Circumcision cuts HIV risk: UN

[DemocratSinceBirth]

GENEVA – U.N. health agencies recommended Wednesday that heterosexual men undergo circumcision because of "compelling'' evidence that it can reduce their chances of contracting HIV by up to 60 per cent.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/196870

[hedgehog]

1. CAn we hold off on further discussion of this until I get back from lunch

at the Olive Garden?

[gollygee]

2. Ooh good idea - I'll meet you there with my kid

Can we sit in the smoking section?

[hedgehog]

6. Great , you can show me how to use the speaker option

on my cell phone!

[gollygee]

8. Only if I'm not too busy breastfeeding in public!

Maybe when we're done we can take the kid and the cell phone to an R-rated movie though.

[hedgehog]

9. Only if the baby has colic.

It's no fun if the kid sleeps through the dialog!

[gollygee]

15. Who said anything about a baby?

My kid is old enough to ask for it and unbutton my blouse.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Where Are You

It's 9:17 AM EST

Oh- I plan on not responding or will try not to but this topic always engenders a good debate here and "everywhere".

[DCKit]

4. If they had cable

they wouldn't be screwing like bonobos. It's frequency and culture that spreads HIV.

[sharp_stick]

7. Huh?

Could you clarify your meaning a bit? I'm not aware of any HIV Bonobo connection.

[KittyWampus]

13. If they had clean, running water and sanitary conditions to live in their foreskins

might be kept clean too.

This is also an economic condition.

[Deja Q]

20. I don't know how frequently monkeys screw each other,

but abstinence crossed my mind as well. Things like education, a job, television, hobbies, do seem to cut down on needless reproduction...

At any rate, "lowers risk" does not eliminate the risk and disease is never a good thing to have.

I'm not sure it's entirely "culture" either... maybe "cult" as some cults are based around mass sexual congress, but if they're educated, then that's their problem.

Besides, when you say "culture" I immediately think of George Michael. He had, loudly so all the media either tabloid or genuine could hear, pinned all of his activities on being "culture"; if there's a better lame, slanderous, scapegoating cop-out for being such a loser, I don't want to know about it.

And a monogamous couple, as long as neither person of the couple cheats, they'll NEVER get any disease they don't already have.

[GoneOffShore]

5. And the only thing that went through the bowl of petunias mind was

"Not again."

:popcorn: :beer: :popcorn: :beer: :popcorn: :beer: :popcorn: :beer: :popcorn: :beer:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

19. Here, I brought some popcorn..........

:popcorn:

[TZ]

10. so okay I never really paid attention to this before

but HIV is transmitted by body fluids, semen, blood, etc. I don't understand how or why cutting excess skin off helps at all? Am I missing something here? Without starting a yes or no debate can someone at least explain the theory behind this?:shrug: :wtf:

[Horse with no Name]

11. I don't know

But I'm just gonna sit back and watch this one. Should be good for about 160 responses before it devolves into a raging inferno.
:popcorn:

[TZ]

14. huh?

I heard someone else make reference to this kind of thread topic being trouble sometimes. I really don't understand it (and you know that I certainly have been in the middle of that stuff before) at all....:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

16. Circumcision is a hotter topic than Gardisil

If you can believe that.:)

[hedgehog]

17. On a serious note, I imagine that the space under an intact foreskin

provides as marginally better environment (humidity levels, temperature?) for the HIV virus to survive. Alternatively, the tip of a penis normally protected by a foreskin may be more susceptible to abrasion during sexual intercourse, thereby providing a route for infection.

[blondeatlast]

12. Interesting...

"My DU" beats bookmarking any ol' day... :rofl:

[redqueen]

18. How about we get them access to water, more education, and more condoms...

how about we stop with the middle-agesesque type band-aids and frickin make some real progress?

$#&*@(

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_on_he_me/un_aids_circumcision