Geez, and circumcision is supposed to help how exactly??!!! If circed men continue to have multiple sex partners, guess what's going to happen!
Washington Post article
Although this article too succumbs to the circ hysteria...
Washington Post article
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| The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not. Night after night they return for the carefree, beery vibe, with the same partners or new ones, creating a web of sexual interaction. A growing number of studies single out such behavior -- in which men and women maintain two or more ongoing relationships -- as the most powerful force propelling a killer disease through a vulnerable continent. This new understanding of how the AIDS virus attacks individuals and their societies helps explain why the disease has devastated southern Africa while sparing other places. It also suggests how the region's AIDS programs, which have struggled to prevent new infections even as treatment for the disease has become more widely available, might save far more lives: by discouraging sexual networks. "The problem of multiple partners who do not practice safe sex is obviously the biggest driver of HIV in the world," said Ndwapi Ndwapi, a top government AIDS official in Botswana, speaking in Gaborone, the capital. "What I need to know from the scientific community is, what do you do? . . . How do you change that for a society that happens to have higher rates of multiple sexual partners?" |
There have been numerous efforts over the years to demystify HIV/AIDS and educate people about how it's contracted. This whole circumcision crap is counterproductive and will result in more loss of life. It's victorian. It's witch-doctor. It's idiotic.
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Just cut 'em, they like that sort of ritual bloodletting anyway, don't they?
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