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As far as circumcision decreasing male pleasure, I wonder if these studies asked circumcised and uncircumcised males to rate their pleasure, or if they asked men who had circumcisions late in life to rate their pleasure before and after.
Likewise I wonder what cultural factors might have influenced these studies.
Speaking as a circumcised man, I can only say the sex seems fine to me.
Perhaps my uncircumcised brothers are reaching some level of orgasm or potency that I can only dream of, but having my penis circumcised has not diminished in any way my quest for sex nor my enjoyment (as far as I am aware) of the act itself.
All this being said, there was a far more important recent finding on AIDS in the developing world that I did not see commented on in Salon.
It seems that Malaria infections have an exacerbating effect on the HIV and may in fact be the primary culprit in the astronomical spread of HIV across the developed world.
Now not to wax conservative here, but a primary cause for malaria still being a devastating disease in the developed world is our urge to preserve wetlands (where mosquitoes breed) and our refusal to allow DDT to be used to wipe out infected malaria mosquito populations.
In many ways it seems that western colonial interference still to this day causes death and destruction throughout the developing world, even when it is only with good intentions that we act.
