Norm Cohen is the founder of NOCIRC of Michigan https://nocircofmi.org/, a nonprofit advocacy group that educates people about the benefits of intact genitals. As the son of a Reform rabbi, he was circumcised at a home brit milah when he was eight days old confirming his Jewish identity into the next generation. Norm now considers himself an atheist and views circumcision as genital mutilation. As a religious rite in the Jewish (and Islamic) faith, Norm questions it's symbolism and purpose given there are "plenty of circumcised men who don’t practice Judaism.” (There is now an alternative Jewish ceremony called brit shalom, a covenantal naming ceremony without circumcision.) Circumcision is relatively rare for non-religious reasons in Europe, Latin America, parts of Southern Africa, Australia/New Zealand and most of non-Muslim Asia, however 58% of newborn males are circumcised in the United States, the majority for non-religious reasons. In his educational advocacy work for bodily integrity, Norm focuses on the fallacies behind the continued medical and cultural perpetuation of male circumcision in the United States, which legally protects minor females from non-consensual, elective genital alteration, even for religious or cultural reasons - and yet ignores the legal rights of bodily autonomy of newborn males born in this country.
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