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2009-08-25 Science & Technology

Officials Weigh Circumcision to Fight H.I.V. Risk

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Will Bambi appoint a Mohel-General, or a Prepuce Czar?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-08-25 00:59|| 2009-08-25 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I foresee mobile circumcision vans, driving around looking for the uncircumcised. Maybe with a ice cream truck bell so men will come in and be circumcised.

Posted by whatadeal 2009-08-25 03:24|| 2009-08-25 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, heck, let's mutilate men instead of insist that they show some self-control and resist a deadly disease. Nope, mutiliation for all it is!

Posted by gromky 2009-08-25 05:48|| 2009-08-25 05:48|| Front Page Top

#4 But the clinical trials in Africa focused on heterosexual men who are at risk of getting H.I.V. from infected female partners.

Hmmm...from the same scientific community that's pushing Global Warming when the data point isn't supporting the hypothesis. We must act now! /sarc

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-25 08:21|| 2009-08-25 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Well at least our new Muslim overlords won't be able to pick out the Jews from the crowd.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-08-25 08:22|| 2009-08-25 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 the procedure does not seem to protect those at greatest risk here, men who have sex with men.

Appears simple circumcision doesn't go far enough.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-25 08:23|| 2009-08-25 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "it subjects baby boys to medically unnecessary surgery without their consent."

What incredibly unreasoned point of view. Parents needing consent from an infant? Their parents give consent, that is why they are parents.

Someone commented "Mutilate"? I think you are stupid about that. Mutilation is a rather prejudiced and ignorant word and you are stupid to use it. I am no more mutilated than you are and probably less so in terms of your mental state with use of such a word to describe this. The women I have been with prefer the way I am to what I was born, due to where I am from I am the different one so they do notice. It is a reversal of the teasing for being different in school dressing room.

Rational issue is that it is hygienically much better and reduced risk for penile cancer. A recommendation is the proper thing. Nobody is saying the government has the right to perform these involuntarily. I do not see where this mandates the procedure and you are jumping to unfounded conclusions in a foolish and stupid fashion.

I am wondering is that I always heard circumcision is routine in the USA. If so then why is this an issue in the USA?

Posted by Lagom 2009-08-25 09:53|| 2009-08-25 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 What incredibly unreasoned point of view. Parents needing consent from an infant? Their parents give consent, that is why they are parents.

Someone miss the federal judicial rulings on abortion and teenagers. They don't need the consent of their parents. The parents don't even have to be informed. They have invested the same standing to none adults before the court as that of parents. Don't worry the government will step in when it feels the need to impose its solutions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-25 10:06|| 2009-08-25 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 "We're talking stitches, Bill. Stitches. Down there."

Posted by mojo 2009-08-25 10:20|| 2009-08-25 10:20|| Front Page Top

#10 I am wondering is that I always heard circumcision is routine in the USA. If so then why is this an issue in the USA?

The Hispanics don't do it, and in certain other circles it has become fashionably uncommon, Lagom, although I think it is still mostly routine. The above commenters are just reacting to "the government says," even though it's no change from the way it used to be, when one had to request to opt out of this standard procedure.

Posted by trailing wife in Buffalo 2009-08-25 11:38|| 2009-08-25 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 I had it done when I was a newborn, don't really care one way or the other like some bizarro fanatics, but there is no denying that it's a mutiliation. I mean, come on, you're cutting off part of the freaking penis! THE PENIS!!!! You only get one of those for your whole life, and already you're slimming it down? Compared to that, stretching your earlobes to fit pinwheels in there is relatively normal.

Posted by gromky 2009-08-25 12:45|| 2009-08-25 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh, and I should add that being snipped is an object of curiousity and wonder in some parts of the world where MGM isn't practiced...the ladies love it...

Posted by gromky 2009-08-25 12:47|| 2009-08-25 12:47|| Front Page Top

#13 They say "me love you long time" to everyone gromky.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-08-25 21:10|| 2009-08-25 21:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Take a deep breath, gromky, or you'll do yourself an injury. Clearly snipping off a bit of skin didn't do you any permanent harm. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-25 22:23|| 2009-08-25 22:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Dr. Dean Adell, the am radio guy, said that part of the penis that gets circumcised, has millions of nerve cells that would usually be helping out with pleasure. So there is my 2 cents. I am an RN, and therefore believe I have some smarts, and when my son was born, oh several years ago, I said no to circumcision.

Posted by texhooey 2009-08-25 23:22|| 2009-08-25 23:22|| Front Page Top

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