Professor Dave Explains is a science communicator who makes videos on a wide range of scientific topics. He also does reaction videos and even exposees to fraudsters online. One of the people he occasionally talks about is Terrence Howard, who claims to remember past infant experiences like his circumcision and even birth, claims 1×1 equals 2, among more pseudoscientific claims.

While most of the video Dave reacts to has Terrence discuss other parts of his grift, the section where he talks about his circumcision within the 20-ish-minute mark has Dave saying the following:

"We can talk about circumcision, this is way too much. This is TMI, but fuck it, who cares? I'm not circumcised, my family in Italy...they had not been circumcising for a long time."

Dave continues a bit about his family's decision on circumcision, and as Terrence grifts into other topics, he moves on.

Someone had posted a study showing that circumcision increased hpv/hiv. This study was funded by bill gates and was halted for unknown reasons. I can’t find it. It was also done in Africa

It’s really catching on now how many people are realizing how prevalent this all is.

Heard in the news recently that the US birth rate has reached record lows....

Hmm. Maybe partly because being circumcised makes intimacy and emotions awkward and challenging. 🙃

https://www.reddit.com/r/CircumcisionGrief/s/qJZtBsz6pz

Good grief.

What a terrible movement. I can see why no one takes us serious.

Out of necessity or for fun?

Honestly, we look like a monkey procreating with a football when we do these things. People just see this and genuinely get pissed. Why? BECAUSE IT'S RAGEBAIT.

You don't convince anyone to respect human rights on a baby like this.

I'm largely neutral towards POTS honestly. I just, don't really care about him much... however. That is a little painful to see. I think everyone is wrong here. I'll start about POTS since that's what you want to hear first and then if you are all open minded enough you will scroll down.

POTS is just completely misinterpreting comments. u/Sim-Racer42 a good friend of mine in intactivism had his comment taken in a less logical way than parents take comments, POTS is also giving way too much attention to hate it feels defensive.

Community is also claiming that POTS has sent Cheese Pizza if you know what I mean... and there's no evidence. Not to mention the spam here. If you're going to accuse people of sending you Cheese Pizza, then at least be able to back it up with evidence.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post a screenshot of an infographic like this. But it's amazing how biased/insane it is. I believe it borders on medical malfeasance

URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2836902

Hey, I was researching a circumcision related topic and found out, that r/circ dumbcision (😉) seems to be shadowbanned. 🍀

If that‘s correct, that would be very good news. It‘s obviously a pro MGM fetish community that tricks people into dumb decisions.

how can u win a sensitivity test when u don’t feel the piece they removed?

Before I start, I want to make it clear that I support every intactivist and they all have my respect for being among the first of our generation to speak on such issues actively. I encourage every person here to be kind, and to avoid anything they know will damage the movement or the people in this movement. Remember to set aside any deep disagreements you may have with intactivists (while still holding them accountable) whether that be in or out of the movement. We work together to get all genital cutting banned, then we can squabble.

Anyway, time to actually explain what I am talking about here.

There is a difference between holding people accountable. POTS and Great American Intactivist/Nolan have done some good, but they do a lot of bad too.

Yes, POTS is right about how risky Intact Global and Foregen are. But there's a problem here. POTS claims to be the only "major" "low risk medium reward" type intactivist, where as other "major" "High risk high reward" intactivists like Clopper and Foregen are supposedly worse off. However, POTS has lit some bridges on fire, and he often appears to switch sides, even if he may not do that. However he has been dodging comments about debates recently. Running from debates is a terrible thing to do, because if we are gonna have fights in this (which we shouldn't) then at least communicate why you behave how you do and why you think others are wrong! Let's not forget what POTS is registered as. POTS is registered as an LTD. Not any sort of non-for-profit but an LTD. LTD sound familiar? Lucasfilm, ltd. Lucasfilm as in the thing that produced star wars. My point there is that it's for profit. Also there's the amazon link which I won't get into too much because I only speak on topics I know about.

As for Nolan, he does have a good motive trying to hold POTS to a high standard, especially when POTS is over 1k subscribers on youtube, as that is a big influence. However, how he has been acting the past couple of days has been erratic, and unproper for an intactivist.

You don't need to make songs about POTS being a "fart" and much similar slop making fun of him, to get your point across! When you make a video about POTS having a gf/wife in the vtube universe and then videos joking as a tour of the POTS mansion, that doesn't help anyone. Nolan has also made false accusations about various creators being circumcised without evidence, including Catholic creator named Jesus.and.whatnot, Ishowspeed and others! Often these clips are taken out of context of when chat would bury messages, and only highlights creators who are against it! His one loyal commenter on the Jesus.and.whatnot clip claims that Jesus.and.whatnot dodges the topic and cuts it short. Maybe he could have talked about it for a few seconds longer, but, ANY exposure to this movement and against infant genital cutting is great. Nolan just ignored this comment instead of responding properly. Also Nolan couldn't respond to this comment but also managed to challenge POTS to a debate.

Anyway, probably going to get some people who aren't happy about this opinion. I'll put some tags. Those people can feel free to downvote me, as I believe in freedom of speech.

Tags so the immature people have no ground to stand on when they claim I suck up to a certain intactivist: Intactivism, anti-cutting, pro-rights, body, bodily autonomy, independence, male circumcision.

I was listening to one of the Intact Again podcasts (these guys are doing amazing work) and heard repeatedly guys implying that Christians are required to circumcise. They are not. IF Christians are circumcising it is most likely because of medical misinformation, cultural norms or aesthetic preferences.

Here's the part where I speak specifically to fellow Christians.

We are no longer under the law of Moses. Jesus has taken on ALL of our debt. There is nothing we are required to do to be sanctified for eternal life - what more could we do than what Jesus has already done. In fact, the Bible explicitly tells us that circumcision is of NO USE to believers in Christ. Galatians 5:2 - ...if "Christ will be of no value to you at all" if you accept circumcision as a requirement for salvation. I hope that clears things up.

Now go and cut no more.

I would like to adress here something that happened to me when I was a young boy, something painful and shameful to many, something that many consider normal medical practice, but in fact this is a genital violence against men: forced retraction of the foreskin.

The foreskin naturally detaches from the glans with time and patience, forced retraction is done in order to hasten this process at the cost of the boy's feelings and privacy. The pediatrician told my parents it was needed and instructed them, they, believing it was needed, performed such brutality, and I suffered for no real need... the pain is unbearable, you scream, you cry, yet it doesn't stop, people don't stop imposing such violence on you.

So friends, bear this in mind when having kids or talking to people who have boys, this genital violence is unecessary, painful and embarrassing. No boy should have to endure this, and the fact that I don't see more people speaking about it is sad and revolting.

My son seems to be open to leaving him intact, but his wife seems like she’s thinking it will lead to a problem with uncleanliness and infections, etc… she used to be a nurse and had more elderly male patients. He says she’s kinda leaving it up to him, but I don’t want them to be wishy washy at all! So, I want to share educational links with them that explains the function of the foreskin, counter arguments to the common justifications for circumcision and critiques of the “scientific” articles out there. But I fear some of the sites will be seen by them too extreme or “fanatical”, and it may turn them away. I agree with some of the extreme means we need to take, but I need something that may help meet them in the middle? I’m open for suggestions, DMs, or whatever.

I know there is a grief discord, but I would also like to join a more intactivism-focused discord. Please feel to DM me if that's more appropriate