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Studies: Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk
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| Feb 22, 2007
| MARIA CHENG
Posted on 02/23/2007 6:38:36 AM PST by US admirer
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To: edcoil
Is it the surgery or the types of families that have it done and the environment where boys don't grow up to be gay?
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Or is it simply that people will forever grasp at straws to justify the barbarous act of male circumcision rather than admit that it serves no worthwhile purpose.
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posted on
02/23/2007 2:04:51 PM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
To: Chickensoup
Mostly has been done because it is an insurance billable procedure.
Remember folks...follow the money
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I hear the pleasing sound of a hammer striking a nail squarely on the head.
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posted on
02/23/2007 2:07:41 PM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
To: goodwithagun
It still is the only reason.
These studies are dubious at best. It is the same old BS science done by the usual advocates of circumcision. IOW done to justify their religious perspective into the scientific realm.
These are the same quality scientists who opposed lumpectomies vs radical mastectomies. (or radical hysterectomies vs polyp removal.)
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posted on
02/23/2007 2:12:59 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: GSlob
How long before feminsts jump on the band waggon and argue castration reduces HIV too?
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posted on
02/23/2007 2:25:52 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
by circumcizing the upper head [also known as decapitation], HIV risk is nor merely reduced but eliminated altogether.
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posted on
02/23/2007 2:33:02 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: US admirer
You can expect the anti-snipper brigade. They froth more than a pack of anti-Semites. Hmm...those two groups do have something in common...
To: edcoil
Is it the surgery or the types of families that have it done and the environment where boys don't grow up to be gay?
Transmission of AIDS via anal sex is as deadly whether the 'catcher' is male or female. Although a deviant practice harmful to either sex, heterosexual couples have copied the practice of sodomites in the last few generations.
To: almcbean
How about abstinence until marriage, then a monogmous heterosexual relatiionship with one's spouse thereafter? There is a solution, unfortunately people don't want to follow it becuase it's not easy.Or simply not for them.
Instead, let's spend billions on drug research and other grasping at straws measures like circumcision.
It's not a cure, but a 60% decrease in the chance of catching AIDS is pretty decent protection.
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posted on
02/23/2007 2:50:34 PM PST
by
Zeroisanumber
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: RipSawyer
I hear the pleasing sound of a hammer striking a nail squarely on the head.
"blush"
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posted on
02/23/2007 4:30:57 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(WE are the media....The New Media.)
To: GSlob
HIV risk is nor merely reduced but eliminated altogether.
I dont believe it.
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posted on
02/23/2007 4:32:24 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(WE are the media....The New Media.)
To: Chickensoup
'I don't believe it."
Decapitation [aka upper circumcision] completely removes all health risks, including that of AIDS. The only remaining thing left is a sanitary disposal of the patient.
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posted on
02/23/2007 4:35:46 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: GSlob
Decapitation [aka upper circumcision
Got it.
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posted on
02/23/2007 4:40:59 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(WE are the media....The New Media.)
To: edcoil
From the article::
In areas where HIV is spread primarily through heterosexual sex, such as sub-Saharan Africa, male circumcision could theoretically slash the infection rate in half.
It is unknown whether circumcision would be equally effective in concentrated AIDS epidemics, as in Asia and eastern Europe, where AIDS primarily strikes gay men and drug users.
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posted on
02/23/2007 4:42:27 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(WE are the media....The New Media.)
To: US admirer
No, not sticking your penis in another man's rectum prevents AIDS.
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posted on
02/23/2007 4:52:37 PM PST
by
jslade
(The beatings well cease when morale improves!)
To: US admirer
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posted on
02/24/2007 12:11:29 AM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: US admirer
We're from the U.N.--we're here to mutilate your genitals for your own good. We are confident that you will line up after hearing tripe about '60%' reduction without stopping to consider that we are saying your prior risk of infection was (let's say) 10 out of 100 and will be reduced to 4 out out 100. THAT IS WHAT THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY DESCRIBING.
Unless we go oopsie and chop off your willie proper.
Gee, that's swell.
To: George W. Bush
They froth more than a pack of anti-Semites. Hmm...those two groups do have something in common...So its anti-semitic to oppose routine circumcision of non-Jews/Muslims?
To: Andrew Byler
That isn’t what I said. But the hysteria of the two groups is similar.
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posted on
06/18/2007 12:43:12 PM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudi & McVain: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
To: George W. Bush
But the hysteria of the two groups is similar. I think you'd be quite hysterical too if someone was promoting the notion of chopping off the tip of your willy without anesthetic as a wonderful health tonic had it not already been done to you as a child.
It amazes me that Americans now oppose female circumcision (although it was promoted in times past) as barbaric, but promote the same in males. Some consistency again would be refreshing. If its barbaric if involuntarily performed on female children, it should also be for men.
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