Commentary with Joel: Foreskin!

Joel discusses current opinions regarding doctors and rabbis removing excess skin from little boys? peepees when they?re babies and makes an odd comparison between this practice and a ping pong paddle.

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[curiousnyc2001]

Someone let me know how this ends. This guy was too unwatchable for me.

Oh yeah, btw, uncut is best.

[mc4bbs]

Circumcision is a violation of the basic human right to have a complete body. Thanks for speaking out!

[JLC981]

"Cleanliness" is a no-brainer: Women get stinky smeg too, but they manage with a shower. People seem to forget this.

HPV is a joke. There is no solid evidence, and besides. There are already shots for that.

UTIs? Girls get them more than boys, cut or not. It's just as cureable with anti-biotics in boys.

FACT: Most men who die of HIV in the US are circumcised. Go figure.

What is the medical indication for circumcision in a healthy child? If there is not, isn't it MEDICAL FRAUD?

[JLC981]

Someone needs to explain why circumcision didn't prevent HIV in the US: 1980s when AIDS epidemic hit, 90% were already circumcised. WHAT HAPPENED? The experiments in Africa were conducted on GROWN MEN. They made a CHOICE. Even if the studies might be correct: 40% of cut males STILL GOT HIV. Bottom line: Being cut does not immunize you against HIV. Even if the studies were true, babies are at 0 risk, since they don't engage in risky sexual practices.

[Chockles]

Circumcision Reduces Risk of Herpes Simplex-2

By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today February 05, 2008

BOSTON, Feb. 5 -- Circumcision reduced the risk of acquiring herpes simplex-2 (HSV-2)

by 24% in a randomized clinical trial in Africa.

[Chockles]

Male Circumcision Seen to Lower HIV Risk in U.S.

By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today

Published: December 18, 2008

Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

[Chockles]

ATLANTA, Dec. 18 - - Male circumcision -- shown to help prevent HIV infection among heterosexual men in Africa -- appears to have the same benefit in African Americans,

researchers here said.

In a retrospective observational analysis, men with known HIV exposure who were

circumcised had a 51% reduction in the risk of getting HIV, according to Lee Warner, Ph.D., of the CDC and colleagues.

[Chockles]

Reuters Health Information 2008

Uncircumcised Men at Risk for HPV Infection of Glans Penis

News Author: Anthony J. Brown, MD

CME Author: Charles Vega, MD

[Chockles]

April 18, 2008 — Uncircumcised men are at an increased risk for infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), including oncogenic types, in the glans/corona of the penis, researchers from University of Hawaii in Honolulu report.

In a multiethnic, predominantly heterosexual study population, 46% of uncircumcised

men had HPV infection in the glans/corona compared with 29% of circumcised men.

[Sambucca]

This guy is a moron. So we're all just getting bent out of shape over routinely mutilating babies for no good reason?

Newsflash Joel: The wisom teeth aren't for decoration and the appendix does actually have a function. The foreskin has 20,000 nerve endings and keeps the glans moist and extremely senitive to sexual stimulation.

That's what you take from a baby when you circumcise him. You also put him at risk of infection and disfigurement from errors in surgery. Read the facts.

[Chockles]

Protective Effects of Circumcision Are Shown to Continue After Trials End

The New York Times

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

Published: August 11, 2008

MEXICO CITY — A follow-up look at men who were circumcised in an African study shows

that the procedures protective effects against H.I.V. last for at least three and a

half years, researchers said at the 17th International AIDS Conference here last week.

[Chockles]

The skeptics contended that many of the circumcised men might still become infected over time.

In the circumcision group, 24, or 2.6 percent of men became infected compared with 65, or 7.4 percent, among the uncircumcised group over three and a half years of follow-up. Statistical techniques showed the procedure reduced the chances of H.I.V. infection by

64 percent.