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[[File:MarilynMilos.jpg|thumb|Marilyn Milos]]
'''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', {{RN}}, ({{LifeData|1940-03-22}}), 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 College of Marin.
== Memberships ==
* 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-editor of the proceedings of the international symposia, published by Springer,
* 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.
* Coordinator of 15 International Symposia on Genital Autonomy, held from 1989 to 2018.
* Coordinator of International Symposia on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights at Intactivism
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==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 protective, immunological, and sexual functions, and that every child has an inherent right to 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 {{Sorrells etal 2007}}</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]].