Pamphlets

Below are links to pamphlets about circumcision. You are welcome to download, read, and distribute any of the pamphlets. Most are formatted to be printed on 8.5″x11″ paper and trifolded. The Bay Area Intactivists are not the authors of most of these documents– if you have questions about their contents, please direct the your questions to the respective authors.

Anti circumcision pamphlet

Circumcision vs. breastfeeding – “Scientific evidence that the trauma of circumcision makes it harder for a baby to learn how to suckle”, by Circumstitions.com – undated

Position statements of various medical organizations

“Science Fact or Science Fiction: Could Circumcision Really Prevent AIDS?” – a claim made by NOCIRC* of Birmingham, MI, undated

Defending Ritual Violence: How the ACLU opposes equality, sexual freedom, and men’s right to body autonomy – a statement by the Bay Area Intactivists about the American Civil Liberties Union and their position on circumcision, undated

Educating Parents About Not Circumcising – by Gillian Longley, RN, of ColoradoNOCIRC.org, Nov. 2015

Genital Autonomy: Why Circumcision Must Be Stopped – by Jonathan Friedman, the Subversion Factory, April 2012

Infant Circumcision Leaflet (Side 1) – The first side of our own leaflet on circumcision, with a set of bullet points, undated

Infant Circumcision Leaflet (Side 2) – The reverse side of this leaflet, with additional bullet points, undated

NOCIRC #3: Answers to Your Questions About Infant Circumcision – September 2009

NOCIRC #3 (Spanish): Respuesta a Sus Preguntas Sobre la Circuncisión de Bebés – September 2009

NOCIRC #4: Answers to Your Questions About Your Young Son’s Intact Penis

NOCIRC #4 (Spanish): Respuesta a Sus Preguntas Sobre el Pene Intacto de Su Hijo Pequeño

NOCIRC #5: Answers to Your Questions About Your Young Son’s Circumcised Penis

NOCIRC #6: Answers to Your Questions About Premature (Forcible) Retraction of Your Young Son’s Foreskin

NOCIRC #7: Answers to Your Questions About Avoiding Circumcision After the Neonatal Period

NOCIRC #8: Answers to Your Questions about Care of the Intact Penis in the Geriatric/Disabled Population

NOCIRC #9: Answers to Your Questions about Female Circumcision

NOCIRC #10: Answers to Your Questions About the Bioethics of Infant Circumcision

NOCIRC #11: Answers to Your Questions about Circumcision and HIV/AIDS

NOCIRC #12: Answers to Your Questions about Circumcision and MRSA

Non-Surgical Foreskin Restoration

Religion/Catholicism: Catholic Teachings on Circumcision

Religion/Christianity: Christian Parents and the Circumcision Issue

Religion/Islam: Islam and Circumcision

Religion/Judaism: Brit Shalom – A Peaceful Alternative

Religion/Mormonism: Mormonism and Circumcision


*NOCIRC is the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, www.nocirc.org