CHHRP representing at the Vancouver Island Baby Fair Sept 28 & 29. A team of nurses is working in partnership to educate expectant parents and the general public.
http://www.vancouverislandbabyfair.com/
Vancouver Island Baby Fair – Victoria, BC
Vancouver Island Baby Fair Sept 28 & 29, 2013
CHHRP representing at the Vancouver Island Baby Fair Sept 28 & 29, 2013. A team of nurses worked in partnership to educate expectant parents and the general public.
Vancouver Public Library – Vancouver, BC
The Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver Pride Society invited CHHRP to present an information booth at the Vancouver Public Library. We enjoyed every minute!
Photo credit: James Loewen
Vancouver Public Library Event
The Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver Pride Society invited CHHRP to present an information booth onsite at the Vancouver Public Library. We enjoyed every minute!
Vancouver, British Columbia, August 2013
Photo credit: James Loewen
Kira Antinuk and Tim Hammond educating Thursday inside the Vancouver Central Library and then on Saturday outside on the Atrium
CHHRP Resource Tent, Victoria Pride Festival
Victoria, British Columbia, July 2013.
Two foreskin restoration experts and three student nurses were on hand throughout the day to educate the crowds who arrived shortly after this photo was taken. Many thanks to each of the volunteers today!
CHHRP Resource Booth – Victoria, BC
CHHRP Resource Tent, Victoria Pride Festival
Victoria, British Columbia, July 2013.
Two foreskin restoration experts and three nurses were on hand throughout the day to educate the crowds who arrived shortly after this photo was taken. Many thanks to each of the volunteers!
CHHRP Partners Educating on Genital Autonomy and Human Rights at the Victoria Pride Festival
Nursing students Breanna de Groot, Emily Gage and Kira Antinuk bring the discussion of genital autonomy and human rights to visitors of the Victoria Pride Festival.
Kira Antinuk is one of the founders of The Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP), Canada’s first dedicated not-for-profit partnership of medical, legal, and ethics professionals working alongside concerned citizens towards ending forced non-therapeutic genital cutting of children in Canada.
Circumcision: The Whole Story
Dr. Christopher Guest of chhrp.cirp.org/ discusses the history of circumcision, medical myths surrounding it, and the function and anatomy of the intact penis. This video is a powerful resource tool for prenatal education.
Peterborough Baby Fair – Peterborough, Ontario
CHHRP educating at the Peterborough Baby Fair
Peterborough, Ontario, April 2013
Getting the table ready, once the crowds hit – there was no time for photos!
Smoke and Mirrors
“Pediatrics”, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has published the following letter written by Dr. Christopher Guest, Co-Founder of the Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership:
Smoke and Mirrors
In response to concerns raised by Frisch et al, the task force seems reluctant to concede any meaningful sensory function to the human prepuce whatsoever. It is astonishing that members of the task force are able to appreciate that the prepuce is richly innervated and contains Meissner’s corpuscles, but they are “unable to speculate about the effect that circumcision might have on sexual function or pleasure.” Surely the task force recognizes the obstinate relationship that exists between structure and function. Structure predicts function. Function is constrained by structure.
Histologic studies indicate that the prepuce is richly innervated and contains specialized corpuscular neuroreceptors. During erection, the prepuce retracts and everts to expose the erogenous internal mucosa to external stimulation. Does this not seem like a structure whose function is, at least in some way, related to sexual pleasure? Is it reasonable to speculate that the prepuce is more likely related to sexual pleasure than say, the Achilles tendon?
If members of the task force are unwilling to consider the effect that circumcision might have on sexual pleasure, parents should ask themselves the following question: “Do I think removing richly innervated tissue from my child’s genitals is more likely to INCREASE sexual pleasure or do I think removing richly innervated tissue from my child’s genitals is more likely to DECREASE sexual pleasure?” It seems rather disingenuous for members of the task force not to speculate about the sensory function of the prepuce but at the same time sanction its amputation. The response to concerns raised by Frisch et al is deliberately evasive – smoke and mirrors!
Christopher L. Guest,
Co-Founder,
Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/4/801.full/reply#pediatrics_el_55549