tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post785985154486628647..comments2023-10-08T12:27:04.050+03:00Comments on HIV in Kenya: Is Anyone Really Convinced by Arguments for Male Circumcision?Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-50244392585367717972012-09-12T12:46:26.685+03:002012-09-12T12:46:26.685+03:00Thank you both for your comments. I will be postin...Thank you both for your comments. I will be posting about circumcision in the Western and Nyanza provinces of Kenya over the next few days.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-30593625576362945612012-09-12T05:52:40.454+03:002012-09-12T05:52:40.454+03:00My intact son has zero health issues yet my circum...My intact son has zero health issues yet my circumcised husband has tons of infections. I also often send people to the info below and their minds are literally blown because American doctors so often lie. Keep in mind that the ethics committee will be discussing the current AAP Statement this fall and many of the committee members were NOT aware that this is how the statement would be presented. I am hoping that enough professionals will send emails and information so they recommend against infant circumcision for ethical, legal, and safety reasons. A surgery done with no pain meds is extremely unacceptable but that is how they do it here for the infants here in the US over 85 percent of the time.<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030500357_pf.html<br /><br />http://www.norm.org/lost.html<br /><br />http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201109/myths-about-circumcision-you-likely-believeHappyMommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779414200995435823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-58379377119622947282012-09-09T04:30:36.328+03:002012-09-09T04:30:36.328+03:00The problem is that a small clique of researchers ...The problem is that a small clique of researchers with prestigious American appointments have convinced themselves, by a series of clinical trials and population studies that they have conducted, plus some other studies, that circumcision is effective against HIV and HPV in Africa. They then claim that these findings hold in the USA (or at least in the American underclass).<br /><br />I summarise their claims by the statement that "in the battle against STIs, male circ improves the odds." But talk of odds changers is pointless when there exist readily available game changers, namely condoms and traditional sexual morals. Talking up circ in the battle against AIDS is like fussing about horse and buggies years after cars and trucks were invented!<br /><br />The credentials of these researchers and of the Task Force members, make it impossible for the ruling class of the USA, namely the educated upper middle class, to set the Task Force's report aside. I fear that the Report will be taken as definitive by medical schools, media, state legislatures, and courts. The views of people like you and me simply do not matter, except in one way: the Report said that parents who do not wish to circumcise should get their way. I suspect that the Task Force silently concedes that American middle class penises will be intact in the future, because of the growing awareness among younger American women of the sexual benefits of foreskin. American medicine knows that it is powerless in the fact of discourse of this nature.<br /><br />The real goal of the Report was to:<br />* Make it impossible for Medicaid and private health insurers to deny coverage for RIC. If parents opt to circumcise, they should not be out of pocket;<br />* Assure that parents can circumcise their minor sons for any reason, stated or otherwise;<br />* Protect doctors, hospitals and parents from liability in tort for unbotched circumcisions;<br />* Make it impossible to argue in an American court that the criminalisation of FGM should be extended to RIC;<br />* Free nonorthodox Jewish parents from feeling guilty for having circumcised their sons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com