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"The science is clear: there is NO DIFFERENCE in sexual pleasure for men or women regarding circumcision. "

I beg to differ. I have never experienced sexual pleasure in my life until I used a cone to hold the skin to my glans. The longer I stick with that the better it feels when I do anything. You show me any study showing no difference, I can counter with another study showing a large difference.

"Home techniques to re-create the foreskin do NOT work"
I have personally seen this work on several guys, and have heard testimonials from thousands more that is has worked and they have regained an amazing amount of pleasure.

"The World Health Organization also endorses circumcision as a PROVEN way to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS."
WHO is the only one. No other medical association in the world endorses the procedure. AAP is the most widely quoted in the US and it has never recommended it. I also have two problems with the proven thing. One science doesn't prove anything. Science proposes a hypothesis and scientists try and disprove the hypothesis. The longer the hypothesis stands the stronger it is, but it is never proven.

The other problem I have is the evidence is circumstantial at best if you look at the raw data. The circumcised group was told to wait for 6 months while they recover while the intact group went off and resumed their lives. Guess what? The intact group got a head start. By the end of the study intact and circumcised males were getting HIV in similar numbers, and the last couple of months more circumcised males got HIV than intact males. The researchers concluded the project a major success and ended the project early. Kinda like they wanted those results huh?

What we are really after is the relationship between circumcision and the lifetime risk of HIV/AIDS. Another study was conducted in New Zealand which simply gathered circumcision status and tested for HIV. When corrected for age, economic differences etc, there was no statistically significant difference between circumcised and intact.

Also just for a parting shot. If you want me to I can show you several studies showing how female circumcision lowers HIV rates. I'm assuming that's completely different though.

February 12, 2010 - 12:02pm

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