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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?

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  • Saturday, December 16, 2006 02:10 AM

    Good Luck!

    My response to the findings is: so what? Now they (once circumcised) can go out and have unsafe sex?

    If you wear a condom like you are supposed to in the first place it doesn't matter if under the latex there is a foreskin or a scar where it used to be - it is covered and that is what counts.

    As for circumcision of infants I think this holds true: No one has the right to cut off a normal healthy part of another persons body without their consent. I think the majority of the advanced western world believes this to be true. So if adult African men want to go under the knife - all I can say is Good Luck!

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