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The Objects of FarReach are: 1. The carrying out and support of research, both primary and secondary, on the prepuce and long term adverse sequelae of male sexual mutilation (MSM) suffered as routine infant circumcision (RIC) or subsequently. Cultural studies a) A survey questionnaire of doctors opposing MSM/RIC on their beliefs, practices and teaching on the intact male body and foreskin restoration - research design, postal preparation underway. b) Cultural studies on absent prepuce/cognitive deficit syndrome, development of myth and superstition sets, compare different origin myths, age inequality systems, hygiene myths, aesthetic construal, misconstrual, c) Comparative religious ethics, phronesis, church politics. d) Phenomenology of sex, sensation as a unit of experience, (Sorbonne?) e) Concepts of objectivity within the NOCIRC movement f) Laumann - expand his study - is desire for breast implants and labiaplasty etc. caused by MSM? What are women's physical and aesthetic reactions to the circumcised male's need for additional stimuli? Do these additional sexual expressions lessen physical and emotional sexual satisfaction, dyspareunia, aesthetic distaste, disinclination by the female to initiate sex? Immediate, infants and children a) Review immediate penis injuries, skin tags, beveling, ‘hypospadiazation', partial amputation etc., psychological effects, separate studies on behaviour changes before and after MSM. b) infant male deaths not categorized as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). c) infant male deaths categorized as SIDS (a greater percentage of SIDS victims are male). d) effect of RIC on bonding and breastfeeding, controls intact boys and girls. e) ADHD disorder in toddlers, young and older children primarily in US. f) Behaviour changes when children suffer MSM at particular ages/stages. Immediate, adolescents and adults a) Continue anatomical and physiological studies, eg neurological studies, roles of structure and products of foreskin e.g. estrogen receptors, pheromones. b) Reports on sensory, behaviour changes in adolescents and adults of various ages/stages. c) Begin hypertension, effort, stress related syndromes, aneurisms, strokes, heart attacks, detached retina, - d) Sudden unexplained adolescent and adult death syndromes prompted by such deaths in friends' sons. Long term a) MRI studies of sexual intercourse with intact foreskin as compared to men altered by MSM b) MRI studies of sexual intercourse with men who have restored foreskins c) Effects of MSM on sexual health of men and of women. Comparison of sexual performance and satisfaction of intact men and MSM survivors, men's and women's understandings of the differences. Men circumcised in adulthood provide critical understanding of this difference. d) Effects of MSM on general health of men and of women, following on (c)? e) Does MSM condition post-coital myocardial infarction and/or cerebral vascular accident? f) Is MSM linked to the prostate cancer epidemic in North America since both have reached highest incidence? Role of the prepuce in stimulating orgasm? Does loss of the prepuce lessen intensity causing incomplete ejaculation? Are long term effects linked to prostate cancer? g) Investigate the possibility that MSM causes psychological conditions? i) Psychological studies demonstrate that trauma, wounding and other damage at particular ages/stages condition responses of either identification with the violator, causing the victim to become violent, or identification as a victim, depression. ii) Does MSM condition violence expressed in acting out violence to immediate family, school and work colleagues, and society? iii) Do male teens who murder have particularly traumatic MSM histories? iv) Does it condition self victimization eg is there a link between MSM and the rise in depression and suicide among young men? Apparent hanging suicides which are actually attempted forced orgasm by neck pressure and breath holding. v) Does MSM condition intractable pain syndromes in adults eg back pain, other long term post injuries vi) Does loss of sensation of MSM cause early loss of interest, lowered desire for in sex vii) MSM is believed to cause a bias towards duplication, investigate this process? Is it psychopathology? If so, could it be DSM categorized. h) Could MSM and subsequent altering from gentle sexual intercourse to a rough and prolonged event cause stress related diseases or other long term adverse health problems in women? E.g. reproductive, other cancers? i) Research project with men restoring their foreskins to determine total health effects, control group comparisons with all posited sequella j) Effects of MSM on gender relations. i ) Does MSM condition FSM? ii) Does MSM condition woman/mother blaming. Is MSM a cause of divorce? iii) Do women have a role in perpetuating MGM, if so by what dynamics? k) Sensory deprivation follow from MSM in increments. It is considered that between 75% and 90% of sensory function of the penis is lost with MSM and that increasing desensitization ensues. What effect does this have physically and psychologically compared to other sensory deprivation syndromes. l) Does MSM induced sensory deprivation have to do with development of dementias? Compare incidence in ‘intact' vs circumcising cultures. 2. The carrying out and support of re-education with respect to the value of the prepuce and adverse immediate and long term sequelae of MSM at various levels of the community including the medical community, nursing and prenatal educators, and the public. a) Production of articles, ultimately a book summarizing research reports. b) Production of videos, films, brochures, pamphlets, workshops, conferences. c) Study reflections of MSM in art music film, pornography. d) Develop teams of educators to re-educate at various levels - the medical community, nursing and prenatal educators communities, and the public. e) Analyze all medical, nursing, parenting textbooks and popular books, correct MSM biases f) Distribute info to hospitals clinics birthing centres and private DOCTORS performing MSM. g) Establish links with the all media sources, use of NOCIRC fax and email chains.. h) Approach federal and provincial governments with current info and projected research. i) Approach the United Nations especially UNICEF and WHO with FarReach objectives. 3. Assuaging the adverse sequella of MSM (harms of circumcision) by offering and supporting counseling and referral service centres, self-help groups and other forms of support to those seeking redress. a) Establishment of counseling and referral service center. b) Psychological counseling i.e. crisis and brief term ?cognitive therapy, restoration info. c) Establishment of self-help groups to support those needing it. d) Assistance, counsel, provision of expert witnesses and funding for those seeking redress. e) Establish telephone, WEBSITES and email information services. 4. Raise funds for all the above via marketing, use of PayPal. Initial Plan of Operations To carry out the above objects and activities I will seek funding from individuals and/or organizations with interests closest to the particular activities, e.g. the Heart and Stroke Foundation for support carrying out research on links between MSM and myocardial infarction and cerebral vascular accident; cancer foundations for carrying out research on possible links between MSM and prostate cancer, and so on. To raise public awareness I will design and make, with the help of other interested quilters, the NOCIRC Peace Quilt, to symbolize the many facets of the issue emphasizing those for which funding is desired. I will seek funding from Canadian, then international foundations and individuals interested in the nature of this work via appeal letters, to begin some of the projects in Canada; then as soon as feasible international sources. FarReach will then award scholarships to students at Masters, PhD, and professional levels for these projects. I hope to collaborate on several of the cultural studies. Projects will be designed to be easily duplicated, and initially done at Canadian universities, then internationally. As it has in the past been difficult to find publishers in North America, and the British Journal of Urology has published the foundational research of the prepuce and subsequent articles on circumcision (February 1996 and January 1999), FarReach approached the BJU with this preliminary list of research hypotheses to determine what their interest in them might be. The editors expressed interest in the topics, preliminary hypotheses and their possible contributions to original knowledge on the value of the prepuce and potential adverse sequellae of circumcision and have provided FarReach with the BJU style sheet and submission proceedures. |
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