If you have any strong emotions regarding a forced genital cutting, either yours or someone else’s, we encourage you to contribute your story. We want to hear what you have to say.

blOUCH! is for the benefit of:

• Anyone genitally traumatized, injured, scarred, tortured, sexually deprived, or mutilated.
• Anyone forcibly cut in a medical, cultural, religious, or ritual genital cutting.
• Men who were circumcised against their will, even if as an infant.
• Women who were genitally cut against their will.
• Intersexed who were forced to undergo gender norming surgery.
• Anyone with an early recollection that may be from a genital cutting.
• Parents who regret having cut their children.
• Anyone traumatized by witnessing, participating in, or intervening with a forced genital cutting.
• Anyone in relationship with someone described above.