Posted on 07/05/2005 5:11:03 AM PDT by Paladin2b
Ummm, the treatment was for your Liberal Juice overdose :)
However, this fight is getting sillier and sillier for both of us with each reply so I am extending to you a heartfelt hug. :)
BINGO...you nailed it on the head (no pun intended!): voodoo science au lieu of real clinical research in a controlled environment.
I am not debating or doubting your statement, I was wondering if you can direct me to any research, study or census which confirms the above.
The reason I am inquiring this is because I knew of Netherlands having the lowest rate of HIV/AIDS and they justify it by their Liberal approach to the social ills: legal prostitution, legal heroin with lowest addiction rate in Europe, granted, they are using cannabis and again, the argument is being made that they are not using hard drugs (hence not injecting it) and claiming to have broken the connection between soft and hard drugs. Also, the lowest rate of prison per capita hence no irresponsible sexual behavior.
I guess God really does know more than science.
I am not debating or doubting your statement, I was wondering if you can direct me to any research, study or census which confirms the above.
The map you'll see below comes from Germany's Koch Institute. My memory failed me - the AIDS rate in the Czech Republic is even lower. Still, Poland is second lowest. The countries of the former Soviet Union are not on the map but they are notorious for high AIDS rates, mostly due to drug use. Netherlands is not as bad as France or Spain but has a higher rate than several other countries.
Actually they have a higher percentage of AIDS patients due to years of communism and it's not related to drug use, maybe just in the latter years. During communism there was no such thing as aseptic techniques in healthcare industry, there was a shortage of needles and syringes and using the same syringe & needle over and over without sterilization was the norm simply because the autoclave was inexistent there. I am wondering what is the rate for Andorra? :)
Do you have url (website) to show me that data, pls?
lol! Really? Do you have some urls that equate this "circumcision" belief. Do you think it is like.. genital mutilation for "controlling" the male sex?
I'm amazed you didn't lose count! ;-P
Circumcision and Footbinding: The parallels are astounding
Just took a cruise around the web. Since the early 90s, I see more and more articles denouncing circumcision as a means to stop men from masturbating. What hogwash. I've been tracking this issue since then and only BECAUSE it became such a large issue in the early 90s. In most of the articles I just read, oh yes... many liken circumcision to "gender mutilation". "preventing masturbation" -- what a HOOT! I guess the implied is that uncirc'ers like to masturbate more "freely"? lol.
In the following link is a pro/con article. The inserts are written by an anti-circ'er.
[REBUTTAL TO] MEDICAL BENEFITS FROM CIRCUMCISION
I'm sure you already know, the anti-circ movement is worldwide, and led predominantly liberals, no? This is not to say there aren't individual valid reasons to circ or not to circ. I'm not discounting that. I do despise the "agenda" of likening circumcision to "gender mutilation", however. I'm not even going to address the so called "masturbabory" agenda being widely published in past decade concerning circumcision.
I think the anti-circer's had more credibility when they were using the Line that the Medical Industry was foisting "circumcision" on everyone in order to make more money. That sounds far more plausible than the "GENDER mutilation/Masturbation" one. At any rate, Whether to circ or not to circ, should be an individual or parent's perogative. It is NOT gender mutilation, IMHO, no matter how many hysterical articles are calling it so. The "anti-circ" movements wish GOVERNMENTS to make circumcision ILLEGAL.
In my search, Sean Hannity had this topic on his show:
Circumcision To Be Banned In U.S.
Most the artcles coming up in the search seem to make very "light" of a Jewish religious practice. None is bringing up information I had via web to me in the 90s; about living thousands of years ago in the desert with little water for hygienic purposes -- yeast and STDS being passed onto women and therefore to newborns.
No. No. I'm not getting into a circ/anti-circ debate with you. Circumcision is already A CHOICE in America. And around the world.
The issue that anti-circ'ers liken circumcision to "gender mutilation" defeats them, IMHO, as a movement. Gender Mutilation in Women means CUTTING OUT the clitoris. Although the glans is a sensitive tissue, men are not being deprived of sexual pleasure or release through being circed. If that were so... and using your own article... rhetorically asked here: would the population have grown so? You think men, deriving no sexual pleasure due to having been "gender mutilated" were punishing themselves with women?
I hope you will think on the following, for just a moment:
Orthodox Jews and Muslims yet practice circumcision (as do many Christians). Imagine a world in which some large body OUTLAWS "circumcision". How many Jews and Muslims and Christians will be jailed? A "foreskin" bootleg industry will arise? Will they be tracked and hunted down like gun owners are?
More seriously, in the early 90s as I debated these issues.. let's say that UN bodies and country governments do not outlaw Circumcision. And let's say, that two generations down the road, more uncirced men begin having wild diseases affecting their penises. If the circ'd do not get these diseases, will there be a pro-circ movement! Will it start out by saying the "uncirc" movement was begun by the medical profession in order to make more dollars on the backend? Will it be asserted that this was done in order to decrease population?
After a while, ya get to see the "social issues" run in cycles and circles, IME.
Anyway, thanks for the discourse.
Yes this will be fascinating to see how it's played out.
Dare I ping them ? ::evil laughter::
LOL... I dare say they have avoided this thread like the plague.
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