The Circumcision Debate

02/02/2026

A case of disenfranchised grief.

Nonconsensual circumcision can leave somatic trauma and body-loss grief. Learn why triggers happen, how healing works, and where to find support.

06/11/2025

If you are in or near Kingston, NY

Join us for an in-store event, Local Author Meet and Greet with Georganne Chapin, on Saturday, June 21, 2025.

03/28/2025

Whether they are premature or whole term, LEAVE BABY BOYS INTACT! Thank you, Taylor Lloyd Acred, for supporting bodily autonomy.

03/06/2025

Put on your dancing shoes! After he receives his award, Alan Cu***ng will head to the DJ booth to keep the party going at our Skin in the Game Award fundraiser on April 30. Purchase tickets at https://skininthegame.org/award/

10/31/2024

This P***s Business is now available in audio—with a new subtitle!

For reasons we didn’t understand, the audiobook company, Blackstone Publishing, was dragging its corporate feet in releasing my memoir, “This P***s Business.” It turns out the word p***s wasn't the problem; the title had been available in the print version since February. Nor did it seem to be the subject matter, as Marilyn Milos’s memoir “Please Don’t Cut the Baby had been out in both print and audio for months, recorded by her co-author Judy Kirkwood. (Judy also recorded the audio for This P***s Business.)

No, Blackstone Publishing was concerned about the phrase “This P***s Business” in conjunction with the subtitle “A Memoir.”

After multiple inquiries about the delay, the folks at Blackstone reached out to my co-author and publisher Echo Garrett, of Lucid House Publishing. “What would you say to a new subtitle?” they asked. “How about we revise the subtitle to ‘A Social Activist’s Memoir’?”

What a great idea! I wish I’d thought of that myself! I believe lots of folks who saw the original title (such as bookstore owners where I was seeking a reading, and who turned me down) must have been thinking the book was a report on p***ses-I-have-known. That left it to me to explain that I was telling the story of how I became involved in a longstanding movement (intactivism) opposing infant circumcision. Though this didn’t always assuage people’s anxiety about the book, at least it clarified that I hadn’t spent 300 pages rhapsodizing about the male s*x organ; rather, I was exposing the history of a medically unnecessary and harmful surgery carried out routinely on baby boys in the United States—for decades—and explaining the roots of my activism.

So... For those of you who prefer audiobooks to the printed word, or those—like me—who often buy both so I don’t have to sit in the driveway to finish a chapter... “This P***s Business: A Social Activist’s Memoir” is now available wherever books are sold (yes, the print version is emblazoned with the new subtitle, too).

If you’re already onboard as an intactivist, these books make great gifts to friends and family. Books by "reputable" authors (Marilyn is a registered nurse; I am an attorney with many years of experience working in the health care field) seem to legitimize a subject that might otherwise seem “fringy.” So, check them out, and also ask your public or college library to order “This P***s Business” along with “Please Don’t Cut the Baby.”

Oh! After reading them, of course, please consider writing reviews for Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes & Noble, or in any online, print, or broadcast venue you can reach. Thank you so much!

Finally, to contact me or Marilyn Milos about our books, feel free to write to us at [email protected]. Or pm me here on Facebook. Cheers!

Georganne

04/05/2024

We hope you enjoyed watching the Fo****in Day Festival as we had producing it. It will remain available on YouTube, and we'll share it on Facebook on Friday, April 5. Happy Fo****in Day!

04/05/2024

Set your timer and open up YouTube. The Fo****in Day Festival begins streaming at 9pm ET/6 pm PT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUIP1FrcYE ****inDay

04/04/2024

Give ****in the respect it deserves! Share this post and tell your friends to watch the Fo****in Day Festival program on YouTube tonight at 9pm ET/6pm PT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUIP1FrcYE

04/04/2024

Today's ****inDay, the FOREth day of the FOREth month! Celebrate it by:
1. Say the F Word -- FO****IN!
2. Talk to FORE people about why every p***s needs its fo****in.
3. Tune in tonight at 9PM ET to watch the Fo****in Day Festival on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUIP1FrcYE

12/12/2023

Marilyn Milos and Georganne Chapin in Forest Knolls, California with their new memoirs, due to be released February 20, 2024. Available for preorder online and from your local bookstore. “This P***s Business,” by Georganne, and “Please Don’t Cut the Baby,” by Marilyn. Photo by Kevin Garrett.

11/26/2023

The basics that every teen should know.

Adolescence is a time period that is full of change and confusion…so I’m trying to answer all of your questions! Nothing is off limits. I usually answer heal...

11/01/2023

Georganne Chapin’s memoir of becoming an intactivist – one who actively opposes child ge***al cutting – delivers a powerful indictment of the U.S. circumcision industry. Motivated since childhood by an innate sense of justice, Chapin earned degrees in anthropology and sociomedical sciences fro...