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Blocked and Reported

Episode 168: Just the Tip of the Circumcision Debate

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Hold onto your hat (if you still have it) because this week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the science and religion of circumcision. Then, a fight within the intactivist movement leads to accusations of bigotry. Finally: Should Jesse grow his foreskin back? You decide.

John Harvey Kellogg

Ryan Fan: No, Corn Flakes Were Not Invented to Stop Masturbation

From Ritual to Science: The Medical Transformation of Circumcision in American

American Pediatric Association: Circumcision Policy Statement

Study on circumcision and HIV transmission in Africa

Brian Earp: The Unbearable Asymmetry of B******t

CDC: Trends in Circumcision for Male Newborns in U.S. Hospitals: 1979–2010

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/safe-bris.page

John Colapinto: “The True Story of John/Joan”

Alex Bryne: The Origin of “Gender Identity”

Mother Jones: Holy Scalpels, Foreskin Man!

Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon: Interview With the Creator of Foreskin Man

Harvard Crimson: Harvard ‘Reviewing’ Employee’s Nude, Anti-Semitic Rant in Sanders Theatre

Foregen

Cut: Slicing Through the Myths about Circumcision

Bruchim Online

Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon: On The Impermissibility of Infant Male Circumcision

Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon: How to Deradicalize a Movement

Beyond the Bris: Standing Against Anti-Semitism

American Circumcision

Brendon Marotta: The Path to Childrens’ Justice

Beyond the Bris: Undermining the Cause of Genital Autonomy through Jewish Scapegoating & Antisemitic Tropes

Brendon Marotta: Bruchim's Founders Have Been Engaged In A Slander Campaign Against Me



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0:00.0

I'm going to be a little nervous because I have a big thing, a big event coming up tomorrow.

0:26.6

Let me guess, dog, bar mitzvah.

0:29.4

Close, close.

0:30.2

No, I'm going to be doing something that terrifies me and I think should terrify every human being.

0:36.6

I'm going to be driving over a bridge tomorrow.

0:38.6

Bye myself.

0:39.4

Jesus Christ.

0:40.2

You laugh, you laugh.

0:41.6

I do laugh.

0:42.4

I have my own neuroses, but explain.

0:44.2

Explain for the people.

0:45.6

All right, well, we have to back up a second.

0:47.6

So I was planning this weekend on going to the coast with my wife, Jana and the dog moose,

0:52.6

taking the van down there.

0:53.6

As long time listeners will know, I am a professional van life influencer.

0:57.6

I'm getting out in the van a lot this year.

0:59.6

So we're going to go to the coast this weekend.

1:01.6

And then a couple days ago, something horrible happened.

1:04.6

We got offered free tickets to go see Joni Mitchell and Brandy Carlyle at the Gorge,

1:09.6

which is this like outdoor amphitheater in Eastern Washington.

1:12.6

I've never been to the venue, but apparently it's...

1:14.6

Oh, I thought the Gorge was going to be a lesbian bar.

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