A lot of people want "unbiased" circumcision links to send to people who have never thought about circumcision and have mainstream views of the "normalcy" of routine infant circumcision. I think that is almost impossible. If I were sending links to someone I would not send them pages from any clearly anticircumcision website. In many cases they will not be taken seriously simply because of the web adress. And I also would not send them links from Mothering magazine. I know many people who think Mothering is "out there" and not to be trusted.
I have started to collect links that are not associated with anticircumcision sites that I think will be helpful. Some are still clearly biased, some are more subtly (sort of subversively) anticircumcision and some make me a little uncomfortable because they may contain a little misinformation.
I think it is helpful to provide this variety of perspectives. I know I am definitely not neutral on this subject but I like to "trick" people into thinking I am more open to circumcision than I truly am. When I was more overt about my opposition to the practice, I have had people roll their eyes, immediately shut down and stop listening. I understand their viewpoint because I personally am skeptical of radical points of view (and face it in American culture, we have a radical point of view). If I pretend I am less passionate than I am, I find people listen to me more.
Once they start coming around, then I present the more "hardcore" stuff.
Here they are:
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2008...re-than-a-Snip
http://www.parentinghelpme.com/paren...point-of-view/
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/menshealt...rcumcision.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445429,00.html
http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/weekl...022002_ask.htm
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/9985.html
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org...cs%3b103/3/686
If you decide to circumcise (anesthesia):
http://www.drgreene.com/21_759.html
http://www.aspmn.org/pdfs/Pediatric%20Circumcision.pdf
http://pediatrics.aappublications.or.../full/101/6/e5
If you decide not to circumcise:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/...ageS652P0.html
(I know these links could go in the web resources sticky but I felt like I wanted to separate them because in some ways they are of a different character than many of the links in that thread.)
I have started to collect links that are not associated with anticircumcision sites that I think will be helpful. Some are still clearly biased, some are more subtly (sort of subversively) anticircumcision and some make me a little uncomfortable because they may contain a little misinformation.
I think it is helpful to provide this variety of perspectives. I know I am definitely not neutral on this subject but I like to "trick" people into thinking I am more open to circumcision than I truly am. When I was more overt about my opposition to the practice, I have had people roll their eyes, immediately shut down and stop listening. I understand their viewpoint because I personally am skeptical of radical points of view (and face it in American culture, we have a radical point of view). If I pretend I am less passionate than I am, I find people listen to me more.
Once they start coming around, then I present the more "hardcore" stuff.
Here they are:
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2008...re-than-a-Snip
http://www.parentinghelpme.com/paren...point-of-view/
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/menshealt...rcumcision.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445429,00.html
http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/weekl...022002_ask.htm
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/9985.html
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org...cs%3b103/3/686
If you decide to circumcise (anesthesia):
http://www.drgreene.com/21_759.html
http://www.aspmn.org/pdfs/Pediatric%20Circumcision.pdf
http://pediatrics.aappublications.or.../full/101/6/e5
If you decide not to circumcise:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/...ageS652P0.html
(I know these links could go in the web resources sticky but I felt like I wanted to separate them because in some ways they are of a different character than many of the links in that thread.)
