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'''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', {{RN}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1940-03-22| birthplace=San Mateo, CA| birthcountry=USA}}), who has championed the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity and [[genital autonomy ]] since witnessing [[circumcision ]] as a nursing student in 1979, spoke at the [[WWDOGA]] in 2015. She has studied at the [https://www1.marin.edu/ College of Marin].

* Co-founder, president, and Executive Director of the [http://www.nocirc.org National Organization of Circumcision Information Resources Centers ] (NOCIRC), working to end the non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys in the USA.

* Co-founder, president, and Executive Director of Genital Autonomy - America after NOCIRC name change in January 2016, to protect the bodily integrity and [[genital autonomy ]] of every child — female, intersex, and male.

Born in San Mateo, California, and professionally trained as a Registered Nurse at the College of Marin's School of Nursing, Milos started campaigning against routine elective non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys when, as a nursing student in 1979, she witnessed the [https://www.reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comments/qbpzqr/trained_medical_professionals_restrain_infant_to/ circumcision of a newborn baby boy]. It was the moment she realized that her doctor had lied to her about what would happen to her own sons behind closed doors. Once she researched the issue and realized that most of the world's males are ''not '' [[circumcised]], the important functions of the [[foreskin]], and the harmful consequences of inflicting [[pain ]] and [[trauma of ]] on a newborn baby, she began giving parents accurate information about [[circumcision]]. She was told to keep her mouth shut and, in 1985, she was forced to resign. She founded [[NOCIRC]] that same year, 1985.<ref name="Glick">[[{{REFbook |last=Glick |first=Leonard B. |init=LB |author-link=Leonard B. Glick]], '' |title=[[Marked in Your Flesh|Marked in Your Flesh]]: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America]]'' ( |location=New York: , NY |publisher={{UNI|Oxford University |Oxon}} Press, |year=2005), p. |page=4.}}</ref>

==Support for [[genital autonomy]] ==Milos, who supports [[genital autonomy ]] for all children, bases her arguments on the fact that the [[foreskin ]] is a normal body structure with [[Foreskin#Protective_functions| protective, immunological, and sexual functions]], and that every child has an inherent right to [[Physical integrity| bodily integrity ]] and [[genital autonomy ]] (personal choice).<ref>"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</ref><ref>; see also Morris L. {{Sorrells, James L. Snyder, Mark D. Reiss, Christopher Eden, Marilyn F. Milos, Norma Wilcox, Robert S. Van Howe, "[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06685.x Fine-touch Pressure Thresholds in the Adult Penis], ''BJU Int'', vol. 99 (etal 2007), no. 4, pp. 864-869.}}</ref> She also believes that [[circumcision ]] of infants should be seen as a [[human rights ]] issue: Milos serves on the Board of Directors of [[Intact America]].

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR1XgKuKb5I Informed Consent], created by Marilyn, [[Sheila Curran]], {{RN}}, with Dr. Edward Boyce performing a circumcision, and narrated by Troy Christian.* The Phil Donohue Show, 17 June 1987.<youtube>v=19E-qYM2oaQ</youtube>

|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/97894007640649780306455896 |title=Genital CuttingSexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy |editors=[[George C. Denniston]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos]] |publisher=Plenum Publishers |year=1997}}* {{REFbook |url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780306461316 |title=Male and Female Circumcision: Protecting Children from Medical, CulturalLegal, and Religious InfringementsEthical Considerations in Pediatric Practice

|publisher=Springer PublishingKluwer Academic/Plenum Press |year=20131999

|url=https://linkwww.springer.com/gp/book/10.1007/978-90-481-9446-99780306467011 |title=Genital AutonomyUnderstanding Circumcision: Protecting Personal ChoiceA Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem

|publisher=Springer PublishingKluwer Academic/Plenum Press |year=20102001

|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/97814020916679780306483332 |title=Flesh and Blood: Perspective on the Problem of Circumcision and Human Rightsin Contemporary Society

|publisher=Springer PublishingKluwer Academic/Plenum Press |year=20082004

|url= |title=[[Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision]]: Culture, Controversy, and Change

|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/97803064833329781402091667 |title=Flesh Circumcision and Blood: Perspective on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary SocietyHuman Rights

|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum PressSpringer Publishing |year=20042008

|url=https://wwwlink.springer.com/gpbook/book10.1007/9780306467011978-90-481-9446-9 |title=Understanding CircumcisionGenital Autonomy: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional ProblemProtecting Personal Choice

|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum PressSpringer Publishing |year=20012010

|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/97803064613169789400764064 |title=Male and Female CircumcisionGenital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, LegalCultural, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric PracticeReligious Infringements

|publisher=Kluwer AcademicSpringer Publishing |year=2013}}* {{REFjournal |last=Carmack |first=Adrienne |init= |author-link=Adrienne Carmack |last2=Milos |first2=Marilyn F. |init2= |author2-link=Marilyn Fayre Milos |etal=no |title=Catheterization without foreskin retraction |trans-title= |language= |journal=Can Fam Physician |location= |date=2017-03 |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=218-20 |url=https://www.cfp.ca/Plenum Presscontent/63/3/218.long |archived= |yearquote= |pubmedID=28292801 |pubmedCID=5349724 |DOI= |accessdate=19992023-02-16

|urllast=Milos |first=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780306455896Marilyn |titleinit=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy |editorsauthor-link=[[George C. Denniston]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos]] |publisheryear=Plenum Publishers2024 |yeartitle=1997}}* Milos was Please Don't Cut the co-editor, with James W. Prescott, PhD, of the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Circumcision, which were published in Baby: A Nurse''[s Memoir |url=https://wwwskininthegame.scribdwpengine.com/documentwp-content/uploads/157919112023/The09/Please_Dont_Cut_The_Baby.PDFPreview.pdf |scope= |location=Marietta, Georgia |publisher=Lucid House Publishing LLC |ISBN=978-Truth1950495498 |format=PDF |accessdate=2024-Seeker01-Crimes-of-Genital-Mutilation The Truth Seeker: Crimes of Genital Mutilation]'', July/August 1989.28 }}