The Case Against Circumcision

The Case Against Circumcision What They Cut From Your Son Without His Permission

This is the book I wish everyone had put in their hands before they were asked to sign.

It is not an anti-religion book. It is not an anti-parent book. It is not an anti-medicine book. It is a book that lays the actual evidence — peer-reviewed journals, federal records, published clinical studies, primary sources — in front of you in a language that cuts through the noise, so you can see what has been sitting in plain sight for over a century and decide for yourself.

You will find out where routine infant circumcision in America actually came from, and the Victorian obsession that put it there. You will find out what is being removed — the anatomy, the sensitivity, the function — and what the published research says the brain and body remember long after the mind has been told to forget. You will find out how many boys do not come home from the procedure every year in this country, and you will find the citation for that number.

Part Four of the book does something no book on circumcision has done before. It goes inside the man. Not the anatomy. The psychological architecture — the mother wound, the father wound, the abandonment wound — that a cut like this quietly builds over a lifetime in the way a man attaches, trusts, rages, seeks reassurance, and sabotages the things he loves. If you have ever felt something you did not have language for, this section is written to give you the language.

Every factual claim in this book has a citation. Every citation traces to a primary source. I want you to check them. That is not a rhetorical flourish — that is the instruction.

This book is free. No paywall. No email required. Take it, read it, send it to anyone who needs it.

Pro-data. Pro-informed consent. Pro-bodily autonomy. Pro-the boy who will one day be a man, looking in the mirror, with a right to know what happened to him and why. If you wanted a printed copy you may get one here: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Circumcision-Harmless-Otherwise/dp/B0GVJF18ZG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VYXBMJLT0WCS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JqiGaMxfVFD4dsNjRY-CgQ1r6BLcb54Xk06lcCIKK3kU_6dM2nUr7ALXaNAvKInFm93hX6VFo7b8jL5T1MgEjUnpwmc348dRdok8O62G8fHIPDVa4bQ0nnenilESrh9YoIVeW-q4g8mmujPU39dp12htU1ggPQWqifdC0NBCgpSc7CW4_K-GocHBBMmEGz090qLVSV6YTyvFzS0s0g_yE-QRjBoHOFUl8Ktm5SSxkTU.PMQYnMUkO9hMfKLA4nLiMMZzdR2PeygSR40iWk2r5gE&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+case+against+circumcision&qid=1793547346&sprefix=the+case+against+circumcision%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-1

— Adam Oshien