In some African tribes, it is a rite of passage for boys to be circumcised when they reach puberty. They do these procedures with NO anesthetics or drugs. It's barbaric.
I was thinking (chemical?) castration.
they should just make contracting aids illegal. Should be as effective.
http://www.infocirc.org/winn.htm
Foreskin far from useless, HSC pathologist says
Newborn boys in North America may have a Winnipeg doctor to thank for growing up to be natural men.
That’s the nickname for men who survive their infancy with foreskins intact – avoiding the encounter with a scalpel that their fathers suffered.
Dr. John Taylor, a pathologist at Health Sciences Centre, has identified vital functions for the foreskin, which is usually dismissed as a useless flap of flesh.
“There’s nothing like it anywhere else on the body,” Taylor said recently, after the medical world was introduced to his work.
It’s the first new finding about the human anatomy – in this case the foreskin – since two Italian anatomists theorized back in 1450 that the foreskin both protects the penis from damage and heightens sexual pleasure.
It does, on both counts.
Taylor’s research over eight years confirmed that often-dismissed medieval theory by identifying thousands of nerve endings in the foreskin which are stimulated during sex.
Nerve endings
“You can almost see these nerve endings with the naked eye, lined up along the top ridge. They’re the size of a pin.” Taylor said.
His research on the foreskin – the prepuce, specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision – in the British Journal of Urology caused a flurry in the United States where the circumcision rate approaches 90 per cent in some states.
One doctor in ultra-conservative Utah, for instance, confided to a researcher whose organization opposes routine circumcision that he recommends it.
It turns out that the practice of retracting the foreskin to clean the penis makes some mothers feel they are masturbating their babies.
It’s easier for Utah women to have their boys circumcised instead, said the researcher, Steve Scott, who is the national education co-ordinator for NOCIRC – the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centres.
“American men who have been circumcised don’t know what they are missing,” said Scott.
[MORE] http://www.infocirc.org/winn.htm
Deciding NOT to have sex or share drug needles with someone who has HIV/AIDS or will prevent a lot MORE infections.
From CIRCUMCISION: Did you know?
"The debate about neonatal circumcision is over. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), neonatal circumcision is the result of ignorance, bad medical practice and American social and cultural pressure. Regarding the three most commonly cited justifications for neonatal circumcision (penile cancer, venereal disease and penile hygiene), the AAP now states that the benefits are negligible, which means that the majority of American men are walking around without foreskins for no good reason."
whoops, I guess the ink wasn't even dry on their statement. Further, this new info adds a whole new spin on: Circumcision battle lands parents of eight-year-old in US court. I'm sure the mother will be thankful for the tip (intended).
It's not the balls they want.
If men did not have promiscuous sex especially with other men, they would not get AIDS no matter what was cut off. Unless the whole dang thing were cut off.
And a zipper lock will stop all AIDs cases.
I still give credence to it being useful for *something* - why did God ask the Jews to be circumcized then?
The correct term for this is "Ritual Genital Mutilation".
The same term is used for both males and females.
The voodoo medical types come up with a new reason to make money mutilating every new generation. Just as soon as the latest reason is disproven, they come up with a new one.
Doctors also schedule hysterectomies very commonly. They continue to come up with new reasons for removing healthy tissue, for as much money as the market will bear.
Which begs the question of why the mostly circumcised U.S. has an HIV rate four times that of the mostly uncircumcised EU. It might just be that circumcised men in Africa tend to live in more conservative Muslim communities, but of course acknowledging that would mean conceding that behavior is the culprit, and not mere anatomy. And besides that it goes without saying that the genital mutilation lobby will seize even the flimsiest of rationales.
Castration should be introduced as the only treatment for aids and be mandatory worldwide. It sounds mean, but I'll bet it would eliminate aids altogether within a few years at little expense to us, the taxpayers of the United States.
What's wrong with... "no glove, no love".
I've heard from several different women, who swear that cancer of the cervix is caused by having intercourse with an uncircumsized man. Anybody else hear of this?
I doubt that the science behind this is as settled as the article implies.
Junk science. Muslims get less AIDS not because of circumcision but because of their life style.