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• Thursday, December 14, 2006 08:18 AM

  Wow

  What consistently terrible reasoning! Some people are so angry they can't see straight, I suppose.

  First of all, if circumcision does affect penile sensitivity, it still doesn't change anything about orgasms, as far as I can tell (as a female whose had sex involving both kinds of penises). So give a man a choice of a longer life with the same orgasms, or a shorter life with the supposed increased sensitivity of an uncut organ. It's still his choice, but I know what I would do.

  Also, we are talking about Africa, here, not the grand ol' US of A, where condoms are available on every street corner. Some of these men may not have the option of using a condom in every sex act, although the education about condoms should certainly continue. Also the HIV rate in Africa is far higher than ours, and the anti-AIDS cocktail of meds that has saved so many of our infected is not readily available there. HIV is still a matter of life or death, for many African men, women and children.

  And for the one weirdo homophobe out there, how do you suggest that we eliminate anal sex? Should we pack all of the sodomites into gas chambers? You just keep on avoiding gay sex yourself (however much you may fantasize about it) and keep your nose out of other people's business, how about it?

  I'm really not trying to feed the trolls, I'm just saying.... Try thinking from the cerebral cortex instead of the amygdala for a change.

  —MarijoCook Read MarijoCook's other letters
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