It’s been said before; education and condoms.

Cutting and discarding a vital part of a boy body to half the slight possibility of a disease that can be prevented 99.9% with cheap and sometimes free condoms is irrational, inhumane and no doctor who took the hypocrites oath should perform.
Next time do a little research, instead of publishing falsehoods that impart real people.

http://www.cirp.org/library/hygiene/

“The foreskin is actually designed by nature to provide protection against disease and injury.17 By understanding these protections, we allow the foreskin to function in its role of protecting the human body from infection and disease. “

I suggest if the author is so fond of penises without foreskins, he can cut the foreskin off his own penis. If that decision was made for him whilst he was a defenseless baby, I sympathise with his loss but I will not sympathise with his advocacy of continuing the butchery.

Routine genital mutilation of infants is a Bronze Age anachronism practised by people who talk to an imaginary friend in the sky. It has no place in what is supposed to be a civilised society.

For shame.

I don’t believe in routine neonatal circumcision, and will never perform that procedure.

The studies presented in this extremely biased and ill-informed article don’t lead ANY doctor to think that circumcision is the answer to HIV (education and empowerment is the answer to HIV).

While a baby is unable to make his own decisions it is up to us to make decisions for him in his best interests.

It is NOT in his best interests to perform a surgical excision of his foreskin, exposing him to complications including excessive bleeding (sometimes requiring transfusions), overwhelming infection and damage to the surrounding structures (it is not all that uncommon in the USA to have baby boys with damaged urethra from botched circumcisions).
Unless you expect your baby boy to be having unprotected vaginal sex any time soon, circumcision isn’t even a question. (and if you genuinely believe that study – that circumcision is the best way to prevent HIV- your son can make the choice to have an elective circumcision when he is approaching the age when he might be having unprotected sex).

Parents would be far better to wait ten years and put time and effort into honest and accurate sex education rather than to subject their sons to an operation with many known disadvantages and many serious risks.

I am uncircumcised and have to deal with ignorant people like you who half-read and half-understand the results of a study like this and therefore jump to the conclusion that since I’m uncircumcised I have a higher chance of having HIV. FALSE. I have never been unsafe in my life. And as you point out, even if I were this study wouldn’t apply. It’s ridiculous. I’ve definitely had people bring it up with me in the bedroom – and while ignorance is ignorance – it’s hard to blame them when there is such unhelpful and misleading crap like this on the Internet.

If you want to consider yourselves true “journalists,” I would recommend taking this article down. Or at least changing the headline so it’s less tabloid-y and gets to the hard facts sooner.

As you know the majority of your readers only glance at these things, so it’s really a travesty if you’re teaching even ONE person false information in your quest to make “thought provoking” sensational claims.

Also keep in mind that Google only caches the first part of your stories…No one bothers to get to the end of the article to get your qualification about gay people.

Scare tactics, queerty, really? Shameful.

Why would you want a knife anywhere near your penis.

This is mutilating babies, plain and simple. I don’t even approve of it for religious reason.

For the cleanliness part: If your willy gets THAT dirty between each time you take a bath; do it more often…

- Vincent Zee, happy uncircumcised male in his 20′s ;)

“It should be the child’s choice”

What a weak argument, some people who are adults don’t agree with inoculations, yet they are vaccinated as youths by their parents will. I guess we should stop immunizing babies because they may not agree with the procedure 25 years down the road! It’s up to the parents to decide what is best for their child and I support any parents right to circumsize their child and stop him from living a life with an ugly wiener.

And for those preaching mutilation, T-Taping your cock under ones pants isn’t exactly natural nor healthy either, way to be a bunch of raging, bad sex having hypocrites.

Nobody in their right mind should be advocating circumcision especially in the industrialised world.

Wowsers.

Sidenote, I’d never thought of restoration of foreskin as anything but another repulsive body modification I want not to think about (Though it is with consent, SO power to you, boys) but after googling a little bit I’m shocked with how natural the results can appear. If I were circumcised I might feel drawn to it, especially if I felt as wronged and conflicted as some of the circumcised adults who’ve commented.

HELL TO THE MATHA FUCCN NO!!!…circumcision should NOT be made mandoraty. I am against circumcising babies. Thats a decision the individual should make themselves when older.

The forksin contains so many nerve endings, cutting it off desentisizes the penis. Cant believe people still do this.

Suggesting that people who advocate for infant males (who have no other protest but to scream, and they do) are merely cynical protesters and people who prefer their partners intact are “fetishists”. Could this man even have a journalism degree, or any degree?

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Would a full grown man undergo this operation without anesthesia
as is COMMON for babies?

Circumcision is barbaric, no debate!!!

In every other case, performing elective surgery without informed consent is considered grossly unethical or illegal. So someone claims HIV spread might be reduced 50% if babies are circumcised. So what? Wear a condom and reduce risk the other 50% as well. Why trust that study anyway?

And what’s with the pro-circumcision fetish anyway? So many like to dismiss the foreskin as some useless little flap of skin, snip and it’s gone. Look at the photo again. That baby is being tortured. nocirc.org is a great resource to learn why to not circumcise.

Look through photos of botched circumcisions, it’s pretty terrible. I got lucky and the doc didn’t cut that much off, but I have always wondered what kind of sensations I’d have if I still had the full foreskin. On the other hand, I was with a guy once who’s foreskin wouldn’t retract all the way. He was always in pain he told me, and very smelly. So there you go, an argument for it. But regardless of whether it’s good or not, it should ALWAYS be up to the person themselves, not someone else. ALWAYS. It is WRONG for someone to decide for you what is right for your body.

Secondly, where money and doctors are at a premium, it doesn’t make sense to employ surgery where there may not be proper follow-up care. What about the guys who get infections? What about guys with complications, needing follow-up care? What about all the people who need real treatment, for real problems? With limited resources, what’s there should be used as effectively as possible. Circumcising people is not an effective use of those resources. Opportunity cost, people.

There’s really no need to use this kind of medical procedure when a combination of education and condoms would do the trick. If people don’t know what HIV is and what causes it, a 50% reduced risk isn’t going to help them much if they’re employing risky behavior. Behavior needs to change — people who aren’t having safe sex need to start having safe sex.

American scientists try so hard to justify circumcision, when in reality there’s almost no medical reason for it — and the new research on circumcision and HIV just isn’t compelling enough to warrant circumcising half of Africa (and beyond) over it. Just work on teaching about STDs and making sure condoms are available everywhere – that will be far more effective in the long run, whilst using human kind’s limited resources most effectively.

Hampton for President!! Well said!

Puh-lease! I’m circumcised as are most guys in the U.S. Do any of us remember it? No. Snip it!

and educating the world on HIV/AIDS for over 25 years has worked so well. People don’t listen.

I can’t. At least not during normal sex. Only while masturbating.
I was hoping to leave that detail out, but oh well. :/

It’s a medical solution to a behavioral problem, it’s that simple.

If being cut reduced sensation all that much we’d have all these cut men screaming “I can’t cum.”

Any mention of circumcision always brings out the cranks.

and BTW, it’s not the “FIRST national HIV Prevention conference”

You may be right about enhanced pleasure, but I would rather not have AIDS than enhanced pleasure and get sick.
You don’t of course miss what you don’t have(I appreciate the metaphor) I know that I would rather be scalped than wearing a raincoat. (sorry mixed).