Village Voice, very very good!

[Revamp]

http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0...,76996,24.html

[calngavinsmom]

Thanks for that!

Take care,
Tara

[titania8]

i want to see that on the front page of my local newspaper!! that was a great article, thanks for the link!

[buckeyedoc]

"Uncircumcised penises are not the only element driving the high infection rates in Africa. Poor genital hygiene, lack of safer-sex education, little knowledge about or access to condoms, nonmonogamous sexual practices, and cultural practices like dry sex and wife inheritance all contribute to the AIDS pandemic, which is why mass circumcision alone will not solve the problem. Furthermore, circumcision as a prophylactic measure does not translate in the United States, where the rates and methods of transmission are much different. In fact, according to NOCIRC—the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (nocirc.org)—the U.S. has the highest rate of infant circumcision and the highest rate of HIV/AIDS among industrialized nations. After reading Goldman's exhaustive, passionate book and seeing graphic diagrams and photos of circumcision, I am convinced that if people were well-informed about the foreskin's important functions and actually witnessed a circumcision, they would never subject anyone to it."

Bravo!

[jessjgh1]

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[Quirky]

As if I didn't have enough reasons to love Tristan Taormino already....what a ROCKIN' article!

Tristan, I love you! :

[mamaverdi]

I didn't realize Ronald Goldman was a PhD.

[orangedaisies]

Wow!

Great article!

[baybee]

It's so great when a writer gets that there is no other "side" to the story. All that balanced reporting crap keeps circulating myth and misinformation over and over. Some things are just plain "wrong" and they don't need to be balanced out with another point of view---rape, slavery, prejudice, genital mutilation--they all deserve a clear and straightforward telling of the truth.

We have a woman here who writes great articles about genital integrity for the Tyee. When she took her first article on the subject into the editors, they felt it was unbalanced and too strongly opinionated against MGM. They did their editorial thing for a few hours and then called her back and said
"Oh, we get it, there IS no other side to this story".

[TigerTail]

squee!