His Body, His Choice Essays Against Infant Circumcision

By AleXander Hirka and Tammy Remington

This collection of essays was written over a period of years by AleXander Hirka and Tammy Remington who are partners in life and art. Regardless of anyone's opinions or beliefs, the authors feel this is a crucially important issue that cannot be stressed enough. These are not two voices shouting in the wilderness as more and more people are coming to realize the inhumanity of this pointless and barbaric surgery being done to baby boys. Many other well-informed and highly articulate advocates are working throughout the United States to end the cutting of nonconsenting infant boys' genitals. Here we add our voices to this growing chorus. Our biggest hope in bringing these writings together is that these ideas go beyond any choir we may have been preaching to, and reach the minds and hearts of prospective parents—maybe through informed friends who share this with them—and begin to reverse this barbaric practice, one child at a time. Keep the children safe and whole.

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anomaly Works NYC
• Release date: Apr 4, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224191017

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Introduction

This collection of essays was written over a period of years by AleXander Hirka and Tammy Remington who are partners in life and art. Note that some bit of information is repeated from essay to essay. This has not been altered as the information in context is important wherever it appears.

Regardless of anyone’s opinions or beliefs, the authors feel this is a crucially important issue that cannot be stressed enough. These are not two voices shouting in the wilderness, however, as more and more people are coming to realize the inhumanity of this pointless and barbaric surgery being done to baby boys. Many groups now exist who advocate for the elimination of routine infant circumcision including Blood Stained Men, Intact America, Intaction, Doctors Opposing Circumcision, and the Circumcision Resource Center.

These and many other well-informed and highly articulate advocates are working throughout the United States to end the cutting of nonconsenting infant boys’ genitals. Here we add our voices to this growing chorus. Leave the kids alone!

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All collage artwork throughout this book was created by AleXander Hirka.

Hey! People!

Leave the kids alone!

Foreskin: It’s Vital and It’s Fun

by AleXander Hirka

Okay, so who the hell came up with this bizarre notion of cutting and mutilating children’s genitals.

Answer in brief: Always men; usually the old wise (sic) ones leading the way.

They’ve been at it for thousands of years. The cultural and religious justifications demand cutting the flesh, marking the body — but what they’re really after is the brain/soul of the child. The medical justifications, which came into fashion since the rise of modern surgery in the 19th century, are even more pernicious as they falsely claim to be doing this for the health of the child (health translating into issues such as not masturbating.) The more one looks at the history of circumcision the more obvious it is that something psychologically unhealthy is going on in the old men’s minds.

Some old men had gods — whose representational personas were strikingly, unsurprisingly, like those of old men—gods that demanded that the laceration be done to baby boys. (Girls’ naughty bits were irrelevant to this particular higher scheme of spiritual things.)

Other old men, who were not quite comfortable with women’s sexuality, came up with their own wide range of nasty ways of doing unspeakable things to little girls’ genitalia.

In both cases women went along with the rituals, sometimes quite enthusiastically.

[There is an ongoing discussion about the differences and similarities of female and male genital mutilation. Brian Earp, an Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings program