I want to start watching Smiling Friends but I want to know if it’s safe for me to watch.

I had fun speaking with a cutter this morning. Small podcast, but maybe it'll get some views. I don't think I changed his view much.

Whenever I unexpectedly encounter mention of circumcision or foreskins in popular media, I usually post about it here--such as the sci-fi novel Hyperion, the sitcom Tacoma FD, the mini-series The North Water, the TV drama Yellowstone, the movie Ticket to Paradise, or the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat.

I was watching the Australian TV show, Colin From Accounts--a romantic comedy on Binge and Paramount+ about a craft brewer, Gordon, and his relationship with a sixth-year medical student, Ashley--and came across one episode in which there were several scenes in Season 2, Episode 4 ("Ethical Porn") mentioning foreskins and circumcision.

First, the medical student Ashley has been tasked with inserting a catheter into an elderly man, but, while doing it, she is distracted, talking with her friend, another medical student also in the room, about an issue with her relationship with Gordon. The scene shows the man in the hospital bed, his lower half exposed, with Ashley's hand moving up and down his penis in a masturbatory motion. At that exact moment, the man's wife comes into the room:

Ashley: "You okay there Mr. Robson?"

Husband: "Marvelous."

Ashley: [to her fellow medical student as she struggles with the man's penis] "I'm just not sure..." [and is interrupted as the man's wife comes into the room unexpectedly]

Wife: "What are you doing!?"

Ashley: "Oh, hello. I'm inserting a catheter."

Wife: "No, but what are you doing there?"

Ashley: "I'm just pulling back your husband's foreskin to insert the catheter."

Wife: "He's circumcised."

Ashley: "No! He's what?"

Wife: "My husband is circumcised."

Ashley: [in dismay and embarrassment] "Oh, yeah, I see that."

Husband: [wanting his wife to leave] "Go away, Mary!"

Ashley: [to the husband, with annoyance] "You could've said something."

Husband: "It's my birthday today!"

In the next scene, Ashley is being grilled by her supervisor:

Supervisor: "Ashley, I need to know exactly what happened. Mrs. Robson's very upset."

Ashley: "I was trying to pull back his foreskin, okay? There was a lot of excess skin around the head."

Supervisor: "He's circumcised."

Ashley: "Yeah, I mean, take that up with his childhood doctor. Gene, his penis is a mess!" [at this moment the wife walks into the room unexpectedly]

Supervisor: "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Robson."

Ashley: [in more dismay and embarrassment as she turns around and notices the wife] "Oh, come on..."

Supervisor: "I'm so sorry, Mrs. Robson. Look, if you'd like to go back and wait in the lounge, I'll be with you in just a moment." [The wife storms out of the room]. "Now, I'm not sure what's worse, your overall conduct or the fact that you're a sixth-year medical student who can't tell whether a penis has been circumcised or not. Do you need to see the slideshow again?"

Ashley: "No, please."

Supervisor: "Lot of paperwork here. This is a sеxual assault complaint."

And in the final scene of the episode, Ashley tells her boyfriend, Gordon, what happened:

Ashley: "While we're on the subject..."

Gordon: "Yeah?"

Ashley: "I accidentally jerked off an elderly man at work today."

Gordon: "Okay..."

Ashley: "Yeah..."

Gordon: "Well, you know, I mean, that...that's ethical pοrn." [this is a callback to an earlier joke in the episode]

Ashley: "It is. I mean, there are no accidents, so let's just say I jerked off an elderly man.

Gordon: "Okay. Yeah, yeah--"

Ashlely: --"At work."

Gordon: --"Yeah. It's very hard to accidentally jerk someone off. How'd it happen? Is this real? This actually happened?"

Ashley: "It was...it was a foreskin misunderstanding."

Gordon: "Oh, is that what happened? All right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, that happens."

Interestingly, the actress who plays Ashley, who is also one of the shows co-creators, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, when asked where they draw inspiration from for their characters, said: "All my medical stuff is from a friend, Steph, who’s a real doctor. So...the trying to get your foreskin back thing was real."

I had an appointment that was probably an hour long and a little bit into it a heard screaming a couple thumping sounds (running) from across the hall, the screaming almost lasted my entire appointment and I felt that it was too long and loud to be shots, and the screams were boy screams. When I left the appointment it was dark outside.

I've spent some fair amount of time browsing IntactiWiki's page on him and pages relating to him. Crazy to see all the people that are associated and share mutuals with him.
Only going a person or 2 deep you will find names like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton etc.

It's worrying how much influence and connections he has despite all his studies being discredited.
Very disturbing.

I’m just curious if anyone in this sub used to be pro-circ. If so, what changed your mind?

anyone else listen to these podcasts?

https://intactagainpodcast.alitu.com/1?order=newest

https://youtu.be/Tk2cwwaEWPE

Hello folks,

I’m a fellow intactivist who previously has been very active both in working to prevent harm to children and supporting men who were harmed as children.

I was working on a project which overwhelmed me and became more than I could deal with. I had to take a break from the work I was doing as mentally I was not coping well with the awfulness of it.

I thought after a break, I would be back refreshed and ready to kick some goals again. The truth is that I’m not, not at least in the capacity i was.

I feel now is the right time for a big push from the movement as public opinion is now more in our favour than it has ever been.

I thank all those who are working to prevent this abuse of children and support those who were harmed.

I won’t be completing the project I was working on that overwhelmed me but hope I can contribute to the cause in some way.

Tim.

I just scrolled through what intact men had to say about personal hygiene and a lot of them haven’t learned that they NEEDED to pull back the foreskin to clean what’s underneath. I’m talking about men in their 20s. This is a bit of a shocking news to me. I know we can’t generalize but I honestly didn’t think such basic information wasn’t like, general information. Between you guys and me :)