OTTAWA – Thousands of ticket-holding ﻿Ottawa Oprah fans need to brace themselves for a lot of shouting about foreskin.

About two dozen protesters are expected to greet fan heading to Scotiabank Place Wednesday night for Oprah Winfrey's sold out show.

They'll be dressed in a variety of "provocative" outfits, according to Vancouver-based protest organizer Glen Callender, including men in white jumpsuits with red crotches.

The first protests, held in Vancouver in January, featured a drag-queen dressed up as the talk show legend.

Callender refers to them as circuses, and while the approach is a bit off-the-wall, the message is serious.

Representing what he calls the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project, or Can-Fap for short, Callender says Winfrey is the spokeswoman for a skin cream made using baby boys' foreskin.

He calls Winfrey a hypocrite because she speaks out against female genital mutilation, while using this face cream.

"Imagine how Oprah would respond if a skin cream for men went on the market that was made from parts of the genitalia of little girls," Callender said.

Can-Fap claims foreskin is not thrown away after a circumcision, but is often collected by cosmetics companies.

Winfrey promotes SkinMedica products. The makers of SkinMedica have said they use foreskin fibroblast -- a piece of human skin used as a culture to grow other skin or cells.

﻿Advertisements for SkinMedica say Winfrey has described the product as her "magic fountain of youth and miracle wrinkle solution."

Callender claims there is a double-standard in Canada where circumcisions can't be performed on girls but they can on boys and trans-gendered kids.

"We should protect all kids from genital mutilation," he said.

doug.hempstead@sunmedia.ca

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