Our panel of experts are from a wide range of medical, legal, psychological, and men’s issues fields. They have written and approved the content of this Web site, following an extensive literature review, and provided you with the decision that they would make for each circumcision reason.
The panel’s consensus is that the foreskin is a vital, functional part of the male genital anatomy—is not a birth defect—and, if there is not a strong, valid, and immediate medical reason for removing it, for ethical reasons, it should remain intact. The owner of the penis should decide how it looks and works, when he is old enough to do so.
Our panel of experts are:
- Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW, author Male Menopause and The Irritable Male Syndrome
- John W. Travis, MD, MPH, founder of the first wellness center in the United States, co-founder, Alliance for
Transforming the Live of Children - David B. Chamberlain, PhD, psychologist, past president, Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), author The Mind of Your Newborn Baby
- Joy J. Holloway, PhD, Professor, Child Psychology, Carroll College, attachment issues and prevention of S-SAD
- Leo Sorger, MD, FACOG, former Clinical Instructor, Boston University Medical School
- David C. Jones, MD, Director, Fetal Diagnostic Center, University of Vermont
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