Circumsicion--can it save lives?

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opfinisticopfinisticNew MemberOP
Apr 2, 2009, 10:24 AM

Should all males be circumcised?
Some U.S. doctors are reconsidering their position

By Charles Hirshberg
updated 8:30 a.m. ET, Wed., April. 1, 2009

The day your wife gives birth to a baby boy, the kind, bespectacled face of Marvin L. Wang, M.D., is one that you want to see coming through the recovery-room door. Co-director of newborn nurseries at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Dr. Wang has a perky, conversational bedside manner that puts everyone at ease.

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...three separate, meticulous medical trials in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa, involving more than 10,000 men, had proved that circumcision could reduce the risk of female-to-male HIV infection by approximately 60 percent.

That's a huge number of lives that could be saved.

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JCowScotJCowScotForum Veteran
Apr 7, 2009, 10:23 PM

See, that's what you get for being a gentile- AIDS.:tongue2:


Just kidding, but the info is interesting...I wonder if it is b/c the *ahem* 'juices' are less likely to stay in/around the urethric opening. Hmm...

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FinSaneFinSaneForum Veteran
Apr 7, 2009, 10:47 PM

another bad moment for us organic willie havers

Boik14Boik14Supporter
Apr 8, 2009, 12:50 AM

Shoot when I saw the title of circumcision and the author was Opie, I figured the next line was gonna say: "Dammit, I need those 2 inches back! They took half my weiner!" :pointlol:

Lab3003Lab3003New Member
Apr 8, 2009, 01:03 AM

Its controversial because no real scientific study can be made...but here's the theory:

People without circumcisions have a prepuse, obviously. Inside the fold that connects the prepuse to the glans penis is where debris can accumulate, like an umbilicus (belly-button). This debris can accumulate and form "smegma." This debris accumulates and is a cancer risk over time.

Now no cancer study currently is willing to monitor a patient for the 50 years required to see if that actually will cause cancers...so the theory stays a theory.

In regards to AIDS, it is true that having a prepuse makes condom use more difficult and prone to errors but don't be weary, go ahead and use condoms and have sex with everything you can.

FinSaneFinSaneForum Veteran
Apr 8, 2009, 01:21 AM

"Lab3003 wrote:

Its controversial because no real scientific study can be made...but here's the theory:

People without circumcisions have a prepuse, obviously. Inside the fold that connects the prepuse to the glans penis is where debris can accumulate, like an umbilicus (belly-button). This debris can accumulate and form "smegma." This debris accumulates and is a cancer risk over time.

Now no cancer study currently is willing to monitor a patient for the 50 years required to see if that actually will cause cancers...so the theory stays a theory.

In regards to AIDS, it is true that having a prepuse makes condom use more difficult and prone to errors but don't be weary, go ahead and use condoms and have sex with everything you can.

but how could something in its natural state be ultimately unhealthy?

theres lots of studies that say circumcision damages the nerves and has long term negative health effects.

padre31padre31Luxury Box
Apr 8, 2009, 01:44 AM

Hmm...I had thought that the AIDS virus survived longer trapped in the folds and the next sexual partner got a dose of AIDS injected deeply into them?

Nappy RootsNappy RootsForum Veteran
Apr 23, 2009, 11:47 AM

sweet. no more condoms for me.

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PrepDoggPrepDoggNew Member
Apr 23, 2009, 10:40 PM

"nappy roots wrote:

sweet. no more condoms for me.

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