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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:00 AM

Male circumcision cuts HIV transmission

Should adult men in areas rife with unprotected sex and AIDS be encouraged to go under the knife?
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Wednesday, December 13, 2006 09:36 PM

    it's either female circumcision or male genital mutilation

    not all "female circucision" removes everything and male cicumcison isn't benign, especially if something goes wrong, which it often does. If you want to reserve the term genital mutilation for the most extreme forms, fine, but I doubt you do because then you would dilute the message that all of it is not good, oh wait...

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