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  • noun A person who is involved in intactivism; one who campaigns against involuntary, nontherapeutic genital modification, such as infant male circumcision.

Etymologies

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Blend of intact and activist

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Examples

  • Science seems to increasingly back the religious and medical practice of circumcision, while "intactivist" rhetoric distracts from the valid choices of parents.

    Joshua Stanton: Proposed Circumcision Ban Is Bad For Religion And Medicine Joshua Stanton 2011

  • Science seems to increasingly back the religious and medical practice of circumcision, while "intactivist" rhetoric distracts from the valid choices of parents.

    Joshua Stanton: Proposed Circumcision Ban Is Bad For Religion And Medicine Joshua Stanton 2011

  • Foreskin Man battles Monster Mohel and his equally Orthodox, Uzi-wielding, peos-wearing, bloodthirsty strongmen, wresting the baby boy from the clutches of his pro-circumcision father and delivering him to the voluptuous intactivist Tia Kumming and her tribe, who celebrate the arrival of the intact baby with a huge environmentally incorrect bonfire made from circumcision tools arranged the shape of their symbol.

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • Foreskin Man battles Monster Mohel and his equally Orthodox, Uzi-wielding, peos-wearing, bloodthirsty strongmen, wresting the baby boy from the clutches of his pro-circumcision father and delivering him to the voluptuous intactivist Tia Kumming and her tribe, who celebrate the arrival of the intact baby with a huge environmentally incorrect bonfire made from circumcision tools arranged the shape of their symbol.

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • Foreskin Man battles Monster Mohel and his equally Orthodox, Uzi-wielding, peos-wearing, bloodthirsty strongmen, wresting the baby boy from the clutches of his pro-circumcision father and delivering him to the voluptuous intactivist Tia Kumming and her tribe, who celebrate the arrival of the intact baby with a huge environmentally incorrect bonfire made from circumcision tools arranged the shape of their symbol.

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • Science seems to increasingly back the religious and medical practice of circumcision, while "intactivist" rhetoric distracts from the valid choices of parents.

    Joshua Stanton: Proposed Circumcision Ban Is Bad For Religion And Medicine Joshua Stanton 2011

  • Foreskin Man battles Monster Mohel and his equally Orthodox, Uzi-wielding, peos-wearing, bloodthirsty strongmen, wresting the baby boy from the clutches of his pro-circumcision father and delivering him to the voluptuous intactivist Tia Kumming and her tribe, who celebrate the arrival of the intact baby with a huge environmentally incorrect bonfire made from circumcision tools arranged the shape of their symbol.

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • To have been a white middle class intact Baby Boomer before intactivist writings began to appear around 1980, was like being a woman with large and long inner lips who is very self-conscious about it because she insists on trimming or shaving her pubic hair.

    The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • Reading Wallerstein 26 years ago made me an intactivist.

    Feminism and Brit Milah: Reconciling Faith and Personal Politics « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • Self-described "intactivist" Lloyd Schofield has been collecting signatures for a voter initiative that would criminalize infant circumcision in the Californian city.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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  • A person who participates in an activist group or as an individual for the rights of children to remain genitally intact retaining their foreskin the frenulum and ridged band also called Taylor's band

    October 6, 2008