Even though medical associations have pronounced circumcision unnecessary, a newborn boy is circumcised every 26 seconds in the U.S. alone. Circumcision is starting to be recognized as a long neglected human rights issue.

Research has shown the function and erogenous qualities of the foreskin as well as the harm done by circumcision.

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In this documentary, anti-circumcision activist James Loewen revisits the damage done to his own body and protests the pain caused to countless babies worldwide. As one of a growing number of men angered by his own circumcision, James documents anti-circumcision protests, created a series of satirical photographs about doctors who circumcise, lobbied politicians, and chalked slogans on busy sidewalks. He is also one of a growing number of men determined to "undo" their own circumcision by following an age-old skin expansion technique. For James, as for other men, this is a way to recover ownership of his own body and restore a sense of wholeness.

James is a gay man living with HIV. Also interviewed are other restoring men and a transexual man who share their perspectives on this important issue of human rights.

Contains brief nudity in foreskin restoration scenes.

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