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Welcome to FarReach Foundation for Research and Re-Education Assuaging Circumcision Harms |
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FarReach is the initiative of B. Maurene White, R.N., BTh, Ba (Anthropology), Dip. Ed. McGill. Her professional experience, training in research plus scientific knowledge of anatomical evidence that the prepuce is a valuable organ and nerve plexus, leads to questions on why it is not as respectfully treated and protected as other important sensory organs.
Q: What is the funny looking thing at the end of the penis?
A: The Man.
Although FarReach issues are no laughing matter, this forthright little joke presents our approach to supporting not only his right to intact genitalia, but the man himself.
The man, the whole being, feelings, welfare and health is a person of infinite value. Our concern is to hold each individual in high regard with respect and compassion. It is also our intention never to objectify anyone according to presence or absence of body parts, prepuce included.
Most circumcised men, and many women also, especially it there is cultural and religious predisposition against it, are Initially very disconcerted to find that the prepuce has any value. This may be followed by confusion and cognitive dissonance when they realize circumcision actually means amputation and destruction of this small but precious organ. Much of North American society has been brainwashed to believe the image of the circumcised penis is the look of superiority. The dichotomy of resistance to, vs. integration of the information may be profoundly angering as well. However painful these are healthy initial reactions. Gradually, as insight builds on earlier insight, understanding and a degree of acceptance comes about, assuaging and replacing the initial reactions. Please be aware we are with you, for you, and never against you. This project is not a critique of men who have been circumcised, but of the process through which the phenomenon of circumcision is perpetuated.
Please understand that our efforts are always oriented to assuaging and healing. Many thousands of men ,100,000 al last count, are benefitting from this information, particulary through foreskin restoration which leads to physical and psychological healing.
FarReach asks a number of global questions on the relationship of the normally functioning prepuce to general health throughout life including long term healh of men and their partners too.
A series of research projects, consiousness raising, re-educational, and fund raising projects are proposed towards assuaging the harms of circumcision and other forms of genital cutting.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 June 2008 )
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