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Uncircumcised boys and men may face more UTIs
Reuters Health ^ | Fri Dec 7, 2012 5:15pm GMT | Trevor Stokes

Posted on 12/08/2012 11:49:28 AM PST by Olog-hai

Infections of the kidney, bladder and urethra happen in uncircumcised baby boys at ten times the rate of circumcised boys, and over a lifetime, uncircumcised men are four times more likely to experience one, according to a new analysis of past research.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are most common in boys’ first year of life, and circumcision was already known to make a difference in their risk, but how much and whether that carried through to adulthood was unclear, Australian researchers say.

They found that circumcision “provides considerable protection and over the lifespan makes about a three- to four-fold difference by our prediction, which is quite striking in public health terms,” lead study author Brian Morris, professor of molecular medical science at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, told Reuters Health. …

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To: iontheball

Even when the Creator instructs something in particular?


41 posted on 12/08/2012 4:04:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Vinnie
I was that old too. It was so traumatic I couldn't walk for a year.

Walk? Hell, I couldn't even talk........worst experience of my life!

42 posted on 12/08/2012 4:08:32 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: microgood

Hear, hear! I do agree.


43 posted on 12/08/2012 4:14:02 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: arbitrary.squid
In other news, removal of the testicles provides a 100% protection from testicular cancer.

"I'm John Boehner, and I approved this message."

44 posted on 12/08/2012 4:18:28 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Olog-hai

My doctor doesn’t even charge for circumcisions. He just takes tips.


45 posted on 12/08/2012 4:38:19 PM PST by eartrumpet
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To: James C. Bennett
Nature designed the penis with a protective, highly-innervated sheath for a purpose. Deal with it. It is unfair for a human being to have his sexual organs mutilated and diminished in qualitative function for a god, without his free will consent.

Life isn't fair. It is the parent's decision and is made with the best interests of the child in mind. Deal with that.

Anyone thinking the parent's should not be allowed to make that decision is an adolescent control freak. They care nothing for the child (since control freaks only care about themselves), but probably feel traumatized that it happened to them and want to exert some sort of infantile revenge that exposes their parents as evil monsters.
46 posted on 12/08/2012 4:49:05 PM PST by microgood
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To: Mark17

A few years ago I talked an Indian (from India) guy into getting the cut. He said he wanted to meet older women so I said he would need to be circumcised since American women prefer men that way. My Indian friend was reluctant so I told him not to think of it as circumcision but as “body sculpting.” That convinced him. He even called his mother long distance in India to joyously announce the news to her.


47 posted on 12/08/2012 5:07:31 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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To: microgood

The wife of a former business partner was dissatisfied with their newborn son’s circumcision because she thought they didn’t take enough off, like it was a trip to the hair stylist or something. She had them do it *again.* I tried to advise her against it, the pain, the trauma, the potential complications. My former business partner just shrugged, looked away and went tonmake himself another drink. Been there already, I guess. She became combative and told me I didn’t know what I was talking about, that mothers just know these things, that it didn’t hurt.

It was one of the more amazingly idiotic conversations in which I’ve ever participated. Poor kid. He’s going to have painful sexual relations when that day arrives. At the risk of being too descriptive, that skin needs to be able to move, to have some elasticity. He’s going to bleed.

How stupid is that?


48 posted on 12/08/2012 5:08:40 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Slump Tester

moses wasn’t right, circumcision was NO man’s idea. GOD was right.


49 posted on 12/08/2012 5:08:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Liberty Valance
Beat me to it...

I tried finding the old Franken & Davis where one of them (supposedly) has an inoperable brain tumor and came out for one last show and kept repeating the punchline "...he only took TIPS!"

(Franken is (alas!) from Minnesota; he his a good deal more lefty than Klobuchar, who has name recognition from her father, a long-time Star Tribune columnist...while in high school she did a 1500-mile bike ride over a few weeks or a month with her dad; I bet doing that helped her into Yale. Still don't know how Franken got into Harvard: and he became a poli-sci major at that.)

Cheers!

50 posted on 12/08/2012 5:12:20 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Liberty Valance
Beat me to it...

I tried finding the old Franken & Davis where one of them (supposedly) has an inoperable brain tumor and came out for one last show and kept repeating the punchline "...he only took TIPS!"

(Franken is (alas!) from Minnesota; he his a good deal more lefty than Klobuchar, who has name recognition from her father, a long-time Star Tribune columnist...while in high school she did a 1500-mile bike ride over a few weeks or a month with her dad; I bet doing that helped her into Yale. Still don't know how Franken got into Harvard: and he became a poli-sci major at that.)

Cheers!

51 posted on 12/08/2012 5:12:41 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
How stupid is that?

Unbelievable. Hopefully the doctor refuses to do it, and explains to her that she isn't a doctor but she is an idiot.
52 posted on 12/08/2012 5:13:02 PM PST by microgood
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To: microgood

The doctor didn’t refuse. This occurred twelve years ago.


53 posted on 12/08/2012 5:14:40 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
The doctor didn’t refuse. This occurred twelve years ago.

Well, hopefully the doctor did not do him wrong.
54 posted on 12/08/2012 5:28:24 PM PST by microgood
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To: Tzar

The only time in my life I wish I had been circumsized was the time when I was 15 and tried on a pair of slacks ( at home ) with no underwear on . Zipppppppp ....Ouch !


56 posted on 12/08/2012 6:56:08 PM PST by sushiman
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To: sushiman

LMAO ...45 years later .


57 posted on 12/08/2012 6:57:06 PM PST by sushiman
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To: Vinnie

That is the funniest post I’ve read in many a week.


58 posted on 12/08/2012 9:07:53 PM PST by fini
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To: Olog-hai
Me, my brother, all of our uncles and our father and many other acquaintances in our home state(Arkansas, I now live in (Puke) CA)are not circumcised, none of us have ever had any of the sh** they claim we should have gotten in this article. I think they are full of crap. The skin flap on a penis is natural and has an intended purpose, cutting it off is unnatural and a results of Religious superstition rather than health reasons.

Doctors want to keep cutting because it makes more money for them.

59 posted on 12/09/2012 1:06:49 AM PST by calex59
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To: PJ-Comix
I said he would need to be circumcised since American women prefer men that way.

This is a load of crap. I am not circumcised and neither are the other males of my family. None of us have ever had any complaints from women, certainly none of them wanted us to rush out and get circumcised and, in my case at least, I was asked back for repeat performances. Keep it clean, it won't get infected.

60 posted on 12/09/2012 1:15:28 AM PST by calex59
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