The campaigning has develop into a breeding ground for extreme pondering and misinformation, obscuring valid questions around male circumcision
When Dr Jennifer Bossio first published her study on penis sensitivity in 2016, she didn't anticipate the barrage of abuse she’d come to receive from anti-circumcision campaigners, also often known as ‘intactivists’. “I believed how could anyone get indignant about this,” Bossio says of the study, which concluded that circumcision doesn't reduce feeling within the penis. “But they lost their minds.”
Bossio said that the ‘intactivists’ (a portmanteau of ‘intact’ and ‘activist’) found her phone number and work address and sent her death threats, with messages resembling “I hope you get cancer” and flooded her...
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