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

It’s not a typo.

About two dozen protesters are expected to greet fans as they head into Scotiabank Place Wednesday night for Oprah Winfrey’s nearly 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, and perhaps a “Faux-pra” for good measure.

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

Wednesday’s protest will be the second of four already planned.

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

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

He calls Winfrey a hypocrite because while she speaks out against female genital mutilation, she says it’s fine to use a face cream made from foreskins from circumcised infant boys.

“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.

“That would be an outrage and rightly so.”

Can-Fap claims foreskin is not thrown away after a circumcision, but rather 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.”

One of Callender’s favourite protest signs bears the question — Is my foreskin on Oprah’s face? He says there will be many similar ones at Wednesday night’s event.

“Fans weren’t happy with us in Vancouver and I suspect it will be the same in Ottawa,” he said.

“But, it’s a horrendously unethical industry and she (Oprah) should be opposed to it.”

Callender also 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.

“So, we’re going to dog her everywhere she goes in Canada and we’re already getting interest from protesters in the U.S.”

doug.hempstead@sunmedia.ca

Twitter: @DougHempstead

Oprah Ottawa details:

Show date: April 10

Underway at 7 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session.

Tickets went on sale Feb. 28 at noon through capitaltickets.ca or by calling 613-599-3267.

Prices range from $78 in the 300 sections to $101, $158, $191 and $339 on the floor.

Oprah tickets in Edmonton sold out in six hours but as of Tuesday some were still available — even in the lower-bowl sections.

The price of the “best seat available” Tuesday was $365.89.