News stories on men’s health
Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body. By Michael Thomson. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. 194 pp. www.taylorandfrancis.com. No price stated but website gives price as 18.99 British pounds. Keele University Law Professor Michael Thomson has published his first book, and it’s a flawed yet truly thought-provoking examination of various aspects of the...
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Stop Exploiting Africans — Circumcision Does Not Stop Aides by JerryTheOther The ushers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music were as stunned as Bill and Chelsea Clinton – patrons usually don’t stand mid-performance and shout slogans at the stage – so no one should blame them for not restoring order. That night, March 4th,...
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This brand new Belgian study confirms what the study in Denmark found: ”This study confirms the importance of the foreskin for penile sensitivity, overall sexual satisfaction, and penile functioning. Furthermore, this study shows that a higher percentage of circumcised men experience discomfort or pain and unusual sensations as compared with the uncircumcised population. Before circumcision...
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Women’s Duty To Men by JOE ZAMBONI on DECEMBER 28, 2012 The duties that American men have to American women are many, and consistently enforced by a variety of heavy-handed mechanisms such as mandatory jail-time, court-imposed fines, the yanking of your driver’s license, and separation from your children. As if that wasn’t enough to force you to...
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NCFM NOTE: Mr. Svoboda is one of the world’s leading anti-circumcision experts and advocates. He is a Human Rights Attorney and President of Attorneys for the Rights of Children. You can follow his work more closely at the ARC website. Neonatal Circumcision Violates Children’s Rights, Needlessly Amputating Functional Tissue The long awaited circumcision policy...
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Knights of 21st Century in Lebanon aims for better days By ANDREA GILLHOOLLEYLebanon Daily News Updated: 09/04/2012 09:07:53 AM EDT The Lebanon Knights of the 21st Century lead team prepares for the third year of the program, which starts Sept. 11 above Legends Café, 9 S. Ninth St., Lebanon. Shown are, from...
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latimes.com Letters: Circumcision and STDs August 24, 2012 Re “Circumcision‘s decline could be costly,” Aug. 21 How does it make sense to remove a healthy erotogenic organ from a baby boy to avoid the possibility of contracting sexually transmitted diseases in the future? By that reasoning, why not remove one testicle from every boy...
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Now that men and women pay equally for healthcare, shouldn’t men receive equal coverage when it comes to fully covered services? Shouldn’t there finally be a government health office dealing with men’s health? Men and women should sign this petition no matter if they agree with the Affordable Care Act or not. The Act...
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From the Equal Justice Foundation Editor’s note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects untold numbers of American service members and veterans and the problems with OEF/OIF veterans are only beginning. What is easy to overlook is the toll taken on their family members. Battling Bare, a group of women married to PTSD sufferers is...
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NCFM NOTE: Here’s another study showing the importance of fathers in their children’s lives. Boys without their biological fathers, if they are lucky grow into men, will be men with the highest probability of being imprisoned and costing our society the greatest. Interestingly, perhaps by design, those systems that educate, discipline, identify, intervene, re...
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NCFM NOTE: A version of this article appeared July 23, 2012, on page B1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Lawyers Carve Out ‘Divorce for Men‘ Niche. And, let there be no doubt of the institutional bias against fathers and men in general. If none existed law firms like...
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BOND Men’s Conference The Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) had a successful 3rd Annual Fatherhood and Men’s Conference last Saturday (6/16) in Los Angeles. The auditorium was standing room only as men of all ages and races gathered at the BOND headquarters during Father’s Day weekend. The conference began with a powerful...
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A German court just ruled that infant male circumcision is ILLEGAL and can subject the perpetrator to prosecution for ASSAULT (just like for infant female circumcision)! This is a HUGE victory for the anti-circumcision movement and children’s rights. Male circumcision removes the foreskin of the penis. The foreskin contains most of the high sensory...
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By Steven DeLuca Recently, Rita Martinez, “Patient Navigator” for CRCMC sent me information about the fly fishing program titled “Reel Recovery” for men with cancer or cancer survivors. Although fishing isn’t my thing, I decided to go, on Rita’s recommendation. The program took place at Clear Water Lodge in Fall River Mills, CA. This...
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NOTE: NCFM, in a sidebar, is shown as a notable activist Men’s Movement organization along with Fathers 4 Justice and Save the Indian Family Foundation in India. Aside from which this is one of the better articles about our issues and the ever expanding forms of discrimination against men. BBC Magazine 2 May 2012...
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Today I spoke on the panel at the Earth Day Festival in San Francisco on behalf of NCFM. The subject was, “What is Green”? There were about 6 panelists. The festival itself was packed but there were numerous events going on at the same time. Most people were walking around looking at vendors. But...
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Multiple partners, teen pregnancies more likely among boys were victimized by sexual abuse, surveys show TUESDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) — Male teens who were sexually abused are more likely to have unsafe sex, a new study finds. University of British Columbia researchers analyzed data from more than 40,000 American and Canadian male high...
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In Kenya women violently abusing their husbands is fast becoming epidemic with over 4,600 reported cases just last year! These women slash their husbands with machetes, scald them, beat them with sticks, come close to killing them as some surely succeed. We will see more and more of this throughout the world until women...
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By Steven Deluca “What does your vagina smell like” was/is a serious question asked by “some” feminists of other women. The answers have a pattern. It’s like people telling you about their past lives. No one ever says, my 30th generation back consisted of street beggars and pedophiles and - evidently, despite commercials to the...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlsUg0sdAtE The video above was uploaded on YouTube July 24, 2009. Dr. Dean Edell discusses the misleading and unsound arguments in the current drive to circumcise Africa. Dr. Edell predicts that massive efforts in Africa to circumcise males will increase the spread of HIV rather than prevent it. On Thursday, December 15, 2011 Zimbabwe’s...
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TRANSITIONS Journal of Men’s Perspectives
Transitions first published in 1981, Transitions is the oldest and longest running Men's Rights journal in existence. You can see examples by clicking on the link above. "Active Members" of NCFM can read over 120 historic back issues. For more about our journal of men's perspectives see TRANSITIONS AND NCFM: OUR HISTORY (STILL) IN THE MAKING , December 2011 by Francis Baumli.
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