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This study is a lot of bullshit.
There is no placebo study done within the same culture. The only TRUE measure of this would be to have a the number of times each participant had sex, to record the duration of those sexual encounters, and to know the HIV status of the each sexual partner. Even then, mutilated men GET INFECTED.
The study was done in a Muslim area with circumcisions vs non-Muslim areas. There was no factoring out of culture or sexual sensory issues. It's a study who's outcome was predetermined by those whose theory says that there is more chance of Sexual Diseases of those men not mutilated so that this organ mutilation can perpetuate.
There is one simple fact: men uncut have more sexual pleasure than those who are cut. Ask any adult who went from one to the other - even those who have undergone reconstruction notice the difference.
Read the study, it's ripe with bad science and bad logic.
Fact: Mutilated men get infected. Check the infection rates around the world, and countries with cut men still get infected.
If an adult male is given all the facts and decides to mutilate himself, let him do it. But, if he's given all the facts about his loss of sexual desire and sexual function and sexual feelings, a smart man would decide to stay intact and put a condom on himself before sex. But we're talking about real education here and more important comprehension of the education and how that education ties in with sexual mores and cultural feelings toward sex.
