Introductions.

Hello world!

My name is Amanda, and I'm an Intactavist. Wow that sounds a bit like an alcoholics anonymous introduction doesn't it? But that's kind of what it feels like. In American society, we intactavist's are a fringe group. Called hippies, weirdos, and even such harsh things as foreskin Nazi's. Well I assure you I am none of those things (well maybe a hippie). I am simply a mother concerned for not only the well being of her children, but of all children.

 Let's start at the beginning shall we? 7 years ago my wonderful, perfect, son was born into this world. And a much different world it was, at least for me. Facebook had not yet reached main stream media, digital camera's where still new, and I still depended on an encyclopedia for research.

Unfortunately, I made a grave mistake regarding my son. I had him circumcised. It wasn't until about 3 years ago, that I found a blog, DrMomma.org, that I began to question just why I circumcised my son. And you know what, I didn't know why. So first, I was defensive. Of course circumcision was right, my son was fine! But then I did my research, and realized what exactly I had allowed to happen to my son.

I remember watching my first video of circumcision. I sat there, mouth hanging open in shock and horror. And then I cried. Cried for the pain I had allowed my son to endure. Cried for the child in the video. How can this happen? Why do people allow this to happen to their children? And then I realized the answer. Because they are simply uniformed like I was.

So I set out to right my wrong by trying to educate as many people as I could about circumcision and all that it entails. In the three years since, I have learned multitudes of information, made life long friendships, been cursed at, lost friends, and lost many hours of sleep to a circumcision debate or two. But I never lose hope.

I never lose hope because I know, with everything in my soul, that this cause is worth it. That we are not only changing lives, but saving them. And there is no greater cause than that.