tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post2877985417870055547..comments2023-10-08T12:27:04.050+03:00Comments on HIV in Kenya: Circumcision Enthusiasts; Up Have You Screwed, and BadlySimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-17014682236201830752012-09-12T04:23:07.495+03:002012-09-12T04:23:07.495+03:00They brand men like a herd of cows. "Neonatal...They brand men like a herd of cows. "Neonatal post-traumatic stress disorder" -- the recurrent American nightmare for boys. American men are such wimps to let their sons be subjected to this absurd surgery. If it were women tied down & cut, the Feminists would be howling all over the world. The male genitals are a cheap commodity. There is no <br />argument too absurd for the circumcisers. They insult the appearance of the intact penis, claim that circumcision heals everything from body warts to HIV, and draw an illogical distinction between female & male genitals. It will be up to merciful mothers to spare their sons this humiliation. With a few exceptions, most circumcised men are so defensive they’ll never own up to their loss. Circumcision is the mark of a slave, not a free man.<br /><br />Top Ten Tortures Less Painful Than Circumcision<br /> <br />10. Get waterboarded.<br /> 9. Pull out your fingernails.<br /> 8. Eat a pile of steaming bear crap.<br /> 7. Skin yourself alive.<br /> 6. Fall into a vat of molten iron.<br /> 5. Get run over by a train.<br /> 4. Go through a sausage grinder.<br /> 3. Saw off your legs.<br /> 2. Poke out your eyes.<br /> 1. Go To Hell<br /><br />~Dick-ScalperDick Scalperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16924950967329533951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-67927690093588149872012-08-18T00:58:18.928+03:002012-08-18T00:58:18.928+03:00Thanks Martin, absolutely, I've been using the...Thanks Martin, absolutely, I've been using the term 'appropriate' penile hygiene because it's not straightforward. Personally I wouldn't jump out of bed for a quick wash after sex but apparently some counselors have been advising that and some women seem to think they need to wash frequently, with serious adverse consequences. But this research underlines the fact that if we don't what mechanism may be involved and the figures for any protective effect are variable as well as underwhelming, it seems premature to recommend the operation, and for millions of people. The research is confused and confusing, so how can it be used to support such a categorical strategy as mass circumcision? It's as if the researchers are dying to circumcise all and sundry but they have to produce the right evidence before they are allowed to do so. It's disturbing.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-45656595536528755922012-08-17T22:26:18.151+03:002012-08-17T22:26:18.151+03:00But note that the group at highest risk of serocon...But note that the group at highest risk of seroconverting was among intact men who cleaned their penis within the first 3 minutes after coitus. So, intact men had both the highest and the lowest rate of HIV uptake, but it depended on the difference between <3 minutes and >10 minutes before cleaning up. (No meaningful data on the 7 minutes in-between.) That information absolutely has to be part of the message, so men are sufficiently informed to avoid the riskiest choice.<br /><br />People have already begun to spread the meme "Cuddling, not cutting, reduces HIV".Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-44231313606423554422012-08-16T11:38:35.983+03:002012-08-16T11:38:35.983+03:00Thank you for your comment, Lyn, 'eugenicist&#...Thank you for your comment, Lyn, 'eugenicist' is very impolite. Perhaps I should have said 'neo-Malthusian'. It's rude of me to attempt to interpret his annual letters, his obsession with control and technology in food and agriculture, reproduction, health, education, the environment (geoengineering) and elsewhere, his creative use of population and birth control statistics, his attempts to set the global development agenda, etc, as suggesting that he is a eugenicist. But perhaps someone would like to supply an alternative term?Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-58449779986589920682012-08-15T23:10:19.549+03:002012-08-15T23:10:19.549+03:00I was with you up to the eugenicist part.I was with you up to the eugenicist part.Lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17395406512079608484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-91744147939080266652012-08-15T19:42:51.784+03:002012-08-15T19:42:51.784+03:00Quite true! But sometimes it's hard to tell th...Quite true! But sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. This article is an ad for a 'bloodless' circumcision device but it is presented as if it is an article:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/health/nonsurgical-circumcision-device-will-be-tested-to-help-curb-aids.htmlSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-65207972843427245352012-08-15T18:59:30.891+03:002012-08-15T18:59:30.891+03:00There is a big difference between legitimate resea...There is a big difference between legitimate research and the advertising/public relations industry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com