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Adjective: "opposed to male infant circumcision"
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- 1997 — Hank Hyena, "Foreskin or against it?", Salon, 20 August 1997:
- The next morning I typed “circumcision” into Yahoo! Twenty-three site matches appeared. Many were the same affirmative reports I’d already examined, but there was also a promising list of anti-circ groups.
- 1999 — Jeffrey K. Salkin, Searching for My Brothers: Jewish Men in a Gentile World, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1999), →ISBN, page 163:
- Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher and heretic of Amsterdam believed that brit milah single-handedly guaranteed the continued existence of the Jewish people. But tell that to the "anti-circ" crowd.
- 2004 — "Circumcision myths", Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 2004:
- He said Dr Kruszelnicki was "deliberately deceptive" in not mentioning any of the health benefits of circumcision and criticised one of Dr Kruszelnicki's sources as an "anti-circ activist" and a "hero of the anti movement" who did not have appropriate medical qualifications.
- 2005 — Ed Schoen, On Circumcision: Timely Information for Parents and Professionals from America's #1 Expert on Circumcision, RDR Books (2005), →ISBN, page 83:
- With the great majority of mainstream, middle class boys in the U. S. being circumcised, an uncircumcised boy in this country is marked as either an immigrant, a son of recent immigrants or a chid of poverty (with the exception of a few middle class followers of the anti-circ movement).
- 2007 — Craig Malisow, "The Fantastic Foreskin", Houston Press, 12 July 2007:
- Guerin Woodgate Jr., 29, says he never thought much about his circumcision until he stumbled upon some anti-circ Web sites about ten years ago.
- 2009 — Sara Trappler Spielman, "‘Cutting Film’ Takes Top Prize", The Jewish Daily Forward, 6 May 2009:
- From a “Sex and the City” tour in New York City (where participants admit to preferring circumcised men) to an anti-circ march in Washington, where she meets men who have used devices to restore their foreskins, Elon sees it all.
- 2009 — Hanna Rosin, "The Case Against the Case Against Circumcision", New York Magazine, 18 October 2009:
- There’s no use arguing with the anti-circ activists, who only got through the headline of this story before hunting down my e-mail and offering to pay for me to be genitally mutilated.
- 2010 — Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia (eds. Shirley R. Steinberg, Michael Kehler, & Lindsay Cornish), Greenwood (2010), →ISBN, page 135:
- Circumcision has been widespread as a routine neonatal procedure in America, resulting in an enduring clash between the medical community and the anti-circ (anti-circumcision) movement that hosts conferences, rallies, anti-circ days, and numerous Web sites.