The claims that "Circumcision reduces urinary tract infections, inflammation, ulceration of the male organs and penile cancer" and "also reduces the risk of cervical cancer among women who have sex with circumcised men" are all false or too weak to justify the operation. The claim that circumcision prevents HIV is also shaky. See www.circumstitions.com for details. For over a century, circumcision has been a "cure" looking for a disease - or rather, circumcised men have been looking for reasons to justify their loss. The big risk now is that circumcised men will think they are protected and take more risks... [Read Full Text]

In Rwanda, 3.8% of circumcised men have HIV, compared to 2.1% of intact men, so what the heck do they think they're doing? That's nearly twice as many. I'm not (of course) saying circumcision promotes HIV transmission (though it might) but clearly something else is going on. These figures are from the 2005 Demographic and Health Survey ( http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/FR183/15Chapter15.pdf , p10 and p15).

Circumcision can only possibly help men who have unsafe sex with HIV+ partners, so why this bizarre obsession with genital surgery when we know that ABC works better than circumcision ever could? (ABC=Abstinence, Being Faithful, Condoms)... [Read Full Text]

When the matter of male circumcision for HIV is raised anywhere on the net the first responses will be from a gay dominated group of anti-circumcision activists. Already they have posted a response here. WHO and UNAIDS in a joint statement found: "The research evidence that male circumcision is efficacious in reducing sexual transmission of HIV from women to men is compelling. The partial protective effect of male circumcision is remarkably consistent across the observational studies (ecological, cross-sectional and cohort) and the three randomized controlled trials conducted in diverse settings. The three randomised controlled trials showed that male circumcision... [Read Full Text]

The facts are the facts. That a person who is stating them might happen to be gay is irrelevant. There is one thing that studies seem to keep evading, and that is the obvious contradiction between the recent "studies" performed by self-interested purveyors of a cure looking for a disease, and reality; HIV numbers are higher in the US, a primarily circumcised population, than in other countries in Europe who's primary male population have their normal intact organs. The "scientists" who are promoting circumcision to prevent HIV need to explain how a "solution" which has not worked in the US... [Read Full Text]

I hope the policy will to be to stop the barbaric and superstitious practice of circumcision. No medial association anywhere in the world advocates circumcision and for good reason. It's a useless mutilation of infant boys.

I hope the policy will to be to stop the barbaric and superstitious practice of circumcision. No medial association anywhere in the world advocates circumcision and for good reason. It's a useless mutilation of infant boys.