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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a Jewish ([[Bias|Why is this important?]]) [[circumcision advocate]] from Union City, {{USSC|CA}}, USA. He is a member of [https://www.facebook.com/peninsulasinai Peninsula Sinai Congregation ] in Foster City, {{USSC|CA}}.<ref>{{REFweb

Gross is a very diligent author on Circumcision Choice, a blog which claims to "supporting choice NOT misinformation" about male circumcision, esp. on minors. Neutral information is always a good idea and even the claim to stop bullying attacks by [[intactivists ]] is honorable. But the choice of words on the website shows that it is not interested in neutral information, but in combating [[intactivism]]. They even mock about people who cannot stand the psychological pain of being mutilated as a child ("{{Highlighting|Intactivism is a Mental Disorder}}").<ref>{{REFweb

This behavior is a normal response from people who have become aware that they too were victims of early childhood [[circumcision]] and are now trying to resolve the [[Collective Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]] and dilemma. Because Gross is a Jewish American man, it is obvious that he is [[circumcised ]] himself - probably on his 8th day of life as [[Jewish circumcision|usual in Judaism]]. He doesn't like this obvious link to be seen.<ref name="IW"/> A cognitive dissonance can develop from the dilemma that you believe that your parents always love you and won't harm you in any way, but then you get information that they had someone remove an [[intact]], healthy, most sensitive and protecting part from your most private parts when you were a newborn, the [[foreskin]]. One suspects that he is trying to encourage repeating the trauma of [[circumcision]] on others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal |last=van der Kolk |first=Bessell |init= |author-link= |etal=no |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |location= |date=1989-06 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |quote= |pubmedID=2664732 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2022-06-28}}</ref>{{SEEALSO}}*[[Judaism]]*[[Psychological issues of male circumcision]]