Circumcision Decision Part 2

Study Shows Circumcision Won't Stop HIV Transmission Between Men

http://www.realjock.com/article/1497/

In late August the New York Times reported that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were considering, for the first time, issuing a recommendation on male circumcision. Speculation abounded that they would recommend circumcision of boys (and in some high-risk cases, adult men) to help prevent STD transmission, in particular HIV. This was shortly followed by further research indicating that circumcision has little impact on HIV transmission for men who have sex with men (MSM). In the wake of this news, the already raging controversy over circumcision, and the CDC's role in promoting it, has deepened even further.

In recent years circumcision—particularly adult circumcision—has become an important element in HIV prevention in Africa. According to the World Health Organization, "There is now strong evidence from three randomized controlled trials undertaken in Kisumu, Kenya, Rakai District, Uganda and Orange Farm, South Africa that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%." Circumcision is relatively rare in Africa in comparison to the U.S., where circumcision rates in newborns are around 60 percent. A recommendation for circumcision for the U.S. would largely reaffirm a common cultural practice, though circumcisions have been in steady decline here as well over the last couple of decades.

But such a broad-based circumcision promotion does not appear to speak to the health needs of gay men, and could in fact lead to a false sense of security. AIDS in Africa is transmitted primarily through heterosexual contact; in the U.S., sex between men accounts for over half of new HIV cases each year, though gay men are only four percent of the population. And a CDC study presented at an HIV/AIDS conference in Atlanta in the same week as the recommendation controversy indicates that circumcision will do little to prevent those cases.

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[Bonobo3D]

Thanks for posting. This barbaric sexual abuse of children is sickening and has to stop.

[mason510]

circumcision is fucking bullshit

[caracandao666]

notice how they do NOT tell you the process of natural maturation of the penis, they really dont tell you WHITOUT a DOUBT if: 1. foreskin moves from birth, or 2. if its ALWAYS attached to the rest of the penis and then it magically separates. I had this done when i was 17 for MEDICAL reasons and it hurts a LOT. I would like to know who to blame for having this done so late and cause me so much MORE pain, case 1 would be my parents, BUT case 2 would be guys like the ones in this video. Im curious

[raptornuggets]

Circumcision is soooo pointless. Unless it's religious then that's ur deal

[saseke1011]

of course we hav the fn right to circumsise our kids u morons we wer givin permission by God in the Bible to circumsise our kids u morons read the Binble u pasifists

[robloxkingvids]

baby is fucking annoying

[TLCTugger]

@paranoidandroid223 Hundreds of thousands of men are enduring a tedious (but painless) tensioning process to regrow slack penile skin to undo some of the damage of circumcision. Just Google "non-surgical foreskin restoration."

Foreskin (even restored foreskin) feels REALLY good.