Who was thinking about getting snipped?

[Japher]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13812938/?GT1=8307

Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths
Significantly lower infection rate among circumcised men, WHO report finds

WASHINGTON - Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported Monday.

They analyzed data from trials that showed men who had been circumcised had a significantly lower risk of infection with the AIDS virus, and calculated that if all men were circumcised over the next 10 years, some two million new infections and around 300,000 deaths could be avoided.

Researchers believe circumcision helps cut infection risk because the foreskin is covered in cells the virus seems able to easily infect. The virus may also survive better in a warm, wet environment like that found beneath a foreskin

[Whaleboy]

Circumcision:

Looks, smells, tastes, feels better

...apparently

[Ecthy]

Well what can I say, I won't have many chances in life to taste any other guy's d!ck, nor my own, so I couldn't care less about taste

[Ecthy]

Same goes for feel and, generally, smell.

[Asher]

This same study was discussed in that thread.

The last thing sensible physicians would do in the western world is circumcise because of HIV transmission concerns. There are dozens of studies saying it helps prevent HIV transmissions, dozens saying it doesn't -- some even saying uncircumcized men have less chance of contracting HIV.

In the end, none of that matters anyway. Circumcizing boys for this reason is like telling them condoms aren't as important as they once were. If you don't want HIV, use a condom, don't mutilate your penis.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
Circumcision:

Looks, smells, tastes, feels better

...apparently

...eek!!

[ixnay]

Circumsizing to prevent HIV is like chopping off your feet to prevent athlete's foot.

Why anyone would do this is a mystery to me.

[Jon Miller]

While I don't have any strong opinions either way on getting snipped.. and think it should be allowed.. I think that doing it to prevent HIV is stupid.

Live reponsibly.

JM

[Ecthy]

Don't you spend all the money you don't have? Is that what you call living responsibly?

[Spiffor]

Besides, if you look at African countries where circumcision is generalized, you'll see that they're mainly Muslim societies with strong sexual taboos, and with a much lower infection rate.

It's not circumsision that will bring boys from other cultures further from promiscuity, or that will make them more prone to wear condoms (actually, the opposite might just happen)

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Don't you spend all the money you don't have? Is that what you call living responsibly?

Yes, but I don't have sex with drunk chicks I don't know (despite that meaning I don't have sex).

Money isn't that important to me.

JM

[Ecthy]

Sex with drunk chicks

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by ixnay
Circumsizing to prevent HIV is like chopping off your feet to prevent athlete's foot.

Maybe if athelet's foot killed you.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
Circumcision:

Looks, smells, tastes, feels better

...apparently

You must be doing something wrong.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by ixnay
Circumsizing to prevent HIV is like chopping off your feet to prevent athlete's foot.

Why anyone would do this is a mystery to me.

Yeah right.

More like ripping of your toenails to prevent nail fungus.

ACK!