For a moment, take a deep breath, and feel for a moment, that You are on the right path, Your mindset is correct, and Your work, no matter how small, does make an impact. It does.
I know, I have been seeing a lot of men on Internet who always say 'My convincing is not working' or 'Intactivism is not spreading well' and to them, yes, maybe they don't see the progress today, the 1% fall in every two years in USA, and disproportionate fall such as West Coast being more intact than Mid-West.
Or the overall religious communities of the world, where the rates are barely falling.
Reddit banning Intactivists from other subreddits or entire Reddit, its also occurs.
The things I wanna tell you why Intactivism will win one day, are pretty simple.
-> Its a natural desire to keep a foreskin - Any part of the body, not just genitals, any part of the body, which atleast you can see or feel, doesn't want a conscious removal from a person, be it a newborn, or be it a normal person ( excluding the brainwashed-fetishes ).
Our Body knows it serves a purpose unconsciously. You don't remove ears to prevent cleaning them. You don't remove nose. You don't remove your Lips or teeths to prevent cleaning them.
Its a very simple philosophy, that Foreskin is not a mutation, birth defect, deformity, or a congenital issue. Infact not having one is a defect actually. It has evolved for Millions if not Billions of years. Millions of years of Human Evolution involved the Foreskin into the Male Genitals.
People need to start questioning the practice that has been practiced less than 5500 years ago is better than an artistic outcome of Millions of Years of Human Evolution? As if the foreskin was wrong in the first place? Really?
As if, someone from 5000 years ago, has more idea about sensitivity of foreskin and its functions than millions of years of Human Evolution that stands us here, Close to perfection of the human body.
Nature sides with us.
-> There will be a large fall in Circumcision - Most parents today are influenced by their previous generations to still continue it, they get pressured from their parents who were brainwashed by their parents and so on,
which at the end of the day, someone brainwashed them or fooled them into including circumcision in their culture, and back in those days, it was pretty rare to got to know that there still exist a large number of intact cultures in the world, which actually stand in a majority. 75% of the world is intact.
They never go through the rite of passage, they never go through this so called 'cleanliness ritual' ( surprising that it was done because bathing was not a regular thing in those places ) , and now since internet is very much affordable and has connected the world.
They are realizing, that for most of the boys around the world, they grow up normally without it.Just because you don't see them here or don't see them on any intactivist related spaces doesn't mean they don't hold a disgust or negative opinion over it.
After a certain era, there will be a large fall in circumcision globally, i.e. 15-30 years from now, thats still 2040 to 2055, but by that time, the fall will be immense due to the loss of pressure from older generations and the new set of information coming from the internet. Because most people today do circumcision because everyone's doing it without questioning and getting informed well.
The new gen ( especially the culture who are familiar with penises on internet ) will realise intact is the natural form, and circumcised is the mutilated one. This point will also strongly drive Intactivism imo.
Intactivists who were criticized today will be called the Pioneers, they will shape the Men's Rights globally. Yet, as a fellow intactivist, we have not yet finished, our job is yet to remain, and these are the measures to how increase intactivism effectively -
1) Flood the internet - With intactivist opinions backed by actual scientific studies
2) Open Youtube Channels - Start opening channels that promote Intactivism, sounds weird, but its more easy to convince people with both image and words than with just words.
3) Donate ( if you can ) - Donate to Intact Global, Foregen, Bloodstained men and other organisations that are fighting for Intactivism. Its not obligatory, but its recommended.
4) Join as much Intactivist circles as possible - Be it Reddit, Discord, Youtube, circumcised.com anywhere, because once your presence increase multi-platform, the movement looks bigger, much bigger.
5) Involve friends (and other close people of your life) who agree with you to intactivism - Its not always important or obligatory to do the same, but try showing them the approved studies such as the Denmark one on STDs etc and how the African studies and a lot of circumcision promoting studies are biased actually, Try to Convince them especially if they are on the fence or follow cutting but don't have any reason.
I think, convincing can be done the best if they are going to have a baby ( regardless of boy and girl, because thats the phase where most people start thinking of this practice ), so yes, usually Baby Phases of a parent is what compels them to controversies on circumcision, and is a more favourable situation for convincing people compared to any general situations of life ( imo tho ).
6) Do not link Intactivism with being religiously targetted - We are just meant to promote a complete/intact genitals of any child, not meant to harm or hate people on religious grounds through this movement, but criticizing the religion's idea of circumcision is allowed obv.
7) Do not unjoin this movement please ( humble request ) - You may feel disheartened, you may feel like no progress is happening, its okay, take rest, enjoy nature, refrain from Intactivism for few days, and then return with a clearer mind, and with small actions at first.
This is what I wanna say, we will win, Intactivism is bound to win, 1.4 billion men being genitally mutilated and yet people defend it atm. We will not let these Cutters win at any cost. #ForeskinWins
P.S. - There are some people who demand justice, or demand reparations for their loss, they are not wrong tbh, but, Justice by suing parents doesn't really work all the time, you will be called like a weird person who is wasting resources, and with the presence of Pro-circumcision studies, placing your points hard onto the floor will be hard, you gotta be influential or famous guy to fight for it at first, being just a common man, Justice is hard, and thats when you can hire a private lawyer or a person with more expertise in these cases and you can present the facts of those studies which are against cutting or say cutting doesn't affect anything tbh, thats when suing does still make sense.
But yk, there are 200+ million FGM suffering people, and they are not getting the justice appropriately all the time, like money reparations, how so a 1.4 billion ppl get reparations, a common man's justice is usually protests on grounds at first. We can get Justice to people, but that'll take even more manpower now, and only an extremely frightening study (about circumcision) can only make a change quickly, even if it does occur, it'll be hard for the government to fulfill reparations to all of them in the near future ( but in the far future, maybe reparations can be done by money etc, and later harsh punishments can be done for a forced circumcision, but thats far from now, like 80+ years maybe )
Thank You for Reading