Thats kinda like saying that since you are going to drive your car into a bridge abuttment at 80mph anyway grow your hair longer and you'll have a better chance of surviving a serious head injury
thanks to the extra padding.
It makes sense that there would be less disease transmission without the, er, holding area for germs. However, the obvious prevention would be not having sex with infected men!
"Study shows circumcision may reduce AIDS risk"
So does abstinence, but that's too complicated, I guess.
"Adult circumcision can be performed under local or regional anesthesia. Medical indications for this procedure include phimosis, paraphimosis, recurrent balanitis and posthitis (inflammation of the prepuce). Nonmedical reasons may be social, cultural, personal or religious.
The procedure is commonly performed using either the dorsal slit or the sleeve technique. The dorsal slit is especially useful in patients who have phimosis.
The sleeve technique may provide better control of bleeding in patients with large subcutaneous veins. A dorsal penile nerve block, with or without a circumferential penile block, provides adequate anesthesia.
Informed consent must be obtained. Possible complications of adult circumcision include infection, bleeding, poor cosmetic results and a change in sensation during intercourse.
It is important to provide the patient with adequate information about the procedure ahead of time. Specifically, the patient should be told about the risks of bleeding, hematoma formation, infection, inadvertent damage to the glans, removal of too much or too little skin, aesthetically unpleasing results and a change of sensation during intercourse.
The patient should also be informed that, during the postoperative period, erections can cause pain and disruption of the suture line that may require replacement of the sutures. Full recovery following circumcision generally requires four to six weeks of abstinence from all genital stimulation and sexual activity.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/990315ap/1514.html
(Seems to me, just the threat of adult circumcision would cut back on the activity which causes AIDS.)
Granted the study indicates that circumcised males are less likely to be infected when exposed, but it would be my surmise that on the whole, in this day and age, the circumcised male is less likely to be exposed in the first place.
bump!
I'M JUST KIDDING!!!
It was just so obvious that I had to bite.
;-)
Are they dishing it out, or taking it?
What a crock.
Abstinence is a pretty good way to reduce AIDS.
So does a "semi-circ" semi-reduce the effectiveness of the word "may"...
note "may"..same was said for spermacide...
A circumcised male that has his exposed head constantly rubbing against his clothing looses a significant ammount of it's sensation. Since naturally it came encased in the protective foreskin, once circumcised away the skin of glandular head toughens up to keep itself protected loosing sensitivity.
you are all way off base here. Circumcision doesn't reduce AIDS risk. People who have their kids circumcized are more relgious than people who don't. In this case, they tend to be more conservative muslims.
Study shoud read: People with basic concept of morality less likely to contract AIDS.