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Duh anal sex is more dangerous than vaginal sex for many reasons. What I learned in sex ed is that the anal tissue is more likely to tear thereby causing semen to come into contact with blood.
Eliminating anal sex is not the answer. You CAN use a condom with anal sex just for the purpose of preventing this disease! Also condoms help prevent UTIs in the "top" partner, even if both are perfectly healthy. Have tons of anal sex, just wrap it first.
Also, routine infant circumcision is barbaric. There's no good reason to do it. A normal baby boy is perfect just the way he is. If a man wants to do it of his own volition for any reason that's one thing; doing it to a baby is quite another.
Obviously foreskin removal in a hospital is not equivalent to some of the butchery practiced on girls, like clitoridectomy or sewing up the vagina. BUT that doesn't make it okay. If infant circumcision of boys is okay with you, than African families who want to notch a girl baby's labia in a hospital setting should be okay with you too.
