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And you will not get hepatites if part of your liver is removed. LOL
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Replied on Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:00 AM
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You don't provide any evidence to support your claims. Just because you personally dislike circumcision does not mean that all the scientific studies supporting the procedure are wrong.
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Replied on Monday, September 1, 2008 12:00 AM
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Ed, India, here's your proof:There have been 4 recent studies of men in Australia, New Zealand, The US and England that showed no difference in the infection rate. If circumcision provided the effect claimed, the difference would be stark.Consider a similar case - polio. Polio is easily communicable by casual contact and is present in the environment. HIV only lives in the body and is difficult to transmit requiring exchange of body fluids. The polio vaccine is only 70 effective but wiped out the infection in The US in a single generation. 80 - 85 of US males are circumcised yet have the highest infection rate in the industrialized world. If circumcision has the protective effect claimed, the vectors of transmission would be effectively broken and HIV would be virtually unknown in The US.
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Replied on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:00 AM
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One of the cited studies of male circumcision was conducted in Kisumu, Kenya. It is dominated by members of the Luo tribe. It has long been customary for Luo men to remain uncircumcised but to wash their penises after sexual intercourse. But the circumcision researchers never asked the men they studied about their customary washing.
In 2006, the "Journal of AIDS" published results of a first scientific study to focus on the HIV-prevention potential of such washing, conducted in another Luo center. It found that such washing was independently associated with reduced risk of HIV infection. Future studies of post-sex washing have been commissioned.
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Replied on Monday, September 1, 2008 12:00 AM
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@Ed: This works both ways - Just because you personally like circumcision it does not mean that all the scientific studies disputing its supposed value are wrong. And there are many.
Ultimately it must only ever be a personal choice for a man, and a properly informed one at that.
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Replied on Monday, September 1, 2008 12:00 AM
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Penectomy will "protect" against HIV acquisition for sure!
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Replied on Monday, September 1, 2008 12:00 AM
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