Marilyn Fayre Milos

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Marilyn Milos

Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, ( in San Mateo, Kalifornien, USA), who has championed the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity and genital autonomy since witnessing circumcision as a nursing student in 1979, hielt am WWDOGA 2015 eine Rede. Sie hat am College of Marin studiert.

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Mitgliedschaften

  • Mitbegründerin und Vorstandsvorsitzende des National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), working to end the non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys in the USA.
  • Mitautorin der Tagungsbände internationaler Symposien, veröffentlicht bei Springer.
  • Mitbegründerin und Repräsentantin von Genital Autonomy America, after NOCIRC name change in January 2016, to protect the bodily integrity and genital autonomy of every child — female, intersex, and male.
  • Coordinator of 15 International Symposia on Genital Autonomy, held from 1989 to 2018.
  • Koordinatorin bei International Symposia on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights at Intactivism.
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Your Whole Baby.

Early life

Born in San Mateo, California, and professionally trained as a Registered Nurse at the College of Marin's School of Nursing, Milos started campaigning against routine non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys when, as a nursing student in 1979, she witnessed the circumcision of a newborn baby boy. It was the moment she realized that her doctor had lied to her about what would happen to her own sons behind closed doors. Once she researched the issue and realized that most of the world's males are not circumcised, the important functions of the foreskin, and the harmful consequences of inflicting pain and trauma of a newborn baby, she began giving parents accurate information about circumcision. She was told to keep her mouth shut and, in 1985, she was forced to resign. She founded NOCIRC that same year, 1985.[1]

Support for genital autonomy

Milos, who supports genital autonomy for all children, bases her arguments on the fact that the foreskin is a normal body structure with protective, immunological, and sexual functions, and that every child has an inherent right to bodily integrity and genital autonomy (personal choice).[2] She also believes that circumcision of infants should be seen as a human rights issue:

Zitat

Only by denying the existence of excruciating pain, perinatal encoding of the brain with violence, interruption of maternal-infant bonding, betrayal of infant trust, the risks and effects of permanently altering normal genitalia, the right of human beings to sexually intact and functional bodies, and the right to individual religious freedoms can human beings continue this practice.
Marilyn Fayre Milos[3]

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Publikationen

Auszeichnungen

  • The Maurine Ricke Award, California Nurses' Association Award for Clinical Excellence in Perinatal Nursing "for her dedication and unwavering commitment to righting a wrong", 9. April 1988.
  • NurseWeek magazine's Nursing Excellence Award for Patient Advocacy, 11. Mai 2001.
  • Mothering Magazine's "A Living Treasure" recognition, Ausgabe März 2008.
  • Intact America Award for Humanitarian Service, 2009.
  • The Trust Birth Initiative Lifetime Achievement for Protecting Newborns, 12. März 2010.
  • Im Mai 2015 wurde Milos auf dem BirthKeeper Summit 2015[4] in Berkeley, Kalifornien (USA) als eine "Lebende Legende" für ihre Leistungen zur Beendigung der männlichen, weiblichen und Intersex-Genitalverstümmelung geehrt.

Siehe auch

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

  1. Leonard B. Glick, Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 4.
  2. "Marilyn Milos and Donna Macris note that some have claimed that the foreskin provides a protective covering for the glans, making the uncircumcised penis more sensitive during sexual activity." Stephen Garrard Post, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 5 vols (3rd edition; New York: MacMillan Reference, 2004), vol. 1, p. 422; see also Morris L. Sorrells, James L. Snyder, Mark D. Reiss, Christopher Eden, Marilyn F. Milos, Norma Wilcox, Robert S. Van Howe, "Fine-touch Pressure Thresholds in the Adult Penis, BJU Int, vol. 99 (2007), no. 4, pp. 864-869.
  3.   Milos, Marilyn Fayre, Macris, Donna. Circumcision: A Medical or a Human Rights Issue?. Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. 1992; 37(2, sup. 1): S87-S96.
  4. Facebook-Seite des Summits