical service, Milos was forced to resign by the hospital administration for discussing circumcision with patients. In the same year, she founded NOCIRC.[2]

Support for genital autonomy

Milos, who supports genital autonomy for children, bases part of her argument on the fact that the foreskin protects the glans from friction and abrasion throughout life.[3] She also believes that circumcision of infants should be seen as a human rights issue:

Only by denying the existence of excruciating pain, perinatal encoding of the brain with violence, interruption of maternal-infant bonding, betrayal of infant trust, the risks and effects of permanently altering normal genitalia, the right of human beings to sexually intact and functional bodies, and the right to individual religious freedoms can human beings continue this practice.[4]

Videos

Publications

Awards

  • In May 2015, Milos was honored as a "Living Legend" at the 2015 BirthKeeper Summit[5] in Berkeley, California for her work to end male, female, and intersex genital mutilation.
  • The Trust Birth Initiative Lifetime Achievement for Protecting Newborns, March 12, 2010.
  • Intact America Award for Humanitarian Service, 2009
  • Mothering Magazine's "A Living Treasure" recognition, March 2008 issue.
  • NurseWeek magazine's Nursing Excellence Award for Patient Advocacy, May 11, 2001.
  • The Maurine Ricke Award, California Nurses' Association Award for Clinical Excellence in Perinatal Nursing "for her dedication and unwavering commitment to righting a wrong", April 9, 1988.

See also

External links

References

  1. Marilyn Fayre Milos, "Infant Circumcision: What I Wish I Had Known," Truth Seeker, vol. 1, no. 3 (July–August 1989), p. 3.
  2. Leonard B. Glick, Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 4.
  3. "Marilyn Milos and Donna Macris note that some have claimed that the foreskin provides a protective covering for the glans, making the uncircumcised penis more sensitive during sexual activity." Stephen Garrard Post, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 5 vols (3rd edition; New York: MacMillan Reference, 2004), vol. 1, p. 422; see also Morris L. Sorrells, James L. Snyder, Mark D. Reiss, Christopher Eden, Marilyn F. Milos, Norma Wilcox, Robert S. Van Howe, "Fine-touch Pressure Thresholds in the Adult Penis, BJU Int, vol. 99 (2007), no. 4, pp. 864-869.
  4. Marilyn Fayre Milos, Donna Macris, "Circumcision: A Medical or a Human Rights Issue?" Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, vol. 37 (1992), no. 2, sup. 1, pp. S87-S96.
  5. Facebook page of the Summit