13 - Brian D. Earp - In Defence of the Foreskin

01:52 The history of secular circumcision, beginning in the Victorian era with the anti-masturbation campaign 6:20 Extract from a medical case study on a masturbator. 9:10 Shift from concerns about masturbation to concerns about STDs in the 1960s. 12:13 Why Brian dislikes the term genital mutilation. 19:02 Sensitivity 26:00 The Hippocratic oath 30:23 African men & the HIV study 33:37 The hygiene argument 36:42 The World Health Organisation 39:49 Ali Rizvi on why prophylaxis is not a good argument 49:37 FGM and the Dawoodi Bohra 53:51 The infant experience 54:35 African circumcision of teens 57:13 Why there has never been a class action lawsuit? 1:00:11 Male vulnerability 1:05:16 Resource allocation: are anti-FGM and anti-circumcision activists in competition with each other? 1:07:49 Jews and circumcision 1:20:15 Women’s experiences of sex with circumcised men 1:41:05 How Brian became the go-to guy for this topic 1:44:19 Future dangers You can read more of Brian David Earp's work at: http://oxford.academia.edu/BrianDEarp and follow him on Twitter at @briandavidearp. Further resources: https://15square.org.uk/ http://arclaw.org/ https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/ http://www.beyondthebris.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Education/Jews-Against-Circumcision-165424110207450/ Robert Darby, A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain (2005) American Circumcision: The Movie (2019): https://circumcisionmovie.com/ Marie Fox and Michael Thomson, “Foreskin is a Feminist Issue” (2009): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164640902852415?journalCode=cafs20 Shaye J. D. Cohen, Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism (2005): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520212503/why-arent-jewish-women-circumcised