This is probably TMI, but oh well: I’m circumcised. I don’t have any problems with myself—no issues with looks or sensitivity—and I’ve had no medical concerns from the procedure. I should be a circumcision poster boy. Yet I’d never do that to my son because HE DIDN’T CHOOSE IT.
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Why? Infection and STIs sound better than being circumcised? Don’t be stupid.
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Actually yes, a UTI which is a simple infection, takes about a week to clear with antibiotics sounds much better than having half the skin of your penis cut off. As for STI's there are literally two studies that keep getting cited to say HIV reduction is 60%. There are more >>
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2> studies than that that showing no benefit, and those other studies come out of more equivalent places, like say the USA (2004 US military study, or the recent CDC study by Millett) not the poorer regions of Africa. Tell me how many of those HIV infections were from sex in >>
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3> the African studies? You can't they didn't control for the estimated 20% non sexual infection rate in Africa. What's the seroconversion rates for the two cohorts? They never looked at that, which is the true measure of HIV rates.
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