Foreskin Products?

	posted by Matt on 12:21 PM January 26th, 2005
	Clint O writes "I have ?'s and a story. My questions are about the legalities of owning and possessing (female cosmetic) products made from human foreskin. MTV's REALITY TV series "Rich Girls" shows Ally Hilfiger telling her friend, a teenage boy, how her mom's (or step-mom's?) product (some sort of facial product I think) is made from little boys' foreskins. The boy says "What do they do just collect all the foreskins from the little boys getting circumcised?". And it goes on. I think the series still airs on Tuesday nights. Of course I want something and everything done about this. The episode should be pulled, these products should b outlawed and Mrs. Hilfiger should be ashamed at least. Beyond the legal questions, what can I, we do about this particular show and these products? Thanks for this site." Ed. Note: MANN readers, please post information that may be helpful on this topic, and feel free to add commentary about this particular episode of this particular TV show if you saw it.

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I did a quick search... (Score:1) by Konovan on 01:33 PM January 26th, 2005 EST (#1) ...on Google for "human foreskin cosmetic" (without the quotation marks). A quick check of some of the results indicates that human foreskin is used in pharmaceutical and cosmetic for testing purposes. Also, one result says they are also used in the manufacture of some type of bandage. I'll have to look into this later when I have some more time.

Re:I did a quick search... (Score:1) by Bert on 06:07 AM January 27th, 2005 EST (#2) http://www.geocities.com/anti_feminisme/index.html http://www.noharmm.org/mothering.htm "Human foreskins are in great demand for any number of commercial enterprises, and the marketing of purloined baby foreskins is a multimillion-dollar- a-year industry. Pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies use human foreskins as research material. Corporations such as Advanced Tissue Sciences, Organogenesis, and BioSurface Technology use human foreskins as the raw materials for a type of breathable bandage." --------------------------------------- http://www.scf-online.com/english/37_e/37_e_pr/ins ideout37_e_pr.htm "They are extracted from cultured epidermal cells, placental cells, human foreskin and plants" --------------------------------------- http://www.the-whiz.net/ghr15news/id126.html "Growth factors are a new category of compounds being used to treat aging skin. Extracted from cultured epidermal cells, placental cells, human foreskin and even plants" Bert -------------------- From now on, men's rights first.

Against Genital Terrorism (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 09:10 AM January 27th, 2005 EST (#3) Readers who would like a personal view of foreskin restoration and routine infant circumcision, which I prefer to term genital terrorism, may visit my blog on the subject. Mars

brand names / patents (Score:1) by n.j. on 05:35 PM January 28th, 2005 EST (#4) As far as I remember, circumstitions.com had something somewhere on the site about brand names or patents registered for skin transplant products made out of what they called donor's (!) foreskins. Maybe someone can find this.

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