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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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  • Thursday, December 14, 2006 06:54 AM

    bite your tongue

    I can't believe how frivolously you would advocate male genital mutulation. It doesn't have to be equivalent to a clitorectomy to be reviled; it's still permament maiming of the genitals, may not prevent orgasm but reduces pleasure, and reduces dunction (the foreskin has several very good purposes for being there in the first place), and when it's done to a baby it is nonconsensual. Not only that but cut men still get and give HIV. And to the guy who said cut men offer more pleasure because they can last longer, that's bs. It's more pleasurable to have intercourse with an uncut man because of the sheath-in-a-sheath, extra lubricated action that nature intended.

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